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Contributors
Danielle N. Boaz is an Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she offers courses on human rights, social justice, and the law. She has a Ph.D. in history with a specialization in Africa, the African Diaspora and the Caribbean; a J.D. with a concentration in International Law; and a LL.M. in Intercultural Human Rights. She is also a licensed attorney in the State of Florida and the State of North Carolina. Dr. Boaz’s research focuses on the legal proscription of African cultural and religious practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the modern day impact of those laws on public perceptions of these practices. Contact details: dboaz@uncc.edu
Mari Haugaa Engh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Applied Human Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where she is undertaking research on gender, sexuality and migration. She completed her PhD at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she worked in a Nordic project on transnationalism, migration and women’s football. She has conducted research and published on gender and sexuality in sport studies and migration studies. Contact details: mari.engh@gmail.com
Delipher Manda holds Master of Theology (Gender, Religion and Health) and Bachelor of Theology Honours from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Before coming to UKZN, she completed an Advanced Course in Pastoral Care and Counselling from University of Pretoria; and a Diploma in Theology (Development) from Evangelical Seminary of Southern Africa. She is present- ly engaged in faith-based work in Johannesburg. Contact details:
delipher.manda@gmail.com
Buhle Mpofu is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics in Pietermaritz- burg, South Africa. He is also an ordained minister within the Uniting
Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa and has an interest on the interface between religion and the lived experience of migration. Mpofu is currently researching and publishing on trends in transnational migration and religion.
Contact details: buhlem202@yahoo.co.uk
Henrietta M. Nyamnjoh is a Research Fellow at Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town. Her research interests include migration and mobility, transnational studies and religion in the context of migration. She recently completed a study on the use of information and communication technologies amongst mobile Cameroonian migrants in South Africa, the Netherlands and Cameroon titled ‘Bridging Mobilities: ICTs Appropriation by Cameroonians in South Africa and The Netherlands’.
Contact details: hmambo@gmail.com
Federico Settler leads the Sociology of Religion programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics. His ongoing academic work is on race, postcolonialism and religion, and he has emerged as a key thinker in sociology of religion in Southern Africa, and beyond. He has held prestigious research fellowships in African studies at both Harvard and Oxford. His current research and writing focuses on religion and migration research, and the place of the body in the study of religion. Contact details:
settler@ukzn.ac.za
Jennifer Sigamoney is a part time lecturer at the University of South Africa.
She is currently a director for “Liberate a Soul” which is a Non-Profit Organisation in Johannesburg. Furthermore, she is an alumnus for Haggai Institute for advanced leadership based in Atlanta Georgia and a managing director for Jabeztelecoms. Her research interests are migration, religion, education and gender studies. Contact details: Jsigamoney1@gmail.com Trygve Wyller is a Professor of Contemporary Theology and the Studies of Christian Social Practice at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway. He has published on the relationship between Christianity and late modernity, both from a dogmatic, post-colonial, ethical, spatial, and a phenomenological perspective. Latest book: Borderland Religion (with Daisy Machado and Bryan Turner) Routledge 2018. Contact details:
t.e.wyller@teologi.uio.no
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Fulela, B. 2008. Checking the Post: Derrida and the Apartheid Debate. Alternation 15,2: 11 – 37. Available at:
http://alternation.ukzn.ac.za/Files/docs/15.2/02%20Fulela.pdf. (Accessed on 08 May 2017.) Journal article by two authors
Mkhize, N. & N. Ndimande-Hlongwa 2014. African Languages, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), and the Transformation of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Higher Education. Alternation 21,2: 10 – 37. Available at:
http://alternation.ukzn.ac.za/Files/docs/21.2/02%20Mkh.pdf. (Accessed on 08 May 2017.) Book by one author
Moran, S. 2009. Representing Bushmen: South Africa and the Origin of Language. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, Book 38.)
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Smit, J.A. (ed.) 1999. Body, Identity, Sub-cultures and Repression in Texts from Africa. Durban: CSSALL.
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Dhunpath, R. & R. Vithal (eds.) 2012. Alternative Access to Higher Education: Underprepared Students or Underprepared Institutions? Cape Town: Pearson Publishers.
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Smit, J.A. & J. van Wyk 2001. Literary Studies in Post-apartheid South Africa. In Zegeye, A. & R. Kriger (eds.):
Culture in the New South Africa after Apartheid. Volume 2. Cape Town: Kwela Books & History on Line.
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Foucault, M. 1977. Discipline and Punish. Sheridan, A. (trans.). New York: Pantheon.
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Jansen, J. & P. Vale (Co-chairs.) 2011. Consensus Study on the State of the Humanities in South Africa: Status, Prospects and Strategies. Pretoria: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). Available at:
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