Hlonipha Mokoena

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Assistant Professor

Affiliation

Columbia University, New York, New York

Email

ham2101@columbia.edu

Mailing Address

Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
867 Schermerhorn Extension, MC 5523
New York, New York 10027 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: 212-854-2386
fax: 212-854-7347

Countries of Specialization

South Africa

Research Interests

Current research is on Magema M. Fuze, author of the Abantu Abamnyama
Lapa Bavela Ngakona (1922) / The Black People and Whence They Came (1979).

Teaching Interests

As a teaching professor main area of interest is South African
intellectual history.

Publications

2009 "An assembly of readers: Magema Fuze and his Ilanga lase Natal
readers," Journal of southern African studies. 35, 2 (September): 595-607.

2008 "The Queen's Bishop: a convert's memoir of John W. Colenso,"
Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 38, no. 3, p. 312-342.

2006 "The making of a kholwa intellectual: introducing Magema
Magwaza Fuze." Sephis e-magazine.

2005 "Christian converts and the production of 'kholwa' histories in
nineteenth-century colonial Natal: the case of Magema Magwaza Fuze and his
writings." Journal of Natal and Zulu history, vol. 23, p. 1-37.

Keywords

intellectual history ; Magema Magwaza Fuze.