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Email: b.nyoka@ru.ac.za

Qualifications

BSocSc (Rhodes), BSocSc (Hons) (Rhodes), MA (UWC), PhD (UNISA)

Biography                                                                                                                                                     

Dr Bongani Nyoka is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网. He has published two books, Archie Mafeje: Voices of Liberation (HSRC Press, 2019) and The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje (Wits 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Press, 2020). The latter book won the 2021 Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Vice-Chancellor’s Book Award. Dr Nyoka teaches Introduction to African Politics, South African Politics, and Land and Agrarian Questions in Africa. His research interests include African intellectual history, land and agrarian studies, and revolutionary theory.

Publications

Books

Nyoka, Bongani (2020) The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje. Johannesburg: Wits 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Press

Nyoka, Bongani (2019) Archie Mafeje: Voices of Liberation. Cape Town: HSRC Press

Articles & Chapters 

Nyoka, Bongani (2024) Bernard Magubane on the Political Economy of Race and Class in South Africa, in Zachary Levenson & Marcel Paret (eds.) The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, pp. 80–98 (Republication)

Nyoka, Bongani (2023) Bernard Magubane on the Political Economy of Race and Class in South Africa, Ethnic & Racial Studies, 46(16): 3482–3500

Nyoka, Bongani (2022) Mafeje’s Search for Africanity, International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, 17(1):  4–20

Nyoka, Bongani (2022) Mafeje and Magubane: Two Concepts of the “South African Revolution”, in Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni & Busani Ngcaweni (eds.) The Contested Idea of South Africa, London: Routledge, pp. 114–133   

Nyoka, Bongani (2021) On African–American Consciousness of Africa: Reading Bernard Magubane’s The Ties That Bind, in Siphamandla Zondi (ed.) African Voices: In Search of a Decolonial Turn, Pretoria: AISA Press, pp. 94–114

Nyoka, Bongani (2020) Mafeje on Black Struggles in South Africa: History and Theory, Social Dynamics, 64(1): 50–66

Nyoka, Bongani (2019) Bernard Magubane’s Critique of Anthropology in Southern Africa: An Introductory Essay, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 37(2-3): 169–190

Nyoka, Bongani (2019) The Concept of Ethnography in Mafeje, International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, 14(1): 6–26   

Nyoka, Bongani (2019) Archie Mafeje as Revolutionary Sociologist, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 66(1): 1–26 

Nyoka, Bongani (2018) Archie Mafeje: A Note on the Three Clusters of his Work, Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 97(August): 111–123

Nyoka, Bongani (2017) Concepts of Cabralism: On Cabral’s Intellectual Contributions, Africa Development, 42(4): 63–85

Nyoka, Bongani (2017) Biographical Writings on Archie Mafeje: A Critique, Africa Insight, 47(1): 80– 95

Nyoka, Bongani (2016) Bernard Magubane’s The Making of a Racist State Revisited: 20 Years On, Journal of Black Studies, 47(8): 903–927    

Nyoka, Bongani (2013) Negation and Affirmation: A Critique of Sociology in South Africa, African Sociological Review, 17(1): 2–24

Nyoka, Bongani (2012) Mafeje and ‘Authentic Interlocutors’: An Appraisal of His Epistemology, African Sociological Review, 16(1): 2–16

Nyoka, Bongani (2011) Points of Correction: Comment on Andrew Bank’s ‘Archie Mafeje’, African Sociological Review, 15(1): 137–144

Other Writings

Nyoka, Bongani (2021) Archie Mafeje’s Political Thought, New Frame: 06 January

Nyoka, Bongani (2020) An Account of a Neglected Aspect of South African Radical Political History: Review of Crain Soudien’s The Cape Radicals, Historia, 65(1): 119-121

Nyoka, Bongani (2020) Higher Education and the Challenge to Young Black Academics, The Thabo Mbeki Foundation Newsletter, 2(June): 14-16

Nyoka, Bongani (2011) Election Fever in Yeoville-Bellevue, Yeovue News, 4(2)

Nyoka, Bongani (2011) Jordan’s Axe Reveals His Straw-man Tendency, City Press: 23 January

Nyoka, Bongani (2010) Where is the ANC’s Model of Equality? The Sunday Times: 22 August

Nyoka, Bongani (2009) Notes on the YSF Annual General Meeting, Yeovue News, 2(46)

Nyoka, Bongani (2009) Fighting Modern Day Slavery and Murder, Yeovue News, 2(43)

Nyoka, Bongani (2009) ‘Darkies Don’t Read’: A Response to Sihle Khumalo, Yeovue News, 2(39)

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