Email: S.Magadla@ru.ac.za    
Qualifications:
BA Hons (RU), MA (OHIO), PhD (RU)

BIOGRAPHY:

Prof. Siphokazi Magadla is from Ludaka in Ngqeleni. She is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网. She teaches and researches on war and militarism in Africa; armed struggle in South Africa; women and South African foreign policy; and African feminisms, gender and citizenship. She is the author of the book ‘Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa’ (UKZN Press, 2023; Routledge, 2024), which won the NIHSS Humanities and Social Sciences Award for “Best Non-Fiction Monograph” and the Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Vice Chancellor’s Book Award. She is the co-editor of the Special Issue Thirty years of Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Revisiting Ifi Amadiume’s questions on gender, sex and political economy (2021) in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. She serves on the editorial boards of the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Journal of Southern African Studies, the Advisory Board of the Feminist Reimagining of International Studies series (FeRIS) of the Bristol 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Press and the Advisory Board of the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Wisconsin Press Series: Women and Gender in Africa. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. She is an academic mentor of the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship, which awarded her with the Helen Milner Award; and the Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows programme. She served in the Presidential High-Level Review Panel of the State Security Agency in 2018.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH:

• War and militarism in Africa
• Women and the armed struggle in South Africa
• African feminisms, gender, and citizenship
• Women and South African foreign policy

• PUBLICATIONS

  • Magadla, S. (2024). Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa. Abingdon & New York: Routledge (co-publication with 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of KwaZulu-Natal Press).  https://www.routledge.com/Guerrillas-and-Combative-Mothers-Women-and-the-Armed-Struggle-in-South/Magadla/p/book/9781032597249
  • Magadla, S. (2023). Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.
  • Alonso-Marks, E & Magadla, S. (2023). Developing intercultural sensitivity through collaborative virtual exchange.  In: Mammadova, T. Academic Mobility through the Lens of Language and Identity, Global Pandemics, and Distance Internationalization Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Oxfordshire: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Academic-Mobility-through-the-Lens-of-Language-and-Identity-Global-Pandemics/Mammadova/p/book/9781032431796
  • Nyokong, T. & Magadla, S. (2022). The Wisdom of Practice: An Intergenerational Conversation. In: Jansen, J., Visser, D. On Becoming a Scholar: What Every New Academic Needs to Know. Cape Town: African Minds.
  • Magadla S. (2021). Theorizing African women and girls in combat. In: Yacob-Haliso O., Falola T. The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28099-4_86
  • Magadla, S. (2021). The lives of women ex-combatants in post-apartheid South Africa. In: Brewer, J., Wahidin, A. Ex-Combatant Voices: Transitioning from War to Peace in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61566-6
  • Magadla, S. (2021). Bridging through “women’s work”: African women and men chasing the rise of China. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 23(2): 243-262. DOI: 1080/14616742.2020.1863158
  • Magadla, S., Magoqwana, B., & Motsemme, N. (2021). Thirty years of Male Daughters, Female Husbands: revisiting Ifi Amadiume’s questions on gender, sex and political economy. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 39 (4):517-533: DOI:10.1080/02589001.2021.1926442  
  • Magadla, S.,Magoqwana, B., Motsemme, N.,& Mohoto, L. (2021). Sex, gender and Uvalo/Letswalo centered spirituality: in conversation with Gogo Mapitsi Mohoto. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 39(3):634643 DOI:10.1080/02589001.2021.1909711
  • Magadla, S and Cornell, N. (2019). The foreign policy legacies of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Maite Nkoana-Mashabane: Institutionalising Pan-Africanist visions and economic diplomacy. In: Masters, L & van Wyk, J. South African Foreign Policy Review 3. Pretoria: HSRC Press. ISBN: 978-0-7983-0527-3
  • Magadla, S. (2015). Women combatants and the liberation movements in South Africa: Guerrilla girls, combative mothers and the in-betweeners. African Security Review, 24(4): 390-402.
  • Praeg, L and Magadla, S. (2014). Ubuntu: Curating the archive. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.
  • Magadla, S and Chitando, E. (2014). The self become god: Ubuntu and the ‘scandal of manhood. In Praeg, L and Magadla, S. Ubuntu: Curating the archive. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.
  • Magadla, S. (2013). The personal is the international: for black girls who've considered politics when being strong isn't enough". Politikon, 40, (3): 585-596.
  • Godwyll, F, E and Magadla, S. (2012). Educating Postconflict Societies: Lessons from Rwanda and Liberia. In: Ensor, M, O African Childhoods Education, Development, Peacebuilding, and the Youngest Continent. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Magadla, S. (2011). The Super-diplomat: Thabo Mbeki's African renaissance and South Africa FIFA World Cup 2010". Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports. Vol 7, Fall.
  • Magadla, S. (2010). Reflections on the African World Cup: ‘make the circle bigger’ Published by the Impumelelo The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports Vol 6, Fall.  

   

  Book Reviews

  • Magadla, S. (2023). ‘Death walks everywhere with people’—Siphokazi Magadla reviews Mxolisi Mchunu’s Violence and Solace: The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa. Johannesburg Review of Books, 4 May 2023: https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2023/05/04/death-walks-everywhere-with-people-siphokazi-magadla-reviews-mxolisi-mchunus-violence-and-solace-the-natal-civil-war-in-late-apartheid-south-africa/
  • Magadla, S. (2019). From the Outside In: Domestic Actors and South Africa’s Foreign Policy, South African Journal of International Affairs, 26:2, 307-309, DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2019.1610042
  • Magadla, S. (2017). Democratic South Africa Foreign Policy: Voting Behaviour in the United Nations. South African Journal of International Affairs, 24:3,417-418, DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2017.1361863
  • Magadla, S. (2015). Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security. Politikon, 42 (1), pp. 151 – 153. 
  • Magadla, S. (2015). "Book review: A Renegade called Simphiwe: The Wounded Hero." Journal of African and Asian Studies, pp.382-383.
  • Magadla, S. (2014). “Community of insecurity: SADC's struggle for peace and security in Southern Africa.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies. DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2014.936174

  Selected media publications 

  • Magadla, S. (14 December 2021). NextGen@10: Continuing African Traditions of Intellectual Community Building. Social Science Research Council: https://items.ssrc.org/nextgen10/nextgen10-continuing-african-traditions-of-intellectual-community-building/ 
  • Magadla, S. (12 September 2021). Women power: Celebrating, naming and unsealing women’s contributions to the armed struggle in South Africa. Sunday Times newspaper. 
  • Magadla, S. (12 September 2021). Building a better society: Tebello Nyokong, the builder in chief turns 70 and celebrates 29 years at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s department of Chemistry. Sunday Times newspaper.
  • Magadla, S. (15 March 2020). 25 Years after Beijing: Changing the script about women’s leadership. Mail and Guardian newspaper: https://mg.co.za/article/2020-03-15-25-years-after-beijing-changing-the-script-about-womens-leadership/ 
  • Magadla, S. (25 May 2019). Fela in Versace: how popular culture is driving 21st century pan-Africanism. Mail and Guardian newspaper: https://mg.co.za/article/2019-05-25-00-fela-in-versace-how-popular-culture-is-driving-21st-century-pan-africanism
  • Magadla, S. (15 December 2017). “The people’s war updated”. Mail and Guardian newspaper: https://mg.co.za/article/2017-12-15-00-the-peoples-war-updated  
  • Magadla, S. (25 August 2017). “Matrifocality and shared motherhood”. Mail and Guardian newspaper: https://mg.co.za/article/2017-08-25-00-matrifocality-and-shared-motherhood 
  • Magadla, S. (19 May 2017). “Oliver Tambo: acre by acre in a time of rupture?” Mail and Guardian newspaper: https://mg.co.za/article/2017-05-19-00-oliver-tambo-acre-by-acre-in-a-time-of-rupture 
  • Magadla, S. (2 February 2015). “Eugene de Kock and the Violence of 'Nation Building and Reconciliation'”. The South African Civil Society Information Service. http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/2265
  • Magadla, S. (20 March 2015). One needs a strong Stomach. The Con website: http://www.theconmag.co.za/2015/03/20/one-needs-a-strong-stomach/
  • Magadla, S. (9 May 2014). “Another five years of Jacob Zuma”. Aljazeera International. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/05/another-five-years-jacob-zuma 201459184512925113.html
  • Jagarnath, V and Magadla, S. (24 October 2014). “Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Mother of the Nation or Lady Macbeth?”. The Con: http://www.theconmag.co.za/2014/10/24/mother-of-the-nation-or-lady-macbeth/
  • Magadla, S. (11 June 2014). “The Bloemhof incident: Affirmative action on death row”. Aljazeera International. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/06/sairr-report-affirmative-action--20146118334597715.html
  • Magadla, S, (26 November 2014). “Some Are Soldiers, Others ‘Straatmeide”. The Con. http://www.theconmag.co.za/2014/11/26/some-are-soldiers-and-others-straatmeids/
  • Magadla, S. (15 September 2014). “The Deafening Silence of the EFF's Women Leaders”. The South African Civil Society Information Service. http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/2133
  • Magadla, S. (6 November 2013). “EFF and the return of the warrior citizen”. Mail and Guardian Thoughtleader. http://thoughtleader.co.za/siphokazimagadla/2013/11/06/eff-and-the-return-of-the-warrior-citizen/

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