Khwezi Mkhize

Khwezi Mkhize is a lecturer in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa. He graduated with a PhD from the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, US. His research interests include African literature, South African literature, empire and colonialism studies, postcolonial theory, Pan-Africanism and the black diaspora. He has published in journals such as The Black Scholar, Safundi, Scrutiny2, Social Dynamics and the Journal of Commonwealth Literatures. He served on the editorial board of African Studies and is currently working on his first book manuscript.