- Nationality
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Affiliation
- English Department, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Field of study
- Languages, Linguistics and Literature
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2022 2nd Semester / 2026 1st Semester
Projects
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Sound Knowledges of the Black World
This project investigates sound knowledges from Southern African cosmologies and investigate their deployment in black radicalism enacted within Pan-African and black internationalist contexts in the 20th and 21st centuries. -
Sounding Black Worlds
My project investigates black archives of Atlantic worlds as praxis and method, with a particular focus on sonic aspects.
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publication
Writing Body as Land & Land as Body in Mine Mine Mine
Phalafala, Uhuru Portia. 2024. ‘Writing Body as Land & Land as Body in Mine Mine Mine.’ In S. A. Murray & M. Betty (Eds.), The Creative Arts: On Pr...
publication
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement
Phalafala, Uhuru Portia. 2024. Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement. Boydell & Brewer. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847012777/keorap...
article
Seventh cohort of Iso Lomso Fellows announced
Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) is pleased to announce its seventh cohort of Iso Lomso Fellows for applications submitted during its October 2022 Call.
seminar
Sound thinking: Black women’s acoustemologies as resistance - Fellow's seminar by Uhuru Phalafala
This project is about framing sound thinking and sound knowledge within Ntu cosmology.
article
Sixth cohort of Iso Lomso Fellows selected
STIAS is pleased to announce its sixth cohort of Iso Lomso fellows and visiting scholars for applications submitted during its last call.