Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse presented a paper titled “Living In Contemporarity: Towards an afro-fem ethic of sufficiency” and participated in a closed workshop on MJ Alexander’s book Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred  at the philoSOPHIA Conference held at Texas A&M University in College Station on April 10.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse was awarded the Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowship worth $4,000 from the Journal of the History of Philosophy  for a research project titled “Interrogating Apartheid’s Foundations through Alfred Hoernlé’s Philosophy.” Dr. ka’Nobuhlaluse is one of two awardees to receive the highly competitive grant.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse co-edited, along with Maha Marouan and Alicia Decker, and contributed a critical interview to the piece “In Conversation with Mamphela Ramphele on the Urgency of Storytelling for Blackwomen in South Africa,” in Writing African Feminist Subjectivities, the first-ever special issue on African feminism in the history of the journal Feminist Formations. This landmark issue, now live on Project MUSE, brings together a powerful collective of feminist scholars, activists, and artists, engaging with African feminist thought in profound and transformative ways. The Writing African Feminist Subjectivities  issue can be accessed here.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse presented at the first annual conference of the League of African Women Philosophers (LAWP) held virtually on January 25–26. The title of their paper was “Reading Makhoere’s Autobiography of Prison Under Apartheid South Africa via an ‘Existential Standpoint.’” The League of African Women Philosophers is important because it represents a vital step toward addressing the historical underrepresentation of African women in philosophy and the broader intellectual discourse.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse’s book review on Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience: Freedom, Violence, and Identity by Nathalie Nya was published online under “Volume 34 (2023): Issue 2 (December 2024): Special Issue: Sites of Coercion: Plantation, Colony, Metropole,” edited by Janine Jones, in Simone de Beauvoir Studies. In the review, Dr. ka’Nobuhlaluse unpacks Nya’s compelling arguments and discusses how this book challenges us to rethink Beauvoir’s relevance in today’s global struggles for liberation and justice. The review also critiques the use of phrases such as “non-white” within European and American scholarship by drawing attention to the problematic uses as seen in Apartheid South Africa. It can be read here.