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Prof. Siphokazi Magadla

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

Siphokazi Magadla

Prof. Siphokazi Magadla is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University. 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. In 2018, she received the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

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 National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Best Non-Fiction Monograph; the Rhodes University Vice Chancellor’s Book Award, and the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Humanities Book Award in the Established Scholar category. 

She is the co-editor of two books and one journal special issue: Inyathi Ibuzwa Kwabaphambili: Theorising South African Women’s Intellectual Legacies (Mandela University Press, 2024); “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 and Ubuntu: Curating the Archive (UKZN Press, 2014). 

Prof. Magadla 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 University Press and the Advisory Board of the University of Wisconsin Press Series: Women and Gender in Africa. 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

  • Magoqwana, B. Magadla, S & Masola, A. (2024). Inyathi Ibuzwa Kwabaphambili: Theorising South African Women’s Intellectual Histories. (Gqeberha: Mandela University Press).
  • Magadla, S. (2024). Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa. Abingdon & New York: Routledge (co-publication with University 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: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press). https://www.ukznpress.co.za/?class=bb_ukzn_books&method=view_books&global[fields][_id]=597.
  • Magadla, S; Dana, Z & Nkomo, D. (2024). 'Multilingual teaching and assessment: Towards an endogenous Political and International Studies at a South African university'. In Multilingual Assessment – Finding the Nexus? (pp. 186-218). (Berlin: Peter Lang) https://www.peterlang.com/document/1453166
  • 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. 

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