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Prof. Siphokazi Magadla (Head of Deparment)

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

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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 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. She is the author of the book ‘Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa’ (UKZN Press, 2023). She is the co-editor of the Journal 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 and the African Journal of Conflict Resolution. 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 and the Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows programme. She was awarded the Rhodes University Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018. She served in the High-Level Review Panel of the State Security Agency.

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. (2023). Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.
  • 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. (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 

 

 

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