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Senior Lecturer
Name: Brian Sibanda
Location: ACB 213 Soweto Campus
Department of English StaffStaff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: (011) 559 5575

Email:听sibandab@uj.ac.za

About Brian Sibanda

Dr Brian Sibanda is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. He is a founding member of the South African Association for Academic Literacy Practitioners and an active member of the Africa Decolonial Research Network, where he contributes to advancing decoloniality as both an epistemic framework and a political-liberatory project. Dr. Sibanda鈥檚 primary research interests include decoloniality, decolonisation, language development and theories of liberation. His most recent monograph is titled The Decolonial Politics and Philosophy of Ng农g末 wa Thiong鈥檕 (2024).

Recent Publications

Monograph

  • The Decolonial Politics and Philosophy of Ngugi wa Thiong鈥檕. London: Lexington Books

Articles and Book Chapters

  • SIBANDA, B. 2025. Unmasking Coloniality: Perspective by Incongruity in Naipaul’s Miguel Street. Journal of Literary Studies, 41(1), pp. 1-17
  • SIBANDA, B. and Maseko, T., 2025. From access to success: Decolonising the teaching of academic literacy. In Higher Education Transformation in Africa (pp. 70-85). London: Routledge.
  • SIBANDA, B. and Joubert, M., 2024. The Language Contestations and Complexities at a South African Higher Education Institution: Students鈥 Perspectives. International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, 6(2), pp.78- 94.
  • SIBANDA, B and Babili, D. 2024. Positionality Stories as Acts of Walking Away: A Critical Pedagogy in Academic Literacies. Pratt, A.B., Donley, K., Hatch, S., Tharp, S and Calderon-Berumen, F (eds), Walking Away: Refusing and Resisting Reactionary Curriculum Movements (pp 333-350). North Caroline: Information Age Publishing.
  • SIBANDA, B. 2023. #PutSouthAfricaFirst and Afrophobic Xenophobia. Moyo, I., & Ndlovu- Gatsheni, S.J (Eds.), The Paradox of Planetary Human Entanglements: Challenges of Living Together. Oxfordshire: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003319580
  • Joubert, M and SIBANDA, B. 2022. Whose Language Is It Anyway? Students鈥 Sense of Belonging and Role of English for Higher Education in the Multilingual, South African Context. South African Journal of Higher Education, 36 (6), 47-66.
  • SIBANDA, B. 2022. The place of colonial languages in Decolonial philosophy and practice. In Boucher, D (ed), Language, Culture and Decolonisation. Cape Town: HSRC Press, pp 47- 64.
  • SIBANDA, B. 2021. The Language of the Gukurahundi Genocide in Zimbabwe: 1980-1987. Journal of Literary Studies, 37 (2), 129-145.DOI:10.1080/02564718.2021.1923737
  • SIBANDA, B. 2021. Language as being in the politics of Ngugi wa Thiong鈥檕. In Melissa, S and William M. (eds), Decolonising the Human: Reflections from Africa on Difference and Oppression (pp 163-164). Johannesburg: Wits Press.
  • SIBANDA, B. 2021. Privileging the Decolonial Critical Theory. Journal of Decolonising Discipline, 1 (2); 104- 120.

Editorials

  • Sibanda, B., Joubert, M and Angu, P. 2024. Expressions of Decoloniality and Social Justice in Academic Literacies (AL/EAP) in Higher Education. International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, 6(2). DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.6.2.0001
  • Sefalane-Nkohla, P., Sibanda, B., Joubert, M., Rambiritch, A, Drennan, L and Angu, P. 2023. Academic literacy and writing centre practitioners鈥 responses to COVID-19 and the move to online/blended teaching and learning. Perspectives in Education, 41(3).