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Name: Dikeledi Mokoena
Location: D Ring 508 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: +27 (0) 11 559 4865
Email:听dmokoena@uj.ac.za
About Dr Dikeledi Mokoena
Dr. Dikeledi Mokoena holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the 欧美福利100000 of Pretoria and an MA, Hons, and BA from Wits 欧美福利100000. Her doctoral thesis titled “An Afrodecolonial Analysis of Resistance by the widowed women of Marikana” offers听a decolonial reading of resistance by women who were situated in the ‘extended social reproductive sphere’ of South Africa鈥檚 extractive sector. Mokoena’s research interests are in feminist political economy, decoloniality, African feminism, and politics of development in Africa. Dr. Mokoena has experience in researching and coordinating multi-country research projects such as IFFs in the mining sector of Southern Africa, Regional integration and Migration in ECOWAS and SADC, as well as the AfCFTA and its interface with the EAC. She also has experience in designing international fellowship programs for change agents. Dr. Mokoena has trained youth leaders across the African continent on themes related to governance in Africa, leadership, and gender equality. Thus far she has trained over 3000 youth leaders in East, South, West, Central, and Northern Africa.
Publications:
Mokoena, D.A and Omotoso, S. (2025). Gender and Feminist Meditations on Women鈥檚 Political Participation in Africa, UJ Press: Johannesburg.听听(Funder: Akina Mama wa Afrika, Uganda) DOI 10.64449/9780639890142
Mokoena, D.A 2025. Innovating an intersectional feminist policy framework: Analysis of South Africa鈥檚 Black industrialist Policy. African Journal of Gender, Society and Development. Vol. 14 (3), pp. 65-84
Mokoena, D.A 2025. 鈥楺ualitative Comparative Analysis of conditions necessary for increasing the percentage of women in African Parliaments鈥�. In Gender and Feminist Meditations on Women鈥檚 Political Participation in Africa. (Eds) Dikeledi A. Mokoena and Sharon Omotoso. UJ Press: Johannesburg. DOI
Tau, S. and Mokoena, D.A 2025. 鈥楢frican Women Leaders in Universities; Using Memory in the Establishment of Leadership Practices鈥�. In Inclusive Education in South African further and Higher Education: Reflections on Equity, Access and Inclusion. (Eds) Tsediso Michael Makoelle and Cina P. Mosito. (Emerald Publishing). DOI:10.1108/978-1-83608-944-520251028
Gumede, V., Oloruntoba, S.O. and Kamga, S.D. with Mokoena, D.A, Beremauro, R, Nkenkana, A, 2020. Regional integration and migration in Africa: Lessons from Southern and West Africa. In Regional Integration and Migration in Africa. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-41122-73.1.2 Peer Reviewed
Mokoena, D. A. 2020. Women of Marikana in the Media: Decolonial Analysis of Gendered Representations. In Women鈥檚 Political Communication in Africa. (Ed) Sharon Omotoso Springer publication) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42827-3_3
Loum, L and Mokoena, D. A, 2019, 鈥楾he use of mHealth Cloud technology in regional integration: The Case of ECOWAS鈥� In Innovation, Regional Integration, and Development in Africa: Rethinking Theories, Institutions, and Policies. (Eds) Samuel Oloruntoba and Mammo Muchie, DOI:
Mokoena D. A. 2018. Global Systematic Crisis and Gender Inequality: Quest for Inclusive Development. In 鈥業nclusive Development in Africa: Transformations of Global Relations. (Ed) Vusi Gumede DOI: 7
Mokoena, D.A. 2018. 鈥楾he Politics of Foreign Aid.鈥� In The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development. (Eds). Samuel, O. Oloruntoba and Toyin. Falola. DOI:
Mokoena, D. A. 鈥楤lack Panther and the problem of the black radical. Journal of Pan-African Studies. Vol. 11(9), pp. 13-19. Mokoena.pdf
Conference Papers:
Mokoena, D.A, 鈥淐omparative Reflections of Township Economic Innovations in Sebokeng in South Africa and Mbare in Zimbabwe鈥�, presented at the Township Studies Hybrid Conference, UJ, 10-11 November 2022,
Mokoena, D.A 鈥楢xiologenic Resistance in Western-centric free market and politically liberal democratic South Africa: Lessons from the Widowed Women of Marikana鈥�, presented at the Critical 欧美福利100000 Studies Across Africa colloquium entitled Reflexive Solidarities in Techno-Rational Time, 2-4 November 2020
Mokoena, D.A 鈥楻ethinking how to facilitate Learning in Political Studies during Covid鈥� presented at South African Association of Political Science Conference, 2021
Mokoena, D.A 鈥榃omen of Marikana鈥� presented at Decolonial Feminism in Africa Dialogue, 欧美福利100000 of South Africa, 11 August 2017
Mokoena, D.A 鈥楪lobal Coloniality and coloniality of Gender at Marikana: A decolonial Political Economy Analysis鈥� presented at UNIZULU Humanities and Social Sciences Conference 鈥� 2017
Mokoena, D.A, 鈥極n Decolonial Research Method鈥� presented at -Gender and Decoloniality Conference, Nelson Mandela 欧美福利100000, 2017
Mokoena, D.A. 鈥楨xtending The Ritual Archive: Mokhokha as an African Epistemology of the Body鈥� shared at an event co-hosted by Prof. Pascah Mungwini near Maboneng in 2017
Mokoena, D.A. 鈥楻ethinking Gendered Macroeconomics through the African Social Reproductive Sphere, FEMNET, Online. August 2020
Mokoena, D.A. 鈥楢 gloomy diagnosis of Africa鈥檚 Fragmented Economy as imperative for Africa to Unite鈥�, presented at the 60th Celebration of All African People鈥檚 Conference- Ghana, December 2018
Mokoena, D.A. 鈥楶an-African Unity, Free Movement and Sexuality: The Fact of Exclusion鈥� presented at the Africa Youth Conference – United Nations Africa Office- Kenya, 2018