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Name: Thobekile Masombuka
Location: B Ring 721 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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About Dr Thobekile Masombuka
Thobekile Masombuka is a lecturer in the English Department at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Rhodes 欧美福利100000 and a PhD in English from the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, through which she studied religious syncretism in contemporary Nigerian literature. Her research delves into the role of religion and spirituality in shaping cultural narratives, symbols, and meanings and how these elements influence individual and collective identities. Generally, her research interests include African contemporary literature, postcolonial theories, and African speculative fiction.
Her recent article, 鈥淕ods for Sale: Religious Appropriation and Capitalism in Okey Ndibe鈥檚 Foreign Gods Inc.鈥� (2024), observes how the commodification of gods in the novel represents religious appropriation and the religiosity of Western capitalism.