Khwezi Mkhize
Biographic Data
| ID | 1258153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Khwezi Mkhize |
| GIVEN NAMES | Khwezi |
| FAMILY NAME | Mkhize |
| SIGNATURE | MKHIZE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5047-0535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Black South African Intellectuals and the Question of Colonial Modernity
Newspapers were essential to African engagements with the problem of colonial modernity in South Africa. This chapter focuses on Tiyo Soga’s writings in Indaba and how they inflected the discourse of the nation with an assemblage of African experiences. Nontsizi Mgqwetho’s praise poems in Umteleli are also considered for the way they combined publicness with an emphasis on the ethical bonds tying the (female) poet to the utterance of truth. The c…
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. It invites a reconceptualisation of African literature as a field by revealing the profusion of local, innovative textual production that surrounded and preceded canonical European-language literary traditions. Bringing together examples of print production in African, Europea and Arabic languages, it exp…
Intimate Archives and Anterooms
A review of Joel Cabrita’s biography of Regina Gelana Twala
South Africa and the Politics of Coevality
The argument that I make in this article is that in leaving the prison house of apartheid, South Africa generated exclusive categories of belonging (framed around multiracial nationalism and citizenship) at the expense of a pan-African politics. By reading South African engagements with the African diaspora as a signifier of disavowed solidarities, this article does a number of things. It traces disassociations with being African as constitutive,…
Archives of empire
South Africa has, in recent years, been witnessing the unraveling of narratives of collective being and becoming that are hinged around Apartheid as the singular institution of power to be overcome. In this paper I argue that while Apartheid has provided one of the enduring examples of racial exclusion in the twentieth century we need to think more carefully about histories of empire and their endurance in the present. I trace the archival grain …
To See Us As We See Ourselves
John Tengo Jabavu’s Imvo Zabantsundu is recognised as the first black periodical in South Africa. As with many of his generation of mission-educated intellectuals, Jabavu’s endeavours in print culture were set against a milieu of intensified conquest and the struggle for colonial belonging. Imvo Zabantsundu has generally been regarded as a purveyor of the aspirations of colonial modernity among the black intelligentsia. In this article, I trace t…
The Violence of Belonging
In May of 2008 there erupted a series of attacks upon “foreign” Africans in various parts of South Africa. These attacks included assaults, some fatal, and lootings directed at the bodies and belon
Neither History nor Freedom Will Absolve Us
Fables of death
This article is an attempt to understand the relationship between racist regimes and the representational strategies that went into the insertion of black bodies into specified economies of labour in early twentieth century South Africa. I take as my primary focus the cartoon narratives depicting African mine workers in the newspaper Umteteli Wa Bantu in the 1920s. The pictorial narratives constructed by the cartoons are instructive for they indi…
Shoot with your pen
This article explores Ingcamango Ebunzimeni, a collection of poems published in the latter months of 1912 by the African intellectual and missionary Isaac William(s) Wauchope (1852–1917). Wauchope is most prominently known for having written a poem that, among other things, incites his peers to ‘take paper and ink’ and ‘[s]hoot with your pen’. Ingcamango Ebunzimeni is a peculiar moment in the life and writing of Wauchope. In a remarkable series o…
Citashe's Apostrophe — “Zimkile! Mfo wohlanga”
The poem “Zimkile! Mfo wohlanga” has had a sustained salutary presence in South African literary and cultural criticism of the past three decades, especially when it has been concerned with the experiences of Christianized, modern Africans. The criticism of the poem provides an entry-point into how “Zimkile!” itself has been reproduced and used. I contend that, although this scholarship has done much to illuminate some of the complexities of the …
Citashe's Apostrophe — “Zimkile! Mfo wohlanga”
The poem “Zimkile! Mfo wohlanga” has had a sustained salutary presence in South African literary and cultural criticism of the past three decades, especially when it has been concerned with the experiences of Christianized, modern Africans. The criticism of the poem provides an entry-point into how “Zimkile!” itself has been reproduced and used. I contend that, although this scholarship has done much to illuminate some of the complexities of the …
South Africa and the Politics of Coevality
The argument that I make in this article is that in leaving the prison house of apartheid, South Africa generated exclusive categories of belonging (framed around multiracial nationalism and citizenship) at the expense of a pan-African politics. By reading South African engagements with the African diaspora as a signifier of disavowed solidarities, this article does a number of things. It traces disassociations with being African as constitutive,…
Archives of empire
South Africa has, in recent years, been witnessing the unraveling of narratives of collective being and becoming that are hinged around Apartheid as the singular institution of power to be overcome. In this paper I argue that while Apartheid has provided one of the enduring examples of racial exclusion in the twentieth century we need to think more carefully about histories of empire and their endurance in the present. I trace the archival grain …
To See Us As We See Ourselves
John Tengo Jabavu’s Imvo Zabantsundu is recognised as the first black periodical in South Africa. As with many of his generation of mission-educated intellectuals, Jabavu’s endeavours in print culture were set against a milieu of intensified conquest and the struggle for colonial belonging. Imvo Zabantsundu has generally been regarded as a purveyor of the aspirations of colonial modernity among the black intelligentsia. In this article, I trace t…
The Violence of Belonging
In May of 2008 there erupted a series of attacks upon “foreign” Africans in various parts of South Africa. These attacks included assaults, some fatal, and lootings directed at the bodies and belon
Neither History nor Freedom Will Absolve Us
Citashe's Apostrophe — “Zimkile! Mfo wohlanga”
The poem “Zimkile! Mfo wohlanga” has had a sustained salutary presence in South African literary and cultural criticism of the past three decades, especially when it has been concerned with the experiences of Christianized, modern Africans. The criticism of the poem provides an entry-point into how “Zimkile!” itself has been reproduced and used. I contend that, although this scholarship has done much to illuminate some of the complexities of the …
Fables of death
This article is an attempt to understand the relationship between racist regimes and the representational strategies that went into the insertion of black bodies into specified economies of labour in early twentieth century South Africa. I take as my primary focus the cartoon narratives depicting African mine workers in the newspaper Umteteli Wa Bantu in the 1920s. The pictorial narratives constructed by the cartoons are instructive for they indi…
Shoot with your pen
This article explores Ingcamango Ebunzimeni, a collection of poems published in the latter months of 1912 by the African intellectual and missionary Isaac William(s) Wauchope (1852–1917). Wauchope is most prominently known for having written a poem that, among other things, incites his peers to ‘take paper and ink’ and ‘[s]hoot with your pen’. Ingcamango Ebunzimeni is a peculiar moment in the life and writing of Wauchope. In a remarkable series o…
Neither History nor Freedom Will Absolve Us
The Violence of Belonging
In May of 2008 there erupted a series of attacks upon “foreign” Africans in various parts of South Africa. These attacks included assaults, some fatal, and lootings directed at the bodies and belon
To See Us As We See Ourselves
John Tengo Jabavu’s Imvo Zabantsundu is recognised as the first black periodical in South Africa. As with many of his generation of mission-educated intellectuals, Jabavu’s endeavours in print culture were set against a milieu of intensified conquest and the struggle for colonial belonging. Imvo Zabantsundu has generally been regarded as a purveyor of the aspirations of colonial modernity among the black intelligentsia. In this article, I trace t…
South Africa and the Politics of Coevality
The argument that I make in this article is that in leaving the prison house of apartheid, South Africa generated exclusive categories of belonging (framed around multiracial nationalism and citizenship) at the expense of a pan-African politics. By reading South African engagements with the African diaspora as a signifier of disavowed solidarities, this article does a number of things. It traces disassociations with being African as constitutive,…
Archives of empire
South Africa has, in recent years, been witnessing the unraveling of narratives of collective being and becoming that are hinged around Apartheid as the singular institution of power to be overcome. In this paper I argue that while Apartheid has provided one of the enduring examples of racial exclusion in the twentieth century we need to think more carefully about histories of empire and their endurance in the present. I trace the archival grain …
Black South African Intellectuals and the Question of Colonial Modernity
Newspapers were essential to African engagements with the problem of colonial modernity in South Africa. This chapter focuses on Tiyo Soga’s writings in Indaba and how they inflected the discourse of the nation with an assemblage of African experiences. Nontsizi Mgqwetho’s praise poems in Umteleli are also considered for the way they combined publicness with an emphasis on the ethical bonds tying the (female) poet to the utterance of truth. The c…
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. It invites a reconceptualisation of African literature as a field by revealing the profusion of local, innovative textual production that surrounded and preceded canonical European-language literary traditions. Bringing together examples of print production in African, Europea and Arabic languages, it exp…
Intimate Archives and Anterooms
A review of Joel Cabrita’s biography of Regina Gelana Twala
African history and culture studies (7 works) · South African History and Culture (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)