Advisory Board

Prof Nthabiseng Motsemme 

Prof Nthabiseng Motsemme is currently Director at the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice (CSRP) and Associate Professor at the Sociology Department, University of Johannesburg. She previously served as Academic Director at the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), and Director: Postgraduate Studies and Research Capacity Development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research interests include African feminist, womanist and embodiment theories and methodologies; Decolonial and Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies; Township cultures and subjectivities of survival, aesthetics, death and healing; African Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and gendering violent memories; and African women’s experiences in higher education. She has served as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Contemporary African Studies (JCAS), International Editorial Advisory board member for Taylor and Francis. She is currently Editor-in-Chief for Global Township Studies Journal (UJ Press), Editorial board member of African Identities Journal, and Advisory board member for the  Centre for Philosophy in Africa, Nelson Mandela University

Prof Christine Hobden

Christine Hobden is an Associate Professor in Ethics and Public Governance at the Wits School of Governance. Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare and held an Iso Lomso Fellowship from the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study (2019 - 2022). She is an editor for Theoria: A journal of Social and Political Theory and the founding convener of the Public Ethics Network South Africa. Her research is in the discipline of analytic political theory and focuses on democratic citizenship and public ethics. Her account of a state-based but globally-oriented citizenship is published in her monograph, Citizenship in a Globalised World (Routledge 2021). Christine's most recent publications analyse South Africa's Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Process, contribute to debates on the nature and role of public political philosophy, and critically engage with Brock's Corruption & Global Justice (OUP). Christine is a NRF Y1-rated researcher. 

Prof Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe

Prof Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe is Chairperson and Associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of the Western Cape. In these roles, he provides strategic leadership, oversee departmental administration as well as lectures,conducts research, and supervises postgraduate students across a diverse range of philosophical topics. His research interests straddle the Western and African philosophical traditions, focusing on the metaphysics and ethics of personhood, and specifically in the ways in which our ideas of personhood play out in various domains of human interactions including moral, social, legal, and more recently, the public health context. He has authored and co-authored several academic papers and books, including Menkiti’s Moral Man (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) and Jurisprudence in an African Context (Oxford University Press, 1st and 2nd editions, 2017 and 2024 respectively, with D Bilchitz & T Metz). He has held visiting fellowship at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is a recipient of the ACLS-AHP fellowship, a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and an inaugural Fellow of the Emengini Institute for Comparative Global Study. He is also corecipient of the John Templeton Fund under the Global Philosophy of Religion Project Grant at the University of Birmingham. He has served as Secretary of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, Associate Editor of South African Journal of Philosophy and Co-convener, National Research Foundation Rating Specialist Committee: Political Science & Philosophy. He is currently Associate Editor of Philosophia: A Global Journal of Philosophy, Editorial Board Member for Philosophia Africana, Co-Director for Centre for African Phenomenology, Western Cape Region, and Advisory Board Member, Centre for African Philosophy, Nelson Mandela University.