Visitors to the Centre

Dr Thierry Ngosso

Dr. Ngosso is a philosopher whose research interests focus on global justice (human rights, climate change, migration), corporate responsibility, and the political agency of African societies. He is Guest Lecturer at both the University of Maroua and the Catholic University of Central Africa in Cameroon where he is founding director of the Ethics and Public Policy Laboratory (EthicsLab). He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of St. Gallen where he leads the Competence Center for African Research (CCAR).

Dr Mpho Tshivhase

Dr Tshivhase is a senior lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. She has worked on different interdisciplinary institutional projects at the University of Pretoria that were hosted by the Center for Human Rights, the Human Sciences Research Council, and the Center for Advancement of Scholarship. She worked with the Moralities Research Group at the Bayreuth University in Germany where she was a visiting scholar. She is a former fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and is a research associate with the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research: AI & Society Research Group. Dr Tshivhase is the co-editor of the Handbook of African Philosophy (Springer 2023).

Dr Divine Fuh

Dr Fuh is an associate professor of anthropology and Director of HUMA – Institute for Humanities Africa at the University of Cape Town. His research focuses on the politics of suffering and smiling, particularly on how urban youth seek ways of smiling in the midst of their suffering. He has carried out research in Cameroon, Botswana, South Africa and Senegal. His most recent research focuses on the political economy of Pan-African knowledge production; and on Artificial Intelligence and the ethics of being in African contexts.

Okey Ndibe

Ndibe is the author of the novels Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain, a memoir, Never Look an American in the Eye, and The Man Lives: A Conversation with Wole Soyinka on Life, Literature and Politics. He is also co-editor of various international publications. Ndibe earned MFA and PhD degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has been an award-winning magazine editor and columnist in Nigeria and the US. A two-time Viebranz visiting professor of fiction at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, he has also taught at Brown University, Trinity College, Connecticut College, Simon’s Rock College, and the University of Lagos (as a Fulbright scholar).

Dr Nthabiseng Motsemme

Dr. Motsemme is currently Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg, Sociology Department. 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 Director at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research interests include African feminist and womanist theories; Cultures and Subjectivities of Survival, Death and Healing in Townships; African Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and gendering memories; and Higher Education Transformation and women’s experiences. She is editor in chief for Journal for Contemporary African Studies and serves on the editorial board of the international journal African Identities.