Dr Lwazi Lushaba has a BA (Hons) from the University of Transkei, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Ibadan, an MPhil from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Kolkata, and a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. He has taught at Fort Hare and Wits, and he has held a Visiting Fellowship at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Lushaba’s interests include political philosophy, in particular German phenomenology and Enlightenment philosophy; Subaltern Studies (decolonial thought, the politics of representation, and postcolonial theory); African Politics, including African political economy and the postcolonial African state; and radical African/Black traditions of intellectual thought.

Undergraduate teaching 

POL1004F - Introduction to Politics 

POL1009F - Introduction to Politics +

Postgraduate teaching 

POL4007H - Research Essay/Project 

POL4050/POL5050 - Contemporary Debates in African Politics 

• Hendricks, C. and Lushaba, L. (eds) From National Liberation to Democratic Renaissance in Southern Africa (Dakar: CODESRIA, 2005); 
• Lushaba, L. (2009) Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development (Dakar: CODESRIA, 2009).