Mohamed Adhikari received his PhD from the University of Cape Town. After nearly three decades of research on various aspects of coloured identity and politics in South Africa, he now works in the area of genocide studies, with a particular focus on settler colonialism and genocide.

Contact details:

E-mail: mohamed.adhikari@uct.ac.za

Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 2962

Room 255,  Beattie Building, University Avenue, UCT Upper Campus, Rondebosch, 7701

Research Interests and Areas of Supervision:

Settler colonialism and genocide

Courses Taught:

HST2045L — Genocide: African Experiences (Winter Term)

HST4055/5055S — Racism, Colonialism and Genocide (Hons/MA)

Select Awards:

1995      — UCT Distinguished Teachers Award

2012      — UCT Distinguished Social Responsibility Award

2015-22 — Various National Research Foundation funding awards

2020      — International Network of Genocide Scholars inaugural Impact Award

Select Publications: Books, Monographs and Edited Works only

2023	Bir Guney Afrika Anatomisi: Cape San Halklarinin iMasi, (Grius Publisher, ) Istanbul,  translator: Halim Gencoglu. This is a Turkish translation of Anatomy of a South African Genocide (2010)
2022	Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge, Mass., Hackett Publishing, forthcoming March)
2021	Civilian-driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies (ed.), Abingdon, Routledge)
2015	Genocide on Settler Frontiers: When Hunter-gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash (ed.), (Berghahn Books, New York)
2012	Against the Current: A Biography of Harold Cressy (Cape Town, Juta)
2010	The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples (Cape Town/Athens, UCT/Ohio University Press)
2009	Burdened by Race: Coloured Identity in Southern Africa, (ed.), (Cape Town, UCT Press)
2005	Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in South Africa’s Coloured Community, (Athens, Ohio University Press)
2002	Dr. Abdurahman: The Man and His Work (ed.), (Cape Town, National Library of South Africa)
2000	South Africa’s Resistance Press: Dissident Voices in the Last Generation of Apartheid, (co-edited with Professor Les Switzer, School of Communication, University of Houston), (Athens, Ohio University Press)
1997	Jimmy La Guma: A Biography by Alex La Guma, (ed.), (Cape Town, South African Library)
1996	Straatpraatjes: Language, Politics and Popular Culture in Cape Town, 1909-1922, (ed.), (Pretoria, van Schaik)
1996	James La Guma (Cape Town, Maskew Miller Longman; They Fought for Freedom series)
1993	Let Us Live for Our Children: The Teachers’ League of South Africa, 1913-1940, (Cape Town, UCT Press)

Work in progress:

I am currently working on two inter-related projects. The first is an edited volume with the working title “Myths, Mythologies, and Manifest Destinies in the Making of Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples”. The second is a monograph with the working title “Thematic Explorations in the Making of Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples”.