Abonga Sithela

TF | Turning The Tide Humanities Academic Pipeline · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA

The Late Abonga Sithela was a lecturer in Musicology at the South African College of Music (SACM), at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Faculty of Humanities. At SACM, he was teaching Historical Musicology since 2020, a teaching assistant in the extended degree and diploma programmes since 2020, a tutor in historical musicology courses since 2018. He is also a teaching assistant for the Academic Development Programme at the UCT Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) since 2013. He completed his BMus, BMus Hons (Musicology) and MMus (Musicology) at SACM, examining the impact of having a choir in the community. Abonga's doctoral studies in Historical Musicology at the SACM centres on music as a lens through which to read complex decolonial and epistemic questions about South Africa.