Lecturer

BA (Hons) MA Rhodes

Sanele kaNtshingana is a lecturer in African Language Studies at the University of Cape Town’s School of Languages and Literatures. His research focuses on how 19th- and early 20th-century isiXhosa-speaking intellectuals conceptualized and navigated shifting political authority. By analyzing the internal logic and vernacular concepts in the works of thinkers such as Gciniswa Noyi, William Kekale Kaye, Tiyo Soga, William Wellington Gqoba, John Tengo Jabavu, and S.E.K. Mqhayi, he sheds new light on political argumentation and theoretical currents in African intellectual discourse. He is a 2025-2026 Mandela Fellow at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

Selected Publications