Assistant Professor, African and American Studies, Fall 2023 | Themba is a scholar of African and Afro-diasporic literature and global black thought, focusing on the intersections between the histories of blackness and the politics of memory in the postcolonial world. His doctoral project looks at the significance of the SS Mendi shipwreck, the Herero and Nama Genocide, and the South African apartheid archive, to chart the possibilities of a decolonial rubric for the mourning and witnessing of black pasts. In May 2023, Themba will earn his PhD in English from Princeton University with a certificate in African American Studies.