Tendayi Sithole is a Professor in the Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa.

He is the author of Biko’s Edge: Reimagining Black Critique (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2026), On Mabogo P. More’s Extended Thought (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), Hortense J. Spillers: Subject, Abject, and Insurgent in Black Radical Thought (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024), Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2024), Refiguring in Black (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023), The Letter in Black Radical Thought (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023), Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology in Azania (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), The Black Register (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020), and Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016).

Sithole was awarded the 2025 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Achievement Award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

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Dr. Sarah Setlaelo is a writer, researcher, and academic with a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Johannesburg.

She also holds qualifications in African Feminist and Gender Studies from the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute and the Advanced Course in Thought Leadership from the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs. Her areas of specialisation are political, social and feminist philosophy, ethics, race and gender. She currently serves as a research associate at the University of Connecticut and the University of Johannesburg, and is a former fellow of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. 

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