Zandi Radebe is a mother, a Black Consciousness Pan-Afrikanist (BCPA) activist, and decolonial scholar. As a co-founder and leader of the Blackhouse Kollective Soweto (BHK); a Soweto-based initiative driven by black youth that focuses on cultivating communities of knowledge and practice while reclaiming black epistemologies. BHK is dedicated to unearthing and documenting the history of Azanian Womanist Theorizations and Praxis. Our endeavour includes collaboratively theorizing what we refer to as Azanian Womanhood, which we view as a paradigm of power from which the silenced and forgotten histories of female freedom fighters, like Zondeni Sobukwe—known to us as the Mother of Azania—are attended to with care and black love.

Professor Luvuyo Mthimkhulu Dondolo is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, at UNISA. He specialises in public history with a specific focus on heritage studies, museology, Pan-African scholarship, and identity. His active research agenda moves from heritage studies, Afrocentric studies, and social and public history to the New African Movement public biographies. Professor Dondolo has published multiple books – including his latest One Race: The Legacy of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. He has co authored several books on heritage and public history. His forthcoming edited volumes – African Intellectual Tradition: Towards New Histories, and co-edited edition Spatial Plan Justice in South Africa: Towards (Re)Africanisation of Spatiality in press and expected late in 2025. Following his Rev. Pambani Jermiah Mzimba biography expected in 2025, Prof Dondolo is working on Sabelo Phama/Gqwetha’s memoir and Templeton Mzukisi Ntantala’s political biography.

vangile gantsho is a healer, poet and co-founder of impepho press. gantsho’s poetry has been published in various literary publications around the globe, including New Daughters of Africa (2019) and has participated in festivals and literary programmes across three continents. she dedicates herself and her work to creating and/or supporting spaces that encourage (black feminine) healing.

Mphutlane wa Bofelo is a poet, essayist, playwright, educator and political theorist. His works such as Transitions: From Post-Colonial Illusions to Decoloniality and Bluesology and Bofelosophy express creativity and sociopolitical analysis across disciplines through a unique synthesis of intellectual traditions, integrating critical and subaltern theories, Black Consciousness, Sufism and socialist humanism. He has produced several poetry collections and has contributed to numerous anthologies. 

Azania & Sobukwe’s Voice, Azania Tyhali is an activist, musician and vocalist her work includes art, politics and social justice. As a member of iPhupho L’ka Biko a Black Conscious Jazz Band, she is committed to music as a means of archiving and activism. Her vocal artistry is central to my leadership role in the single ‘Idabi Labantu’. Through music, she continues to challenge and reshape narratives around Blackness as political identity and resistance.