Uhuru Phalafala is a writer, researcher, archivist, and scholar with research interests in critical race studies, indigenous epistemologies and cosmologies, social movements, and jazz. She is a senior lecturer in literary studies at Stellenbosch University and is the author of Mine Mine Mine, The Collected Poetry of Keorapetse Kgositsile, 1969-2018, and Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement: Poetics of Possibility. In 2021, she rematriated and republished Malibongwe: Poems From The Struggle By ANC Women through her project Recovering Subterranean Archives. She is currently working on a book project on black ecological practices
