Professor Deresh Ramjugernath – DVC Research, who came on the 11th April 2018 to visit CALS and have a meeting with the staff

Prof. Irikidzayi Manase from the Faculty of the Humanities in the University of the Free State visits the Centre on October 02, 2017

Philile Mncwabe a student from Durban University of Technology (DUT) visits CALS, while doing her internship at the UKZN Library

Dr Josue Bosange Nkaongami (Rhodes University) visits CALS for 2 weeks in June 2017 Abstract The heroism of female figures in African Epic In African epics, female figures play various roles including heroic roles, but the experiences and actions of men get more attention than those of women. Notions such as heroism are seen and

Emeritus Professor Pierre Martinez from the University of Paris 8 and Professor Juvénal Ngorwanubusa from the University of Burundi recently visited the University of KwaZulu-Natal as part of a peer review process of the French discipline, initiated by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie and the French Institute. Together with Professor Bernard De Meyer from the

The Centre had the pleasure of hosting the students from Central Michigan University, accompanied by Prof Maureen Eke, Department of English

Uhuru Portia Phalafala holds a PhD in African and black diaspora literatures, from the University of Cape Town. She is currently a lecturer at Stellenbosch University, where she teaches world literatures, African and black diaspora literatures, and poetry. Her research interests include the methodologies and formulations of the black archive, black intellectual cultures, black periodical

Dr Tyrone August visits the Centre for African Literary Studies, 26-28 October 2016. He is working on a biography of Dennis Brutus up to the year 1966 when Brutus went into exile. Brutus was a poet, activist, educationalist and journalist. The Bernth Lindfors and James Currey archival collections at CALS contain valuable original correspondence and