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Simphiwe Mpho Zondani is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar (2024), who operates as a researcher-practitioner at the intersection of creative media production, media and cultural studies, critical theory, and African post-structuralism. His work uniquely straddles empirical research and creative practice. His academic background includes a Master of Arts in Media Studies (Research) from Nelson Mandela University, where he examined the media framing of South Africa's "reading/literacy crisis." He is also a member of SARCHI Chair in Identities and Social Cohesion in Africa (ISCIA).
As a creative practitioner, his work in film, poetry, and print has been widely published and exhibited. His creative-research response to the Horizons 2055 project (including the digital artefact ubuxhakaxhaka.exe, an experimental zine called Continua, and the poem Wemk'umlambo Magwala Ndin!) was exhibited at the Bird Street Gallery. This practice informs his current project, an MA in Creative Media Production, focusing on the cinematic "remediation" of traditional Xhosa folktales (iintsomi). His scholarly writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and as a book chapter in Emancipatory Imaginations (SUNPress).
Lecturer
Qualifications
Research interests
Biography
Simphiwe Mpho Zondani is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar (2024), who operates as a researcher-practitioner at the intersection of creative media production, media and cultural studies, critical theory, and African post-structuralism. His work uniquely straddles empirical research and creative practice. His academic background includes a Master of Arts in Media Studies (Research) from Nelson Mandela University, where he examined the media framing of South Africa's "reading/literacy crisis." He is also a member of SARCHI Chair in Identities and Social Cohesion in Africa (ISCIA).
As a creative practitioner, his work in film, poetry, and print has been widely published and exhibited. His creative-research response to the Horizons 2055 project (including the digital artefact ubuxhakaxhaka.exe, an experimental zine called Continua, and the poem Wemk'umlambo Magwala Ndin!) was exhibited at the Bird Street Gallery. This practice informs his current project, an MA in Creative Media Production, focusing on the cinematic "remediation" of traditional Xhosa folktales (iintsomi). His scholarly writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and as a book chapter in Emancipatory Imaginations (SUNPress).
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