Next Gen alumna Siphokazi Magadala observes that having worked with Next Gen fellows, most of them tend to over rely on scholarship from the Global North and use theories and concepts with little relevance to their research. She sees her intervention as that of guiding fellows to embed their research within lineages of African thought in the humanities and social sciences.
Siphokazi Magadla
Siphokazi Magadla is a senior lecturer in the Political and International Studies Department, Rhodes University, South Africa. She was a fellow of the Social Science Research Council's Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship program (2013–2014) and from 2017, has served as a Next Gen workshop mentor.