Rodwell Makombe

Rodwell Makombe is Professor in the Department of English at the North-West University, South Africa. He is a previous fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP), the University of Michigan Presidential Scholars Fellowship (UMAPS), and the British Academy; he has also been awarded the Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2024-2026) with the University of Bonn in Germany. His research focuses on postcolonial/decolonial literary studies, social media, and crisis literature. He is...See more

Rodwell Makombe is Professor in the Department of English at the North-West University, South Africa. He is a previous fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP), the University of Michigan Presidential Scholars Fellowship (UMAPS), and the British Academy; he has also been awarded the Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2024-2026) with the University of Bonn in Germany. His research focuses on postcolonial/decolonial literary studies, social media, and crisis literature. He is the author of Cultural Texts of Resistance in Zimbabwe: Music, Memes, Media (2021) and co-author of Coloniality of Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures (2023). See less