Until he was six years old, Gibson Ncube didn’t utter a word. Today, that same boy speaks four African and three international languages and works as a lecturer at Stellenbosch University’s Department of Modern Foreign Languages.Maties student identifies a new species of medicinal mushroom in Knysna
All FPP fellows demonstrate the potential to become leaders in their fields and to be part of a transformed next generation of South African professors across all disciplines. He continued, ‘Although my parents did not go to university, they made sure that my siblings and I had the best possible opportunities to thrive academically. Being the first person in my family to attend university pushed me to want to succeed in my studies. And having found myself in academia, I have also strived to always be the best version of myself that I can be.’
He is one of the few Southern African scholars whose research crosses the Sub-Saharan divide, which has tended to divide African literary scholarship into two distinct linguistic segments. ‘I focus on literary texts and other cultural productions such as novels, autobiographies, and films to examine trans-continental, inter-regional, and trans-lingual dialogues that allow for a fuller and more all-inclusive imagining of non-conforming sexual and gender experiences in Africa.’
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