About
Bongani Ngqulunga is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg (UJ). Prior to this, he served as the director of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), also based at UJ. He directs the African Biographies Project, which brings together scholars and writers researching and writing biographies of figures from the African continent. Ngqulunga’s scholarship focuses on the politics and history of South Africa. He is the author of the multiple prize-winning book The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme (Penguin, 2017) and co-editor of Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C. Smuts (UJ Press, 2024). He obtained his doctoral degree from Brown University in the USA.
Photograph courtesy of Mail & Guardian.
