Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
is Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He is a historian who has researched and published over a hundred academic works covering African history, African politics, African development and decolonial theory. His latest major books include Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization (Routledge, July 2018); Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Africa: Turning Over a New Leaf (Routledge, May 2020); and Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century: True Ideas and Living Theories, coedited with Morgan Ndlovu (Routledge, July 2021). Prof. Gatsheni-Ndlovu is a member of the Advisory Board of the SSRC's Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program.