Smanga Welford Nhlakanipho Kanyile
Lecturer
Qualifications:
BA (Hons) (English), MA (English) (UNIZULU)
ACE in Educational Leadership (UNIZULU)
Diploma in Education for Secondary Phase (DESP) (Esikhawini College of Education): 2000.
BA Theology (Great Commission Bible College, USA)
About
Mr Smanga Welford Nhlakanipho Kanyile is a lecturer of English in the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zululand). He obtained his Master of Arts (English) in 2022, currently doctoral student.
Mr SWN Kanyile is member of Community Engagement Committee in the Department of English (UniZulu) as Liaison officer between the Department and participating Schools in King Cetshwayo District.
In August 2024 he facilitated a guest-lecture on Feminism with two guest lecturers from UNISA and University of Limpompo organized and hosted by Dr L Mafu for third year and honours students.
He has been an educator, Lead-Educator, and HoD (Languages) in several schools, including Dlangezwa Hugh School.
He has presented a paper in a conference on Problematizing Ubuntu. Mr Kanyile is currently involved in extensive writing projects: articles on some of Chimamanda Adichie’s and Gcina Mhlophe’s short stories; a paper how Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own intersects some of the short stories by African female authors; as well as co-writing a book on John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Research Interests
- Western Canon: Shakespearean texts, John Milton, Ben Johnson, John Donne etc.
- African cannon: Bessie Head, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Ousmane Sembene, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Oyeronke Oyewumi,
- With keen interest in critical analysis and research in poetry and Feminism.
- Western Feminism, African Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Ubuntu Philosophy, Christianity, and Discourse Analysis