Dr Ndumiso Dladla

Academic profile

Dr Ndumiso Dladla holds BA (Philosophy and Private Law), BA [Hons] (Philosophy) as well as an MA (Philosophy) from the University of South Africa and an LLD (Jurisprudence) from the University of Pretoria.

He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence from February 2022. Prior to him joining the department, he worked at the department Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology at the University of South Africa from 2012 to 2021 where he taught African philosophy, the philosophy of race and the history of Western philosophy.

Dladla teaches in the fields of jurisprudence and legal philosophy.

Focus areas

Dladla’s work is broadly held together by an interest in the theme of historical justice which he examines through a philosophical approach to the study of various problems arising out of the  fields of law, history and the politics.  His current research centers on the “right of conquest” in Western legal and political thought and its enduring and profound impact on contemporary (South) African law, history, political-economy and international relations. 

Other themes in Dladla’s ongoing research and preferred supervision topics include the history, theory and philosophy of race/ism, Ubu-Ntu philosophy, constitutional theory, just war theory, South African historiography, Black Political Thought, sovereignty, African Ethics, social , legal and political philosophy as well as selected themes in the history of Western legal and political philosophy.

Selected Publications

  • (2017) Racism and the Marginality of African Philosophy in South Africa”, Phronimon: Journal of Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 18 (2017), pp. 204-231, doi:10.17159/2413-3086/3761.
  • (2017) Towards an African Critical Philosophy of Race: Ubuntu as a Philo-praxis of Liberation, Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions Volume 6 Number 1, p. 39 - 68.
  • (2018) The liberation of history and the end of South Africa: some notes towards an Azanian historiography in Africa, South1, South African Journal on Human Rights, 34:3, 415-440, DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2018.1550940
  • (2020) Here is a Table: A Philosophical Essay on History and Race in South Africa, African SUN Media Press, Stellenbosch ISBN : 9781928314783
  • (2021) (Editor) “The Azanian Philosophical Tradition Today” Theoria: Journal of Social and Political Theory, Issue 168, Vol. 68, No. 3

Academic and professional memberships / fellowships

  • Azanian Philosophical Society
  • Berkeley Working Group for the Study of Systemic Racism.

 

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[March 2022]

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