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Rozena Maart is a Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. She holds a Mercator Fellowship and is a leading scholar in decolonial studies, political philosophy, and Black Consciousness. Born in District Six, Cape Town, she earned her undergraduate degree at the University of the Western Cape, a Master’s at the University of York, and a PhD at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Her work interrogates intersections of race, gender, coloniality, and identity through Derridean deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and anti-colonial frameworks.
Maart co-founded South Africa’s first Black feminist organization, Women Against Repression (W.A.R.), and has received prestigious awards including the William R. Jones Lifetime Achievement Award and the Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Award. Her fiction and academic works address systemic oppression, decolonizing education, and racialized spaces. She edits interdisciplinary journals like Alternation and has supervised students across disciplines including Philosophy, Sociology, and Law. Her activism spans anti-racist organizing, curriculum reform, and critiques of colonial gastronomy. Current research focuses on decolonial methodologies and the afterlife of apartheid.
