# University of Cape Town lecturer, Sanele Ntshingana, is one of 18 global fellows selected for the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Havard University. During his four-month stay as a Mandela Fellow at Harvard, he will focus on his book project titled Theorizing Political Authority from Vernacular Concept, The Political Discourse of isiXhosa-Speaking African Intellectuals from South Africa, 1836–1914. The university says the project explores how 19th and early 20th century isiXhosa-speaking African intellectuals theorised political authority using vernacular concepts.
UCT academic awarded prestigious fellowship for groundbreaking isiXhosa research