Gcobani Qambela (@umgqwashu) 's Twitter Profile
Gcobani Qambela

@umgqwashu

Professor and the Head of Department for Anthropology and Development Studies, at @ujhumanities. I co-edit, @afrikanstudies. 📚trauma, masculinities, boyhoods

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linkhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23323256.2024.2322604 calendar_today04-02-2022 17:30:52

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Excited to be a moderator for the Youth Month Dialogue hosted by University of Johannesburg Community Engagement Unit tomorrow at 10am. To hear more of how you can advance career goals through volunteerism and digital skills, join us on Microsoft Teams (scan QR code). 🧡 #UJ20 #YouthMonth2025

Excited to be a moderator for the Youth Month Dialogue hosted by <a href="/go2uj/">University of Johannesburg</a> Community Engagement Unit tomorrow at 10am. 

To hear more of how you can advance career goals through volunteerism and digital skills, join us on Microsoft Teams (scan QR code). 🧡

#UJ20 #YouthMonth2025
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This Saturday, the APN & Next Gen-sponsored panel “Changing Geopolitics, Violence, and Conflict Resolution in Africa" will be taking place at #ECAS2025. The five panelists (all former fellows) will discuss how changing geopolitics are impacting conflict resolution in #Africa.

This Saturday, the APN &amp; Next Gen-sponsored panel “Changing Geopolitics, Violence, and Conflict Resolution in Africa" will be taking place at #ECAS2025.

The five panelists (all former fellows) will discuss how changing geopolitics are impacting conflict resolution in #Africa.
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Proud former supervisor! Excellent, excellent talk tonight at the The Habitable Planet webinar on issues related to youth unemployment and educational inequities. Well done, soon to be Dr LEHLOHONOLO KEKANA ! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Proud former supervisor!

Excellent, excellent talk tonight at the <a href="/ACCESS_HP/">The Habitable Planet</a> webinar on issues related to youth unemployment and educational inequities.

Well done, soon to be Dr LEHLOHONOLO KEKANA !

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
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"Wow, this went fast." And I held her hand, I said, "What are you talking about?" And she said, "Life." She said, "This went fast." npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-…

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… such amazing news in this morning. Luc, Anzio and I provide DEI support to Gambit Media and Netflix. What a thrill to see this work get the global recognition it deserves. From South Africa 🇿🇦 to Cannes 🇫🇷, it is, again! ✨

… such amazing news in this morning. Luc, Anzio and I provide DEI support to Gambit Media and Netflix. What a thrill to see this work get the global recognition it deserves. From South Africa 🇿🇦 to Cannes 🇫🇷, it is, again! 

✨
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New arrivals. I’m so excited! I’m trying to read more contemporary fiction and authors who write in isiXhosa and isiMpondo. I’m grateful for the work Mzolly Mavimbela and his peers are doing preserving both languages. #nerdpleasure

New arrivals. I’m so excited! 

I’m trying to read more contemporary fiction and authors who write in isiXhosa and isiMpondo. 

I’m grateful for the work Mzolly Mavimbela and his peers are doing preserving both languages.

#nerdpleasure
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This month seven years ago, I started at University of JohannesburgUJ Faculty of Humanities ! It has been a wonderful journey. I cannot believe how fast the time has gone and what has happened in those seven years. #grateful

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Damn: “The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which…”

Damn: “The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which…”