Innocent Ngulube

Dr. Innocent Akili Ngulube is an early-career scholar from the University of Malawi. He belongs to the Department of Literary Studies under the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He received a PhD in English from Rhodes University (South Africa) in 2020. His interdisciplinary research interests include African literature, African popular culture, African urban studies, African science fiction, Afrodiasporic studies (Afropolitanism, Afropeanism, and mobility studies), Artificial Intelligence, Pan-Africanism, International Relations, postmodernism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, and critical theory. His articles appear in the following journals: Research in African Literatures, Nordic Journal of African Studies, Critical African Studies, African Studies Review, Mobility Humanities, and MATATU. His research focuses on Malawi, South Africa, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Kenya, and Djibouti.

Recent publications: 

Ngulube, I.A. (2021). Pan-Africanism and Its Contradictions: Rethinking the Nativist Idea of Egyptology in Ayi Kwei Armah’s KMT. In: Abidde, S.O., Matambo, E.K. (eds) Xenophobia, Nativism and Pan-Africanism in 21st Century Africa. Springer, Cham.

Ngulube, I.A. (2023). Beyond Self-Recognition: Fragmented Subjectivity in Alain Mabanckou’s Blue White Red and African Psycho. Research in African Literatures, 54, 163 - 178.

Ngulube, I. A. (2021). Pan-Africanism and its contradictions: Rethinking the nativist idea of Egyptology in Ayi Kwei Armah’s KMT. In S. O. Abidde & E. K. Matambo (Eds.), Xenophobia, nativism and Pan-Africanism in 21st century Africa: History, concepts, practice and case study (pp. 87–106). Springer.

Ngulube, I. A. (2024). The politics and limitations of Afrodiasporic humour: Elnathan John’s Be(com)ing Nigerian. Critical African Studies, 16(3), 352–366. 

Ngulube, I. A. (2024). Isaac Vincent Joslin. Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2023. African Studies Review, 67(4), 1096–1098.