Uhuru Portia Phalafala is a Senior Lecturer in English at Stellenbosch University and holds a PhD in English Literature. Her research interests include critical race studies, decoloniality, and Black radical traditions. She explores the practices of being alongside ancestors, land, and nature, which has resulted in essays, poetry, and a sonic documentary. Phalafala is the author of Mine Mine Mine (2023) and Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement (2024), and is a contributor to The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making and Meaning.