Ntongela Masilela
Professor Ntongela John Masilela | |
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| Born | December 9, 1948 Soweto |
| Died | July 6, 2020 (aged 71) Bangkok |
Ntongela Masilela was a South-African-born professor of English & World Literature (and, upon retirement, professor emeritus in Creative Studies) at and adjunct professor of African-American Studies at the University of California (Irvine & Los Angeles). He was the eldest son of Florence Vuyiswa Masilela and Dr Albert Mahlathini Magija Masilela, who was an alumnus of UCLA.
Due to apartheid, the family went into exile in Nairobi, Kenya while Ntongela was a teenager. After attending , he followed in his father's footsteps by obtaining his BA, MA, and PhD degrees at UCLA. His doctoral thesis was Theory and History in Marxist Poetics.
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- https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/ntongela-masilela
- https://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/ntongela-masilela/
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