School of Arts

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Roles
School of Arts PhD researcher
Department
School of Arts
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Philosophy
Grad. Cert. Linguistics (Birkbeck)
MA African Studies (SOAS)
PGCE (Buckingham)
Email address
687525@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
Keep on Pushing: soul as everyday resistance under Apartheid
Internal Supervisors
Professor Lindiwe Dovey

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Duduzile Chaza is a second-year PhD researcher in the department of Creative Arts and Cultural Industries in the School of Arts.

Besides being a well-qualified linguist with over 15 years experience teaching in England and abroad, she has also worked as a mentor for Oxford University Department of Education and is an examiner for GCSE and A' Level French. Taking advantage of world events during 2020, Duduzile enrolled on a Masters’ degree in African Studies at SOAS.

The opportunities offered by SOAS for interdisciplinary studies saw her studying modules in: Language, Identity and Society in Africa; Atlantic Africa: Players in the Mediation of African Popular Music; Historical Linguistics; International Relations :Contemporary World Politics; Political Thought on The Just Rebellion; The Politics of Central Africa : Social Rupture and Reconfiguration in The Great Lakes ; The Politics of Southern Africa : Rule and Resistance after Apartheid. 

Duduzile received a distinction for her dissertation, entitled “We Speak English at Home”: A survey of language use in South Africa. Since her admission to the Doctoral School, Duduzile has played an active part in student life at SOAS. She is a board member of SOAS Research Students Association, was SOAS School of Arts PGR Rep 2022-2023, assisted Dr Caspar Melville during the SOAS Festival of Ideas 2022 - ‘Thinking Through Music’, and is a member of the SOAS Ebony Initiative.  Beyond SOAS, Duduzile has been a member of The Decolonial Critique, a global network of more than 1,800 scholars and activists who have an interest in theoretical and applied approaches to coloniality/decoloniality within and beyond the university, since its inception in 2021. 

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Duduzile Chaza's research brings together Ethnomusicology, subaltern oral histories, and South African urban politics. It uses music as a mnemonic for historically specific, sociocultural experiences to recover the personal histories of Blacks living under Apartheid.

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Email
687525@soas.ac.uk

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