Anthropologist Nosipho Mngomezulu finds podcasting an authentic, immediate way to reach an audience.
Nosipho Mngomezulu is an anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Credit: Chris de Beer-Procter forI’m a South African anthropologist with a passion for podcasts. I like having engaging conversations with guests and listeners. Podcasting feels like a more dynamic way to share my research than through journal articles.
In this photo from March, I am hosting a podcast for PEN South Africa, an organization that supports freedom of expression. I am speaking to Joel Cabrita, a historian at Stanford University in California, who wrote a book about Regina Twala. In 1948, Twala was the second Black woman to graduate from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where I teach, and the first Black woman to earn a social-science degree from the university.
I’m at home in Johannesburg in the photo. The books on the desk are biographies of female anthropologists who have worked in the global south. When asked to imagine anthropologists, most people think of white men. It’s time to shift that picture. I research how young people who didn’t experience liberation movements in their countries first-hand make sense of post-colonial nation-building projects. I’m one of those people. I don’t remember life in South Africa under apartheid, but that history shaped my life. One of my uncles was an activist. While podcasting, you can be a scholar, a researcher and an activist simultaneously. Podcasts are a part of reimagining universities as a public good, because anyone can tune in.
Getting recognition for this type of work is a challenge. Part of my work involves writing journal articles about podcasting and talking to journal editors here about how we can assess the academic merit of podcasts.
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