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Geoff mapaya biography
Prof Madimabe Geoff Mapaya – Professor – Department of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor Madimabe Geoff Mapaya (NRF C3 rated) holds a PhD in African Studies – specialising in the study of mmino wa setšo (indigenous African music) ¬¬- particularly its implications on the discipline of African musicology.
His education and philosophical outlook and research interests are undergirded by a Bachelor of Music (jazz performance), a Higher Certificate in Education from the University of Cape Town and a master’s degree from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Concerned by the prevalent academic tendencies of rendering African knowledge holders voiceless and faceless, his latest research work dutifully seeks to address this problem by foregrounding African indigenous knowledge systems and worldviews and basing it on the rising Ordinary (African) Language Philosophy.
His numerous academic articles, book chapters as well as opinion pieces are all attempting to enthrone A