Zethu Matebeni is South Africa Research Chair in Sexualities, Genders and Queer Studies at the University of Fort Hare. As a social scientist, writer and filmmaker whose work focuses on the development of African Queer Studies, zethu works collaboratively with activists, scholars and artists and creates interdisciplinary scholarly work She has been Visiting Professor at the Women's Gender and Sexualities Studies (WGSS) Department at Yale University (United States of America), Centre for Women and Gender Studies at Nelson Mandela University (South Africa), and has received numerous awards including the African Humanities Program (AHP) Fellowship and the African Studies Association (ASA) by American Council of Learned Societies AoLS) Presidential Fellowship. zethu has published various key volumes on African Sexualities and gender diversity including: Reclaiming African: queer perspectives on sexual and gender identities (2014): Queer in Africa: LGBTQ Identities, Citizenship and Activism (with Surya Munro and Vasu Reddy, 2018) and Beyond the Mountain: queer life in Africa's gay capital (with B Camminga, 2020). View CV