In this public lecture, Dr Wamuwi Mbao considered technologies that systematically exclude Black people. Titled Driving while Black the talk reflected on the social impact of the car as a form of racialised and gendered authority.
About Wamuwi Mbao
Wamuwi Mbao is a literary critic and essayist. His reviews, essays and fiction appear in the Johannesburg Review of Books, Africa Is a Country, and other venues. He received a South African Literary Award in 2019 for his critical oeuvre. He teaches in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University. He is the editor of Years of Fire and Ash: Poetry of Decolonization, an anthology of South African struggle poetry published in 2021.
