mpho works across disciplines of film, music, and art. With a scholarly practice that cuts across Sociology, Environmental Humanities, Management and Organisations, and Literary Studies.
sight + aurality, visuality + feeling
essays + reviews + exhibition texts
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No Home for Bisexual Black Men [essay](Mail and Guardian, 2019)
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Poverty, inequality and virtuousness in South Africa. (Africa is a Country, 2019)
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Group Therapy, [cultural criticism: commissioned] (Africa is a Country, 2023)
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We Should All Be Dead, Khanya Zibaya [Exhibition text: commissioned] (Vela Projects, 2025)
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Shoot to Kill: Police and Power in South Africa [a book discussion with author Christopher McMichael: commissioned] (JRB, 2022).
book launches + panels
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[Panelist & Moderator] Uhuru Phalafala's Keorapetse Kgositsile & The Black Arts Movement (Chimurenga, 2025).
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[Moderator & Discussant] Tendayi Sithole's Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania (Book Lounge, 2024)
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Black Intellectual Archives: an LGBTQIA+ symposium [moderator and producer], (South African Human Rights Commission, 2021)
podcasts
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The experiences of black bisexual men in South Africa: an interview with Eusebius McKaiser (Radio 702, 2019)
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On bisexuality: an interview with Seadimo Tlale (Intersectionally Speaking, 2020)
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Don't migrants deserve to eat? On antiblackness, food, and migrant life in South Africa: An interview with philosopher Olerator Mogomotsi (Ol Things Considered, 2025)