Uhuru Phalafala (PhD) is a senior lecturer in the English department at Stellenbosch University, with teaching interests in critical race studies, material and expressive cultures, black radical traditions, and decoloniality. She is preoccupied with how to be together, with ancestral wisdom and those of the land, plants, cosmos, and waters. This protracted contemplation has thus far produced essays, a sonic documentary, poetry, and a turn to deep listening as bodied method. She is the author of Mine Mine Mine and Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement.