Dr. Wanelisa Xaba is a decolonial thinker, storyteller and researcher from `kwaLanga in Cape Town. 18 years ago, Dr. Wanelisa Xaba engaged policy makers and the government regarding intervention for orphaned and vulnerable children as a teenage activist.
She holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences and an Honours degree in African Studies. She pursued a Masters by research at the University of Cape Town as well. She obtained her PhD at the University of the Western Cape. She is currently a NIHSS postdoctoral fellow in the Women and Gender Studies Department, UWC. She currently conducts workshops and lectures in the university space (and NGO’s) on SOGI, LGBTQI+ rights, African feminism, post-colonial theories, decolonial theories and South African higher education and Intersectionality. She is interested in the spiritual impact of coloniality on Black people and she is interested in decolonial knowledge(s) that promote epistemic healing.