Professor Nhlanhla Maake is Roving Mentor on the Doctoral Programme of the NIHSS (National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences). He holds the following degrees: BA (University of the North), BA Honours in Comparative Literature (University of the Witwatersrand, BA Honours in African Languages (University of South Africa), MLitt in Linguistics for the Teaching of English Languages and Literature University of Strathclyde), MLitt in Victorian History and Culture (Keele University), DLitt et Phil (University of South Africa) and Certificate in Higher Education Management (University of the Witwatersrand).
He has worked at the following institutions: University of the Witwatersrand, SOAS, University of London, University of Pretoria, Vista University, North-west University, National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA), University of Limpopo and the University of South Africa.
Maake was an NRF (National Research Foundation) rated scholar, 2006, and has held Fellowships at Aarhus University in Denmark, Yale University in the US, Ernest Oppenheimer Fellowship at UCT and Distinguished Scholar at Wits. He was admitted to the Golden Key International Honor Society. He has presented papers and key note addresses at international and local conferences. He has published in English and Sesotho: accredited articles accredited books, monographs, a memoir (Barbarism in Higher Education: Once upon a Time in a University), fictional works (novels and plays), chapters in books, book reviews, encyclopedia entries, radio plays, study guides, poems, polemic and position articles. He has served on Board of Directors of DALRO (Dramatic, Arts and Literary Organisation), Catholic Bible College.
Nhlanhla served on the adjudication panels for the Sunday Time Alan Paton Non-Fiction Award, FNB Vita Awards, Ernst van Heerden Literary Awards of Wits, and NIHSS Book Awards. has won the several literary awards and recognition: Ernst van Heerden Creative Writing award of Wits University [1989], MNET Book Prize [1995 and 2012], African Literary heritage Award [1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996], Sello K. Duiker Memorial Award [2012] and Literary Translators Award [2013 and 2014].
