Zethu Cakata

Zethu Cakata currently works as a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Africa. She has extensive experience in the field of research and has worked as both an academic and a researcher in institutions in several institutions including, Statistics South Africa, Department of Psychology at the University of Pretoria and Human Sciences Research Council, Reproductive Health Research Unit and the University of the Western Cape. Zethu Cakata’s scholarship is in the field of African Epistemologies and has produced work that advocates for the usage of indigenous languages for epistemic purposes. She has demonstrated this advocacy in publications such as The place of indigenous languages in the new curriculum: An African Psychology Case Study,“Safely Nestled in isiXhosa is the Psychology of a people”, When Ukucelwa Ukuzalwa Becomes Bride Price: Spiritual Meaning Lost in Translation, Ubugqirha: Healing Beyond the Western Gaze, South Africa Belongs to All Who Speak Colonial Languages, Childhoods Rooted in Land and recently published books titled “Still to be Named: An exploration of African Epistemologies using Simphiwe Dana’s selected works and Azibuye Emasisweni: Reclaiming our space, centering our knowledge. This work has earned her the Unisa Scholarship Award in 2022 and the Association for Black Psychologists Scholarship Award in 2019.

Publications

Knowledge Transmitted Through Language and Enacted Through Culture: Exploring the Psychology Embedded in the Concept of Ukuphilisana
Knowledge Transmitted Through Language and Enacted Through Culture: Exploring the Psychology Embedded in the Concept of Ukuphilisana
Zethu Cakata. © 2024. 18 pages.
A people's self-definition is founded on their epistemologies, but since the imposition of Western education, African epistemologies have been marginalized and bastardized....