Melissa

Tandiwe

Myambo

Homo sum: humani nil

a me alienum puto

{Parenthesis}, an electronic chapbook to raise money for various charities, contains stories about people on the move

including her 2012 Caine Prize-shortlisted story,

La Salle de Départ, and, The Air Train, Parenthesis and Safari.

Jacaranda Journals, a collection of short stories set in Zimbabwe.

REVERSING URBAN INEQUALITY IN JOHANNESBURG

Paperback now available here

Selected Short Stories

- "Jessica Ramirez goes to the Johannesburg Solstice Critical Theory Workshop at the Institute of Critical Reasoning," CRITICAL ARTS
- "North-South Jet Lag," Moving On and other Zimbabwean stories
- “In Flight,” The Write Place at the Write Time. Archived here
- “Take-off, Victorious,” Saraba Magazine Manuscript Project
- “Special Meal,” Wasafiri. Archived here
- “Blood Guilt,” A Memory this Size and other stories/Kwani

Selected Scholarly Articles

- "Glocal Hipsterification: Hipster-Led Gentrification in New York’s, New Delhi’s, and Johannesburg’s Cultural Time Zones," Hipster Culture: A Reader, Ed. Heike Steinhoff. (Bloomsbury, 2021)

- "Unnatural borders: Will Covid-19 break time and space?" From the European South: a transdisciplinary journal of postcolonial humanities, October, 2020.

- "Introduction: Thirty Years of Borders since Berlin" (co-editor) to Special Issue of New Global Studies, Borders 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, December, 2019.

- “Notes on the Spatial Politics of Chick Lit in Africa and Asia: Sidestepping Tradition and Fem-washing Global Capitalism?” Feminist Theory, November, 2019.

- "Class Identity, Xenophobia and Xenophilia: Nuancing Migrant Experience in South Africa’s Diverse Cultural Time Zones." Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference: The Othering of the Other, Ed. Elvis Imafidon. Geneva: Springer Nature, 2019.

- “Bloody Diaspora Theory for the 21st Century: African and Asian Heritage Migrants Return.” Diaspora, Volume 20, Issue 2, published April, 2019, pp. 123-144.

- “Frontier Heritage Migrants: Finding Home in Globalizing India."
Migration and Diasporas: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Vol 1, No. 1, January-June 2018. 82-99.

- "Africa's Global City?" New Left Review 108, November - December, 2017.

- "Frontier Heritage Migration in the Global Ethnic Economy."

Public Culture, May, 2017, Volume 29, Number 2 82: 261-285.

- "Imagining a Dialectical African Modernity: Achebe's Ontological Hopes, Sembene's Machines, Mda's Epistemological Redness."

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Volume 32, 2014 - Issue 4, special issue on "Writers and Social Thought."

Republished in Writers and Social Thought in Africa, Ed. Wale Adebanwi. London: Routledge, 2016.

- “Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism?: M.G. Vassanji’s Hybrid Parables of Kenyan Nationalism.” Diaspora 16, 1/2 Spring/Fall, published 2012, 159-189.

- "Capitalism Disguised as Democracy: A Theory of ‘Belonging,’ not belongings, in the New South Africa." Comparative Literature 63:1 (Winter 2011), 64-85.

- “Anti-Colonial to Anti-Globalization Nationalism: Pepetela’s Angolanidade.” New Global Studies 5:1 (April, 2011).

- “The Limits of Rainbow Nation Multiculturalism in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Spatial Configuration in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying and Jonathan Morgan’s Finding Mr. Madini.” Research in African Literatures 41:2 (Summer 2010), 93-120.

Essays

(selected)

- Being darker makes being a migrant much harder

The Conversation

- The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago, but new walls are going up everywhere

Mail & Guardian

- Trump wants people to ‘go back’; here is what happens when they do.

Financial Times

- Where is the Nearest Starbucks, or, Globalization, Technology and Frontier Migration?

UTP Journals

- Hipsters, Colonialism, Nostalgia

The Conversation