A Doctor Displaced: Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma in Exile 1976 - 1990
Presented at African Women's Intellectual Histories Colloquium
Mobius: Journal of Social Change
A Response to Kristin Ross’ May ’68 and its Afterlives
Frantz Fanon Blog
Mwanaka Media and Publishing
‘There are countless poets of the body, but in Cornell’s hands women’s bodies bleed, and leak and ache, they become sites of explicit corporeal information so that we cannot ignore them. They are “never small, never light, always all” – brought to the forefront, not as palatable or acceptable, but as an act of confrontation and resistance.’ – Sarah Lubala, award-winning poet
Africa Youth Networks Summit: Creating African Narratives using Traditional and Digital Media
Africa Matters Initiative is a youth-led organisation empowering and upskilling young Africans to change their communities & African narrative through leadership, social entrepreneurship and advocacy.
African Women Writers Cultivate Solidarity Through Sickness
A Flower for the Dashboard: Poems from Aerial 1998-2019
These two anthologies bring together more than eighty writers from 21 years of the annual course publication Aerial.
The poems in "A flower for the dashboard" are reflective, wistful, angry, conversational, celebratory. Written by people of all ages and cultural contexts, they describe family, love, place, memory, making words, reading, self-confrontation and discovery.
Bill Masuku: Adding to Africa's Fictional Heroes
Book Review of "Africa: The Fashion Continent"
The Journal of Dress History. Volume 6, Issue 2.
Book Review of "The Magic of Madagascar" by Abhay K.
Hindu Business Line
In the sparseness of the haiku, poet diplomat Abhay K has found his vocabulary to invite us all to glimpse the island country’s bountiful offerings.
Book Review of Woman in the Wings: Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and the Race for the Presidency
Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Ensuring Education in Rural South Africa: Meet Rendani Mamphiswana
Exhibition Review of "Epic Iran"
The Journal of Dress History. Late Autumn 2021.
Curated by John Curtis and Tim Stanley for The Victoria and Albert Museum, with the Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) in Association with The Sarikhani Collection, London, England
Nationalism: (Mis)understanding Donald Trump's Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars. Africa vs North America Volume 2
Best New African Poets 2020 Anthology
Listed in '50 Notable African Books of 2021' by Brittle Paper in collaboration with The Africa Centre and Mail & Guardian
Grace, Oshivambo Patsy Cline [Spanish]
Libero America
Writing Grandmothers: Africa vs Latin America Volume 2
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Writing Grandmothers, Africa Vs Latin America Vol 2 is a continuation of the cross-continental anthologies series, particularly focussing on African and Latin American writers.
Gwamaka Kifukwe: Lead Researcher and Host of 'In Focus' and 'Meet the Leader.'
This is the third in a series of profiles of candidates from the Emerging African Leaders programme organised annually by the Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice.
How, Milkbox Tray, Travelling with Kapuscinski, Virus 2.0, Part II
Taint Taint Magazine
Good Men Project
Nica Cornell writes boldly on genitalia and the human beings attached to them, expertly engaging both the private and the planetary.
Inyathi Ibuzwa Kwabaphambili: Theorising South African Women's Intellectual Legacies
African Sun Media
This book seeks to create a systematic, eclectic, historical picture of the present and past women intellectuals, activists, artists, and cultural custodians. Using the concept of ‘ukufukama’ (incubate) we connect intergenerational knowledge transfer of our elders to the current struggles faced by the younger generation of women.
Kate Middleton and White Femininity: Excess Transgresses
Africa, UK, and Ireland: Writing Politics and Knowledge Production Volume 1
Like Riding a Bike, First Daughter, Accra
Kalahari Review
A collection of poems ranging from the Congolese countryside to a South African suburb by Nica Cornell
Mary's Living and Giving Celebrates the Local Area with Photoshoots
Ealing Today
Nigerian Activist-lawyer Transforms Lives Through Radio
Opinion Piece: Starmer's White Paper
Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support
On the 12th May 2025 the Labour Government released a white paper detailing their intended reforms to the UK's immigration system. Nica Cornell, writing in her personal capacity, shares her experience since the announcement, and the effect of the language in the speech given by Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Opinion: An examination of Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Original Sin, CJR, They Have a Dream
Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology
Over 600 poets have been given voice in this series which was started five years ago, making it an important archive of new African poetry.
Reflection on the Experience of Challenging the Initiation Process
Rhodes University Gender Imbizo
Reflective Piece
The Good Cemetery Guide
Sickness in Style blog, 2019-2020
Sickness in Style: A Memoir of Distress and Dislocation through Dress
Lived Places Publishing
How can dress impact a journey through disabling illness and recovery from South Africa to London? Navigating the development of her complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from her home in South Africa, to university in Oxford, and recovery in London, author Nica Cornell uses the garments she travelled with to reflect on her experience. Cornell explores the effect of garments such as her Ankara sheath dress, Sub fusc, and second-hand clothing, and how they influenced her experience of alienation, exclusion, and realisation. Sickness in Style explores the challenges of dressing and how it can become an obstacle to accessing the external world, as well as how beauty can be rediscovered through second-hand outfits. This book is ideal reading for students of Fashion Studies, Disability Studies, Psychology, and Migration Studies.
Kalahari Review
An Igby Prize for nonfiction essay about mental health and memory by Nica Cornell
South African Foreign Policy Review Volume 3
Co-authored with Professor Siphokazi Magadla
The Haitian Revolution & Contemporary Theory
Frantz Fanon Blog
The Teenage Frontier. 2007 - 2010
The Times
Weekly "Teenage Frontier" column. Published in The Times newspaper.
Thirst, Sea Shells, Characters in a Psychologist’s Waiting Room, National University Shutdown
Poetry from Private and Public Places Botsotso 18
20.35 Africa : An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
Thirteenth [Tamil]
இது கருப்பர்களின் காலம்
Fixing Earth: Africa, UK and Ireland Writers Volume II
This anthology focuses on the individual actions that build the collective, how can we as individuals create, innovate and change our interactions with earth and the other living beings so as to create a healthy earth for us and our futures.
Better Than Starbucks
Whose body is it anyway? Disguising a disabled self
The International Journal of Fashion Studies. Volume 10, Issue 1
This article traces a year in which I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the University of Oxford, England for my master’s in African studies. It presents a series of vignettes to explore the interplay of disability, dress and disguise during that time as trauma, alienation and my history of mental illness triggered a health crisis. The physical realities of living in my new body fundamentally changed not only how I dressed it, but my relationship with dress itself. Dressing became an obstacle to being able to be in the external world, a performance of invisibility to dissolve the selves that rendered me so abnormal, both politically and medically, and a touchstone of a prior and better existence.
Written and performed in Ukuphuthelwa (Insomnia): Desdemona’s Toothbrush, The Indigo of his Iris, Autobiography
Aerial
Youth Feature: Meet Accomplished Congolese-born Poet Sarah Lubala
Youth Feature: Meet Gambian Author and Literacy Activist YaAdam Fye
Youth Feature: Meet Ianne Currie, teacher and writer from South Africa
Youth Feature: Meet Rwandan Educator and Innovator Faithful E. Abaho
Youth Feature: Meet Zimbabwean Musician Eugh Nyakabau
Youth Feature: Meet Zimbabwean Singer and Development Practitioner Mabel Sithole
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