Professor Josiah Lebakeng

	Name	Josiah Lebakeng
	Highest qualification	PhD (University of Limpopo, South Africa)
	Position	Professor
	Contact details	lebakj@unisa.ac.za
	Research interests/expertise	Statecraft and intelligence; information in international relations; legislative oversight; higher education and decolonisation; sociology of knowledge and indigenous knowledge systems.
	Teaching	Security and Intelligence Studies
	Current projects	Co-editing a collection of essays, Journeys in the Humanities and Social Sciences in South African universities: Post-doctoral reflections. Completing three articles for submission.

Short biography

Josiah Lebakeng is a Professor at Unisa's TM-School. Recently, he was a research associate at the University of Limpopo, where he had previously lectured for several years. He also worked at the former Vista University in Soweto (now UJ) and more recently at UP, teaching Strategic Intelligence and Forecasting. Apart from his academic experiences, he is a former Manager Strategic Research and Analysis and Manager of Production at the State Security Agency (SSA). From February 2007 to December 2008, and 2011–2014, he was seconded as Political Counsellor at the South African Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, as part of South
Africa's delegation to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). In 2017–2018, he was Head of Intelligence for the South African Development Community (SADC) Preventative Mission in Lesotho (Sapmil).

Lebakeng obtained a Master's degree from the University of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), an MSc from Springfield College (USA), and a BA from the American University (Cairo, Egypt). In terms of non-academic training, he underwent military and intelligence training in the People's Republic of China in 1977, and was trained in intelligence by Kroll and the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

Selected publications

• Lebakeng, T.J. (2021). Political polarisation, compromised procurement and poor service delivery in the Kingdom of Lesotho. In Public procurement, corruption and the crisis of governance in Africa, edited by N. Dorasamy & O. Fagbadebo. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lebakeng, T.J. (2021). The anatomy of epistemicide and the search for epistemic justice: Towards a relevant education. In Decolonisation as democratisation: Global insights into the South African experience, edited by S.H. Kumalo. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
• Lebakeng, T.J. (2021). Africanity as self-assertion, self-affirmation and self-determination: The legacy of Archie Mafeje. In African voices in search of a decolonial turn, edited by S. Zondi. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa:134–151.
• Notshulwana, K.M. & Lebakeng, T.J. (2019). Constraints and prospects for legislative oversight in emerging African democracies: The case of South Africa. In Perspectives on the legislature and the prospects of accountability in Nigeria and South Africa, edited by O. Fagbadebo and F. Ruffin. Cham: Springer Nature.