Prof Pamela Maseko is currently the Executive Dean of the Humanities Faculty at North-West University in South Africa.
Her Scholarship in Sociolinguistics and Language Policy and Planning has focused on the effects of Language Policy in education in African multilingual contexts. Recently her Scholarship has extended to socio-historical linguistics where she is using historical literary data produced over a 150-year period to investigate socio-cultural practices of the Eastern Cape Nguni pre-colonial society.
She has Published in these areas and has been consulted on language issues in South African higher education. She is currently Co-Editing a literature series published at the UKZN Press, dedicated to republishing newspaper writings of little known but highly authoritative Cape Nguni early literates of the early 19th and 20th centuries.
Pamela Maseko has worked at Rhodes University and the Universities of Cape Town and the Western Cape in South Africa. She has also held Fellowships at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, as well as the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study.
