Yusef Waghid, a leading African philosopher of education, holds three doctorates in education, policy, and philosophy from the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University in South Africa respectively. As a tenured professor since 2002 and distinguished professor (commenced in 2014) at Stellenbosch University, he has been a prolific author with 408 publications. Of these, 51 are academic books and edited collections, and 83 invited contributions to books. He promoted 34 Ph.D. candidates to completion, examined 55 doctorates, and received the Association for the Development of Education in Africa’s prestigious Education Research in Africa Award: Outstanding Mentor of Education Researchers (2015). His most notable scholarly contributions in the field of African philosophy of higher education feature in significant international scholarly books which include, inter alia, Towards an Ubuntu University: African Higher Education Reimagined (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2022) Education, Crisis, and Philosophy: Ubuntu within Higher Education (Routledge, 2022); Higher Teaching and Learning for Alternative Futures (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2021, with Zayd Waghid, Judith Terblanche & Faiq Waghid); Academic Activism in Higher Education: A Living Philosophy for Social Justice (Springer, 2021, with Nuraan Davids); Towards a Philosophy of Caring in Higher Education: Pedagogy and Nuances of Care (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2019); Education for Decoloniality and Decolonisation in Africa (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2019, with Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu); Rupturing African Philosophy of Teaching and Learning: Ubuntu Justice and Education (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018, with Faiq Waghid & Zayd Waghid); and African Philosophy of Education Reconsidered: On Being Human (Routledge, 2014). In recognition of his high-quality scholarly works that also appear in many leading education journals, the National Research Foundation in South Africa rated and recognized him as an internationally acclaimed scholar who provides exemplary leadership in advancing philosophy of higher education in Africa (B-1). He pioneered Africa’s novel MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Teaching for Change, selected by the Sustainable Development Goals Academy of the United Nations: Class Central as a free online international course to learn about the United Nation’s sustainable development goals (2016-2020). He was honored with the editorships of two prominent academic journals, namely Citizenship, Teaching and Learning (since 2018), and South African Journal of Higher Education (since 2005). Between 2020 to 2021, he collaborated with renowned international scholars on a leading UNESCO pioneered research project, Education for Flourishing and Flourishing in Education initiated by the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development. The Council of Higher Education also acknowledges his advancement of higher education in Africa in South Africa of which he has been a board member since 2019.
