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Prof. Khaya Mchunu

Associate Professor
Name: Khaya Mchunu
Location: G041, FADA Building, APB Bunting Road Campus Bunting Road Campus
FADA Fashion Design Staff, FADA Management Staff听 Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: +27 (0)11-559-4674

Email:听khayam@uj.ac.za

About Prof. Khaya Mchunu

About

National Diploma in Fashion (UJ) / Bachelor鈥檚 Degree in Technology: Fashion (UJ) / Master鈥檚 Degree in Technology: Fine Arts / PhD in Visual and Performing Arts (DUT)听Supervisors:

Research interests

  • South African fashion studies and history
  • South African dress and fashion archives for alternative fashion imaginaries and narratives
  • Community sewing circles
  • Transdisciplinarity and creative practices

Publications

  1. Khaya Mchunu and Isaiah Negedu. 2025. The Lagos Space Programme鈥檚 Re/construction and queering of masculinity. The Thinker 102(1). Available:
  2. Khaya Mchunu and Kiara Gounder. 2024. Drum magazine project: A decolonial shift in teaching fashion theory and history. DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Available:
  3. Khaya Mchunu. 2023. The PhD journey: Reflections + Creative Practices. NIHSS Alumni: Doctoral Journey Reflections (Unaccredited publication)
  4. Khaya Mchunu. 2023. The activism of Simon Nkoli鈥檚 clothed and styled body. Gender Questions 11(1): 1-23. Available:
  5. Khaya Mchunu. 2023. Matri-archive, matrilineality and creativity in beadwork: Toward an inclusive design process. Design and Culture. Available: .
  6. Khaya Mchunu. 2023. The boubou and post-colonial African musical performances: Ami Ko茂ta, Bi Kidude and Sibongile Khumalo. Fashion Theory.
  7. Khaya Mchunu and Busisiwe Memela. 2022. Existence is resistance: A reflection on Dr. Beverly Ditsie鈥檚 90s quare fashion. Biography: An interdisciplinary quarterly 45(3): 249-270. Available:
  8. Tinashe Mutero, Khaya Mchunu, and Ivan Govender. 2021. Sewing friendship: Increasing inclusivity through creating shared social spaces for migrant and local populations in Durban. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning 9(1): 1-18. Available: .
  9. Khaya Mchunu. 2020. Self-representation in the works of Busisiwe Nzama: An analysis of the Frida 鈥榣ittle travellers鈥� and more. Image and Text Special Issue 34: 1-30. Available:
  10. Khaya Mchunu and Busisiwe Memela. 2019. Fashioning Resistance: The Unsung Fashions of Miriam 鈥楳ama Africa鈥� Makeba. Alternation Special Edition Volume 26. Available:
  11. Khaya Mchunu. 2019. Appraising understandings of a social justice-infused pedagogy: Adinkra symbols as probes. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South 3(2). Available:
  12. Khaya Mchunu. 2019. Sewing 4 Africa 鈥� skills training, solidarity and African sisterhood. Agenda 鈥� Empowering women for gender equity 33(1). Available:
  13. Khaya Mchunu and Sunthra Moodley. 2019. Students鈥� reflection on co-design: A cross-disciplinary collaboration between two SADC countries. South African Journal of Higher Education 33(2). Available:
  14. Khaya Mchunu and Kim Berman. 2018. Arts-based methods as tools for co-design in a South African community-based design co-operative. Cubic Journal 1(1). Available:
  15. Khaya Mchunu. 2017. Preparing fashion students for a socially engaged university project through Zulu Proverbs. Conference proceedings for DEFSA conference 2017
    Theme of conference: Decolonise
    Available:
  16. Khaya Mchunu. 2014. The use of co-operative inquiry to enhance collaboration and participatory design in a South African rural sewing co-operative.
    Conference proceedings for the Cumulus Johannesburg Conference
    Theme of conference: Designing with the other 90%: Changing the world by Design
    Available: