Premesh Lalu holds the NRF/British Academy SA-UK Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture and Technics at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. Lalu is the former director and convenor of the Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities in the CHR. He is the author of The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts (2009), which was included in the Long List for the Alan Paton Award. A recent monograph, Undoing Apartheid, was published by UK-based Polity Press in November 2022.