Member for
6 monthsTitle
Dr.
First name
Tsosheletso
Last name
Chidi
Organization
University of Pretoria
Location
Pretoria
Country
South Africa
Position
Lecturer & Research Fellow
Specific topic(s) of interest
Digital exclusion and low resource languages
Bio
Dr. Tsosheletso Chidi is a linguistic researcher, multilingual writer, poet, and literary curator.
Her research focuses on the role of indigenous languages in shaping social order and their
digital preservation. Her literary works have been featured in several publications, she is the
curator of the 2024 Time of the Writer Festival at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is
dedicated to empowering emerging writers. She actively engages in community development
by mentoring youth and women through creative writing programmes. Her qualifications
include a PhD in African Languages from the University of Pretoria and a Master of Arts
degree in Creative Writing from Rhodes University. She is the 2023/2024 Elinor Ostrom
Fellow at the Mercatus Center based at George Mason University and the 2024/2025
Chevening Clore Leadership Fellow. Currently, she is a lecturer in the Department of African
Languages and a Researcher in the Computer Science Department at the University of
Pretoria.
Her research focuses on the role of indigenous languages in shaping social order and their
digital preservation. Her literary works have been featured in several publications, she is the
curator of the 2024 Time of the Writer Festival at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is
dedicated to empowering emerging writers. She actively engages in community development
by mentoring youth and women through creative writing programmes. Her qualifications
include a PhD in African Languages from the University of Pretoria and a Master of Arts
degree in Creative Writing from Rhodes University. She is the 2023/2024 Elinor Ostrom
Fellow at the Mercatus Center based at George Mason University and the 2024/2025
Chevening Clore Leadership Fellow. Currently, she is a lecturer in the Department of African
Languages and a Researcher in the Computer Science Department at the University of
Pretoria.