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PhD African Diaspora Studies (University of California Berkeley) 2003

M.A. Afro-American Studies, (University of California, Los Angeles) 1991

B.A. Humanities (4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû ) 1984

PostÌý 4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû Diploma in Education (4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû) 1984Ìý

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Dr. Maude Modimothebe Dikobe is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English where she teaches literature and the expressive arts of Africa and the African Diaspora. She holds an M.A. in Afro-American Studies from (UCLA) and a PhD in African Diaspora Studies from (UC Berkeley), where she was a Fulbright scholar. She has written several journal articles on; the African Diaspora and its discontents, gender and performance in music and dramatic texts, especially the contested identities of women in popular culture, gender and power dynamics, the culture of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in different settings. Her publications include her book, Doing She Own Thing: Gender Performance and Subversion in Trinidad Calypso (2009), which unpacks the performance of sexualities in Trinidad Carnival. She has also served as the Chairperson of the 4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû Gender Policy Programme Committee (GPPC). She is a gender activist, researcher who gets invited to different situations to give talks on gender issues both in the Botswana and in the region. She has served as one of the Botswana scholars who were part of the Botswana delegation tasked to draft and finalize the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. On the creative front, she likes writing poetry.ÌýÌýHas served on several editorial Boards, Frontiers, MarangÌý and ÌýJournal of Multicultural Discourses,ÌýÌýand reviewed articles for some most of the journals at UB, such as Pula.

Literary Theory and CriticismÌý

Comparative LiteratureÌý( Afro-American Literature and Caribbean Literature)Ìý

Gender TheoriesÌý

Gender Issues in African LiteratureÌý

African-American Dramatic and Performance LiteratureÌý

Prison Writing in Africa and the African DiasporaÌý

Third World CinemaÌý

Gender PerformanceÌý

Identity politics in select texts from Africa, Caribbean and the African Diaspora.Ìý

Literature and societyÌý

Gender Policy and Development in Botswana.Ìý

The impact of the prison complex on men and women in different prison memoirs.

Gender and language in literary text and popular music.Ìý

ÌýGender, violence and rape inÌýÌýBotswana.

Political representation and gender issues in BotswanaÌýÌý

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African Diaspora StudiesÌý

Feminist writing and theory.Ìý

African American LiteratureÌý

Caribbean literatureÌý

Third World CinemaÌý

Performance and drama in African American literature.

Human Rights and CultureÌý

Gender and political representationÌý

Creative and Cultural industries in BotswanaÌý

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Book:

Dikobe, M.M. (2009). "Doing She Own Thing": Gender Performance and Subversion in Trinidad Calypso. Kohln. Germany: Lambert Publishing.

Chapter in a Book:Ìý

Dikobe, M.M.ÌýÌý(2010) " Human Rights and Cultural Responsibilities: Women and Cultural Minorities in Popular Arts."Proceedings of the 1st Euro-African Campus for Cultural Cooperation. Ed. Jordi Balta, Published by Spanish Agency (AEICD), Spain, pp. 179-187.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Dikobe, M.M. (2012).Ìý Imagined Communities: The African Diaspora and Its Discontents. Marang: Journal of English and Literature. pp. 83-96.Ìý

Dikobe, M.M. (2009). "Mwikisa P.W. and Dikobe, M.M.. "Stories, Literature and Culture as Sources of IndigenousÌýInsights in Peace Building." Journal of Peace Building and Development. Vol.4. No. 3. pp46-56.Ìý

Dikobe, M.M. (2007). "Historical Culture of Gender and Heterosexual Violence in Trinidad".ÌýÌýGender and Media Diversity Journal. Issue 3. pp.117-126