Professor Pamela Maseko is currently the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. She has over three decades of experience in South African higher education, having worked at the University of Cape Town, Rhodes University, University of the Western Cape, and at North West University . Prof Maseko is a social scientist and has contributed extensively in post-apartheid policy, practice and research on multilingualism and studies in translation in South Africa. Her recent research interest is in the historiography of (south) African literature and intellectual traditions of early black literates. She is the author and editor of at least five academic books, various book chapters and journal articles. She is also the co-editor of a UKZN Press Literature Series that publishes works on literary traditions of the 19th century early African thinkers from the Eastern Cape. Prof Maseko holds a PhD from Rhodes University, South Africa.