Prof Chitja Twala is an Associate Professor (Department of History) and Vice-Dean (Faculty of the Humanities) at the University of the Free State (UFS). He holds a PhD (History) from the same university. Twala has a substantial publication record on the history of the liberation movements. He is the author of eight chapters (co-authored two) in The Road to Democracy in South Africa: Vol. 4 (1970-1990). He is the recipient of the Mellon Foundation and the National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) Grants. His scholarship was also enhanced by the following Visiting/Research Fellowships: Harvard University (USA); Kwame Nkrumah Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana (Accra); and the University of California, Los Angeles (USA).
Had Research Fellowships at the Kwame Nkrumah Institute of African Studies (Ghana), Harvard University (USA), and Department of History and Africa Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), (USA)