Vuyisile Msila is the Head of the University of South Africa's Institute for African Renaissance Studies and Director Leadership in Higher Education. He is a C3 National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher and received Unisa's Chancellor's Award for research in 2013. His recent books include Ubuntu: Shaping the current workplaces with (African) Wisdom and Africanising the curriculum: Indigenous perspectives and Critical theories. Msila is also a regular newspaper columnist for Mail and Guardian, Sunday Independent and other Independent newspapers in South Africa.