Musa W. Dube was elected as an AAS Fellow in 2023. As a fellow, Musa W. Dube contributes to the development of the Academy's strategic direction through participation in AAS activities and governance structures. This gears the Academy's vision of transforming African lives through science.

Country
Botswana
Year Elected
2023
Discipline
Professor & Director, National University of Botswana

Country
Botswana
Year Elected
2023
Discipline
Professor & Director, National University of Botswana
Prof Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Prof of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She studied the New Testament in the University of Durham (UK, 1990) and Vanderbilt University (USA 1997). She has served in various capacities in several institutions, including University of Botswana, World Council Churches, (Geneva) Scripps College (California), Union Theological College (New York); University of Stellenbosch (Cape Town); University of Bamberg (Germany) and University of South Africa (Pretoria). Her research interests include African literature, religion, gender, postcolonial, translation, HIV&AIDS, Botho/Ubuntu and Earth studies. Prof Dube is an author of at least 300 academic works, published in journals, books, encyclopedias, magazines, videos, electronically: and an editor of twenty one anthologies. She has edited. 21 books and 18 journal issues. Prof Dube, a world-sought speaker and trainer who has given up to 170 papers in at least twenty- nine countries, is the author of Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible, The HIV and AIDS Bible: Some Selected Essays (Scranton Press, 2008). She has received up to 24 recognitions consisting of awards, research grants, honors, institutional affiliations.