Staff Faculty: Humanities

Ms Monyane is Lecturer in Library and Information Studies (LIS) Unit in the Department of English, the Faculty of Humanities. She teaches courses such as Information Resource Description, Application of ICT to Library and Information Studies and Emerging Technologies and Issues. She also supervises undergraduate students’ research projects. Her research interests include the application of ICT in libraries and library systems.

Mr Rafoneke is a Library and Information Studies Lecturer in the Department of English, the Faculty of Humanities. He is teaching such areas as Library & Information Studies and Archives & Records Management. Mr Rafoneke holds Diploma in Library and Information Studies at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), a Bachelor’s Degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Botswana (UB) and a Master’s Degree in Archives and Records Management (MARM), from the University of Botswana (UB). His research interests are in record and information management, preservation and conservation of library and archival materials, electronic records management and systems. He is currently a student at the University of South Africa (UNISA) pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science

Phillip Leteka is a Maseru-based writer, filmmaker, and Fulbright Scholar. He holds a filmmaking MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. His films “My Education” and “You’ve Changed” explore displacement and personal change, while his short stories have appeared in notable collections. He participated in Berlinale Talents and Talents Durban film labs, and is developing a project, “The Lamb of Ha – ‘Matli”. Leteka collaborates with filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese through Mokoari Street, working on “Ancestral Visions of the Future or Pageantry of Wailing”. He is also the founder and editor of the upcoming “Mamosetse”, a magazine focusing on convergent storytelling in fiction and narrative non-fiction. In 2023, he was selected as a fellow for the Mastercard Enablement Programme for his “Majoaneng—Academy of Images and Letters” initiative, aimed at training young filmmakers in Lesotho. He formerly taught filmmaking at Limkokwing University and currently lectures at the National University of Lesotho.

Research interests: Postcolonial Literature, Comparative Literature and Gender Trajectory in Literature, Feminist Studies.

Professor Maboleba Kolobe is an Associate Professor of Linguistics working at the National University of Lesotho (NUL). Her research interests span, evolution of language, language education, and discourse studies, with a particular focus on language policy, translanguaging, minority language inclusion, and academic literacy within Southern African contexts. She has published extensively in reputable journals such as the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Journal of African Development and Education, Nomina Africana, and the International Journal of Language Education. Her recent studies explore ESL learners’ overgeneralisation of derivational rules, translanguaging practices in diverse educational settings, and digital language use among university students. She is deeply engaged in academic leadership, mentorship, and research capacity development. She supervises undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, and mentors junior academic staff, fostering excellence in teaching and scholarship. She has also co-edited significant academic volumes, including Ethics, Governance and Sustainable Development in Africa (forthcoming) and the Journal of Educational Assessment in Africa (2018). Prof. Kolobe holds several administrative portfolios including coordinatorship for Postgraduate studies, and Communication and Study Skills Unit, in the Faculty of Humanities at the National University of Lesotho as well as actively participating in strategic University committees such as-Board of Development, Faculty of Humanities Research Committee, Development of the NUL Language Policy Committee, Senate Representative, Acts and Statutes Committee, Task Team member for Redesigning NUL Academic Regalia. She continuously serves as an external examiner for prominent institutions internationally and is a member in several professional associations: Decolonial International Network (DIN) Lesotho Chapter, International Symposium on Place Names (ISPN), African Development and Education Research Association (ADERA), Academic Forum for Development in Lesotho (AFDeL), Names Society of Southern Africa (NSSA). Prof. Kolobe’s scholarship continues to advance the decolonisation of linguistic research, promote language equity, and strengthen inclusive, contextually grounded education across multilingual societies. Through her teaching, publications, mentorship, and service, she contributes meaningfully to the development of linguistics and higher education in Lesotho and beyond.

Senior lecturer in the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, at the National University of Lesotho. She has been teaching undergraduate courses such as Communication and Study Skills, Communication and Academic Literacy Skills, Introduction to English Grammar, Applied Grammar, and Syntax. She has also supervised undergraduate research projects. In addition, she has been engaged as a coordinator of Communication & Study Skills Unit and she has been part of the Faculty of Humanities Committees such as Projects & Linkages Committee. Her research interests include Advanced Academic Writing Skills, Applied Grammar and English as a Second/Foreign Language.