Sikose Mjali is a PhD Candidate in the English department specializing in the intersections of language, power, and resistance within anti-apartheid movements.. She holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics with TESOL and a B.A. in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Sheffield, UK.

Mjali is a recipient of the 2026 Society of Scholars Summer Fellowship for the project, "The Living Archive: Unsilencing: Sechaba (1967-1990) and the Voices of the African National Congress Underground." This project explores how language functioned as both weapon and refuge during South Africa’s struggle against apartheid. By building and analyzing a digital corpus of Sechaba–the African National Congress’s underground journal–and integrating oral histories from exiled activists, the project reveals how words sustained resistance, fostered global solidarity, and continue to shape post-apartheid memory, identity, and the ongoing discourse of liberation. She developed a methodological intervention that brings together corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis and oral history (CACDA-OH) to examine how communities preserve, interpret, and transmit histories of struggle.