He received his PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, and has held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago. He has published articles on lesbian and gay politics in South Africa in Development Update, Public Culture and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and articles on the relationship of sexual identity politics to globalising neoliberalism in Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Critique and in edited anthologies. He is completing a book manuscript entitled African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalisation in African Literature and History.