Professor LBBJ Machobane bio

Professor Lehlohonolo Burns Banda Jiane (LBBJ) Machobane is a decorated scholar, historian and published author with extensive research work under his belt. He studied History and English Literature at Lehigh University in the US in 1974 and also acquired a  PhD in African Constitutional History from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

He has also taught history at his alma mater, Lehigh University and Jackson State University between 1972 and 1975. Professor Machobane came back to Lesotho in 1976 and taught history at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) specializing in African and Afro-American history. In 1995 he was the Associate Professor in the Department of History and became the first Mosotho Professor in History in 2004.

Professor Machobane has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at NUL, and later Pro-Vice Chancellor between 1980 and 1988. He has also served in government as the Minister of Education between 1988 and 1990. His books include Government in Change (1990), King’s Knights (2001), and Essays on Religion and Culture Among Basotho (2001). He is in the process of publishing another book, Lipolelo tsa Ntate ka Motho. He won the NUL 50th Anniversary Award and the Lesotho Haeso Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.