ROSABELLE BOSWELL is a DSI-NRF South African Research Chair in Ocean Cultures and Heritage. She is an anthropologist and poet. She leads a multi-country project on coastal cultural heritage in southern and Eastern Africa. She is author of Le Malaise Creole: Ethnic Identity in Mauritius (Oxford: Berghahn 2006), Representing Heritage in Zanzibar and Madagascar Addis Ababa: Eclipse 2008); Challenges to Identifying and Managing Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mauritius, Zanzibar and Seychelles (Dakar: CODESRIA 2011) and Postcolonial African Anthropologies (co-edited with F. Nyamnjoh (Pretoria: HSRC Press 2016), Things Left Unsaid (2019), Pandemix (2020) and Between Worlds (2022). In 2022, she also lead edited The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage (Palgrave, Macmillan). She has conducted anthropological research in Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles, Zanzibar, South Africa, Kenya and Namibia. Her most recent endeavour is a science-to-business project entitled The Blue Values Journey.
