Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane (26 August 1930–12 April 2013) was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist. He taught at the University of Zambia from 1967 to 1970 and in the United States at the University of Connecticut for 27 years. Magubane contributed to South Africa's post-apartheid higher education landscape in his later years. Magubane was a trained sociologist who published seminal texts that continue to be referenced. He is the father of the academic Zine Magubane.[1][2][3]
Magubane was the author of numerous highly cited academic publications exploring the relationships between imperialism, white-settler colonialism, and race and class in South Africa and the global system. He is an eminent scholar in the field of African Sociology. His PhD dissertation focused on African American Consciousness of Africa. This was the basis for his seminal work the award-winning book, The Ties That Bind published in 1987.