SELE TEMBE as Professor Paul Zilungisele TEMBE (谭哲理) like to be called by his friends, students and his acquaintances around the world, is a Founder and Director at the SELE Encounters, a Policy Analytics and Cross-civilizational Communication Strategies Institute in Pretoria, South Africa. TEMBE completed an M.A in Kiswahili Studies at Uppsala University in Uppsala (2007, Sweden) and a PhD in Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2013 Hong Kong, China). His research and teaching stints have been done at, inter alia, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Stellenbosch University, Uppsala University, the University of South Africa (UNISA), and at Rhodes University. His current study, looks at the paradigm shifts in geopolitics towards a new world order titled “Fear of Equality – Instilling Meritocracy”.

TEMBE is the author of Silk and Knots of Chinese Governance (SELE Encounters CCC Publishers, 2024). Pretoria.; Xi Jinping and Flourishing Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in the New Era.(SELE Encounters CCC Publishers, 2024). Pretoria.; Xi Jinping and Thriving China-South Africa Relations. (STE Publishers. Johannesburg, 2023).; Xi Jinping Thought – Through South African Eyes. (STE Publishers, 2022). Johannesburg.; Ubuntu Beyond Identities – Isintu as a Performative Turn of Ubuntu (Real African Publishers, 2020). He is the lead editor of a book titled Culture, Identities and Ideology in Africa-China Cooperation (Africa World Press, 2021). Trenton, New Jersey.  He has also contributed essays and chapters in several published books: Africa-China and Partnerships Relations (Africa World Press, 2018), Industrialization and Agricultural Modernization (Africa Institute of South Africa, 2018), Illicit Financial Flows from South Africa Decolonial Perspectives on Political Economy and Corruption (Routledge, 2021), Africa-China Cooperation: Towards an African Policy on China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).