# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/archie-mafeje
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:37:15.342Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/archie-mafeje"
name: "Archie Mafeje"
slug: "archie-mafeje"
description: "Archibald Boyce Monwabisi Mafeje, commonly known as Archie Mafeje, was a South African anthropologist and activist. Born in what is now the Eastern Cape, he received degrees from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of Cambridge. He became a professor at various universities in Europe, North America, and Africa. He spent most of his career away from apartheid South Africa after he was blocked from teaching at UCT in 1968."
tagline: "South African scholar-activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Archie_Mafeje_in_Cape_Town%2C_August_1961_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-03-30"
deathDate: "2007-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.41098
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "أرشي مافيجي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Mafeje"
    title: "Archie Mafeje"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Mafeje"
    title: "Archie Mafeje"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Mafeje"
    title: "Archie Mafeje"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Maf%E1%BA%B9je"
    title: "Archie Mafẹje"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59526425"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump