Sarah Mkhonza

Sarah Mkhonza (born Sarah Thembile Du Pont; 7 May 1957) is a Swazi writer, educator and women's rights activist living in the United States.

Mkhonza received a PhD from Michigan State University.

Subsequent threats and assaults led her to seek political asylum in the United States in 2005.

[1] Mkhonza co-founded the Association of African Women and the African Book Fund Group at Michigan State University.

[2] In 2002, she received a Hammett-Hellman Award from Human Rights Watch.