She has written for a range of international publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, Bloomberg, and Al Jazeera. Sisonke has held fellowships at Yale University, the Aspen Institute and the Bellagio Centre. She is currently a fellow at the the WISER Institute, at the University of the Witswatersrand.

Sisonke Msimang is the author of Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home (2017) and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (2018).