Past Fellows

Samukelo is an Associate Actuary and a member of the London-based Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Currently, he is the Head of Product at FNB Wealth and Investments, where he looks after investment product development and management for FNB clients...

Yujun is currently a Ph.D. candidate at School of International Studies, Peking University as well as a research assistant at Peking University Center for African Studies. Her research interest focuses on Sino-Africa relations, international development...

Nobuko Yamazaki is a Research Fellow at the Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University. She received her B.A. in Law from Kwansei Gakuin University, M.A., and Ph.D. in Area Studies from Kyoto University with a consistent interest in how people live...

Wakiko Ohira recently obtained a PhD in Human Security from the University of Tokyo, Japan. She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia (2008) and MA in International Studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies...

Edith K. Wakida, BIFA, MA, MRA, PhD is the founding Head, Office of Research Administration, and pioneer Research Administrator in the Faculty of Medicine, at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Uganda. In 2017, she enrolled into a PhD...

Alebachew Kemisso Haybano is an Assistant Professor and a faculty in the Center for Comparative Education and Policy Studies (CCEPS) at Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia. He has got PhD in International and Comparative Education from Addis Ababa...

Richard Appiah obtained his Ph.D. in health sciences with positive psychology from the North-West University, and an M.Phil. in clinical psychology from the University of Ghana. He is currently a faculty member and researcher in the College of Health...

Célestin Monga is Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Associate at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, and Fellow at the Harvard University Center for African Studies. He...

Lungile is currently a Senior Investment Officer at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), specifically focused in Project Finance (Infrastructure Projects across various sectors). She is a chartered accountant (CA (SA)) and a 2020/2021 Harvard...

Dr Vukosi Marivate is the ABSA UP Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria. Vukosi works on developing Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence methods to extract insights from data. A large part of his work over the last few years has been in...