Min'enhle Ncube

DRF | Focus: African Intellectual Biographies · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA and 4IR and Ethics of Care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Min'enhle Ncube holds an Advanced MSc in Cultural and Development Studies from KU Leuven in Belgium where she was a VLIR-UOS scholar and a MSocSci from the University of Cape Town funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF). Her research background comprises medical anthropology, migration, developmental policy, paradigms and frameworks in development, the First 1000 Days (early childhood), chronic illness, urbanity, housing and postcolonial neoliberalism. She has carried out research in Maphisa, Zimbabwe and Brussels, Belgium. She is co-founder of two technology start-ups, one for cleaner environments and another for educational gaming. Min'enhle is interested in using her anthropological background to analyse the efficacy of digital technologies in developing communities in Africa and using this knowledge to further develop useful technology on the continent.