mpho a. ndaba

mpho a. ndaba is a communications expert, trained in Media Studies and International Relations (Wits University). Ndaba holds an MA in sociology (Wits University), as well as an MPhil in Environmental Humanities South (University of Cape Town).

At the University of Cape Town, mpho is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology, with specialisation in environmental humanities. At Environmental Humanities South (EHS), mpho is an Assistant Lecturer, Head of Communications (for both EHS & Critical Zones Africa), and a Fellow leading a thematic track focused on climate change and polycrisis in Africa as part of the Science for Africa Foundation funded project, Critical Zones Africa. With this thematic track, the aim is to explore the socio-economic and health impacts of climate change; thinking about poverty, gendered violence, food insecurity, and hunger, forced migration.

mpho's research interests sit at the intersection of black studies, critical food studies, animal studies, migration, black cultural production, and black planetary politics. mpho is the Open Society Foundations for South Africa scholar (2019) and the 2018 Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans – Environment. mpho's work has appeared in the Mail & Guardian, Africa Is a Country, The Johannesburg Review of Books, and New Agenda Journal