Ayanda Manqoyi

Ayanda Manqoyi is a Program Administrator: Postgraduate Development in the HUMA Research and Grants Development Hub. He holds an MPhil in Sustainable Development from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States. Ayanda is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at UC Davis. His research interests include entrepreneurship, kinship, kinship obligations, colloquially known as the "black tax", black middle class, and youth. He is a member of a research initiative "Reimagining the Indian Ocean Worlds" at UC Davis. He has taught cultural and social anthropology at UCT and UC Davis. Ayanda serves on the planning committee of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF). His publications include the book chapter "Researching cannibalisation obligations in post-apartheid South Africa" in the book Eating and Being Eaten: Cannibalism as Food for Thought.