Authors

siranuS babawanova, umBali

Siranush Babakhanova, author

MIT’20

Siranush is senior studying Physics and Computer Science. Siranush is interested about human augmentation and brain-machine interfaces and how to master and manipulate technologies in biotech to transform communities.

 
 
u;iWa fundile Nati, u"ivanon"ebe, isiXosa lulvimi lokuqala

Dr. Fundile Nyati, interviewee (Xhosa is the first language)

Proactive Health Solutions Ltd, CEO

Healthcare entrepreneur, Dr Nyati focuses on the interface of healthcare and industry growth. His objectives are to facilitate transformation of the South African and African healthcare industry through innovative business strategy. 

 
 
afika Nati, u"ivanon"ebe, isiXosa lulvimi lvesibini

Afika Nyati, interviewee (Xhosa is the second language after English)

Quilt, CTO; MIT’18

South African-born creative and technologist, studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Afika is drawn to any process by which knowledge and creative intervention result in the emergence of some novel product.

 
 
m. amah edoh, umcebisi

M. Amah Edoh, advisor

Anthropology and Global Studies Professor, MIT

Professor Edoh is interested in the production of knowledge about Africa; namely, how “Africa” as a category of thought is produced through material practices across African and non-African sites. The questions her work engages are informed in important ways by my lived experiences in the US, Europe, and West and Southern Africa as a dual Togolese and American citizen.  Her current book project, Our Grandmothers’ Cloth: Materiality, Class, and Global Membership in the Age of “The New Africa,” traces the trajectory of Dutch Wax cloth (aka African print cloth) between Holland and Togo.