I am a Researcher at the African Centre of Excellence for Inequalities Research (ACEIR), at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and a Research Associate at the Department of Political and International studies at Rhodes University in South Africa. I work at the intersection between theory and practice, and my research interests are related to politics, development, economics and inequality. In addition to my academic publications, some of writings have been published by Al Jazeera, Mail & Guardian, Time, The Conversation, Los Angeles Times, among others.