Simukai Chigudu is associate professor of African politics at the University of Oxford and fellow of St. Antony’s College. He was previously a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
His academic monograph, The Political Life of an Epidemic (Cambridge University Press, 2020), won the Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award from the International and American Political Science Associations. He holds a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford, for which he was awarded the Audrey Richards Prize 2018 from the African Studies Association UK for the best thesis on Africa. Before coming into academia, he worked as a medical doctor in the NHS for three years.
He was a founding member of Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford, and has become a leading voice in public debates on the politics of colonialism and racism. Chasing Freedom is his first trade book.