Episode 6: Towards an African Technological & Scientific Imaginary

In this episode, edna bonhomme is in conversation with Dr. Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at MIT and the founder of Research || Design || Build, a village-based institute in rural Zimbabwe.

Team

Edna Bonhomme is an activist, historian, writer, curator, and lecturer whose research interrogates disease, gender, surveillance, and embodiment. Edna earned a PhD in history of science at Princeton University with a dissertation that examined plagued bodies and spaces in North Africa and the Middle East. Her creative work is guided by diasporic futures, herbal healing, and bionic beings. Follow her on Twitter @jacobinoire.

Kristyna Comer studies art history and cultural studies at Humboldt University in Berlin where her research focuses on public museum collections in Berlin and past and current demands for restitution, reparations, and repatriation.