Biography

A geographer with over 10 years of experience in working around the intersections of conservation, climate change, and justice in rural eastern and southern Africa. I research about: (i) decolonizing tropical ecology and conservation, (ii) deconstructing narratives on African biodiversity, and (iii) exploring socio-ecologically just pathways in tropical ecosystems. Informed by political ecology, decolonial theories and African epistemologies, I have empirical experience on tropical ecosystems, socio-ecological complexities within and resulting resource injustices to local communities. Currently, I am involved in a research project that explores how combining digital citizen science with non-Western knowledge could potentially facilitate transformative resource monitoring in Tanzania.

• Institution: University of Dodoma (UDOM)