Simukai Chigudu was born and educated in newly independent Zimbabwe, the son of a freedom fighter and women’s rights campaigner, before moving to the UK in his late teens. He is now Associate Professor of African Politics at the University of Oxford. Previously he graduated from medical school at University of Newcastle and worked as an NHS doctor in the northeast of England and then in South Africa before winning a Weidenfeld scholarship to study the effects of politics on health in the Global South. He has since been awarded numerous prizes for his academic work. In 2014 he was one of the founding members of ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ at the University of Oxford. He has written for the Guardian and been interviewed by the BBC, Financial Times, New York Times, New Statesman, Economist and various other programmes.