Simukai Chigudu
Zimbabwe
International Development (DPhil), 2017
St Anne's College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann
Simukai is an Associate Professor of African Politics at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.
He is broadly interested in the politics of global health and epidemics, race and identity, citizenship and activist movements, with a regional focus on Africa and the African diaspora.
Simukai is the author of The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe (Cambridge University Press, 2020), an examination of the social and political causes and consequences of Zimbabwe’s catastrophic cholera outbreak in 2008/09, the most extensive in African history.
Simukai is currently writing, When Will We Be Free? Living in the Shadow of Empire and the Struggle for Decolonisation, which will be published by The Bodley Head and Crown in 2026.
Prior to working in academia, Simukai was a medical doctor in the UK’s National Health Service.
