Chakanetsa Mavhunga is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at MIT currently directing the founding of Research || Design || Build (RDB), a rural community-based research and innovation institute in Zimbabwe dedicated to people-initiated rural development.
He is also the founder of Global South Cosmologies and Epistemologies Initiative, which invites us to trans-hemispheric conversations that are not mediated by, or wired through, western-and-white referents, that abolish hierarchies of knowing, and open up a parliament of knowledge where every society is capable of, indeed invents and orders, know-how.
Chakanetsa is the editor of the initiative's book series. He is the author of three books on African science and technology: Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe (2014), What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? (editor, 2017), and The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production (2018), all with MIT Press. He has just finished his latest book, Dare to Invent the Future: Knowledge in the Service of and Through Problem-solving (2021).