Biography

Munnira-Afrikana Katongole is an internationally acclaimed young black radical feminist scholar being, a publisher researcher through the South African Institute of International Affairs and having worked with leading academies in the world including the African Leadership Academy, University of Cape Town and University of Oxford. Her publication, “Governing Climate: The African Youth Perspective” achieved her the position as South Africa’s best young researcher in 2020, having produced a Masters Level Dissertation at only 18. Beyond being an academic, Munnira-Afrikana is a fierce community organiser, co-leading the #FreetoBleed movement protest actions in South Africa which achieved the 2019 Zero-tax legislation on women’s health products, ie sanitary items along her formal work in the expertise and technicality of The 2020- 2030 Youth Policy of the Republic of South Africa.

With all of this, you’re most likely to find Munnira-Afrikana picketing on the streets, teaching in children’s shelters and caregiving in elderly homes in the townships of Johannesburg where she resides and has grown up. More than anything, Munnira-Afrikana is a staunch and humble servant of the working class — vested in the liberation of all people. Her praxis is centered around love, with her acclaiming that “to love the other compassionately, patiently and unconditionally to humanise them, is to revolutionise the world”