Doctoral Student in Anthropology and History
About
Research Interests
Political economy • Legal History • Economic History • Political Theory • Legal and Economic Anthropology • British Empire • Modern Formation of Offshore Finance in the Caribbean • Pricing Valuation of Southern African Mineral Extractives, ca late 19th century.
Affiliaitions
- Department of History
- Program in Race, Law, and History - University of Michigan Law School
Areas of Study
I study the internationalisation of finance in the British empire from the 19th century. My research locates the advent of extractive mining in colonial Southern Africa at the turn of the 19th century with the global formations of offshore finance in the Caribbean through the circulation of financial capital and legal regimes in Britain and colonial Southern Africa.
I was trained in Financial Accounting and Taxation, and I was signed with Ernst and Young in South Africa. Thereafter I worked with unions and social movements which were a part of the Economic Justice Network in Southern Africa tackling profit shifting, and I led research and campaigns on corporate mining taxation. Simultaneously, I enrolled for my MA in Sociology and I wrote my master's dissertation on non-sovereign tax havens in the Caribbean through a developmental history of the British Virgin Islands.
I am currently undertaking my doctoral training at the University of Michigan where I am a joint Ph.D. student in the history and anthropology departments. My dissertation locates the advent of extractive mining in colonial Southern Africa at the turn of the 19th century with the global formations of offshore finance which characterise non-sovereign tax havens in the Caribbean. You may refer to my curriculum vitae to learn about my professional work and research experience, or feel free to visit my personal website to read about my background and interests.
Highlighted Awards and Grants
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies.
Siney Fellowship, Department of History, University of Michigan.
President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights.
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (EIHS) Fellowship Award.
Archie Mafeje Chair in Critical Decolonial Humanities Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Finalist, Ernst and Young (EY) Young Tax Professional of the Year, Southern Africa Regional Runner-up Winner.
Winner, Ernst and Young (EY) Top Ten Student of the Year Award.
Articles/Chapters
The Birth of the Offshore: Avoiding double taxation in 19th-century Southern Africa, Limn 15 (2026).
Extractives and Illicit Financial Flows: Toward Climate Financing for a Just Transition, New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy 22, no. 85 (2022).
Black Marxism and Liberatory Praxis: The Contributions of Black Marxists to Decolonization Thought. In Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century, 151–70: Routledge, 2021.
The Khoisan Revivalist Movement and the Decolonial Turn: Authenticity, naming and cultural identities in Khoisan historiography for epistemic justice. WritingThreeSixty: Journal of Research and Creative Texts 5, no. 1 (2021).
Featured News
Uncovering the Human Stories of Offshore Finance: Bridging archives and everyday lives through ethnographic fieldwork in the British Virgin Islands
The Hidden Cost of Tax Havens
