Mhoze Chikowero is a theorist and practitioner of African self-liberation, an Associate Professor of African History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a past recipient of the American Council of Learned Society’s Charles Rischamp Fellowship (2014), a UC Hellman Fellow, an Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Fellow, and is a Research Fellow of Leiden University’s African Studies Center. He is the Founder and Inaugural Director of the UCSB Africa Center, Founding Research Director of the Harare-based Mbira Center, and is Faculty Advisor of the UCSB Uhuru Gardens Collective, an African Graduate Students’ gardening, food sovereignty and community-building initiative. He is an Advisor to the Royal Dutch Palace-funded Prince Claus Foundation, and Principal Advisor of the African Liberation Museum being built in Harare, Zimbabwe. He has worked with numerous organizations on the African continent, including HiVos.