Clapperton Mavhunga

Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga is a Zimbabwean Associate Professor of science, technology, and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Mavhunga is a historian of theory and practice of science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship internationally, with a focus on Africa. He has written books which include What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? (2017).

Background

Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga is the first graduate of the Science Technology and Society (STS) program at the University of Michigan and one of the few African academics trained and published at the crossroads between African history and STS. ^[1] Mavhunga studied Technology in History, Africa for Engineers, Energy, Environment and Society and Technology and Innovation in Africa.

Career

Clapperton Mavhunga is started his career as a staff development fellow at the University of Zimbabwe. He then became a full-time lecturer at the university from 2000 to 2003. In 2008 after completing his PhD at the University of Michigan he joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. Read More

Books

Mavhunga is the author of Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe (MIT Press, 2014), which received Honorable Mentions in the Turku Prize (European Society for Environmental History) and Herskovits Prize (African Studies Association) in 2015. His second is an edited volume entitled What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? which explores STI in Africa from an archaeological, historical, philosophical, anthropological, STS, engineering, development, and policymaking perspective.