Dr. Rekgotsofetse Chikane is a lecturer at the Wits School of Governance as well as a political commentator, activist, and the author of Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation: The Politics behind the #MustFall Movements. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government where he completed his Master’s in Public Policy. He received his PhD at the Wits School of Governance where he focused his research on Decoloniality, Development, and Complexity Economics.

Dr. Chikane is a research associate at the Wits Institute for Socio-Economic Research and the Education and Learning Manager for the Tayarisha Working Group on Digitial Governance. His broad areas of research include: Decolonial Thought, Development, Youth Politics, Complexity, and South African Public Policy.

Dr. Chikane is a Mandela-Rhodes Scholar, a Mandela-Washington Fellow, a Chevening Scholar, a former Masters Fellow at the Public Affairs Research Institute, one of Mail and Guardians Top 200 Young People (2016 – Civil Society), and an Obama Africa Programme leader for 2019.