I am a writer and historian specialising in Southern African empires and environments. Whether through archival documents, oral traditions, or the collective memory of drought, I am interested in tracing how communities and environments have shaped each other, and remade the world.

I write about water ecologies and their relation to global histories of enslavement, colonialism, and racial capitalism.

Understanding how and why histories of imperialism and colonialism continue to shape the present is a central concern of my research and teaching.