Aurore Iradukunda is a doctoral researcher within the Department of Politics and International Studies. She is the recipient of the ‘Pan-African frontiers’ project PhD Studentship. 

 

Her thesis explores lost histories of anticolonial nationalism and mnemonic politics in the postcolony, using the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde) liberation struggle for Cabo Verde as a case study. 

 

As an interdisciplinary scholar of Politics, Memory Studies and Black Geographies, she primarily attends to Black Geographical and Black Feminist thought to ground her thinking and emerging theorising on Black political underworlds, anticolonial worldmaking, Pan-Africanism, critical pedagogy and mnemonic politics of liberation in postcolonial contexts.

 

Aurore holds an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BA&Sc in African Studies and Molecular Cell Biology from McGill University.