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Sibonelo Gumede is an urbanist and researcher based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is interested in the intersection of place, public culture and black futurities in (post) colonial urban environments. He has worked at the Urban Futures Centre, an urban research laboratory that is based at the Durban University of Technology and has served as a Vice President at the Kwa-Zulu Natal Society of Arts. He currently holds a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the University of Kwa-Zulu and is currently pursuing an MPhil in Southern Urbanism at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. He is also a 2021 research fellow at the Centre for Arts, Design and Social Research (CADSR) and is a member of the Black Planetary Futures committee, an initiative by CADSR.