Taah Abongnelaa Divine Fuh, from Mankanikong, Bafut, Cameroon, is Associate Professor and Head of UCT Anthropology and Director of HUMA—Institute for Humanities Africa at the University of Cape Town. His research focuses on the politics of suffering and smiling, particularly on how urban youth seek ways of smiling in the midst of their suffering. He has done work in Cameroon, Botswana, Senegal and South Africa. His new research focuses on the life of ideas, the political economy of African knowledge production, knowledge brokering, and on centring African epistemologies in Artificial Intelligence.
He was trained in Cameroon (BSc. Hons. in Journalism & Mass Communication and Political Science from the University of Buea), Botswana (MA in Development Studies-Sociology from the University of Botswana), and Switzerland (PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Basel, Graduate of the Swiss Postgraduate Program in Ethnology/Social Anthropology).