Aurore Iradukunda

Aurore is the recipient of the UKRI project ‘Pan-African Frontiers: The Remaking of African Politics in World Politics’ PhD studentship award. Her research explores political mobilization and geographies of anticolonialism in the context of Cabo Verde’s liberation struggle. 

She has taught on modules such as ‘Decolonising World Politics’ and delivered a guest lecture on ‘anticolonial nationalism and its alternatives’ at SOAS. She approaches facilitation and teaching as a co-constructed space of knowledge production, emphasizing horizontal dialogue, collective reflection, and the classroom as a "homeplace" where students feel safe, heard, and intellectually challenged. 

Prior to joining SOAS, Aurore worked at various organizations including the International Labour Organization, Doctors of the World UK, and Apathy is Boring on thematics related to African development, migrant health, African diaspora engagement, political education, and youth and civic engagement. She is the co-founder of SAYASPORA (2015-2019), an African women-led mediatech and has co-hosted the Migration & Diaspora Podcast where she focused on African diaspora affairs.    

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.

Her broader research interests include political mobilization, spatial politics, Black Geographies, anticolonial worldmaking, Pan-Africanism, critical pedagogy and mnemonic politics.