On the Wednesday today, we speak to a woman who has been discribed as a towering intellectual. Acclaimed Zimbabwean-born author, cultural critic, and Assistant Professor of African History at Brandeis University, Dr Panashe Chigumadzi speaks to us ahead of her highly anticipated Annual Africa Day Lecture at South Africa's Stellenbosch University. Dr Chigumadzi's debut novel, Sweet Medicine and her political memoir, These Bones Will Rise Again, form just part of her many accoladed. She also serves as the central rapporteur for the African Union's Committee of Experts on Reparations. Crucially, she conceptualised and authored the landmark AU framework for reparations, titled A Crime Does Not Rot, 1441-Present. This very text provided the foundational, structural rationale for the historic March 2026 United Nations General Assembly Resolution that formally declared racialised chattel enslavement "the gravest crime against humanity". She spoke to Tsepiso Makwetla