Drusila Gomes

Drusila is an up-and-coming Angolan academic who is enthusiastic about investigating how social and cultural phenomena affect our world. She is studying for an MSc in Social Anthropology at Oxford University. Drusila is a Mastercard Foundation AfOx scholar and a member of Green Templeton College.

She completed a combined African Studies, Entrepreneurial Leadership, and Cambridge International Examination curriculum at the African Leadership Academy in South Africa. Her focus was on developing culture in post-colonial African communities and the emergence of social processes in the globalised world. She later majored in Culture, Society, and Media at Ritsumeikan Asian Pacific University in Japan, where she researched the impact of modern living on tribal knowledge. She believes that tribal wisdom and alternative ways of living can inform modern society about more sustainable living practices while addressing structural problems that harm indigenous societies as well as our own.

One of her goals is to incorporate local sociocultural traditional studies and practices into the educational curriculum in Angola, helping reconstruct national cultural identity.