Co-Director of the EthicsLab and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town at STIAS
Nyamnjoh is a member of the STIAS Board of Directors in his capacity as Chair of the STIAS Academic Advisory Committee.
He was the recipient of the annual "ASU African Hero 2013" award from the African Students Union at Ohio University, the 2014 Eko Prize for African Literature, and his book #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa won the 2018 ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize for the best monograph.