About Me

Thato Mazwe Madibo is a young political economist, political technologist, and foresight strategist working at the intersection of market finance, computation, and governance. He is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the African Minds for Applied Research Institute (AMARI), a Pan-African think tank dedicated to applied research, innovation, and long-term policy design. He is also building Imvula Group, a technology and computation-first advisory firm focused on financial intelligence, strategic modelling, and decision systems across sectors.His research and writing examine fiscal and monetary policy, political economy, algorithmic political patterns, computational science, central banking, development, moral and political responsibility, emerging markets, critical resource & mining sector, mathematical modelling, strategy, and forecasting.

Thato is the founder and chief writer of The Praxis Letter, a dialectical project interrogating the philosophical condition of power, systems, and history itself. Push the boundaries of: Methodology, Causal Inference, External Validity, ML, AI, LLMs and Network. For the benefit of Critical Mineral Analysis.

He founded and writes The Praxis Letter, a dialectical reflection on philosophical theory and praxis. Thato is an award-winning published academic researcher whose debut paper, co-authored with Dr M.E. Oosthuizen, will be presented at the 21st International Conference on Sustainable Development (University of Ottawa, Canada). It has been accepted for publication in the International Development Journal in July 2025, titled “Reimagining Capitalism in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Elite Capture, Institutional Reform, and the Politics of Inclusive Development.” He is also finalising additional papers currently under review in reputable international journals.

He believes computational and algorithmic methods are the future of politics, pioneering new approaches in international relations epistemology. Thato is pursuing a degree in International Relations & Political Science at IIE Varsity College, Pretoria, while also completing a Higher Diploma in Global Economics (Oxford School of Learning, affiliated with the University of Oxford). Outside formal institutions, he is a devoted student of philosophy and literature.

Thato intends to pursue a master's and doctorate, specialising in fiscal policy, critical resources and technology regulated through machine learning, positioning himself as a future political systems architect.

This is Thato Mazwe Madibo molomo ya Mokoena, hloho ya Thaba ya Tau.

IN MY OWN WORDS

Ke ngoan'a tau setloholo sa likoena se etsa abuti.

I am a Black South African — more than that, I am an extension of the land, soil of mothers and fathers before me. I am Sesotho, and it is my culture and language that anchor me — affirming my resolve as a student of power.

When I first heard Dr. Sithembile Mbete’s words, I recognised a belief I had long carried. On 27 August 2025, those words became a call to duty, a baptism into a new way of thinking. From that day, I pledged myself to the intersections of history, philosophy, economics, and politics. I heard a call to be a “Student of Power” — and if I could capture it in one sentence, that is who I am.

There is no more urgent junction of thought than this. Risk, strategy, and policy hold the keys to mercy for our nation.