Adrien N. Ngudiankama holds an MPhil in Theology (King’s College) and a PhD in the Sociology of Health (Institute of Education), University of London. He completed postdoctoral research in anthropology at the University of Kansas and was a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. His research explores religion, peacebuilding, and migration, focusing on Central Africa and African diasporic communities. He founded Kongo Academy, a platform advancing African thought centered on Kongo and Central African epistemologies. His recent works include Kimbanguism 100 Years On (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), the article “At the Crossroads of Faith and Social Action: Ethnographic Insights from Churches in the DRC and Angola” (Journal of the Institute for African Studies, 2025), and the webinar Excavating Mudimbe’s Epistemic Landscape: A Hermeneutic Inquiry into the Titles, Epigraphs, and Chapter Structures of His Major Works, presented during Kongo Academy’s four-week tribute to V. Y. Mudimbe.