Nonhlanhla is an educator and a community organiser. They are a co-director at Decolonising Economics, where they work to cultivate a Black and People of Colour-led solidarity economy movement.

Nonhlanhla’s research focuses on past, present, and future Afrikan and Afro-diasporic economies rooted in liberation. They are the curator of Medicine: Lessons in Black Economic Interdependence, an oral history archival project exploring how the African oral tradition can help communicate the relationships, tools, and skills essential to historic and contemporary movements for Black British economic self-determination.

Their work aims to make community economics accessible to marginalised communities and, through education, to shift resources, wealth, and power to transform local economies. Through training hundreds of community organisers, organisations, and groups, Nonhlanhla developed The Necessity Paths Framework, which represents the informal routes marginalised communities use to meet their needs when the capitalist system fails them, drawing inspiration from pluralist economies.