Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Boniface Mabanza Bambu studied philosophy, literature and theology in Kinshasa. He earned a PhD at the Universtity of Münster with a thesis on justice for all and a critique of globalization from an African perspective (Gerechtigkeit kann es nur für alle geben. Globalisierungskritik aus afrikanischer Perspektive) and completed a training in conflict management at the Akademie für Konflikttransformation in Bonn. Between 2008 and 2014 he was a trainer for development policy at the Akademie für Internationale Zusammenarbeit and since 2008 he coordinates the Kirchliche Arbeitsstelle Südliches Afrika (KASA) at the Werkstatt Ökonomie/Heidelberg. He was a visiting professor for intercultural theology at the Goethe University Frankfurt in the winter semester of 2011/2012 and has been freelancing as a lecturer for development policy since 2015. He is active in numerous African diasporic networks in Germany and Europe.