Yvette Abrahams is an organic farmer, activist and feminist scholar in South Africa.
[3] She grew up in exile in Zambia, England and Sweden.
Returning to study at the University of Cape Town, she dropped out of university for some time to be an anti-apartheid activist.
[2] Abrahams gained her MA in history from Queen's University at Kingston, writing her dissertation on Khoisan resistance.
[4] In 2002 she gained a Ph.D. in economic history from the University of Cape Town,[2] with a 2000 dissertation on Sarah Baartman.