Ncebakazi Mnukwana is a lecturer in Music Education at the University of Stellenbosch where she teaches Ethnomusicology and World Music.

She graduated with a PhD in 2023 from the University of Cape Town, where her research focused on umngqokolo, the overtone singing of Xhosa-speaking adolescent girls.

She has been an active member of the Cape Cultural Collective since 2012. She was the indigenous instrumental soundscaper for uHadi (2013), a poetry and musical stage production commissioned for the French South Africa Season in Paris.