Gabriel is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Botswana, Visiting Professor at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology, and Extraordinary Researcher at North-West University, South Africa. He earned his PhD in Sociology in 2011 from the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. From 2020 to 2024, he served as one of the lead partners of the Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS) Project, a global initiative that brought together scholars from more than 50 countries. He currently coordinates the Master’s in Development Practice (MDP) programme at the University of Botswana.

His research interests span new media and religious practice, digital culture and society, multiculturalism and the politics of intercultural dialogue, the social implications of HIV/AIDS, and climate change communication. His current work focuses on digitalization and digital infrastructure in Southern Africa, as well as the decolonisation of research methodologies. Gabriel’s scholarship has appeared in leading international journals, including Sociology Compass, Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Anthropology Southern Africa, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Cogent Social Sciences, and the Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet. He also serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Sustainable Resource Management and is a member of the Editorial Board of the African Journal of Pentecostal Studies (AJOPS). He is presently working on a book project that explores decolonisation and decolonial reflexivity.