diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/CMakeLists.txt b/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/CMakeLists.txt
index 0a198f431a7..69fba0b4bea 100644
--- a/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ set(cython_sources
     concatenate.pyx
     copying.pyx
     datetime.pyx
+    experimental.pyx
     filling.pyx
     gpumemoryview.pyx
     groupby.pyx
diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/__init__.py b/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/__init__.py
index 43a9e2aca31..7d1af4066e3 100644
--- a/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/__init__.py
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/__init__.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     concatenate,
     copying,
     datetime,
+    experimental,
     filling,
     groupby,
     interop,
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@
     "concatenate",
     "copying",
     "datetime",
+    "experimental",
     "filling",
     "gpumemoryview",
     "groupby",
@@ -54,6 +56,7 @@
     "quantiles",
     "reduce",
     "replace",
+    "reshape",
     "rolling",
     "round",
     "search",
diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/experimental.pyx b/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/experimental.pyx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f1ce8ba8a1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/experimental.pyx
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+
+from libcpp cimport bool
+from libcpp.string cimport string
+
+from cudf._lib.pylibcudf.libcudf cimport experimental as cpp_experimental
+
+
+cpdef enable_prefetching(str key):
+    # helper to convert a gather map to a Column
+    cdef string c_key = key.encode("utf-8")
+    cpp_experimental.enable_prefetching(c_key)
+
+cpdef prefetch_debugging(bool enable):
+    # helper to convert a gather map to a Column
+    cpp_experimental.prefetch_debugging(enable)
diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/libcudf/experimental.pxd b/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/libcudf/experimental.pxd
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7e0bd9c910c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/pylibcudf/libcudf/experimental.pxd
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2022-2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+
+from libcpp cimport bool
+from libcpp.string cimport string
+
+
+cdef extern from "cudf/utilities/prefetch.hpp" \
+        namespace "cudf::experimental::prefetch" nogil:
+    # Not technically the right signature, but it's good enough to let Cython
+    # generate valid C++ code. It just means we'll be copying a host string
+    # extra, but that's OK. If we care we could generate string_view bindings,
+    # but there's no real rush so if we go that route we might as well
+    # contribute them upstream to Cython itself.
+    void enable_prefetching(string key)
+    void prefetch_debugging(bool enable)