Staff Profile

Dr. T.V Chambwe is the Acting Chairperson of the Department of History, Heritage and International Studies. He is a social and economic historian of colonial, post-colonial and contemporary histories of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa with a keen interest in entrepreneurship, human economies, and histories of transportation. He holds a PhD from the University of the Free State in South Africa, an MA in African Economic History, a BA Honours in Economic History from the University of Zimbabwe and a Postgraduate Diploma in Tertiary Education from the Midlands State University. Dr Chambwe also seats on the editorial board of the Journal of Global History.

Publications

• Chambwe, T. V., “Sinan Baran. State-Business Relations and Economic Transformation in South Africa and Zimbabwe: Unfinished Transformation. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. Distributed by Rowman & Littlefield. ix+ 213 pp, African Studies Review, First View, 2025. 
• Chambwe, T. V., “Histories of African Entrepreneurship”. Southern Journal for Contemporary History 50, 1 (2025). pp. 89-97.
• Chambwe, T. V., and Victor M. Gwande. “African Entrepreneurship in urban colonial Zimbabwe: The case of Highfield, 1953–1965.” Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 69, 2 (2024). pp. 337 – 360.
• Chambwe, T. V. “Gwande Victor. 2022. Manufacturing Colonial Zimbabwe 1890-1979: Interest Group Politics, Protectionism and the State. Suffolk: James Currey. 234 pp.” African Studies Quarterly 22, no. 3 (2024): 124-125.
• Chambwe T. V. “‘In Native Areas, Stores Have a Big Influence on the People’:  Trading Sites and the Reorganization of African Agriculture, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1945 – 1955”, African Economic History, 51, 2, (2023). pp. 1 – 23.  
• Chambwe T. V. “‘Activism in Tight Corners”: Decolonisation and the African Business Association Movement in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1953 – 1979’, Southern Journal of Contemporary History, 48, 1, (2023). pp. 7 – 30.
• Chambwe Valentine Tawanda, ‘A Half-baked and Sickly Commercially Minded Native’: African Entrepreneurship and Cooperative Societies in Southern Rhodesia, c1940s’, Historia, Vol. 68, No. 1 (2023), pp. 2 – 26. 
• Chakawa, Joshua., and Chambwe, Tawanda Valentine, ‘Displacement and Livelihoods through the Construction of Small Dams: Legacies of Magunje Dam in Hurungwe District, Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe’, Africanus: Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2022, pp. 1 – 16.
• Chambwe, Tawanda Valentine, Book Review:  Kingdom, Power and Glory: Mugabe, ZANU, and the Quest for Supremacy, 1960 – 1987 by Stuart Doran,Midrand: Sithatha Media (pb R489 – 9780620 752930). 2017, 842pp.