Staff Profile

 Qualifications

• PhD in History, University of South Africa, 2021.      Thesis Title: ‘A Comparative Study of the Politics of Chieftaincy and Local Government in Colonial and Postcolonial Zimbabwe, 1950-2010’.
• MPhil in African History, University of Zimbabwe, 1995:    Thesis Title: ‘A History of Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1850-1960: Comparative Change in Three Worlds’.
• MA in American History, Columbia University, New York, (USA), 1992
• BA Hononours in History, University of Zimbabwe, 1986

Publications:

• BOOKS:
• A History of Northwestern Zimbabwe1850-1960 (Mond Books, Kadoma, 2004) 170 pages
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• CHAPTERS IN PUBLISHED BOOKS:
• ‘Rural Dimensions of Frontier Communities as a Source of Conflict in ZImbabwe, in Ngwabi Bhebe (ed.) Historical Perspectives on Violence, Conflict and Accomodation in Zimbabwe’, Midlands State University Press, Gweru, 2016
• ‘African Wage Labour under British Colonialism in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Northwestern ZImbabwe, 1898-1940’, in Joseph Mangut & Terhemba Wuam (eds.) Colonialism and the Transition to Modernity in Africa, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria, 2012
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• ARTICLES IN JOURNALS:
• ‘A Historical Review of the Controversy over U.S. Corporate Investments in Apartheid South Africa, 1960-1994’, The Dyke, Journal of the Midlands State University, Vol. 9, No. 2
• ‘Immigrant Black South Africans and the Emergence of Modernist African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1890-1940’, Journal of Intra African Studies, 2013
• ‘The Early History of Wage Labour and Worker Consciousness in Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1898-1940’, The Dyke: Journal of the Midlands State University, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2012
• ‘Precolonial Famine Control and the Causes of Colonial Famines in Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1850-1960’, Journal of History and Development, Vol. 1, No. 1, September 2011
• ‘Crisis of Communal Leadership: Post-colonial Local Government Reform and Administrative Conflict with Traditional Authorities in the Communal Areas of Zimbabwe, 1980-2008’, African Journal of History and Culture, Vol. 3 (6) July 2011
• ‘Precolonial Drought Security, Colonial Policies and Famine in Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1850-1960, The Dyke: Journal of the Midlands State University, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2010
• ‘The Dynamics of the Portuguese Slave Trade Along the Zambezi in the Nineteenth Century’, The Dyke: Journal of the Midlands State University, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2008
• ‘Banished to the Wilderness: The Case of the Western Area of the Gwayi Reserve, Matabeleland, ZImbabwe, 1952-1980’, The Dyke: Journal of the Midlands State University, Vol. 1, No.1, 2004‘Immigrant Black South Africans and the Emergence of Modernist African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1890-1940’, The Dyke, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2013, pages 19-34 (15 pages)
• ‘Recuperating the Modern History of the Tyua San of Western Zimbabwe in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries’, completed/ready for submission in 2021