Staff Profile

Mr. I.D. Ndongwe is a lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and International Studies, Midlands State University. He holds a Master of Arts (MA) degree in History from the University of Iowa, USA, a Master of Arts degree in African Economic History, University of Zimbabwe, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Economic History, University of Zimbabwe.  Mr. Ndongwe has served as an assistant lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe and the University of Iowa before he accepted his current appointment at MSU.

Research Interests:

• Urban Black Nationalism and Decolonization in Africa,
• Conservation and Colonialism
• Histories of Race, Identity and International Students in Higher Education.

Conference Papers:

• Urban Protest, Politics of Responsibility, and the Construction of the Hooligan: A Study of the 1956 Salisbury Bus Boycott, a paper presented at the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) North American Convention, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, February 2019.

Public Engagement 

• He collected oral histories from founding members of the Sudanese Republican Brotherhood, a religious and political movement founded by Mahmoud Muhammed Taha in Sudan in the 1950s, on behalf of the University of Iowa’s African Studies program and the Outreach and Engagement Office in the Spring of 2018. The oral histories formed the basis a play My Daughters are My Writings premièred by Outreach and Engagement Office in February 2019. https://dailyiowan.com/2019/02/14/uialumna-turns-oral-histories-of-muslims-in-iowa-city-into-a-play/https://littlevillagemag.com/interviews-form-basis-of-new-playabout-the-legacy-of-sudan-in-iowa-city/