Staff Profile

Dr.Mazambani is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and International Relations, having joined the Department in 2005. He holds a PhD in History attained from Midlands State University. Dr.Mazambani teaches undergraduate and graduate courses as supervises dissertations for MPhil and Ph.D. candidates. 

Publications and Research Profile

• Mazambani. I, The Plight of Manufactured Woman Political Prisoners, Detainees and Restrictees in Colonial Zimbabwe (1959-1980), (2013), in Nyawo-Shava, (ed)Themes inContemporary History of Zimbabwe. Emerging Perspectives in Afrikology, Mambo Press, Gweru, pp. 41-66.
• Marongwe. N and Mazambani. I, (2016) Symbolic violence, xenophobia and the [re]imaginings of ‘foreignness’ in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Marongwe. N (ed) Myth ofPeace and Democracy? Towards Building Pillars of Hope, Unity and Transformation in Africa, Palgrave McMillan, 2016, pp. 367-398.

Journal Articles

• Mazambani I and Marongwe N, (2016) “The Plight of Teenage Male Children Inside ‘Protected’ Villages During Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle, (1970-1980)”The Dyke. AJournal of the Midlands State University, Vol.10, No 2, pp. 99-123
• Mazambani. I, (2015), The Serendipity of Moribund Political Vulnerable: The Plight of Displaced Children During the Liberation Struggle for Zimbabwe, The Dyke. Journal of the Midlands State University A, Vol. 3, No 2, pp.33-52.
• Mazambani. I, and Mashingaidze T.M, (2015) “The Manufacturing of Protected Villages in Sothern Rhodesia: Demythologizing the Rhodesian Official Mind (1972-1980),” The Dyke. A Journal of the Midlands State University, Vol. 8, No. 3,pp. 73-94.
• Mazambani I and Tarugarira. (2015) G, “Silencing Guardians of the Democratic Shrine in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean Nationalism and the Third Chimurenga (1960-12005),”Repositioning the Humanities. Journal of ContemporaryResearch, Vol. 1, Number.2, pp. 5-38.
• Tarugarira. G and Mazambani I, (2014) “Accumulating Biological Capital through the Commodification of Women: A Historical Appreciation of the Commercialization of Lobola/ Roora in Zimbabwe, 1920-2010,”Repositioning the Humanities. Journal ofContemporary Research, Vol. 1, Number.2, pp.45-61
• Mazambani. I, (2012) African Responses to European Colonialism: Demythologising the Colonisation of Zimbabwe,” The Dyke. A Journal of the Midlands State University, Vol. 6 No 4, pp. 224-237.
• Mazambani. I, (2008), “The Law as An Instrument of Oppression and Violation of Children’s Rights in Southern Rhodesia,” (1959-1980), OSSREA BULLETIN, Vol. V, No 1 Feb, pp. 29-44.

Accepted for publication

• Mazambani. I,“Reconstructing and Rewriting the Historiography of the Liberation Struggle for Zimbabwe from Below: The Need for Children’s Narratives from Protected Villages (1970-1979),” To appear in the Dyke.
• Mazambani. I, (forthcoming), “Guerrillas and the Plight of Teenage Girls in Protected Villages in Rhodesia During the Liberation Struggle for Zimbabwe (1970-1980).” To appear in a book edited by MunyaradziNyakudya (ed) Revolutionaries, Sellouts and Counter-revolutionaries.

Articles Under Review

• Mazambani. I, “The Failure to Decolonise Knowledge: Pursuing the Perpetuation of the Colonial Agenda Through the Teaching of History at The University of Zimbabwe.” To appear in the Dyke.
• Ishmael Mazambani, (Midlands State University, MSU)NgonidzasheMarongwe, (Great Zimbabwe University, GZU), Owen Mangiza, (Midlands State University, MSU), Violence and the Scramble for Power in Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front and Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe (2000-2018). To appear in a book edited by E. Duri and N. Marongwe.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• Mazambani. I, “The Failure To Decolonise Knowledge: Pursuing The Perpetuation Of The Colonial Agenda Through The Teaching Of History At The University Of Zimbabwe.” Decoloniality Conference, UNISA, South Africa, August, 2016.
• Mazambani. I, “The Need to Decolonize Zimbabwean History,” UNISA, Dec 2016.
• Mazambani. I, “The Fees Must Fall Struggles and the Incomplete Decolonization Project in South Africa,” UNISA, Dec, 2016.
• S. Ndlovu and I. Mazambani, “The Need for African Universities and not Universities in Africa,” Archie Mafeje Institute for Research in Applied Social Policy, UNISA, SA, 15-16 Jan 2017.