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/Dr Tafadzwa Blessing Choto
Dr Tafadzwa Blessing Choto

Position: Lecturer

Department: Community Studies
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Qualifications:

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Sociology, University of Zimbabwe 
  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Higher and Tertiary Education, Midlands State University 
  • Master of Science (MSc)  in Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Zimbabwe 
  • Bachelor of Science (BSc) honours in Sociology, University of Zimbabwe

Research Interests:

  • Sociology of Sport 
  • History of Sport 
  • Sport Development and Policy 
  • Livelihoods and Sustainability 
  • Environmental Sociology

Publications:

  1.  Choto, T.B. and Ncube, L., 2024. Football, Colonialism, and Nationalist Resistance in Anglophone Africa. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 7(1), pp.67-82.
  2. Choto, T.B. and Poshai, L., 2024. The politics and public administration nexus in the practice of football administration in Zimbabwe. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 46(4), pp.442-458.
  3. Kudzai Chiweshe, M. and Choto, T., 2022. Women who watch and support English football in Zimbabwe: a transnational analysis of female fandoms. Soccer & Society, 23(3), pp.245-257.
  4. Choto, T., Chiweshe, M.K. and Muparamoto, N., 2019. Football fandom, ethno-regionalism and rivalry in post-colonial Zimbabwe: Case study of Highlanders and Dynamos. Soccer & Society, 20(1), pp.153-167.
  5. Choto, T.B., 2024. An Olympic Fairytale: The Zimbabwean Women’s Field Hockey Victory at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 41(10-11), pp.1150-1164. (Awarded the International Journal of the History of Sport Article for 2024)
  6. Chiweshe, M. and Choto, T., 2024. ” Our Golden Girl”: Race, Politics, and Sport in the Creation of Identity in Post-colonial Zimbabwe. African Studies Quarterly, 22(4), pp.24-45.
  7. Choto, T.B., 2025. ‘Treated like children born out of wedlock’: the development and the neglect of women’s football in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Sport in History, pp.1-19.
  8. Choto, T., Dandah, G., Karuma, P., Muguti, T., Dichter, H.L. and Schiller, K., 2025. Sport in post-colonial Zimbabwe: introduction. Sport in History, pp.1-7.
  9. Choto Tafadzwa Blessing and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe. 2025 “The Interplay of Football and Militarized Nationalism in Post-colonial Zimbabwe , Sport in Society. DOI: 1.1080/17430437.2025.2573296

Published Book chapters (Scopus Indexed)

 

  1. Chiweshe, Manase Kudzai, and Tafadzwa Choto. “Men and Football in Africa.” In The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities, pp. 211-227. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.
  2. Choto, Tafadzwa Blessing. “‘Just Like the Boys’: An Analysis of the Experiences of Females Involved in Football Betting in Harare, Zimbabwe.” In Football, Gambling, and Everyday Life in Zimbabwe, pp. 32-42. Routledge, 2023.
  3. Choto, Tafadzwa B., and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe. “Gender and the Politics of Patriarchy in Zimbabwean Football Administration.” In The Routledge Handbook of Gender Politics in Sport and Physical Activity, pp. 259-269. Routledge, 2022.
  4. Kudzai Chiweshe, Manase, and Tafadzwa Choto. “Women who watch and support English football in Zimbabwe: a transnational analysis of female fandoms in Chiweshe, M.K. and Waliaula, S. eds., 2025. African Fans of European Football: Cultural Globalisation in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Taylor & Francis.

 

Academic Work in Progress 

 

  • Choto Tafadzwa Blessing “A case of  sportswashing?  :Sport and Rwanda’s post-genocide foreign policy :” International Journal of the History of Sport
  • Choto Tafadzwa Blessing  “I now Feel like Peter Ndlovu!!”: Football, social capital and stigma amongst women living with HIV in Epworth Zimbabwe.  The journal of HIV & Social Services 
  • Choto Tafadzwa Blessing and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe “Risking More than Money : A Multisectoral Analysis of Gambling Harms in Zimbabwe”. The Journal of Gambling Studies
    1.  Choto Tafadzwa Blessing. Beyond the Bureaucracy? Governance and Practice of Artisanal Gold Mining in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. Administrative Theory & Praxis
  • Choto Tafadzwa Blessing. History repeating itself ? Hosting the Cricket World Cup and its impact on Politics and Cricket in Zimbabwe : The International Journal of the History of Sport 
  • Choto Tafadzwa Blessing. ‘Gambling  and femininity’ : Intersections of livelihood and identity among women involved in football betting in Gweru Zimbabwe’. Gender , Place and Culture
  • Choto Tafadzwa Blessing ‘Ma Jah bhora awo’ : Heteronormativity, Respectability and Identity amongst female football players in Zimbabwe’. African Identities 
  • Choto Tafadzwa Blessing ‘Researching the life experiences of football playing mothers in Gweru Zimbabwe’  Qualitative Research in Sport, Health and Exercise

 

Manuscript Reviews for Journals 

African Identities 

Sport in Society 

 

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