Wellington Bamu
has an MA in development studies from the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. He is also a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe, where he obtained a BA Special Hons (economic history) and a BA General (economic history, war studies and French). His research interests are in artisanal mining and mining development.
Nathaniel Chimhete
is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems at the University of Zimbabwe. His works focus on the African alcohol industry and African nationalism in Zimbabwe. He is also interested in the history of mining in Zimbabwe and Tanzania. His PhD thesis was on how gold mining changed the moral economy of the Wanyamongo people of northern Tanzania between the 1930s and 2009. He is particularly interested in the use of oral sources in the writing of African socio-economic history.
Anusa Daimon
is a research fellow at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State, South Africa, and Senior Lecturer, History Department, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi.
Innocent Dande
is a social historian of Southern Africa. His published work focuses on the animal history and urban food histories of Southern Africa. He graduated with a doctorate in animal history from Stellenbosch University in 2020. He is currently based at the University of the Free State’s International Studies Group.
Sylvester Dombo
is Senior Lecturer and chairperson in the History and Development Studies Department at the Great Zimbabwe University. Dr Dombo attained his doctoral degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2014. His research interests include media, religion and politics, violence, land reform, entertainment and social histories of mine workers in Zimbabwe’s history. He is the author of Private print media, the state and politics in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, a 2018 publication by Palgrave Macmillan.
is an MA candidate in economics in the Department of Economics and Development, Faculty of Business Management Science and Economics, University of Zimbabwe.
Rudo Gaidzanwa
is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (now called the Department of Community and Social Development) at the University of Zimbabwe. She has championed the introduction and teaching of gender studies at the University of Zimbabwe, in the former Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She also teaches and specialises in industrial sociology.
Tafara Evelyn Kombora
is an aspiring postgraduate student in the field of teacher education. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in economic history obtained from the University of Zimbabwe. She has over eight years of teaching experience at the secondary school level and has regularly carried out consultancy work in various aspects of teaching and learning. It is this experience which continues to inform her interest in, and appreciation of, educational policies in education.
Ushehwedu Kufakurinani
is a research fellow at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is also a research associate with the University of Johannesburg in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, as well as with the Great Zimbabwe University, Department of History, Archaeology and Development Studies.
Bernard Kusena
is the chairperson of the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems and Senior Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Zimbabwe. His research interests span the fields of education, law and rural development, with a focus on sustainability and livelihoods. He holds the following qualifications: PhD in history (Rhodes University); MA (African economic history); LLM (international law); BA (Hons) (economic history); LLB (Hons); Diploma in Education; and Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation (University of Zimbabwe).
Albert Makochekanwa
is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Development, Faculty of Business Management Science and Economics, University of Zimbabwe.
is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems at the University of Zimbabwe and a research fellow in the History Department at the University of the Free State. His broad research interests are in urban history, agrarian and development studies, human economy and sustainability, rural–urban linkages and rural development, and, more recently, climate change. Some of his articles have appeared in Global Environment and the Journal of Developing Societies.
Blessed Masawi
is an economic history graduate of the University of Zimbabwe. His research interests are in informality and crisis economies.
Ivo Mhike
trained as an economic historian, with research interests in childhood and youth, race and ethnicity, and public health. He was Senior Lecturer in the Department History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems, University of Zimbabwe, at the time of his passing in 2021.
Joseph P. Mtisi
is an economic historian whose research interests are in the agrarian and labour history of Zimbabwe. He graduated with a doctoral degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1979. He was among the first generation of economic historians in Zimbabwe and has several decades of teaching experience from the former Department of Economic History at the University of Zimbabwe (which he helped to establish in 1986 and from which he recently retired). He has also taught at the University of Swaziland (now the University of Eswatini). He has extensively researched and written on the labour dynamics at tea, coffee and timber plantations in both colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe.
Joseph Mujere
is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York, UK, and a research fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg. His research includes mining and environmental history, migration and the politics of belonging, and visual history. He published his first book, titled Land, migration and belonging: A history of Basotho in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1890–1969 (James Currey, 2019).
Wesley Mwatwara
is an Assistant Professor in Global Economic and Social History in the Department of Arts and Cultures, History and Antiquities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. His areas of research include socio-environmental
Pius S. Nyambara
is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems at the University of Zimbabwe. He completed his PhD in African history at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, after having done a BA Honours degree in history and an MA in African economic history at the University of Zimbabwe. He has published several articles and book chapters on aspects of the economic history of Zimbabwe, including in the Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal of African History, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Global Environment, Historia, African Studies Quarterly and Journal of Southern African Studies. His research interests are in agrarian studies, labour history, environmental history, comparative slavery, ethnic identities and sustainable development.
Tinashe Nyamunda
is an economic and social historian of the financial and economic history of twentieth and twenty-first-century Southern Africa. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria.
Mark Nyandoro
is Professor of Economic History in the Department of History Heritage and Knowledge Systems, University of Zimbabwe, and Extraordinary Professor with the School of Social Sciences at North-West University, South Africa. He is a visiting research fellow at United Nations University-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, a consultant to the Third National Communication to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and a member of the international Africa Economic History Network (AEHN). Nyandoro has published extensively on water, waterborne diseases, state institutions, migration, poverty, land, irrigation agriculture, drought, food security, climate change and the environment, in Environment and History, Journal of Southern African Studies and other refereed journals.
Takesure Taringana
is an economic historian and Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems at the University of Zimbabwe. Takesure’s research
Nicola Yon
is a social protection expert with a proven track record in social protection research. Currently, she is working for the National Social Security Authority in Zimbabwe as a statistics and research officer. She is a member of various technical working groups on social protection and has published works in this area. She is a member of the Southern African Social Protection Experts Network (SASPEN) advisory panel. She is currently studying for her PhD with the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State and her area of interest is gender and social protection. Nicola holds a Master of Science in population studies and a Master of Science in social protection financing.