Pius S Nyambara

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Assistant Professor
Affiliation	Jackson State University, Mississippi & University of Zimbabwe
Email	pius.s.nyambara@jsums.edu
Mailing Address	Jackson State University Department of History & Philosophy P O Box 17700 Jackson, Mississippi 39217 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 601-979-2191 fax: 601-979-2192
Countries of Specialization	Zimbabwe and Southern Africa
Research Interests	Interests focuses on agrarian change, ethnicity and land conflicts in Zimbabwe in particular and southern Africa in general.
Teaching Interests	Teaches undergraduate courses in Global History (earliest time to current times), and at upper undergraduate and graduate levels, teaches Latin America history and African History. At the University of Zimbabwe, taught undergraduate courses in the economic history of Africa to 1900, economic history of colonial and post-colonial eastern Africa and graduate courses in Comparative Slave Economies in the World and African Environmental History.
Publications	Review of Donald Moore, Suffering for Territory: Race, Places, and Power in Zimbabwe in International Journal of African Historical Studies, 40, 3 (2007): 513-515. "'That Place was Wonderful!': African Tenants on Rhodesdale Estate, Colonial Zimbabwe, c1900-1952," International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2005). "Madheruka and Shangwe: Ethnic Identities and the culture of Modernity in Gokwe, northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963-1979," Journal of African History, Vol. 43, No. 2(2002): 287-306. "Immigrants, 'Traditional' leaders and the Rhodesian State: The Power of Communal Land Tenure and the Politics of Land Acquisition in Gokwe, Zimbabwe, 1963-1979," Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4, (2001): 771-791. "The Closing Frontier: Cotton, Immigrants and the Squatter Menace in Gokwe Villages, 1980 - 1990s," Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 1, No. 4(2001): 534-549.
Keywords	economic history ; slave economies ; ethnicity ; conflicts; Zimbabwe ; Southern Africa