l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Assistant Professor

Jackson State University, Mississippi & University of Zimbabwe

pius.s.nyambara@jsums.edu

Jackson State University
Department of History & Philosophy
P O Box 17700
Jackson, Mississippi 39217 USA

phone: 601-979-2191
fax: 601-979-2192

Zimbabwe and Southern Africa

Interests focuses on agrarian change, ethnicity and land conflicts in Zimbabwe in particular and southern Africa in general.

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.

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.

economic history ; slave economies ; ethnicity ; conflicts; Zimbabwe ; Southern Africa