Pius S Nyambara
Biographic Data
| ID | 134647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pius S Nyambara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pius S |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyambara |
| SIGNATURE | NYAMBARA P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zimbabwe |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0471-3596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘No Human Skeletons, No Shackles’: Revisiting Local Interpretations of Mtumbei Kitambi Site in Matumbi Hills, Southern Tanzania
Gender based violence is a socio-historical phenomenon that affected colonial Indigenous and settler societies in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa. Experiences of indigenous societies have been disproportionately studied by scholars. White settlers’ experiences of violence in domestic spaces remain largely silenced. This article fills this lacuna by illuminating one unexplored dimension of white settler women’s history: their lived expe…
The Evolution of Zimbabwe's Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming
This article outlines the historical and contemporary landscape of tobacco production and marketing in Zimbabwe. It highlights patterns of boom and bust dependent on global demand, trading frameworks and degrees of government support to the industry, which are reminiscent of cycles of tobacco production elsewhere in the region. It illustrates at the national and farm level the importance of diversified marketing channels: how the Zimbabwean tobac…
Tobacco Thrives, but the Environment Cries: The Sustainability of Livelihoods from Small-Scale Tobacco Growing in Zimbabwe, 2000-2017
This study analyses the environmental consequences of the introduction in 2000 of the volatile Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) and the sustainability of livelihoods among small-scale African tobacco-farmers following the reform programme. Tobacco was significant in the colonial cash economy and remains a key cash crop in post-colonial Zimbabwe since 1980. Much of the extant tobacco literature focuses on white-settler tobacco farming in c…
The Internationalization of Economic History: Perspectives from the African Frontier
In an interesting and thought-provoking paper recently published by the Economic History of Developing Regions, Johan Fourie and Leigh Gardner ask why relatively few papers from developing countries have been published in top-ranked economic history journals. They provide a number of tentative answers of which differences in academic traditions between regions seem to be an important one. In this paper, we contribute to this discussion by putting…
Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa
A groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era. Migration, whether forced or voluntary, continues to be an issue vital to Africa, arguably the continent most affected by internal displacement. Over centuries -- in groups or as individuals -- Africans have been forced to leave their homes to escape unfavorable natural, social, or political circumstances, or simply to se…
Madheruka and Shangwe: Ethnic Identities and the Culture of Modernity in Gokwe, Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963–79
In colonial Southern Rhodesia, administrative officials often couched the rhetoric of ‘modernization’ in ethnic terms. They regarded immigrant Madheruka master farmers as the embodiment of modernization because they had been exposed to forces of modernization in their areas of origin, while both officials and immigrants alike regarded indigenous Shangwe as backward and primitive. This article argues that the construction of Madheruka and Shangwe …
Immigrants, 'Traditional' Leaders and the Rhodesian State: The Power of 'Communal' Land Tenure and the Politics of Land Acquisition in Gokwe, Zimbabwe, 1963-1979
In 1962, largely as a result of African opposition, the Rhodesia state abandoned the Native Land Husbandry Act (NLHA), which had regulated land use and land allocation in the African areas since the early 1950s. The NLHA was replaced by the Tribal Trust Land Act (1967) through which the colonial state began to emphasise the power of 'communal' land tenure, in part to deal with land shortages in the African areas, but also to ward off the rising t…
The Politics of Land Acquisition and Struggles Over Land in the 'Communal' Areas of Zimbabwe: The Gokwe Region in the 1980s and 1990s
Historical writing on agrarian differentiation in rural Zimbabwe has moved away from conceptualising the peasantry as a homogeneous class, and has therefore enhanced our understanding of the process of rural differentiation. While such writing recognises patterns of differential land holding, however, it has not shown clearly how the differences developed over time. There has been a tendency to argue that land distribution in the ‘communal’ areas…
The Closing Frontier: Agrarian Change, Immigrants and the 'Squatter Menace' in Gokwe, 1980-1990s
Squatting' in the communal areas of Zimbabwe has been largely ignored in the literature because it is assumed that it does not exist in a 'communal' land tenure system. This article argues that 'squatting' in Gokwe villages has become a common strategy by landless immigrants to access land. Gokwe has been a frontier region for many immigrants in search of land since the 1950s with intense pressure on land by the 1990s. As the frontier closed, the…
Colonial Policy and Peasant Cotton Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia, 1904-1953
Immigrants, 'Traditional' Leaders and the Rhodesian State: The Power of 'Communal' Land Tenure and the Politics of Land Acquisition in Gokwe, Zimbabwe, 1963-1979
In 1962, largely as a result of African opposition, the Rhodesia state abandoned the Native Land Husbandry Act (NLHA), which had regulated land use and land allocation in the African areas since the early 1950s. The NLHA was replaced by the Tribal Trust Land Act (1967) through which the colonial state began to emphasise the power of 'communal' land tenure, in part to deal with land shortages in the African areas, but also to ward off the rising t…
The Politics of Land Acquisition and Struggles Over Land in the 'Communal' Areas of Zimbabwe: The Gokwe Region in the 1980s and 1990s
Historical writing on agrarian differentiation in rural Zimbabwe has moved away from conceptualising the peasantry as a homogeneous class, and has therefore enhanced our understanding of the process of rural differentiation. While such writing recognises patterns of differential land holding, however, it has not shown clearly how the differences developed over time. There has been a tendency to argue that land distribution in the ‘communal’ areas…
The Closing Frontier: Agrarian Change, Immigrants and the 'Squatter Menace' in Gokwe, 1980-1990s
Squatting' in the communal areas of Zimbabwe has been largely ignored in the literature because it is assumed that it does not exist in a 'communal' land tenure system. This article argues that 'squatting' in Gokwe villages has become a common strategy by landless immigrants to access land. Gokwe has been a frontier region for many immigrants in search of land since the 1950s with intense pressure on land by the 1990s. As the frontier closed, the…
Madheruka and Shangwe: Ethnic Identities and the Culture of Modernity in Gokwe, Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963–79
In colonial Southern Rhodesia, administrative officials often couched the rhetoric of ‘modernization’ in ethnic terms. They regarded immigrant Madheruka master farmers as the embodiment of modernization because they had been exposed to forces of modernization in their areas of origin, while both officials and immigrants alike regarded indigenous Shangwe as backward and primitive. This article argues that the construction of Madheruka and Shangwe …
Colonial Policy and Peasant Cotton Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia, 1904-1953
The Internationalization of Economic History: Perspectives from the African Frontier
In an interesting and thought-provoking paper recently published by the Economic History of Developing Regions, Johan Fourie and Leigh Gardner ask why relatively few papers from developing countries have been published in top-ranked economic history journals. They provide a number of tentative answers of which differences in academic traditions between regions seem to be an important one. In this paper, we contribute to this discussion by putting…
Colonial Policy and Peasant Cotton Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia, 1904-1953
Immigrants, 'Traditional' Leaders and the Rhodesian State: The Power of 'Communal' Land Tenure and the Politics of Land Acquisition in Gokwe, Zimbabwe, 1963-1979
In 1962, largely as a result of African opposition, the Rhodesia state abandoned the Native Land Husbandry Act (NLHA), which had regulated land use and land allocation in the African areas since the early 1950s. The NLHA was replaced by the Tribal Trust Land Act (1967) through which the colonial state began to emphasise the power of 'communal' land tenure, in part to deal with land shortages in the African areas, but also to ward off the rising t…
The Politics of Land Acquisition and Struggles Over Land in the 'Communal' Areas of Zimbabwe: The Gokwe Region in the 1980s and 1990s
Historical writing on agrarian differentiation in rural Zimbabwe has moved away from conceptualising the peasantry as a homogeneous class, and has therefore enhanced our understanding of the process of rural differentiation. While such writing recognises patterns of differential land holding, however, it has not shown clearly how the differences developed over time. There has been a tendency to argue that land distribution in the ‘communal’ areas…
The Closing Frontier: Agrarian Change, Immigrants and the 'Squatter Menace' in Gokwe, 1980-1990s
Squatting' in the communal areas of Zimbabwe has been largely ignored in the literature because it is assumed that it does not exist in a 'communal' land tenure system. This article argues that 'squatting' in Gokwe villages has become a common strategy by landless immigrants to access land. Gokwe has been a frontier region for many immigrants in search of land since the 1950s with intense pressure on land by the 1990s. As the frontier closed, the…
Madheruka and Shangwe: Ethnic Identities and the Culture of Modernity in Gokwe, Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963–79
In colonial Southern Rhodesia, administrative officials often couched the rhetoric of ‘modernization’ in ethnic terms. They regarded immigrant Madheruka master farmers as the embodiment of modernization because they had been exposed to forces of modernization in their areas of origin, while both officials and immigrants alike regarded indigenous Shangwe as backward and primitive. This article argues that the construction of Madheruka and Shangwe …
Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa
A groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era. Migration, whether forced or voluntary, continues to be an issue vital to Africa, arguably the continent most affected by internal displacement. Over centuries -- in groups or as individuals -- Africans have been forced to leave their homes to escape unfavorable natural, social, or political circumstances, or simply to se…
The Internationalization of Economic History: Perspectives from the African Frontier
In an interesting and thought-provoking paper recently published by the Economic History of Developing Regions, Johan Fourie and Leigh Gardner ask why relatively few papers from developing countries have been published in top-ranked economic history journals. They provide a number of tentative answers of which differences in academic traditions between regions seem to be an important one. In this paper, we contribute to this discussion by putting…
Tobacco Thrives, but the Environment Cries: The Sustainability of Livelihoods from Small-Scale Tobacco Growing in Zimbabwe, 2000-2017
This study analyses the environmental consequences of the introduction in 2000 of the volatile Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) and the sustainability of livelihoods among small-scale African tobacco-farmers following the reform programme. Tobacco was significant in the colonial cash economy and remains a key cash crop in post-colonial Zimbabwe since 1980. Much of the extant tobacco literature focuses on white-settler tobacco farming in c…
‘No Human Skeletons, No Shackles’: Revisiting Local Interpretations of Mtumbei Kitambi Site in Matumbi Hills, Southern Tanzania
Gender based violence is a socio-historical phenomenon that affected colonial Indigenous and settler societies in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa. Experiences of indigenous societies have been disproportionately studied by scholars. White settlers’ experiences of violence in domestic spaces remain largely silenced. This article fills this lacuna by illuminating one unexplored dimension of white settler women’s history: their lived expe…
The Evolution of Zimbabwe's Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming
This article outlines the historical and contemporary landscape of tobacco production and marketing in Zimbabwe. It highlights patterns of boom and bust dependent on global demand, trading frameworks and degrees of government support to the industry, which are reminiscent of cycles of tobacco production elsewhere in the region. It illustrates at the national and farm level the importance of diversified marketing channels: how the Zimbabwean tobac…
Political science (10 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Law (5 works)