Innocent Dande
Biographic Data
| ID | 794266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Innocent Dande |
| GIVEN NAMES | Innocent |
| FAMILY NAME | Dande |
| SIGNATURE | DANDE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8132-9515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Good dogs and bad dogs: Rabies and the invention of a new canine order under the British South Africa Company government (Southern Rhodesia), 1902–1913
This paper examines Southern Rhodesia’s 1902–1913 rabies outbreaks using primary sources which were generated by Native Commissioners, the Veterinary Department and other government departments. It uses a rural case study to contribute to the global dog historiography and the global rabies historiography which both ventilate the views of Western (urban) ruling classes and their middle-class collaborators in issues regarding dog-owning, rabies out…
Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948
Segregated Species examines how white farmers, the government, scientists, and Africans debated and defined the concept of pests in South Africa between 1910 and 1948 as they sought to create species boundaries and enclaves. However, animals validated their agency by contesting human-made boundaries and the violence meted out to them at these boundaries. Using the category of pests permits Skotnes-Brown to use the continuum between humanity and a…
‘Today We Will Milk Dogs!’ ( Nhasi tinokama imbwa )* – A Socio-political History of African-owned Dogs and the Dog Tax in Southern Rhodesia, c.1900–1950
We examine the curious historical phenomenon: suddenly, at the start of the twentieth century, dogs suddenly began to matter to the colonial state. To find out why, we examine the role of dogs and the dog-tax in Southern Rhodesian by exploring the larger power struggles over the living landscape of people and animals. We examine a six decade period from the early to mid-twentieth century to delineate shifts under a changing colonial regime. We tr…
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare's High-Density Suburbs, 1997-2020
This article examines changing attitudes to afternoon and evening meals during the Zimbabwean crisis between 1997 and 2020. It uses household food economics in Harare’s high-density suburbs as an entry point into the historiography of the Zimbabwean crisis. By focusing on the management of household economics, the article analyses the affordability, typologies and naming of some meals or relishes that were eaten during the crisis period. It exami…
The political economy of informal dog breeding businesses in Harare’s high-density suburbs, Zimbabwe, 1990-2019
This paper examines the emergence of informal dog breeding businesses in Zimbabwe’s high-density suburbs between 1990 and 2019. It uses the dog breeding practices of the working-classes and informal workers as an entry point into the global dog historiography that overly focuses on the dog breeding practices of the ruling classes and of the middle classes in Western Europe and in North America. It, thus, provides an animal-sensitive assessment of…
A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c. 1980–2017
This article examines the ‘post-colonial’ dogs – and their humans – of an African city. It draws on archival sources, newspaper sources and oral interviews to describe how Zimbabwe dealt with its urban canine citizens over the almost 40 years following independence. The local narrative is contextualised in a comparative reading of dog histories from other urban centres around the world, but it demonstrates the idiographic idioms and shifting spec…
Surviving on the margins: The Tjwa (San) food economies, politics and the environment in Zimbabwe
This article examines the history of the Tjwa (San) community of Zimbabwe from the prisms of food, marginality and Zimbabwean politics. It traces the marginal position of the Tjwa people to the Bantu migrations and the coming of the Ndebele state in the 1830s. These two migrations pushed the San people into the marginal and driest south-western parts of Zimbabwe. We examine how this affected the Tjwa people's choice of food as they responded to c…
Remembering Mugabe
Contested histories and contested land claims: Traditional authorities and the Fast Track Land Reform programme in Zimbabwe, 2000–2017
This article analyses conflicts among traditional authorities over ancestral lands, and boundaries during and in the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform programme (FTLRP). It argues that the FTLRP gave a fresh impetus to conflicts over land and boundaries among traditional authorities as they sought to recast their authority into areas from which they were displaced during the colonial period. It further argues that land claims in the …
History, politics and dogs in Zimbabwean literature, c.1975–2015
Zimbabwean fiction writers have engaged with dogs as objects, subjects and even actors. This essay focuses on the pivotal forty-year period between 1975 and 2015, which saw the end of white rule, the rise of an independent African state and the collapse of that state. In analysing how selected writers have variously made use of dogs, we discuss the extent to which writers deal with human-dog relations. We buttress our point by examining key piece…
Contested histories and contested land claims: Traditional authorities and the Fast Track Land Reform programme in Zimbabwe, 2000–2017
This article analyses conflicts among traditional authorities over ancestral lands, and boundaries during and in the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform programme (FTLRP). It argues that the FTLRP gave a fresh impetus to conflicts over land and boundaries among traditional authorities as they sought to recast their authority into areas from which they were displaced during the colonial period. It further argues that land claims in the …
A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c. 1980–2017
This article examines the ‘post-colonial’ dogs – and their humans – of an African city. It draws on archival sources, newspaper sources and oral interviews to describe how Zimbabwe dealt with its urban canine citizens over the almost 40 years following independence. The local narrative is contextualised in a comparative reading of dog histories from other urban centres around the world, but it demonstrates the idiographic idioms and shifting spec…
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare's High-Density Suburbs, 1997-2020
This article examines changing attitudes to afternoon and evening meals during the Zimbabwean crisis between 1997 and 2020. It uses household food economics in Harare’s high-density suburbs as an entry point into the historiography of the Zimbabwean crisis. By focusing on the management of household economics, the article analyses the affordability, typologies and naming of some meals or relishes that were eaten during the crisis period. It exami…
The political economy of informal dog breeding businesses in Harare’s high-density suburbs, Zimbabwe, 1990-2019
This paper examines the emergence of informal dog breeding businesses in Zimbabwe’s high-density suburbs between 1990 and 2019. It uses the dog breeding practices of the working-classes and informal workers as an entry point into the global dog historiography that overly focuses on the dog breeding practices of the ruling classes and of the middle classes in Western Europe and in North America. It, thus, provides an animal-sensitive assessment of…
Surviving on the margins: The Tjwa (San) food economies, politics and the environment in Zimbabwe
This article examines the history of the Tjwa (San) community of Zimbabwe from the prisms of food, marginality and Zimbabwean politics. It traces the marginal position of the Tjwa people to the Bantu migrations and the coming of the Ndebele state in the 1830s. These two migrations pushed the San people into the marginal and driest south-western parts of Zimbabwe. We examine how this affected the Tjwa people's choice of food as they responded to c…
Remembering Mugabe
History, politics and dogs in Zimbabwean literature, c.1975–2015
Zimbabwean fiction writers have engaged with dogs as objects, subjects and even actors. This essay focuses on the pivotal forty-year period between 1975 and 2015, which saw the end of white rule, the rise of an independent African state and the collapse of that state. In analysing how selected writers have variously made use of dogs, we discuss the extent to which writers deal with human-dog relations. We buttress our point by examining key piece…
Contested histories and contested land claims: Traditional authorities and the Fast Track Land Reform programme in Zimbabwe, 2000–2017
This article analyses conflicts among traditional authorities over ancestral lands, and boundaries during and in the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform programme (FTLRP). It argues that the FTLRP gave a fresh impetus to conflicts over land and boundaries among traditional authorities as they sought to recast their authority into areas from which they were displaced during the colonial period. It further argues that land claims in the …
Remembering Mugabe
The political economy of informal dog breeding businesses in Harare’s high-density suburbs, Zimbabwe, 1990-2019
This paper examines the emergence of informal dog breeding businesses in Zimbabwe’s high-density suburbs between 1990 and 2019. It uses the dog breeding practices of the working-classes and informal workers as an entry point into the global dog historiography that overly focuses on the dog breeding practices of the ruling classes and of the middle classes in Western Europe and in North America. It, thus, provides an animal-sensitive assessment of…
A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c. 1980–2017
This article examines the ‘post-colonial’ dogs – and their humans – of an African city. It draws on archival sources, newspaper sources and oral interviews to describe how Zimbabwe dealt with its urban canine citizens over the almost 40 years following independence. The local narrative is contextualised in a comparative reading of dog histories from other urban centres around the world, but it demonstrates the idiographic idioms and shifting spec…
Surviving on the margins: The Tjwa (San) food economies, politics and the environment in Zimbabwe
This article examines the history of the Tjwa (San) community of Zimbabwe from the prisms of food, marginality and Zimbabwean politics. It traces the marginal position of the Tjwa people to the Bantu migrations and the coming of the Ndebele state in the 1830s. These two migrations pushed the San people into the marginal and driest south-western parts of Zimbabwe. We examine how this affected the Tjwa people's choice of food as they responded to c…
‘Today We Will Milk Dogs!’ ( Nhasi tinokama imbwa )* – A Socio-political History of African-owned Dogs and the Dog Tax in Southern Rhodesia, c.1900–1950
We examine the curious historical phenomenon: suddenly, at the start of the twentieth century, dogs suddenly began to matter to the colonial state. To find out why, we examine the role of dogs and the dog-tax in Southern Rhodesian by exploring the larger power struggles over the living landscape of people and animals. We examine a six decade period from the early to mid-twentieth century to delineate shifts under a changing colonial regime. We tr…
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare's High-Density Suburbs, 1997-2020
This article examines changing attitudes to afternoon and evening meals during the Zimbabwean crisis between 1997 and 2020. It uses household food economics in Harare’s high-density suburbs as an entry point into the historiography of the Zimbabwean crisis. By focusing on the management of household economics, the article analyses the affordability, typologies and naming of some meals or relishes that were eaten during the crisis period. It exami…
Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948
Segregated Species examines how white farmers, the government, scientists, and Africans debated and defined the concept of pests in South Africa between 1910 and 1948 as they sought to create species boundaries and enclaves. However, animals validated their agency by contesting human-made boundaries and the violence meted out to them at these boundaries. Using the category of pests permits Skotnes-Brown to use the continuum between humanity and a…
Good dogs and bad dogs: Rabies and the invention of a new canine order under the British South Africa Company government (Southern Rhodesia), 1902–1913
This paper examines Southern Rhodesia’s 1902–1913 rabies outbreaks using primary sources which were generated by Native Commissioners, the Veterinary Department and other government departments. It uses a rural case study to contribute to the global dog historiography and the global rabies historiography which both ventilate the views of Western (urban) ruling classes and their middle-class collaborators in issues regarding dog-owning, rabies out…
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