Wellcome Trust Research Fellow

Email: Ushehwedu.Kufakurinani@warwick.ac.uk

EDUCATION

Department of Economic History, University of Zimbabwe

PhD African Economic History, August 2015

MA African Economic History, August 2007

BA Economic History, August 2004

Research Project: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/research/projects/fake/

As part of the project “What's at stake in the fake? Indian Pharmaceuticals, African markets and global health” I use ethnographic research to explore the interface of libido, trade in sex tonics and the Zimbabwean economic crisis in urban informal streets. Over-the-counter sex tonics in Zimbabwe were banned in 2013. This, together with the unstable economic environment, have engendered a vibrant informal trade in sex enhancers. I explore discourses around efficacy and the policing of the illicit/informal trade.

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

2019

Kufakurinani, Elasticity in Domesticity: White Women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890 to 1980, Brill Publishers, Netherlands, 2019.

Articles and Book Chapters

2021

Kufakurinani, “Gender and settler labour markets: The marriage bar in colonial Zimbabwe”, Economic History of Developing Regions, 36:3, 439-444, (2021) DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1929611.

Ingrid Kvangraven, Maria Styve, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, “Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy” (eds) Samir Amin and Beyond: Radical Political Economy, Dependence and Delinking today, Special Issue, Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) No. 167, 2021.

Kufakurinani, Ushehwedu. “Political History of Zimbabwe Since 1980.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press, 2016—. Article published January 22, 2021.

2020

Kufakurinani and P. Uledi, “Navigating the Urban Territory: Prostitution and the City Spaces of Harare”, in Chirisa, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Urbanisation in Zimbabwe: Past, Present and Future, Harare, UZ Publishers, 2020.

Kufakurinani and B. Chinouriri, “Pastors Who Prey: Religiosity and Urbanity in Zimbabwe” in Chirisa, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Urbanisation in Zimbabwe: Past, Present and Future, Harare, UZ Publishers, 2020.

Nyasha Bushu, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Godfrey Hove, “Introduction: Revisiting the Colonial Social and Economic History of Zimbabwe” in Kufakurinani, Hove and Bushu (eds), African Economic Review special issue on Selected Themes on the Socio-Economic History of Zimbabwe, forthcoming 2020.

Kufakurinani, “Gender and the Colonial Labour Market: Women Clerks in the Public Service of Rhodesia, 1939 – 1960s”, African Economic Review special issue on Selected Themes on the Socio-Economic History of Zimbabwe, 2020.

Pauline Kazembe, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Tanaka Chidora and Sheu Mandizvidza, “Introduction: Perspectives on gender in Zimbabwe”, Zambezi: Journal of Humanities, (Special Issue on gender) 2020.

Kufakurinani and R. Muchenu, ‘“It’s not a joke anymore”: Engendering humour on Social Media amongst Zimbabweans’, Zambezi: Journal of Humanities, (Special Issue on Gendered Perspectives in Zimbabwe) 2020.

2019

Kufakurinani U and Mwatwara W, “Another round of plunder? China, Africa and international politics through the lens of the Mugabe government, c.2000 to 2016”, Contemporary Africa in the New World Order, Lexington books, 2019.

Kufakurinani and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Frutuoso Santanta, Maria Dyveke Styve “Introduction: Why Should We Discuss Dependency Theory Today?” in U. Kufakurinani et al (eds.) Dialogues on Development: Volume 1: Dependency, Harare: UZ Publishers, 2019.

Petronella M. Munhenzva, Natahniel Chimhete and U. Kufakurinani, “Conflict, Livelihoods and Survival among Miners and Farmers in Gweru’s Greenvale, 2000 to 2016”, Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History, Vol. 2, No. 12, 2019.

2018

Kufakurinani, B. Chinouriri, Passmore Chishaka and Nyakudya, “Women and Musical Arts In Zimbabwe: A Historical Trajectory” in B. Chinouriri, U. Kufakurinani and M. Nyakudya, Victors, Victims and Villains: Women in Musical Arts in Zimbabwe – Past and Present, Harare, UZ Publishers, 2018

Kufakurinani, B. Chinouriri and Nyakudya, “‘Wakachipa Kunge Bhero’: Gender and the Portrayal of Women in Selected Zimdancehall Songs” in B. Chinouriri, U. Kufakurinani and M. Nyakudya, Victors, Victims and Villains: Women in Musical Arts in Zimbabwe – Past and Present, Harare, UZ Publishers, 2018.

Chinouriri, Kufakurinani and Nyakudya, “Introduction: Women and Musical Arts in Zimbabwe: Past and Present” in B. Chinouriri, U. Kufakurinani and M. Nyakudya, Victors, Victims and Villains: Women in Musical Arts in Zimbabwe – Past and Present, Harare, UZ Publishers, 2018.

Kufakurinani, “Building a ‘Healthy’ Empire: White Women, Race and Health in Colonial Zimbabwe” in Bala Poonam, Medicine and Colonial Engagements in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

2017

Kufakurinani and Elijah Doro, “Resource Curse or Governance Deficit? The Role of Parliament in Uganda’s Oil and Zimbabwe’s Diamonds”, Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 44, Issue No. 1, 2017, pp. 1-15.

Kufakurinani and W. Mwatwara, “Zimdancehall and the Peace crisis in Zimbabwe”, African Conflict & Peace Building Review Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 2017), 33–50

2016

Kufakurinani, “Land-related Conflicts in Insiza North, 2000-2013: Towards Integration and Reconciliation” in N. Bhebhe, T. Mashingaidze and G. Mazarire (eds.), Historical Perspectives on Violence, Conflict and Accommodation in Zimbabwe, ONHRI and UNDP, 2016.

Book Review: Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy: Apostolic Reformation in Botswana. By RICHARD WERBNER. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xiii + 268pp found in the South African Historical Journal, 2016

2015

Kufakurinani and Ropafadzo Ngoni, “A gendered experience of the University of Rhodesia: The role played by the Rhodesian Association for University Women, 1956 to 1980”, in S. Katsamudanga and J. Mujere, The University of Zimbabwe at Sixty: Historical Reflections, Harare, UZ Publications, 2015, 48 - 69.

Kufakurinani and Wellington Bamu “Resettled and Yet Unsettled?” Land Conflicts and Food (in)security in Insiza North, Zimbabwe, 2005-2013”, in Z. Makwavarara, R. Magosvongwe and Obert Bernard Mlambo, Dialoguing Land and Indigenisation in Zimbabwe and Other Developing Countries, Harare, UZ Publications, 2015, 272 - 290.

Kufakurinani, “Empire and Sexual Deviance: Debating White Women's Prostitution in Early 20th Century Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia” in Will Jackson and Emily Manktelow, (eds.), Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World, Cambridge, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, p. 205 - 225.

Kufakurinani and P. S. Nyambara, “Reconfiguring Domesticity? White Women and the Second World War”, Historia, 60, No. 2, 2015 pp. 132 - 159.

Kufakurinani, “A crisis of expectation?” Narratives on the impact of Migration on Gender and Family in Zimbabwe, 2000-2011”, Zambezi: Journal of Humanities, XXXX (i/ii) (2015), pp. 39 - 62.

2014

Kufakurinani, Dominic Pasura and JoAnn McGregor, “Transnational Parenting and the Emergence of ‘Diaspora Orphans’ in Zimbabwe”, African Diaspora, 7 (2014), 114–138.

2012

Kufakurinani and E. Musiiwa, “The Unsung Heroine: Muriel Ena Rosin’s Urban Political Experiences in Rhodesia, 1945- 1980”, Heritage of Zimbabwe No. 30, (2012) 36 - 48.

Edited books and special issues

2021

With E. Makombe, N. Chimhete nd P. Nyambara (ed), Zimbos Never Die: Negotiating Survival in a Challenged Economy, under review, Brill Publishers.

Ingrid Kvangraven, Maria Styve, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Ray Bush, (eds) Samir Amin and Beyond: Radical Political Economy, Dependence and Delinking today, Special Issue, Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) no. 167, 2021.

Frankema, E., Hillbom, E., Kufakurinani, U. and Meier zu Selhausen, F. eds. The History of African Development. An Online Textbook for a New Generation of African Students and Teachers. African Economic History Network (Ongoing).

2020

Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Godfrey Hove, Nyasha Bushu (eds), African Economic Review special issue on Selected Themes on the Socio-Economic History of Zimbabwe, 2020.

Kufakurinani, P. Mateveke, T. Chidora, S. Mandizvidza (eds.), Zambezia: Journal of Humanities (Special Issue on Gendered Perspectives in Zimbabwe) 2020.

2019

U. Kufakurinani, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Frutuoso Santanta, Maria Dyveke Styve (eds.) Dialogues on Development: Volume 1: Dependency, Harare: UZ Publishers, 2019.

2018

Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, B. Chinouriri and M. Nyakudya (eds), Victors, Victims and Villains: Women and Music in Zimbabwe – Past and present, UZ Publications, 2018.