Dr Tinashe Nyamunda
- Lecturer in Contemporary Economic History (Political & International Studies)
- Affiliate Professor (School of Social & Political Sciences)
telephone:
07507883192
email:
Tinashe.Nyamunda@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9624-762XBiography
My research specialisation is in African Economic History. In particular, I have published on the following areas:
- The History of the political economy of Money and Finance in Southern Africa.
- The transactional aspects of parrallel markets and artisanal mining in Africa.
- Migration and remittances.
- African Economic Thought and it informs policy in state and economy-making.
My book manuscript, Money in Colonial Zimbabwe:Money, Sanctions and War Economy (under contract with Routledge) explores Zimbabwe's transition from a British colony to an independent state (1965 - 1980) from a financial and economic perspective. It demonstrates the centrality of financial and economic arrangements to the survival of the late colonial Unilateral of Declaration (UDI) Rhodesian state as it defended itself from African liberation forces pursuing majority rule. It also reveals the extent to which monetary and economic considerations informed independence negotiations on the eve of political independence. The book also considers Rhodesia's interactions with Britain and the Commonwealth, looking at the ways in which other global economic developments such as the commodity boom of the 1960's and the recession of the 1970's informed Rhodesian economic performance under the sanctions imposed on it for rebelling against Britian by maintaing white rule and refusing to accept the principle of the inevitability of majority rule in the 1960's and 1970's.
With Richard Saunders, I co-edited Facets of Power: Politics, profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds (Weaver Press and Wits University Press, 2016). The collection was amongst the first comprehensive accounts of the emergence, meaning and profound effect of the discovery and illicit trade of diamonds in eastern Zimbabwe's Chaidzwa communal area. It drew on various scholars' research and fieldwork on various aspects of Chiadzwa's diamonds. The major impact the book had was to influence the Kimberley Process Certaification Scheme (KPCS)'s definition of conflict diamonds. Hitherto, it defined conflict diamonds as those sourced from wartone areas where military conflict was ongoing. The impact of this definition was that such blood diamonds would not recieve a KP certificate to be traded on the international markets like diamonds from conflict-free countries. Facets of Power shed light on how, even in the absence of armed conflict in Zimbabwe, diamonds were being looted by an illegitimate predatory state for the personal aggrandisement of a few well connected political elites at the expense of displaced communities, the environment and the Zimbabwean economy which was prejudiced of an income either from tax reciepts. The book made a major contribution to the discourse of predatory states in the exploitation of valuable mineral resources. Because of our contribution, the definition of conflict diamonds was extended to include predatory states, even in the access of military conflict, insuring that they would not recieve KP certificate if they did not meet the standard of taccountability, management and ransparency set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
To facilitate my research, I have benefited from a number of grants. An example includes:
- The American Council for Learned Scholars (ACLS)'s African Humanities Program (AHP) grant.
- I am a team member and co-investigator in the National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences grant.
- Until recently, I was co-investigator of an Economic and Social Council (ESRC) grant examining the "The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Transnational Young People of African Migrant Backgound".
I am currently working on a number of projects that include, for example:
- Currency, Economy and State-Making in the South African Colonies between the 1650's and Union in 1910.
- International Finance and government bonds.
- The Cost of Migration: Agency Transactions, Certificate of Sponsorships and Care workers from Zimbabwe to the United Kingdom.
I have held a number of fellowships that have facilitated a number of international networks and connections. These include, among others:
- Cadbury Fellowship (Birmingham University, UK).
- Smut Visiting Fellowship (University of Cambridge, UK).
- British Academy Visiting Fellowship (University of Liverpool, UK).
- Visiting Research Professor (Osaka University, Japan).
- Visiting Research Professor Residency (University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA], USA)
Before joining the University of Glasgow, I held various positions in Zimbabwe and South Africa. In Zimbabwe, I held positions at the University of Zimbabwe and Africa University. In South Africa, I held positions at the University of the Free State, Slo Plaatje University, North West University and the University of Pretoria.
Research interests
Research groups
Publications
Prior publications
Article
Tinashe Nyamunda (2023) When South Africa Tried to Make Zimbabwe Its Fifth Province: Settler Colonial Interests and Legacies of the 1922 Rhodesian Referendum Crossref. (doi: 10.1080/02582473.2024.2432629)
Tinashe Nyamunda, Admire Mseba (2023) Money in South-Central Africa, 1890–1931: Africans, Imperial Sterling, and Colonial Economy-Building Crossref. (doi: 10.1017/asr.2023.16)
Daimon, Anusa, Nyamunda, Tinashe (2023) Human and Commodity Smuggling across the Zimbabwe--South Africa Border, 2000--2009 Tinashe Nyamunda.
Krozewski, Gerold, Nyamunda, Tinashe (2023) Money for Africa and Money in Africa: Colonial Currencies and the Making of Economies and States, 1860s--1960s Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe, Mseba, Admire (2023) Money in South-Central Africa, 1890--1931: Africans, Imperial Sterling, and Colonial Economy-Building Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2023) The Dollar Peg, Currency and the Making of Zimbabwe’s Post-Colonial Economy Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2022) Gold, currency and stamps: The rejected plans for a state and public bank in early colonial Zimbabwe (1896--1907) Tinashe Nyamunda.
Ncube, Sibanengi, Nyamunda, Tinashe (2022) Southern Rhodesia and Britain’s Discriminatory Sterling Area: The Dollar Crisis and Post-War Colonial Tobacco Trade, 1947--1960 Tinashe Nyamunda.
Harris, Karen, Nyamunda, Tinashe (2022) The Pandemic History Classroom: grouping or groping the digital divide Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2021) Blazing the trail in gender history: the amazing profile and work of dr Annie Devenish Tinashe Nyamunda.
Fourie, Johan, Ballim, Faeeza, Groenewald, Gerald, Upton, Jennifer, Nyamunda, Tinashe, Parle, Julie (2021) Making South African historians count Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2021) Must historians count to count? Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2021) ‘Open for business’ but bankrupt: Currencies, the ‘new dispensation’and the Zimbabwean economy Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe, Sibanda, Geraldine (2020) The making of Zimbabwe’s currency and economic crisis: International financial architecture, nationalism, and economic policies 1980--2000 Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2019) In Defence of White Rule in Southern Africa: Portuguese--Rhodesian Economic Relations to 1974 Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2017) British sterling imperialism, settler colonialism and the political economy of money and finance in Southern Rhodesia, 1945 to 1962 Tinashe Nyamunda.
Maringira, Godfrey, Nyamunda, Tinashe (2017) Duty versus agency in the security state of Zimbabwe: Soldiers’ deployment in Chiadzwa diamond mining Tinashe Nyamunda.
Maringira, Godfrey, Nyamunda, Tinashe (2016) The Extractive Industries and Society Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2016) The state and black business development: The Small Enterprises Development Corporation and the politics of indigenisation and economic empowerment in Zimbabwe Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2016) Zimbabwe bond notes and their possible long-term legacy Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2016) ‘Free for All’: Artisanal Diamond Mining and Economic Redistribution on the Edges of the State, 2006--2008 Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2016) ‘More a Cause than a Country’: Historiography, UDI and the Crisis of Decolonisation in Rhodesia Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2014) Cross-border couriers as symbols of regional grievance?: The Malayitsha remittance system in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2014) Insights into independent Zimbabwe: Some historiographical reflections Tinashe Nyamunda.
Hove, Mediel, Nyamunda, Tinashe, Mukwambo, Patience (2014) Violent state operations at Chiadzwa (Zimbabwe) diamond fields 2006-2009 Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe, Mukwambo, Patience, Nyandoro, Mark (2012) Navigating the hills and voluntary confinement: Magweja and the socio-economic and political negotiation for space in the diamond mining landscape of Chiadzwa in Zimbabwe, 2006-2009. Tinashe Nyamunda.
Andreadis, Petros et al. (2012) The (Un) healthy Body in Southern Africa: multi-disciplinary approaches to corporeal dimensions of health Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe, Mukwambo, Patience (2012) The state and the bloody diamond rush in Chiadzwa: Unpacking the contesting interests in the development of illicit mining and trading, c. 2006--2009 Tinashe Nyamunda.
Bamu, Wellington, Nyamunda, Tinashe (2001) Gold Panning and Survival in Insiza District Tinashe Nyamunda.
Saunders, Richard, Nyamunda, Tinashe () 2016. Facets of Power: Politics, Profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwe’s Blood Diamonds. Harare and Johannesburg: Weaver Press, Wits University Press, 215 pp. Tinashe Nyamunda.
Book Section
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2023) Emergism as Ideology: Zimbabwe’s Ill-Fated Policies for an ‘Emerging’Upper-Middle-Income Economy Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2020) Money, banking and Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence Tinashe Nyamunda.
Other
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2019) Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2019) Finance in Colonial Zimbabwe: Money, Sanctions and War Economy Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2019) Land and politics in Southern Africa, 2015--2017: a historiography of re-ordered landscapes and livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s crisis economy: Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics, by Blair Rutherford, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2017, 277 pp., $35 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-253-02407-7 Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2019) Ordered Estates: Welfare, Power and Maternalism on Zimbabwe's (Once White) Highveld Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2019) Pitfalls of the developmental state: the fate of the Sudanese economic model Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2019) Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2019) Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development and State Formation Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2019) White Narratives: The Depiction of Post-2000 Land Invasions in Zimbabwe Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2019) Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2016) Book Review: Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization Tinashe Nyamunda.
Saunders, Richard, Nyamunda, Tinashe (2016) Facets of Power: Politics, Profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwes Blood Diamonds Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2014) Book Review: Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2014) Did Zimbabweans Take their Land Back? Tinashe Nyamunda.
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2013) Book Review: The Collapse of Rhodesia: Population Demographics and the Politics of Race Tinashe Nyamunda.
Thesis
Nyamunda, Tinashe (2015) Financing rebellion: the Rhodesian state, financial policy and exchange control, 1962-1979 Tinashe Nyamunda.
Grants
I welcome any proposals from postgraduate students up to PhD level of anyone interested in working in my broad areas of interest.
I have received a number of grants, for example:
- British Academy Fellowship (University of Liverpool - 2023): £29000.
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as co - Investigator (2023): £882000.
- National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHHS) grant (as co - I and team member 2023-2024: R982000.
- The American Council for Learned Scholars (ACLS)'s African Humanities Program (AHP) grant (2017 - 2018): US$18000.
- Smut Fellowship (University of Cambiridge - 2018): £19000.
- National Research Foudantion (NRF) of South Africa's Freestanding, Innovation and Scarse Skills (FISS) Postdoctoral Fellowship: R300000.
- Cadbury Fellowship (University of Birmingham 2015): £3500.
Supervision
Past PhD Supervision
1. Victor Muchineripi Gwande, "Organised Secondary Industry and the State in Zimbabwe, 1939 - 1979", PhD Thesis, University of the Free State, 2018.
2. Tawanda Valentine Chambwe, "A History of African Entreprenuership in Southern Rhodesia", University of the Free State, 2021.
3.Honest Elias Koke, "A History of Southern Rhodesia's Fiscal System: the Political Economy of Revenue Collection and Expenditure, 1890 - 1953", University of the Free State, 2021.
4. Geraldine Jacquline Sibanda, "Finance, Economic Planning and Power in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2013", PhD Thesis, 2021.
5. Osariemen Osunde Uwagboe, "A History of the Nigerian Federal Government's National Tourism Governance System, 1962 - 2006", PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2024.
Teaching
I am currenctly convening:
- Business in the Global economy (SPS 5004).
- Development and African Economies, 1945 - present.
I contribute to the teaching in other ESH modules.
