肆客足球

Teaching

• History 114: A Brief History of the last Five Million Years
• History 318: Decolonisation and Globalisation in Africa
• Honours: African Identities
• Honours: David Beach and the precolonial history of Southern Africa
• History Society co-ordinator
• Open Day co-ordinator?

Research interests

Thembani Dube works on pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Southern African History (Zimbabwe in particular) with special interest in social history, identity and belonging. Her current work focuses on migrant identities and belonging amongst marginal communities. She is currently working on, Kalanga: Identity, language and change in Zimbabwe, 1800-2022, a monograph that explores the (un)making of the Kalanga and how this identity evolved over time mediated by different institutions such as chieftainship, religion and language in colonial and post-colonial states.

Supervision interests

Southern African social history, particularly focussing on Zimbabwe, migrant communities in South Africa, identities, and ethnicity.

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Key publications

Chimwemwe Tembo, Ethel Emmarantia Phiri, Thembani Dube, Stephen Syampungani, Rhoda Ronette Malgas, Kristine Maciejewski, “A point-in-time inventory of chikanda orchids within a wild harvesting wetland area in Mwinilunga, Zambia: implications for conservation", Biodiversity and Conversation, (2023) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02768-8. 

Dube, T, “We will meet at the Bridge": Alexander Bridge and stories of a Zimbabwean migrant family in Johannesburg, South Africa", in S. Ndlovu-Gatsheni & E Moyo, (eds) Planetary Human Entanglements and Politics of Living Together: Identities, Borders, Migrations and Citizenship (Oxfordshire, Routledge, December 2022). 

Dube, T, “Gukurahundi remembered: The role of the police during the Gukurahundi genocide in Bulilimamangwe district, 1982-1988" Journal of Asian and African Studies, 56, 8 (2021), 1848-1860, DOI: 10.1177/0021909621992789. (Impact factor 0.684). 

Dube, T, “Language, Resistance and Multilingualism in postcolonial Zimbabwe: The Kalanga and their Struggle for Recognition", Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 6 (2020), 1183-1201, DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2020.1834238.  (Impact factor 0.676). 

Dande, I, Doro, E, Dube, T & Musemwa, M, “Remembering Mugabe", South African Historical Journal, 72, 2 (2020), 321-344, DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2020.1769962. (Impact factor 0.302). 

Dube, T, (Book review) “Land Migration and Belonging: A History of the Basotho in Southern Rhodesia c. 1890- 1960s", South African Historical Journal, 2020, 2-5. DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2020.1774638. (Impact factor0.302). 

Dube, T, “HIV/AIDS, Women's migration from Plumtree to Johannesburg, and changing perceptions about disease and the diseased, 1995-2006", Southern Journal for Contemporary History 45, 1 (2020), 96-116 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/ SJCH45.v2.5 ISSN 0258-2422. 

Dube, T, “The Kalanga in Historical Perspective", in The Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of African History (Oxford, Oxford 肆客足球 Press, 2020). DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.290. 

Dube, T, “Kalanga culture and the nature of resistance against the Native Land Husbandry Act of 1951 in colonial Zimbabwe", New Contree, 81, (December 2018), 160-180. 

Dube, T, “Politics of belonging: Ethnicity and identity of the Kalanga people of Bulilimamangwe District in colonial Zimbabwe", in Handbook of Research on Social, Cultural, and Educational Considerations of Indigenous Knowledge in Developing Countries (IGI Global Publishers 2016).