Bio

Anusa Daimon is a postdoctoral fellow with the International Studies Group (ISG) at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. His research interests include migration, diaspora, identity, citizenship, minorities, labour, borders, belonging, land, culture, state and politics in Africa. He has published on the afore-mentioned themes in numerous referred journals and is currently working on a book monograph on Malawians in Southern Africa. Anusa has also worked closely with the Council for Development and Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Harry Guggenheim Foundation, and is also a member of the African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE). He was a recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies – African Humanities Program (AHP) Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2017/18.

Publications

‘Totemless Aliens’: The Histrical Antecedents of the Anti-Malawian Discourse in Zimbabwe, Journal of Southern African Studies, 44, 6, 2018.

‘Ringleaders and Troublemakers’: Malawian (Nyasa) Migrants and Transnational Labour Movements in Southern Africa, c.1910 to 1960, Labour History, 58, 5, 2017.

‘Yao migrant communities, identity construction and social mobilisation against HIV and AIDS through circumcision schools in Zimbabwe’, in Marian Burchardt, Amy Patterson and Louise Mubanda Rasmussen, (eds), The Politics and Anti-Politics of Social Movements: Religion and AIDS in Africa, London: Routledge, 2016.

Commuter Migration Across Artificial Frontiers: The Case of Partitioned Communities Along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique Border, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 31, 4, 2016.

‘ZANU (PF)'s Manipulation of the ‘Alien’ Vote in Zimbabwean Elections: 1980–2013’, South African Historical Journal, 68, 1, 2016

‘Colonial Legacy and Post-Independent Student Activism at the University of Zimbabwe: 1980 – 2003’, in Seke Katsamudanga and Joseph Mujere (eds.), University of Zimbabwe at Sixty, Harare: UZP, 2015

‘Politics of ‘Othering’ and the Struggle for Citizenship in Independent Zimbabwe: Voices from Malawian Descendants’, in Africa Insight, 44, 1, 2014

‘Yao Migrant Communities, Identity Construction and Social Mobilisation against HIV/AIDS through Circumcision Schools in Zimbabwe’, Canadian Journal of African Studies, 47, 2, 2013

‘The Mazwikadei Dam as an Axis of Life’; The Hydropolitics of Dam Construction, Human Survival and Economic Development in Post-Independent Zimbabwe’, in Carolina Bilibio, Oliver Hensel, Jeferson Selbach (eds.), Sustainable Water Management in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics Volume 4, Jaguarao: Unikassel-PGCUlt-UFMA, 2012.

‘The most beautiful game or the most gender violent sport’? Exploring the interface between soccer, gender and violence in Zimbabwe, in Jimoh Shehu (ed.), Gender, Sport and Development in Africa: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Patterns of Representations and Marginalization, Codesria, Dakar, 2010

‘Migrant Chewa identities and their construction through Gule Wamkulu dances in Zimbabwe’, in Bahru Zwede (ed.), Society, State and Identity in African History, Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa, 2008

‘Education in Jando Schools: An analysis of social and moral education during rites of passage in Zimbabwe’, in Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research, Special Issue on Historical, Religious and Moral Perspectives, 19, 2, 2007

Awards/fellowships/prizes

• African Humanities Program (AHP) postdoctoral fellowship – 2017/18

• The Harry Guggenheim Foundation Young African Scholars Award(s) 2011 & 2015

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