George Bishi is a postdoctoral fellow at the ISG. His research interests focus on Rhodesia, settler colonialism, white and British identities, decolonisation, nationalism, anti-fascism, chieftaincies, archives, and marginalisation, among other themes in southern and African history.
Journal articles
Bishi, G. '"A fictitious referendum and a European affair" African Perspectives of the 1922 referendum and the 1923 Responsible Government in Southern Rhodesia’, South African Historical Journal, (forthcoming, 2024).
Bishi, G. and D. Money. “Daisyfield in the Crucible’: Afrikaners, Education and Poor Whites in Southern Rhodesia, 1911–1948’, Settler Colonial Studies, 14. 4 (2023): 1-15.
Bishi, G., E. Takura and J. Mujere, ‘Southern Rhodesia’s adherence to the Geneva Convention and the treatment of Italian and German internees, 1939-1945’, Journal of African Military History, 7 (2023): 99–120.
Bishi, G. ‘Filthiest Gangs of Thugs’: Anti-Fascism and Anti-Nazism Perceptions in Southern Rhodesia, 1930s to 1940s’, South African Historical Journal, 74, 1 (2022): 100–119.
Bishi, G., J. Mujere and Z. Mamvura. ‘Renaming Enkeldoorn: Whiteness, Place, and the Politics of Belonging in Southern Rhodesia’, Journal of Historical Geography, 17 (2022): 55-64.
Bishi, G., L. Muchefa. ‘Zimbabwe’s Economic Decline, Archives Access Regimes, Professionalism, and their Impact on Researcher-Archivist Relations at the National Archives of Zimbabwe’, History in Africa, (2022): 367 – 388.
Bishi, G. ‘Immigration and Settlement of “Undesirable Whites” in Southern Rhodesia, 1940s to 1960s’ in Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa, 1930s-1990s, edited by Duncan Money and Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, (Routledge, 2020).
Bishi, G. ‘The Archive and Chieftainship Claims in Zimbabwe: Some Methodological Reflections’, History in Africa, 46, (2019): 385-401.
Bishi, G. ‘Colonial Cinema in Africa: Origins, Images, Audiences, by Glenn Reynolds,’ African Historical Review, 49, 1 (2017): 118–11.
Bishi, G., and L. Muchefa. ‘Governance for development or loyalty? Reading the Zimbabwean colonial court records, 1935-1980’, Journal of the South African Society of Archivists, 48 (2015), 77-89.
Blogs
Bishi, G. Uncovering ‘undesirable whites’ in the colonial archive, 5 May 2020.
Achievements
Summer Program in Social Science, University of Princeton, USA, 2024
Academic Writing and Publishing Workshop for Young Scholars and Early Career Researchers grant, Cordesira, 2022
African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2021
Rhodes University African Studies Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021
PhD Scholarship, International Studies Group, University of the Free State, 2016-2018
MA Scholarship, International Studies Group, University of the Free State, 2014-2015