2024
25 November, Lotti Nkomo (University of the Free State), The politics of Zimbabwe’s 2000 constitution referendum.
28 October, Clement Masakure (University of the Free State), Schistosomiasis and Public Health in colonial Zimbabwe, ca. 1910- 1979.
30 September, Lazlo Passemiers (University of the Free State), Manelisi Ndibongo’s Exploits in Exile: The Transient Life of a Liberation Fighter.
26 August, George Bishi (University of the Free State), Anti-fascist ideologies in Zimbabwe since the 1930s.
27 May, Unaludo Sechele (University of the Free State), A United or Broken Family?: Effects of Labour Migration on the Family Unit in Post-colonial Botswana.
29 April, Saima Ashipala (University of the Free State), Diamonds and the end of Empire: the case of the Seitz Diamonds.
25 March, Victor Gwande (University of the Free State), ‘Politics of rational disputation’: The political life of Douglas Mwonzora in Zimbabwe’s democratisation struggle, c. 1988 to the present.
26 February, Sibanengi Ncube (University of the Free State), The Political Economy of Farmland Taxation in colonial and Post Colonial Zimbabwe, 1914-1932 and 1980-c.2018.
2023
27 November, Chama Kaluba (University of the Free State), Maize Production and Consumption in Colonial Zambia, 1890-1964.
30 October, Jennifer Chansa (University of the Free State), To Privatize or Nationalize the Mines?: The consequences of mining developments on environmental regulation in Zambia (2011 to 2022).
26 September, Alessandro de Cola (University of the Free State), Who designed colonial money? A study on Eritrea.
28 August, Priscillah Machinga (University of the Free State), Pregnancy and Childbirth Related Complications, Maternal and Perinatal Mortality in Zimbabwe, 1980s - 2000s: A Literature Review Paper.
26 June, Tinashe Nyamunda (University of Pretoria), Emergism as Ideology: Zimbabwe’s Ill-fated Policies for Upper Middle- Income ‘Emerging’ Economy by 2030.
24 April, Michael Glover (University of the Free State), ‘That other me, down and dreaming’: an historical animal-perspective critique of decoloniality theory and intellectual decolonisation.
27 March, Geraldine Sibanda (University of the Free State), The Rise and Fall of the Zimbabwe Dollar: Currency Engineering, Commodification of Money and Regime Survival.
27 February, Ruhan Fourie (University of the Free State), The Red Peril, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the Mainstreaming of Right-Wing politics in Twentieth Century South Africa.
2022
28 November, Innocent Dande (University of the Free State), ‘The Mecca of braai culture’: Food, identity and culture at Harare’s KwaMereki informal foodscape, 1990-2020.
31 October, Jan-Bart Gewald (Leiden University), Diamond Double Dealing and Dubious Investor Mining in a Township: The trials and tribulations of Regiperth who invested in a diamond mining company in Galeshewe, Kimberley, 1990-2020.
2019
27 May, Rebecca Swartz (University of the Free State), 'Forgotten and Neglected': race and education in the Cape, Natal and beyond, 1830s - 1860s.
29 April, Mucha Musemwa (University of the Witwatersrand), From Liberation Struggle to Independence: A History of Zimbabwe’s Environmental Pathway of Development, 1980-2017.
25 March, Charles van Onselen (University of Pretoria)
18 March, Johan Fourie (University of Stellenbosch), Making South African historians count.
25 February, Duncan Money (University of the Free State), Compounding errors? Workers' housing across southern Africa.
2018
12 November, Irina Filatova (University of Moscow), The Gift of the Givers: the Soviet Union and the End of Apartheid.
29 October, Alfred Tembo (University of Zambia), Strangers in our midst: the dilemma of Polish refuguees in Zambia during the Second World War.
8 October, Tony Hopkins (University of Cambridge), American Empire: A Short Account of a Lengthy History.
17 September, Matteo Grilli (University of the Free State), Pan-Africanism and Nationalism in Lesotho: The Basutoland Congress Party and its international connections at the time of the struggle for independence (1952-1966).
20 August, Rory Pilossof (University of the Free State), Return of the Founder? L Ron Hubbard and the Growth of Scientology in Southern Rhodesia.
3 September, Kundai Manamere (University of the Free State), The Native as a Reservoir of Malaria: Ethics, Human Subject Research and Anti-malaria Campaigns in Colonial Zimbabwe, mid 1940s to 1979.
9 April, Hlengiwe Dlamini (University of the Free State), The African Union Position on Coup d'Etats: An Analysis of the Zimbabwean November 2017 Coup d'Etat.
19 March, Karen Harris (University of Pretoria), BEE-ing Chinese in South Africa: Black not White?
2017
27 November, Duncan Money (University of the Free State), A Second Arizona: The Copperbelt as an American Colony, 1926-39.
13 November, Admire Mseba (University of the Free State), The Environment, Science and Inter-Territorial Relations: the Mobile Pestilence Challenge in Southern Africa, c.1928 -1975.
30 October, Chris Holdridge (University of the Free State), Convicts and Paupers: Undesirable White Immigration to the Cape Colony before the Mineral Revolution.
16 October, Dan Spence (University of the Free State), Windies of Change? The Collapse of the West Indies Federation and British Re-Colonisation in the Caribbean.
2 October, David Patrick (University of the Free State), Unworthy Victims: Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Western Press.
11 September, Lindie Koorts (University of the Free State), Palatable and unpalatable leaders: Apartheid and post-apartheid Afrikaner biography.
28 August, Matteo Grilli (University of the Free State), Nkrumah’s Ghana, Lesotho and the struggle against apartheid.
14 August, Rory Pilossof (University of the Free State), Return of the Founder? L. Ron Hubbard and the Growth of Scientology in Southern Rhodesia.
5 June. Lazlo Passemiers (University of the Free State), White fright, flight and fight: the Congo crisis and white solidarities in southern Africa.
15 May, Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (University of the Free State), The case of Arrie Paulus: Race, class and the currency of rumour in late and post-apartheid South Africa.
24 April, Ana Stevenson (University of the Free State), Imagining Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa in Gloria Steinem’s Ms. Magazine.
10 April, Tinashe Nyamunda (University of the Free State), When monetary policy fails: hyperinflation and liquidity crunch in Zimbabwe.
27 March, Jack Hogan (University of the Free State), Of Deviants and District Commissioners: The difficult adolescence of a settler colony.
15 March, Hlengiwe Dlamini (University of the Free State), Photographs as Complementary Sources of the History of Swaziland: Visual Images of the Makers of Swaziland’s Pre-Independence Constitution.
13 February, Clement Masakure (University of the Free State), The stasis between integration and segregation at Salisbury Hospital, Southern Rhodesia, 1890s-1950.
2016
14 November, Brian Raftopoulos (University of the Western Cape), Belonging in the City: Persistent contestations in Zimbabwe.
10 October, Bizeck Phiri (University of Zambia), The University of Zambia—The First Fifty Years, 1966-2016: Past, Present and Future.
12 September, Alois Mlambo (University of Pretoria), The making of a nation of vendors: Zimbabwe's economic decline in historical perspective, 1980 to 2015.
15 August, Sarah Frank (University of the Free State), Hostages of Empire: Colonial prisoners of war and Vichy France.
16 May, Neil Roos (University of the Free State), Histories of the affective: how do we understand the emotional states of apartheid society?
18 April, Bongani Gumbo (University of Botswana), Combining Multiple Livelihood Strategies in Cross-border Trade at Kasane, Botswana, 1980-2000.
14 March, Gerald Mazarire (Midlands State University), Zimbabwean Historiography: Past and Present.
15 February, Fiona Ross (University of Cape Town), Raw Life and Respectability: Poverty and everyday life in a post-apartheid community.
2015
9 November, Tony Hopkins (Cambridge University), The Real American Empire.
19 October, Mohamed Adhikari (University of Cape Town),‘It is a mercy to the red devils to exterminate them’: Civilian-driven settler genocides of hunter-gatherer peoples in global perspective.
14 September, André Wessels (University of Cape Town), South Africa’s 'Border War', 1966-1989: The struggle for 'the truth' continues.
11 August, Mucha Musemwa (University of the Witwatersrand), Climate and Societal Interaction in Southwestern Matebeleland, Colonial Zimbabwe: The Drought of 1964-66 and its Antecedents.
31 August, Jonathan Jansen (University of the Free State), ‘When you come to the end of a perfect day’: Reporting on campus intimacies in the aftermath of an atrocity.
18 May, Paul Maylam (Rhodes University), Imperialism, segregation, apartheid and tertiary education: a case-study of Rhodes University and its history.
16 May, Neil Roos (University of the Free State), Histories of the affective: how do we understand the emotional states of apartheid society?
18 April, Bongani Gumbo (University of Botswana), Combining Multiple Livelihood Strategies in Cross-border Trade at Kasane, Botswana, 1980-2000.
7 April, John and Jean Comaroff (Harvard University), The Return of Khulekani Khumalo, Zombie Captive: Identity, Law, and Personhood in South Africa.
16 March, Allen en Barbara Isaacman (University of Minnesota), Samora Machel and the Mozambican Revolution 1964-1986.
14 March, Gerald Mazarire (Midlands State University), Zimbabwean Historiography: Past and Present.
16 February, Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch University), Dangerous Knowledge: the discipline of history and raising the dead.
15 February, Fiona Ross (University of Cape Town), Raw Life and Respectability: Poverty and everyday life in a post-apartheid community.
2014
10 November, Giacomo Macola (University of Kent), The Gun in Central Africa: A Social History to the Early 20th Century.
13 October, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of South Africa), The Idea of South Africa. From Bantucisation to Rainbowism.
15 September, David Moore (University of Johannesburg), Generations Opening Democratic Space: Comparisons and Contrasts across Zimbabwe’s Political History.
11 August, Charles van Onselen (University of Pretoria), The Political Economy of the South African Republic, 1881-1895.