During his visit to the NWU’s campus in Vanderbijlpark, Prof Gatsheni will deliver a guest lecture to current students within the history field as well as a public lecture.
During the lecture he will talk to two of his published works, namely: Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity and Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa. The public lecture will be open to not only the university’s academic fraternity, but also interested members of the community.
The events will take place on 6 and 7 May respectively.
More about the expert
Prof Gatsheni is the head of the Archie Mafeje Research Institute (AMRI) and is a professor in the Department of Development Studies at UNISA. The work done at AMRI is informed by decolonial thought and decolonial theories and Prof Gatsheni makes use of decolonial thought to reflect on development as an idea, discourse and practice.
As an academic scholar, Prof Gatsheni holds several qualifications, including a BAHons in history, a MA in African history and a DPhil in historical studies. He also obtained a graduate diploma in tertiary teaching and a certificate in research supervision.
He has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in national and international journals, including the likes of African Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Round Table: International Journal of Commonwealth Studies and Development Southern Africa.
With more than 15 years of teaching as a university expert, Prof Gatsheni has contributed over 25 chapters in academic books, presented over 40 research papers at international conferences in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Zimbabwe, Canada and Finland.
He successfully authored three books: The Ndebele Nation: Reflections on Hegemony, Memory and Historiography, Do ‘Zimbabweans’ Exist? Trajectories of Nationalism, National Identity Formation and Crisis in a Postcolonial State and, Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa: Myths of Decolonization. He also co-edited the book: Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism? Rethinking Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe.
Prof Gatsheni have taught history at the University of Zimbabwe, the Midlands State University, Monash International University and the Open University in the United Kingdom. He became a senior researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs in 2010.
