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Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

1967-·10,756 citations

Zimbabwean historian and decolonial theorist, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Leading scholar in decolonial studies and African epistemologies.

Works

277 works
TitleYearLanguageCitations▼
Coloniality of power in postcolonial Africa2013english1,244
Decoloniality as the future of Africa2015—952
Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity2022english701
… empire, politics of knowledge and African intellectual productions: Reflections on struggles for epistemic freedom and resurgence of decolonisation in the twenty-first …2021—403
Decolonization , development and knowledge in Africa: Turning over a new leaf2020english373
The entrapment of Africa within the global colonial matrices of power: Eurocentrism, coloniality , and deimperialization in the twenty-first century2013—312
Making sense of Mugabeism in local and global politics:'So Blair, keep your England and let me keep my Zimbabwe '2009—259
The emergence and trajectories of struggles for an'African university': The case of unfinished business of African epistemic decolonisation2017—247
Coloniality of power in development studies and the impact of global imperial designs on Africa2012english240
Making sense of cultural nationalism and the politics of commemoration under the Third Chimurenga in Zimbabwe2009—233
Global coloniality and the challenges of creating African futures2014—220
Decoloniality in Africa: A continuing search for a new world order2015—201
Rethinking Chimurenga and Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe : A critique of partisan national history2012—198
Nation building in Zimbabwe and the challenges of Ndebele particularism2008—172
Genealogies of coloniality and implications for Africa's development2015—167
Dynamics of the Zimbabwe Crisis in the 21st Century2003—159
Decolonizing the university, knowledge systems and disciplines in Africa2016english128
Mapping cultural and colonial encounters, 1880s-1930s2009english128
The decolonial Mandela: Peace, justice and the politics of life2016english123
Power, knowledge and being: Decolonial combative discourse as a survival kit for Pan-Africanists in the 21st century2013—122
Internationalisation of higher education for pluriversity: A decolonial reflection2021—121
Perhaps decoloniality is the answer? Critical reflections on development from a decolonial epistemic perspective2013—120
Geopolitics of power and knowledge in the COVID-19 pandemic: Decolonial reflections on a global crisis2020—118
Discourses of decolonization /decoloniality2019—117
Provisional notes on decolonizing research methodology and undoing its dirty history2019—113
The Ndebele nation: Reflections on hegemony, memory and historiography2009english112
Mugabeism?: History, politics, and power in Zimbabwe2015english111
Beyond the equator there are no sins: Coloniality and violence in Africa2012—107
Fiftieth Anniversary of Decolonisation in Africa: a moment of celebration or critical reflection?2012—100
The post- colonial state and Matabeleland: Regional perceptions of civil-military relations, 1980–20022003—97
The Zimbabwean nation-state project: A historical diagnosis of identity and power-based conflicts in a postcolonial state2011english95
Do 'Africans' exist? Genealogies and paradoxes of African identities and the discourses of nativism and xenophobia2010—89
The World Cup, vuvuzelas, flag-waving patriots and the burden of building South Africa2011—80
Do Zimbabweans Exist2009english77
Pan-Africanism and the international system2013—75
Metaphysical empire, linguicides and cultural imperialism2018—64
For the nation to live, the tribe must die: The politics of Ndebele identity and belonging in Zimbabwe2008—61
Beyond the coloniser's model of the world: Towards reworlding from the Global South2023—57
Introduction: Mugabeism and entanglements of history, politics, and power in the making of Zimbabwe2015english55
The history and political transition of Zimbabwe2020english55
Rhodes must fall2018english53
Elections in Zimbabwe : A recipe for tension or a remedy for reconciliation2012—52
Why are South African Universities sites of struggle today?2016english50
Black republican tradition, nativism and populist politics in South Africa2008—45
Weak states and the growth of the private security sector in Africa: Whither the African state2007—45
Reconstructing the implications of liberation struggle history on SADC mediation in Zimbabwe2011—44
Decolonising borders, decriminalising migration and rethinking citizenship2017—44
Introduction: The coloniality of knowledge: between troubled histories and uncertain futures2016english44
Who ruled by the spear? Rethinking the form of governance in the Ndebele state2008—43
Tracking the historical roots of post-apartheid citizenship problems: the Native Club, restless natives, panicking settlers and the politics of nativism in South …2007—43