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Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

1968-·13,352 citations

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is a Zimbabwean historian and decolonial theorist who currently serves as a Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Pluralistic Societies at the University of Calgary. He is a leading figure in the 'decolonial turn' and African epistemologies, having previously held the Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth and senior leadership roles at the University of South Africa (UNISA).

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299 works
TitleYearLanguageCitations▼
Epistemic freedom in Africa : Deprovincialization and decolonization2018en1,793
Coloniality of power in postcolonial Africa2013en1,244
Decoloniality as the future of Africa2015en952
Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity2022en701
The dynamics of epistemological decolonisation in the 21st century: Towards epistemic freedom2018en466
… empire, politics of knowledge and African intellectual productions: Reflections on struggles for epistemic freedom and resurgence of decolonisation in the twenty-first …2021en403
Decolonization , development and knowledge in Africa: Turning over a new leaf2020en373
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 '2009en259
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 Africa2012en240
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
Africa for Africans or Africa for “natives” only?“New nationalism” and nativism in Zimbabwe and South Africa2009—208
Decoloniality in Africa: A continuing search for a new world order2015—201
Rethinking Chimurenga and Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe : A critique of partisan national history2012en198
Nation building in Zimbabwe and the challenges of Ndebele particularism2008en172
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 Africa2016en128
Mapping cultural and colonial encounters, 1880s-1930s2009en128
The decolonial Mandela: Peace, justice and the politics of life2016en123
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 crisis2020en118
Discourses of decolonization /decoloniality2019—117
Provisional notes on decolonizing research methodology and undoing its dirty history2019en113
The Ndebele nation: Reflections on hegemony, memory and historiography2009en112
Mugabeism?: History, politics, and power in Zimbabwe2015en111
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 state2011en95
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 Exist2009en77
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
The history and political transition of Zimbabwe2020en55
Introduction: Mugabeism and entanglements of history, politics, and power in the making of Zimbabwe2015en55
Rhodes must fall2018estr.53
Elections in Zimbabwe : A recipe for tension or a remedy for reconciliation2012—52
Why are South African Universities sites of struggle today?2016es50
Weak states and the growth of the private security sector in Africa: Whither the African state2007—45
Black republican tradition, nativism and populist politics in South Africa2008—45
Introduction: The coloniality of knowledge: between troubled histories and uncertain futures2016en44
Reconstructing the implications of liberation struggle history on SADC mediation in Zimbabwe2011—44