Biography:
I was born and grew up in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe in the Southern African region. I studied Economic History at the University of Zimbabwe and hold an Honors and a Masters Degree in African Economic History. Currently, I am a third Year PhD student at the University of Minnesota majoring in African History.

Research Focus:
In the area of research, I am drawn to the stories of the marginalized groups of society and for my Masters thesis I explored the African participation in the informal sector in the urban capital city of Zimbabwe arguing that it was a significant part of African socio-economic existence and also their political struggles. Currently, I am working on foreign migrant women form Mozambique and Malawi who entered Zimbabwe's capital city between 1945 and 1979. By adopting the colonial term "native alien women" I hope to capture their status in the colonial mind and their experiences in a foreign city that eventually became their home. I am also interested in engendering not only migration accounts but also the meaning of labor, which in the colonial documents and subsequent African history literature marginalized women. Identity politics and contestation are at the center of my study.

I visited Zimbabwe over the summer break were I carried out pre-dissertation research. I then traveled to Nyautare in Nyanga District of the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe the where my parents were born. I spent a full month, the longest I have been there so far. I plan to return to Zimbabwe for my final research at the end of next spring.