Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe

A detailed ethnographic and historical study of the implications of fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe from the perspective of those involved in land occupations around Lake Mutirikwi, from the colonial period to the present day.



Finalist for the African Studies Association 2016 Melville J. Herskovits Award

The Mutirikwi river was dammed in the early 1960s to make Zimbabwe's second largest lake. This was a key moment in the Europeanisation of Mutirikwi's landscapes, which had begun with colo...