Panashe Chigumadzi
Dr Panashe Chigumadzi is a Zimbabwean-born historian, writer, and cultural critic. She is the author of the historical memoir These Bones Will Rise Again (2018) and her debut novel Sweet Medicine (2015). A contributing editor at The Johannesburg Review of Books, her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Boston Review, Africa is a Country, Die Zeit and Chimurenga.
Chigumadzi holds a PhD in African and African American Studies from Harvard University. Her research focuses on Ubuntu’s written and lived traditions among isiXhosa speakers during the Nine Wars of Dispossession (1779–1878). Chigumadzi’s work centres African intellectual traditions and brings historical depth to contemporary debates on decolonisation, Black sovereignty, and the politics of memory