Dr. Kennedy Manduna

Dr. Manduna completed his PhD in Political Economy and Public Policy, majoring in resource economics, resource nationalism, and uneven development, in 2022 at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, under the supervision ofProf. Gavin Cawthra, Prof. Patrick Bond, and Prof. Erin McCandless. His PhD thesis is titled “Overpromising and Under-delivering: Zimbabwe’s Extractive Industry Indigenization and Uneven Development.” From 2023 to 2024, he was awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship by the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Germany. As IRGAC’s African-based fellow, the Wits School of Governance hosted him, researching pertinent issues lying at the intersection of the political economy and geopolitics of the following research areas: just energy transition, renewable energy, critical minerals, resource nationalism, resource economics, illegal mining and artisanal and small-scale mining, global neoliberal authoritarianism and uneven development. His account of the intersection is currently under review under a contract with Routledge Press, titled ‘Extractive Industry Indigenisation in Zimbabwe: Complex Crisis, Resource Nationalism, Neo-Extractivism, and Uneven Development.’

Selected Publications 

Manduna, K. (2024, April 12). Authoritarianism, State Violence, And Vigilantism: Security Challenges Posed by Illegal Miners in South Africa. International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Retrieved from https://irgac.org/articles/authoritarianism-state-violence-and-vigilantism-security-challenges-posed-by-illegal-miners-in-south-africa/

Manduna, K. (2023). The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on South African food security: A paradigmatic turn for building-back-better. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 29(1), pp. 45–64. doi: 10.48416/ijsaf.v29i1.499.

Manduna, K. (2023). Are mining-induced displacement and resettlement losses compensable? Evidence and lessons from mining communities in Zimbabwe. The Extractive Industries and Society, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101281

Manduna, K. (2023). Extractive industries indigenisation, displacement and vulnerabilities: The case of Arda Transau, Zimbabwe. The Extractive Industries and Society,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101223

Manduna, K. & Muchadenyika, D. (2022). Indigenization policy in the extractive sector in Zimbabwe. In G. Onyango (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa. New York: Routledge.

Email address: kennymandunaugmailpcom