Start: March 17, 2025 4 p.m.
End: March 17, 2025 5 p.m.
Location: Student Center: Yuhas Room (102)
Contact Details
Rinker Center
765-285-5422
Join the Department of History, the African American Studies Program, and the Rinker Center for Global Affairs in welcoming Dr. Emmanuel Sithole for his talk on the Indigenous Ndau Resistance to Robert Mugabe's Shona Hegemony in Zimbabwe. In his talk, Dr. Sithole will discuss the imposition of Shona as Zimbabwe's dominant political, linguistic, and cultural identity of marginalized minority groups - leading to assimilation, endangerment, or extinction - while exploring the state's campaigns to enforce hegemony and the risks faced by those resisting, including surveillance, arrests, and political retaliation.
Dr. Sithole publishes on history of language and cultural marginalization. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Rhodes University in South Africa and is currently studying African History at the University of Kansas.