Dr. Oliver Nyambi

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsAfrican Studies
Keywordscrisis, liberation, counter-culture, Zimbabwe, nation
Honours and awards

2017: African Humanities Programme (American Council of Learned Societies)

2013: Duke Africa Initiative Fellowship

Current contact address

CountrySouth Africa
CityPhuthaditjhaba
InstitutionUniversity of the Free State (UFS)
InstituteDepartment of English

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Susan ArndtProfessur Englische Literaturwissenschaft und Anglophone Literaturen, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2018

Programme(s)

2017Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2020Oliver Nyambi, Tendai Mangena: Food, Gender and the Crisis in Zimbabwe: An Approach to Virginia Phiri’s Highway Queen and Valerie Tagwira’s the Uncertainty of Hope . In: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2020, 1-13
2019Oliver Nyambi, Rodwell Makombe, Nonki Motahane: Some Kinds of Home: Home, Transnationality and Belonging in Noviolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names. In: Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2019, 78-95