Name
Nives Kinunda Ngullu

Academic Rank
Lecturer

Department
History, Political Science and Development Studies

Biography

Biography

Nives Kinunda is a lecturer at the Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE). She earned her PhD in History from the University of Göttingen (Germany) in 2019, following a Master from University of Dar es Salaam in Collaboration with Bergen University of Norway in 2005 and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Dar es Salaam in 2002. Her research focuses on agriculture, women farmers, gender, education, upbringing of young people into adulthood, slavery, female empowerment in East Africa. From 2021 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the European Research Council-funded project on the aftermath of slavery in East Africa (ASEA) at Gent University. she is a member of the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC).

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nives.ngullu@duce.ac.tz

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Research Interest

Research Interest
History, Gender, the Upbringing of Youth into Adulthood, Women Farmers, Agriculture, Slavery,

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Projects

Projects

2021-2024.   The   Influence   of   Formerly   Enslaved   Women   Farmers   on Socioeconomic Dynamics in Uyao

2020-2021: “Socioeconomic Changes on Women Entrepreneurs   Movements   in   Tanzania   during   the   COVID-19   Pandemic:   The Case of Makete District”.

University of Dar es Salaam Competitive Research Fund

2019 – 2021: Competitive research fund from the Council for the Development of Social  Science   Research   in  Africa   (CODESRIA):   Meaning   Making   Research Initiatives (MRI).

 

2018-2019.   The   Knowledge   was   not  Meant   for   Women”,   the   Role   of   Early Agricultural Educational Institutions in Shaping Occupations of Women Farmers 

in Tanzania from 1900 to 1960s

2018-2019. The Emerging Women Farmers into Local Health Care and Healing: Colonial Administration and the Dynamics of Gender Authority in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, 1930-1960

2019-2020. “Is Clearing Land for Women a Curse or Fertility? The Contribution of   Migrant   Labour   in   Empowering   Women   in   the   Southern   Highlands   of Tanzania

Publications

Publications

Kinunda, N. et al. 2022. The Curse or Fertility of Land Clearing: How Migrant Labour Modified   Gender-based   Division   of   Labour   in   the   Southern   Highlands   of   Tanzania. Africa Development / Afrique et Développement, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2022), pp. 53-76 (24 pages)mhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/48722441

 

Kinunda, N. 2021.  Farming in Distant Virgin Land: Women Farmers' Techniques of Evading   Colonial   Administration   in   Tanganyika,   1920-1960.  Zeitschrift   für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie . Dec2021, Vol. 69 Issue 2, p65-81. 17p.

 

Kinunda, N. 2019. Negotiating Women’s Labour: Women Farmers, Society, and State in the Southern Highland of Tanzania, 1885 to 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-002E-E57A-9

Kinunda, N. Between Resistance and Silence: Women Famers’ Voices in the Southern   Highlands   of   Tanzania   during   “Stabilisation”   and   “Structural Adjustments”   Policies,   the   1980s,   Conference   Proceedings,   university   of Goettingen

Kinunda, N. Supportive, Destructive, or Indifferent? Expanding Global Markets and the End of Slavery in Continental East Africa in the Twentieth Century

Kinunda, N. Performing Masculinities: The Assumption of Men forming Masculinities: The Assumption of Men’s Roles b s Roles by Women Left Behind by Male Migrant Labourers in Southern Tanzania