Seminar: Chimurenga Epistemology: Engaging Colonial Trauma Through Music Scholarship

Chikowero is Associate Professor of African History at the University of California Santa Barbara and ACLS Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand. He attained his undergraduate education at the University of Zimbabwe and his graduate degrees at Dalhousie University, and a post-doctoral fellowship at Rutgers University (2008). He researches African music and politics; and technologies of state making (including broadcasting and energy). He has worked with Zimbabwean and African artistes for years. He is the author of African Music, Power and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe (Indiana University Press, 2015). His articles on music and politics, electrification, and broadcasting have appeared in the Journal of Southern African Studies, Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa and in edited volumes. He is currently writing two books, The Politics of State (Un)making: Music, Media and Power in Post-colonial Zimbabwe, and Tools of Empire, Technologies of Self-liberation: Radio Broadcasting in Colonial Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.