Tinashe Chimbidzikai

On 13 October 2026, Tinashe Chimbidzikai succesfully defended his disseration Aspirations in flux: Pentecostalism and the everyday (re)shaping of middle-class identities among Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa at Leiden University.

Tinashe Chimbidzikai is a PhD candidate with Georg-August University of Gottingen, Germany and an external PhD candidate in the Graduate Programme African Studies, African Studies Centre Leiden. His PhD research is financed by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. The working title of his research is (Re)production and imagination of urban social space by Pentecostal Christian migrants in South Africa: A narrative ethnography.

Tinashe has an MSc in Sociology and Social Anthropology (2005, Merit) from the University of Zimbabwe and a BSc in Sociology (2003, Honors) from the University of Zimbabwe.