Nicholas Nyachega

Biography

I am Nicholas Nyachega, a historian of Africa whose research focuses on mobility, borders and borderlands, Indigenous histories and oral histories, colonialism(s) and liberation movements, land and rural livelihoods, and human (in)security in Southern Africa. Born and raised in Zimbabwe’s rural Honde Valley borderlands, my work examines the lived experiences of borderlanders or “people on the move,” with particular attention to local authority, shifting identities, kinship, and everyday forms of