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Biography
Dr. Lesley Hatipone Machiridza is a distinguished scholar specializing in historical archaeology, Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), and decolonial studies. He currently serves as an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cologne's Institute of African Studies and Egyptology. Additionally, he holds a senior lecturer position in the Department of Development Studies, History, and Archaeology at the Simon Muzenda School of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Great Zimbabwe University .
Dr. Machiridza's academic journey includes a PhD, MA, and BA Special Honours in Archaeology, complemented by a BA General degree. With over 14 years of university teaching and research experience, he also brings two years of museum curatorial expertise to his work .
His research focuses on the historical archaeology of the Rozvi state (1685–1830) in southwestern Zimbabwe, examining how Indigenous narratives, particularly those associated with five significant mountains—Manyanga, Mavangwe, MunwewaMwari, Bepe, and Mutikwiri—serve as repositories of environmental wisdom and disaster management strategies . This work challenges colonial narratives by highlighting the resilience embedded in Indigenous epistemologies.
Dr. Machiridza's contributions extend to various scholarly platforms, including his publication “Indigenous Environmental Resilience: Decoding Ancient Rozvi Wisdom on Mountain Ecosystems as Disaster Management Solutions” in IgMin Research . His interdisciplinary approach bridges archaeology, climate studies, and heritage conservation, offering valuable insights into sustainable human-environment interactions.
Research Interest
Dr. Lesley Hatipone Machiridza's research interests are rooted in historical archaeology, Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), and decolonial studies. He focuses on the archaeology of the Rozvi state (1685–1830) in southwestern Zimbabwe, particularly the environmental wisdom embedded in Indigenous narratives and their relevance to contemporary disaster management. His work examines the role of five key mountains in the Rozvi region—Manyanga, Mavangwe, MunwewaMwari, Bepe, and Mutikwiri—as repositories of traditional knowledge related to environmental resilience. Dr. Machiridza challenges colonial frameworks by emphasizing the resilience and sustainability of Indigenous epistemologies. His interdisciplinary approach integrates archaeology, climate studies, and heritage conservation, providing insights into human-environment interactions and the importance of preserving Indigenous knowledge in modern disaster management strategies. His ongoing research aims to reimagine African heritage by connecting past Indigenous practices with current challenges, offering new perspectives on sustainability and climate adaptation.
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Since time immemorial, Indigenous communities have always perceived the landscape as a complex web of living, physical, and spiritual things. These communities have always relied on their Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), emphasizing ancestral burial grounds, mountains, caves, rivers, pools, forests, monuments, and other cultural diacritics as symbols of place identity. In addition, myriad metaphors like taboos, legends, tales, folklore, myths, proverbs, stories, and practices, also constituted an integral part of Indigenous cultural and natu...re connections. This heritage was constantly imagined and configured to cement human-nature relations. However, the advent of colonialism severely violated this status quo, thereby causing deep environmental, political, and social crises. Through imposing a hegemonic scientific paradigm, knowledge compartmentalization, and capitalist aggrandizing practices, the original harmonious human-nature praxis premised on IKS was disrupted. To this day, the exclusionary colonial legacy and poisoned ‘sense of place’ remains our greatest threat to climate and environmental stability. Thus, this paper advocates for the recentralization of IKS as a valid way of knowing with already inbuilt human and natural disaster management solutions. By pivoting Rozvi narratives premised on five mountains, namely; Manyanga in Bubi district, Mavangwe, MunwewaMwari and Bepe in Buhera district, and Mutikwiri in Maungwe near Rusape town, all situated in former Butua/Guruuswa regions of Zimbabwe as case studies, the power of ancient wisdom as a holistic epistemic approach towards sustainable human-nature relations is explicated.
1Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of African Studies and Egyptology, University of Cologne Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D – 50923, Cologne, Germany | Senior Lecturer, Department of Development Studies, History and Archaeology, Simon Muzenda School of Arts, Culture and Heritage Great Zimbabwe University, Chirumhanzu Road, Mashava, Zimbabwe
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