Department/Unit: Geography
Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Rural & Urban Planning MSc Social Ecology PhD Urban and Regional Planning
PhD Institution: University of the Free State
PhD dissertation title: Exploring emerging settlement forms and urban dilemmas nexus: insights and challenges from Hopley Farm Settlement, Harare, Zimbabwe
Current research interests and projects: Climate change adaptation, informal urbanism, medical geography, urban food systems
Selected publication 1: Filho WL, Ternova L, Fayyaz MM, Abubakar IR, Kovaleva M, Donkor FK, Anuga SW, Matamanda AR, Djekic I, Umar IA, Olooto FM, Meirelles M, Nagy GJ, May J, May M, Ebhuoma E and Begum H. (2022). An analysis of climate change and health hazards: results from an international study. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management. https://doi-org.ufs.idm.oclc.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-08-2021-0090
Selected publication 2: Matamanda AR, Mphambukeli TN, Chirisa I. (2022). Exploring water-gender-health nexus in human settlements: The burden on women and the girl-child. Cities & Health. Doi: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2136557
Selected publication 3: Matamanda AR. (2022). Gatekeeper politics and urban planning research in the contested space of an emerging settlement: reflection on experiences in Hopley farm settlement, Harare. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. Doi: 10.1080/13645579.2022.2097393
Selected publication 4: Musosa L, Shekede MD, Gwitira I, Chirisa I, Tevera D, Matamanda AR (2022) Auditing the spatial and temporal changes in urban cropland in Harare Metropolitan Province, Zimbabwe. African Geographical Review. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2022.2128834
Selected publication 5: Matamanda AR, Mandebvu-Chaora C, Rammile S (2022) The interplay of urban agriculture and spatial (in) justice in Harare, Zimbabwe. Land Use Policy. 105, 106029. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106029
Selected publication 6: Matamanda AR, Dunn M, Nel V (2022). Broken bridges over troubled waters: COVID-19 and the urban poor residing in Dinaweng informal settlement, Bloemfontein, South Africa. South African Geographical Journal. Doi: 10.1080/03736245.2022.2028669
Selected publication 7: Chirisa I, Mutambisi T, Chivenge M, Mabaso E, Matamanda AR, Ncube R. (2022). The urban penalty of COVI-19 lockdowns across the globe: manifestations and lessons for Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa. GeoJournal, 87: 815–828. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10281-6
Selected publication 8: Matamanda RA (2020) Battling the Informal Settlement Challenge through Sustainable City Framework: Experiences and Lessons from Harare, Zimbabwe. Development Southern Africa, 37(2), 217-231. https://doi-org.ufs.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0376835X.2019.1572495
Selected publication 9: Matamanda AR, Chirisa I, Dzvimbo MA, Chinozvina Q. (2020). The political economy of Zimbabwean Urban informality since 2000 – A contemporary governance dilemma. Development Southern Africa. 37(4), 694-707, DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2019.1698410.
Selected publication 10: Matamanda AR, Chirisa I, Rammile S, Marais M (2022) Housing and technology: Special focus on Zimbabwe. Springer Nature, Cham
Capstone assignment title: THE G40 PH.D. SUPERVISOR IN THE AFRICAN UNIVERSITY
Capstone assignment abstract: Over the past two decades, there has been an increased focus on Ph.D. studies in most African universities. Before, many Africans were going abroad to pursue their doctoral studies due to the skills gap in the local universities and the segregation of colonial and apartheid policies that limited the majority of Africans to pursue higher education. Higher education, let alone doctoral studies, was reserved for the European settlers and only a few African elites (Chung, 2006; Hendricks, 2018). In recent years, many African governments, for example, the South African government, have committed to increasing the production of doctoral graduates in the country (Statistics South Africa, 2017). According to the National Development Plan (NDP) of South Africa, the government set the following targets to be met by 2030: • Increase the percentage of Ph.D. qualified staff in the higher education sector from 34% to 75%; and • Produce more than 100 doctoral graduates per million per year by 2030. (Department of Higher Education and Training, 2020, pp. 1) The situation is the same across the continent as espoused in the African Agenda 2063, aspiration 1, goal two, which aspires to have “well educated citizens and skills revolution underpinned by science, technology and innovation.” (African Union Commission, 2015).
