About Speaker
Chambi Chachage
About Me
Chambi Chachage is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African Studies at Howard University, where he teaches Introduction to Contemporary Africa, Urban Development, Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa, and Continental and Regional Organizations. His research focuses on the political economy of natural resources, land rights, and governance of extractive industries. He has published on land dispossession and large-scale land investments. In 2016, he served as co-investigator in a Baseline Epidemiology Study on Tuberculosis, MDR TB, Silicosis and HIV among miners and ex-miners in Southern Africa for the University of the Witwatersrand’s Perinatal HIV Research Unit. His co-edited volume Africa’s Liberation: The Legacy of Nyerere addresses South-South solidarity and the Pan-African quest for a new global economic order, and his forthcoming book Africanizing Capital examines the global history of capitalism and entrepreneurship in Eastern Africa. He is also the founder of Udadisi.com, a digital multimedia company in Tanzania.