Dr. Nancy Rushohora is a lecturer in the department of archaeology and heritage studies of the University of Dar es Salaam. She has been a post-doctoral fellow affiliated with Historical Trauma and Transformation Studies. Her work focusses on the memory of German Colonialism, memorial and memorialization in Tanzania. She is an archaeologist and co-PI of the Imagining Futures through Un/ArchivedPasts, an AHRC, GCRF Network+ project at Exeter University. She has researched and published widely on the subject of Majimaji War and the German colonialism in Tanzania. Her single and coauthored articles include: Look at Majimaji! A plea for historical photographs in Tanzania; Desperate Mourning and Atrophied Representation: A Tale of Two Skulls; and Graves, Houses of Pain and Execution: Memories of the German Prisons after the Majimaji War in Tanzania (1904–1908).

E-mail: nrushohora@gmail.com Call: +27 21 808 4047

Current Research Project

She is working on a digital project the Transgenerational Memories of the Majimaji War of which its seed grant was awarded by the University of Witwatersrand—Mellon Foundation and the Africa Collaboration grant of the University of Stellenbosch. Currently, she is leading a team of young scholars in the UK, North Africa and Sub-Saharan countries through the British Council New Narratives scoping project.

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

Rushohora, N. (2020). The challenges of teaching the Majimaji war in Tanzania. In J. Wasserman, & D. Bentrovato (Eds), Teaching African History in Schools: Experience and Perspectives from Africa and Beyond, 107-123. Brill Sense.

Journal Articles

Rushohora, N. (2019). Desperate mourning and atrophied representation: A tale of two skulls. African Historical Review, 51(1), 25-45. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17532523.2019.1626064

Rushohora, N.A., & Silayo, V.V. (2019). Cults, crosses and crescents: Religion and healing from colonial violence in Tanzania. Religions 2019, 10, 519. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/9/519

Rushohora, NA. (2019). Graves, houses of pain and execution: Memories of the German prisons after the Majimaji war in Tanzania (1904–1908). The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 47(2), 275-299. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2019.1605697

Rushohora, N. A. (2019). Facts and fictions of the Majimaji war graves in southern Tanzania. African Archaeological Review, 36(1), 145-159. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-019-09324-2

Rushohora, N., & Kurmann, E. (2018). Look at Majimaji! A plea for historical photographs in Tanzania. African Studies, 77(1), 87-104.