Manase Kudzai Chiweshe

Dr Manase Kudzai Chiweshe is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social and Community Development, University of Zimbabwe and a research fellow, Sociology Department, Rhodes University, South Africa. He is the winner of the 2015 Gerti Hesseling Prize for Best Paper Published in African Studies. His work revolves around the sociology of everyday life in African spaces with specific interest in gender, football, and sports studies.

Qualifications: PhD Sociology, Rhodes University; MSc in Sociology and Social Anthropology, BSc in Sociology, University of Zimbabwe

Research interests: everyday life, livelihoods, social and sexual identities, sport and leisure, gender and feminist studies.