Dr. Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba
Qualifications:
Doctor of Philosophy in Technology and Agrarian Development (TAD), Wageningen University and Research Centre. Master in Management of Agricultural Knowledge Systems (MAKS), Wageningen University and Research Centre
Academic Appointments:
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
Pioneering the new field of Southern Africa’s Hard Sciences including Maths, Chemistry, Metallurgy. Discovered that zero and decimal counting are Shona discoveries
Political and sociological issues of land in Zimbabwe
Local Government (Transforming and developing systems)
Policy development (Evolving, analysis and implementation)
Social Sciences and Rural Development
Faculty: Social And Behavioural Sciences
Department: Department of Community and Social Development
Research Category: Behavioral Sciences
Biography:
Rural Development Expert (1980-1996). After the war he was employed as a Local Government Promotion Officer where he played a key role in transforming Colonial local government systems with four of his projects adopted as national Policies. He became a Community Participation coordinator for a multi-donor water and sanitation programme. This function resulted in being employed by UNICEF where he was responsible for designing the national policy for Community-Based Management of water supplies and sanitation and training government and local government institutions on implementation of this policy. He attracted more than US$4,000,000 for the programme (Contact Prof. Lauchlan Munro). Sadomba is a sculptor and a researcher of African foods and technologies. He is establishing a cultural village for the preservation of Shona Stone Sculptures and demonstrates indigenous farming techniques, food processing and preparation.
Email: wzsadomba@gmail.com
Phone: +263 772 99 63 72
Publications:
Books
1.Sadomba, Wilbert Z. (2021). Proverbs, Conundrums and Idioms: Oral Archives of Shona Philosophical Mathematics (Occassiona). Centre for Teacher Education and Materials Development.
Sadomba, Wilbert Z., & Wakandigara A., T. (2015). Towards a new methodology for unearthing African “science”: Using taboos and proverbs as computers. Research Council of Zimbabwe.
2.Sadomba, Wilbert Z. (2011). War veterans in Zimbabwe’s revolution: Challenging neocolonialism & settler & international capital. James Currey.
3.Sadomba, W. Z. (2008). Movements within a movement: complexities within the land occupations. Contested Terrain: Land Reform and Civil Society in Contemporary Zimbabwe, Pietermaritzburg: S&S Publishers.
4.Sadomba, W. Z. (2006). The War Veterans Movement: Historical Origins. Development and Linkages. AIAS.
5.Sadomba, W. Z. (1992). The History of land management in Zimbawe: An exposition of the impact of settler colonialation on african land philosophy. Centre for Indigenous Cultures in Southern Africa (CISCA).
6.Sadomba, Wilbert Z, Patsika, C., & Changunda, P. (1989). Administrative Handbook for Local Authorities. Ministry of Local Governnment, Zimbabwe.
7.Sadomba, Z. W., Patsika, C. K., & Changunda, P. (1987). Towards council decisions: Information processing and minute handbook. Ministry of Local Government, Zimbabwe.
Published Journals
1.Mujeyi, K., & Sadomba, W. Z. (2019). Unemployment and informal entrepreneurship in Zimbabwe: Implications for regional integration. In Innovation, regional integration, and development in Africa (pp. 251-266). Springer, Cham.
2.Mujeyi, K., Siziba, S., Sadomba, W. Z., & Mutambara, J. (2016). Technical efficiency of informal manufacturing sector enterprises: Evidence from the informal metal industry of Zimbabwe. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 8(1), 12-17.
3.Makate, C., Siziba, S., Hanyani-Mlambo, B. T., Sadomba, Z., & Mango, N. (2016). The efficiency of small and medium enterprises in informal metal manufacturing in Zimbabwe: Implications for stakeholders in the agricultural sector. Development Southern Africa, 33(2), 247–257.
4.Sadomba, Z. W., Chigwanda, B., & Manyati, T. (2015). Education in the crucible of a postcolonial revolution: community reaction to the challenges of Zimbabwe’s crisis. Social Dynamics, 41(2), 235-252.
5.Sadomba, W. Z., & Zinyemba, L. (2015). Socio-cultural foundations of caregiver institutions: Lineage and community networks in Zimbabwe’s health care system. Asian Journal of Humanity, Art and Literature, 2(1), 43-60.
6.Mujeyi, K., Mutambara, J., Siziba, S., Sadomba, W. Z., & Manyati, T. K. (2015). Entrepreneurial innovations for agricultural mechanisation in Zimbabwe: Evidence from an informal metal industry survey. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 7(4), 276-285
7.Sadomba, Z. W. (2013). The Politics of the war veteran vanguard. Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe, 79.
8.Sadomba, W., & Helliker, K. (2010). Transcending objectifications and dualisms: farm workers and civil society in contemporary Zimbabwe. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 45(2), 209-225.
9.Sadomba, W. Z. (2010). Philosophical Conflicts in Zimbabwe’s Land Occupations: Indigenous African Peasant vs European Capitalist Agrarian Jurisprudence’. Quest-Journal of African Philosophy.
10.Wolford, W., Valdivia, G., Baletti, B., Rutten, R., Sadomba, W. Z., Chari, S., ... & Walker, C. (2009). Everyday forms of political expression. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(2), 411-458.
11.Sadomba, W. (2009). Peasant occupations within war veterans-led land occupations: Grassroots conflicts and state reaction in Zimbabwe. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(2), 436-443
12.Sadomba, W. Z. (2009). Nipping bottom-up industrialisation in the bud: The state’s folly of reversing Zimbabwe’s miracle. Journal of Development Studies, 2009.
13.Sadomba, W. Z. (2008). War veterans in Zimbabwe's land occupations: complexities of a liberation movement in an African post-colonial settler society. Wageningen University and Research.
14.Andrew, N., & Sadomba, W. (2006). Zimbabwe: Land Hunger and the War. Veteran-led Occupations Movement in 2000. Critique internationale, 31(2), 125-144.
15.Sdomba, W. Z., & Andrew, N. (2006, January). Challenging the limits of the state’s market-based land resettlement programme in Zimbabwe: the war veterans as catalyst of the land movement. In international conference Land, Poverty, Social Justice & Development. Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Netherlands (pp. 9-14).
16.Sadomba, W. Z. (1996). Retrospective community mapping: a tool for community education. PLA NOTES,(25), 9-13.
Book Chapters
1.Sadomba, Wilbert Z. (2016). Potential of African Philosophy in Conflict Resolution and Peace-building. In Sam Moyo & Y. Mine (Eds.), What Colonialism Ignored: “African Potentials” for Resolving Conflicts in Southern Africa. Langaa RPCIG.
2. Sadomba, Wilbert Z. (2016). Urban Informal Sector and African Potentials: From Zimbabwe’s Informal Metal Manufacturing Industry. In M. Matsuda & M. Hirano (Eds.), Potential of African Philosophy in Conflict Resolution and Peace-building. Kyoto University Press
3. Sadomba, Wilbert Z. (2014). The Application of African Philosophy in Zimbabwe’s Land Revolution. In C. G. Mararike (Ed.), Land: An Empowerment Asset for Africa: The Human Factor Perspective (pp. 350–365). University of Zimbabwe Publications.
4.Sadomba, Wilbert Z. (2013). A Decade of Zimbabwe’s Land Revolution: The politics of the War Veteran Vanguard. In S. Moyo & W. Chambati (Eds.), Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe: Beyond white-settler capitalism. African Books Collective.
5.Sadomba, Wilbert Z. (2008). Movements within a movement: complexities within the land occupations. In K. Helliker (Ed.), Contested Terrain: Land Reform and Civil Society in Contemporary Zimbabwe. S&S Publishers.
6.Sadomba, Z. (1996). Use of Taboos and Proverbs as Oral Archives of Indigenous Knowledge: A participatory method for identifying and collecting IK. In W. A. University (Ed.), MSc. Reader for Participatory Methods. Wageningen Agricultural University.
Conference papers
1.Sadomba, Z. W. (2016). Post-cold war security interests of Africa and China: Challenges of liberation movements in the post-colonial. China’s Constructive Engagement on Africa’s Peace and Security, 18-22 October 2016, Beijing.
2.Sadomba, Z. (2014). In the Crucible of Economic Sanctions and Globalisation: Potential of Zimbabwe’s Informal Metal Manufacturing Industry, panel P055: Towards African Potentials for co existence in urban context. IUEAS 2014 Inter-Congress: The Future with/of Anthropologies, 5-18 May 2014, Chiba City, Greater Tokyo.
3. Sadomba, Z. W. (2013). The Urban Dimensions of the War Veterans Revolution: Metal Informal Sector manufacturers of Zimbabwe. Kyoto and Tokyo Universities Seminar Series, April 2013.
4. Sadomba, Wilbert Z. (2009). A Decade of War Veterans Revolution. Soldiers and the Military in Zimbabwe, July 16 – 21, 2009.
5. Sadomba, Z., & Andrews, N. (2006). Challenging the state’s market-based land resettlement programme in Zimbabwe: the war veterans as catalyst of the land movement. International Conference on Land Poverty and Social Justice , UNDP and Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, 2006.
6. Sadomba, Wilbert Z. (1999). Changing Agro-ecological Religion and Changing Agricultural Practices: Women, indigenous knowledge and scientific experts in Zimbabwe. International Conference on Women and the Environment in Africa, August 1999 Harare.
Patented Work:
Provisional and Complete Specification Patents
Mapfihwa Dziisapfimbi Convertible Multi-purpose Food
Warmer/Cooker, Provisional patent (Filed with ARIPO,
2015).
Choto Chedu Convertible Multi-purpose Cooking
Appliance, (October 2014)
Simple Multi-purpose Farrow Plough, Patent No.
48/2002
Simple Multipurpose Ridger, Patent no. 49/2002
Grants & Funding (current and Past projects):
Awards & Achievements:
AWARDS:
2016-2018 Granted 1 year Visiting Professor Post jointly by Universities of
Ottawa and Carleton (Canada) to share research breakthroughs and teach ($70,000)
2015 Japan Foundation Fellowship Programme for 9 months – total stipend $37,800
2014 FIRST PRIZE of the Humanities Cluster for Outstanding Research
Output; Prize value of USD 5000. (Title: Towards new Methodology for
African "Science": Using taboos and proverbs as scientific documents)2
2014 SECOND PRIZE of the Humanities Cluster for Outstanding Research Output; Prize value of USD 3000 (tie).
2013 to date - Hot Reaction to the Cold War: Comparison of Japan's and
Zimbabwe's Youth born 1945-1960, funded by Yoshikuni Foundation visiting researcher with Kyoto University, (+/- USD50000).
2013 FIRST PRIZE of the Humanities Cluster for Outstanding Research Output; Prize value of USD 5000.
2012 International Development and Research Centre (IDRC) Regional
research on the Informal Sector - Regional Team Leader heading 4
countries with total value of US$728,000 (2012 - 2014).
2008 University of Johannesburg Post Doctoral Research grant (2008-2010)
2001 Wageningen University and Research Centre PhD Scholarship (2001)
Consultancy and advisory work (current and past):
OUTSTANDING CONSULTANT PROJECTS
FAO, Land Capacity, Policy and Institutional Development Expert (2020-
2021)
Supervision information (MPhil, DPhil, etc.):
He has supervised Masters and Doctoral candidates for the University of Zimbabwe and Midlands State University
Professional membership, Committees, Boards:
External Profile Links (Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, other social media links):
academia: https://uz-ac.academia.edu/ZvakanyorwaSadomba
ResearchGate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wilbert-Sadomba
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilbert-zvakanyorwa-sadomba-dr-06292a8/