Prof. Bridget Chinouriri

Qualifications:

Bridget Chinouriri is a Zimbabwean ethnomusicologist, creative writer, editor, cultural consultant and an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Zimbabwe. She is a Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the University of Venda (South Africa) in collaboration with Kabarak University (Kenya), in the Directorate of Research and Innovation. She holds a Masters in Music with the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana and a DMUs with University of Pretoria, South Africa. Professor Chinouriri sits in a number of cultural Boards in Zimbabwe such as National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe College of Music, National Arts Council of Zimbabwe and others. She has 41 publications to her name which includes 3 books.

Academic Appointments:

Bridget Chinouriri is a Zimbabwean ethnomusicologist, creative writer, editor, cultural consultant and an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Zimbabwe. She is a Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the University of Venda (South Africa) in collaboration with Kabarak University (Kenya), in the Directorate of Research and Innovation. Professor Chinouriri sits in a number of cultural Boards in Zimbabwe such as National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe College of Music, National Arts Council of Zimbabwe and others.

Research Interests:

Research interests range from Ethnomusicology, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Music and Land issues, Politics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Climate Change and Digital Humanities, Creative Economies and others related

Faculty: Arts and Humanities

Department: Creative Media & Communication, Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Research Category: Physical Sciences

Biography:

Email: bridgetchinouriri@gmail.com

Phone: Cell: +263-772- 250 082/ 0712 250 082 Work: +263-4-303211 extension 13070

Publications:

Current Project:

Book Project: Men as endangered species: Is the future feminine? (Eds.) Chinouriri, B., Marongedze, R., & Ruth Barbra Gora.

Publication Tracking
1. Book Project: Music, Justice and Development: The Life and Music of Leonard Karikoga Zhakata (ed) M. Nyakudya, E. Chitando, B. Chinouriri and P. Mateveke.

PUBLICATIONS
1. Matende, T., Gotosa, K., Mwakutuya, R., & Chinouriri, B., Music and Zimbabwean Sign Language Pedagogy, Journal of Music Research in Africa, Online publication, 20 November 2025.
2. Bridget Chinouriri, Wonder Maguraushe and Richard Muranda, (Eds) (2025). Traditional Dance Heritage of Zimbabwe, UTAFITI Foundation Press, Eldoret Kenya Copyright 2024 by UTAFITI Foundation.
3. Chitando, E., Mateveke, P., Nyakudya, M., & Chinouriri, B., (Eds) (2022). The Life and Music of Oliver Mtukudzi, Reconstruction and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan Publishing.
4. Nyakudya, M., Chinouriri, B., Mateveke, P. & Chitando, E. (Eds) (2022). The Cultural and Artistic Legacy of Oliver Mtukudzi, Using Language for Social Justice, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing.
5. Chinouriri, B. (Ed) (2021). ‘Music and Political Contestations in Zimbabwe: The Land Reform Programme 2000 to 2010’. (Funded by CODESRIA) Africa Institute for Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Tolerance.
6. Chinouriri, B. Kufakurinani, U., & Nyakudya, M. (Eds.) (2018). Victors, Victims and Villains: Women in Musical Arts in Zimbabwe - Past and Present, Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, pp1-247.
7. Mheta, G., Chinouriri, B., Mavhu, & W., Zivenge, W. (Eds.) (2005). Dura Mazwi Remimhanzi Nezviridzwa, College Press, Harare, 176pages.

Book Chapters

1. Marongedze, R., & Chinouriri, B. (2022). Mtukudzi: The (Re) constructor Who Makes Others Rich? In Chitando, E., Mateveke, P., Nyakudya, M., & Chinouriri, B., Reconstruction, Identity and Music: Oliver Mtukudzi, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing).

2. Chinouriri, B., (2022). ‘Music the Religion, Musicians the Priests and the People the Congregants: The Music of Oliver Mtukudzi’, In Chitando, E., Mateveke, P., Nyakudya, M., & Chinouriri, B., Reconstruction, Identity and Music: Oliver Mtukudzi (Palgrave Macmillan Publishing).
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3. Chinouriri, B. & Kufakurinani, U., (2021). ‘Pastors Who Prey: Religiosity and Urbanity in Zimbabwe’, In Chirisa, (Ed., Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Urbanisation in Zimbabwe: Past, Present and Future’, University of Zimbabwe Publications, pp180-202.

4. Chinouriri, B., (2018). ‘Initiatives in Resuscitating the Indigenous Musical Arts’: The Case of Jerusarema/Mbende Traditional Music and Dance of Zimbabwe’, In Rudi de Lange, Ingrid Stevens, Runette Kruger & Mzo Sirayi (Eds). The arts and indigenous knowledge systems in a modernised Africa, Cambridge Scholars publishing, Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle: NE62PA, UK, pp1-16.

5. Marongedze, R., & Chinouriri, B., (2018). ‘Lampooning political corruption: An analysis of selected songs by Thomas Mapfumo and Hosiah Chipanga’, In Muwati, I, Charamba, T & Tembo, C. (Eds.) Singing Nation and Politics: Music and the ‘Decade of Crisis’ in Zimbabwe, 2000-2010, Gweru: Midlands State University Press, pp34-51.

6. Nyakudya, M., Kufakurinani, U., & Chinouriri, B., (2018). ‘Women and musical arts in Zimbabwe - Past and present’, In Chinouriri, B., Kufakurinani, U., & Nyakudya, M. (Eds.).
Victors, Victims and Villains: Women in Musical Arts in Zimbabwe - Past and Present, Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, pp 1-11.

7. Kufakurinani, U., Nyakudya, M., & Chinouriri, B. (2018). ‘Wakachipa kunge bhero’, Gender and Portrayal of Women in selected Zimdancehall Songs, In Chinouriri, B., Kufakurinani, U., & Nyakudya, M, (Eds.). Victors, Victims and Villains: Women in musical arts in Zimbabwe - Past and Present, Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, pp80 - 97.

8. Kufakurinani, U., Nyakudya, M., Chinouriri, B., & Chishaka, P., (2018). ‘Women and musical arts in Zimbabwe: A historical trajectory’, In Chinouriri, B., Kufakurinani, U., & Nyakudya, M, (Eds.). Victors, Victims and Villains: Women in musical arts in Zimbabwe - Past and Present, Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, pp13-30.

9. Chinouriri, B., & Nyakudya, M. (2018). ‘Music and Violence: Discordant Siblings? A Study of Political Music in the Land Reform Programme of Zimbabwe, 2000–2010’, Luis Gimenez Amoros & Maurice, T. Vambe (Eds.) In Performing Zimbabwe; A Trans-disciplinary Study of Zimbabwean Music, South Africa, University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, pp216-228.

10. Chinouriri, B. & Marongedze, R. (2016). ‘Meteorology among the Shona: An interpretation of weather science through indigenous knowledge systems,’ In (Eds). Magosvongwe, R.,Mlambo, O. & Ndlovu, E., Africa’s Intangible Heritage and Land Emerging Perspectives, University of Zimbabwe publications, Harare, pp242-251.

11. Chinouriri, B. (2016). ‘The Politicisation of Gospel Music in Zimbabwe’s Crisis Years, 20002010’. In Fainos Mangena, Ezra Chitando and Itai Muwati (Eds.). Sounds of Life: Music, Identity and Politics in Zimbabwe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp213-229.

12. Chinouriri, B. (2015). ‘Is a Woman only Worth the Rib of a Man? The Place of Women in Zimbabwean Musical Arts, Past and Present’, In Kwasi Ampene, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Godwin K. Adjei &Albert K. Awedoba (Eds.). Discourses in African Musicology: J. H. Kwabena Nketia Festschrift, USA, Michigan Publishing, pp396-416.

13. Chinouriri, B. (2013). ‘Drawing from Indigenous Knowledge Systems: A Guide for Shona Creativity and Performance’, In Patrick Ebewo, Ingrid Stevens & Mzo Sirayi (Eds.) Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp109121.

Publications in Refereed Journals

1. Chinouriri, B., Marongedze, R., & Bwetenga, T.R., (2022). Otherisation of African Intangible Heritage: A historical of cultural genocide in musical arts of Zimbabwe, DANDE, Journal of Social Sciences and Communication, Special Issue on Intangible Cultural Heritage, Volume 4 (1) April 2022, Bindura University of Science Education.

2. Marongedze, R., Machanja, E., & Chinouriri, B., (2019). ‘The Criminalisation of Masculinity and Feminisation of Gender in Contemporary Zimbabwean Society: Culture versus Policy’, Journal of Humanities, ZAMBEZIA, pp145-162, Gender Special Issue, ISSN 0379-0622.

3. Chinouriri, B., Marongedze, R., & Bwetenga, T.R., (2018). ‘A historical trajectory of conquer of the inferior by the superior: Cultural Genocide in the Propagation of the Musical Arts in Zimbabwe’, Research in African Genocide, Vol. 1 (1) pp14-29.

4. Marongedze, R., & Chinouriri, B., (2018). ‘Intellectual begging as Genocide: An Afrocentric Critique and Corrective,’ Research in African Genocide, Volume 1 (1) pp66-80.

5. Bwetenga, T.R., Chinouriri, B., & Marongedze, R. (2018). ‘Linguistic genocide: An Analysis of the Post-colonial Multilingual Context of Zimbabwean Education’. Research in African Genocide, Vol. 1 (1) pp130-148.

6. Ncube, G., & Chinouriri, B. (2016). ‘Humour in the Time of Crisis: (Nick)-naming of Politicians and Political Parties in Zimbabwe’, IGAMA, Journal for African studies in Onomastics, Vol. 1, (1) pp1-12.

7. Chinouriri, B. & Ncube, G. (2016). ‘Selected Musiconyms, Pseudonyms, Aliases and other Namings in Zimbabwe’s Musical Arts Industry’, IGAMA, Journal for African studies in Onomastics, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp15-27.

8. Marongedze, R., Chinouriri, B., & Nyakudya, M., (2016). ‘Taking a Melodic approach in Preventing Road Accidents: An Instructive Therapy from Charles Charamba’s song, Musatyaire makadhakwa’, Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education (PASMAE), Vol. 3, No. 1, pp119-136.

9. Chinouriri, B. & Manatsa, P. (2015). ‘The Interplay of Musical Arts Education and Child Development in Tonga Indigenous and Contemporary Contexts in Zimbabwe’. East African Journal of Music, Vol. 3, No. 1. pp International Journal of Musical Arts (Research, Performance, Education) ISSN 2071-775X.

10. Chinouriri, B. & Manatsa, P. (2014). ‘A Critical Analysis of the Lyrical and the Music Sonic
Content of the Zimbabwe National Anthem of Zimbabwe: The Ethnomusicological and Musicological Perspective’ in Jibilika: African Journal of Performing and Creative Arts, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp49-59. ISSN 23-6853, UNISA Press.

11. Chinouriri, B. & Nyakudya, M. 2014. ‘Name-Calling in the Music Discourse of Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Programme, 2000 to 2010’, Journal of Humanities, ZAMBEZIA, Vol. 41, Nos i/ii, pp, University of Zimbabwe Publications.

12. Chinouriri, B. (2012). ‘Learning through Musical Arts: the Interplay between Musical Arts and Child Development in Shona Indigenous Milieu’, African Musicology, Vol. 6, pp44-63.

13. Chinouriri, B. (2011). ‘The Manipulation of Aesthetic Configurations of Chimurenga Music in Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Programme, 2000-2010’, African musicology, Vol. 5, pp68-110.

14. Chinouriri, B. (2011). ‘Funeral Songs among the Urban Shona: Continuity and Change’, Occasional Paper No. 67. Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), pp1-15.

Miscellaneous Publications

1. Chinouriri, B. (2016). ‘3 Poems’ in Hodzeko Yenduri, (ed) Gunduza, M., Secondary book press, Harare.
2. Chinouriri, B. (2016). ‘14 poems’ in Gwatakwata renhetembo (ed) Gunduza, M., Secondary book press, Harare.
3. Chinouriri, B. (2005). ‘The Purity of my Womanhood’, In Creatures Great and Small: A Collection of Short Stories, (Ed.) Kangira, J., Mambo Press, Gweru, 114.
4. Chinouriri, B. ‘Seven Poems’, In A Shona Poetry Anthology: Shaurai, Nhetembo DzaNhasi NedzaZuro, (Eds.) Mhonde, E.P, Bvute, O., Mareya, L., Priority Projects Book Publishers, Harare, 2005.
5. 32 articles in the Sunday Mail in the Sunday Cultural Analysis Section (2002)

Patented Work:

Grants & Funding (current and Past projects):

• Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) post-doctoral fellowship - (2015-2016)
University of Zimbabwe, Research Grant – The Role of Women in Traditional Musical Arts (2004)

Awards & Achievements:

• University of Pretoria Bursary - PhD Level (2013-2014)
• Canon Collins Scholarship – PhD Level (2013)
• National Journalistic & Media Awards (NJAMA) – Arts & Entertainment Writer of the Year (2002)

• Fellowship provided by the Swedish International Development Authority and the Ford Foundation - Masters of Arts in Music (1997-1998)
• Zimbabwe College of Music Ethnomusicology Bursary – Certificate in Music (1995 - 1996)

Consultancy and advisory work (current and past):

o Physical Assessment of Facilities for The Accreditation of The Proposed Programme/S In The Faculty of Social Sciences Under Auspices of Zimbabwe Council For Higher Education (ZIMCHE) 8-9 February 2022.

o Review Report for The MSC Applied Ethnomusicology, Msc Musicology And Msc Music Business and Technology (ZIMCHE Programmes) September 2021.

• Instrumental in crafting the Zimbabwe Cultural Policy through the National Intangible Culture Heritage Committee
• Initiated the listing of Mbira/Sansi inscription on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity through the National Intangible Culture Heritage Committee by implementing the 2003 convention on the safe guarding of intangible cultural heritage.

Supervision information (MPhil, DPhil, etc.):

3 DPhils
15 Masters and MPhils
40 Undergraduate candidates

Professional membership, Committees, Boards:

▪ Faculty of Arts and Humanities Timetable Committee 2024 to present.
▪ Faculty of Arts and Humanities Quality Assurance Committee Member 2024 to present
▪ Faculty Planning Committee 2024 to present.
▪ Faculty Higher Degree Committee 2024 to present
▪ Indigenous Knowledge Systems Research group
▪ University Quality Assurance Committee Member
▪ Multicultural and Language Centre Committee
▪ Faculty Orientation Day
▪ Francophone Day Preparations
▪ Faculty Research Week Committee
▪ Healthy, Safety and Wellness Committee
▪ Senate Member October 2023 to present.
▪ Academic Committee Member October 2023 to present.
▪ Peer Reviewer for Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education Programmes 9 September 2021 to present.
▪ Champion for New Programmes, Faculty of Arts and Humanities - (2020 to present)
▪ Member, Idai Research Project (2019 to present)
▪ Member, University of Zimbabwe Research Board – (1st January 2019 to 31st January 2020)
▪ Member, Indigenous Knowledge Systems Research Group (2020 to present)
▪ Member, for Film, Radio and TV Production Planning Group - (2020 to present)
▪ Member, Steering Committee Member for Faculty Programming – (2019 to present)
▪ Member, Departmental representative in the University Research Committee – (2019)
▪ Member – Research week – (2018 to present)
▪ Member, Departmental Interviews subcommittee member (2019 - 2021)
▪ Chairperson, Subcommittee member for film, radio and TV production – (2019-2021)
▪ Chairperson, Subcommittee for the proposed BA Honours Applied Ethnomusicology & Arts Business Management (2018 to present)
▪ Member, Committee member Departmental Language planning and Change – (2014-2017)
▪ Member, Faculty Graduation Reception Committee Member – (2012-2013)
▪ Representative, Faculty of Arts, African Virtual University Learning Centre (2003-2018)
▪ Member, Faculty Graduation Reception Committee Member – (2012-2013)
▪ University of Zimbabwe Arts Festival Performance Coordinator – (2011-2017)
▪ Warden, Car Saunders Hall, (2005-2008)

External Profile Links (Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, other social media links):

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3613-4743
Academia.edu: https://uz-ac.academia.edu/BRIDGETCHINOURIRI
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bridget-Chinouriri