| alma_mater = [[University of Pretoria]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Pretoria]]
| occupation = African Feminist Scholar
| occupation = African Feminist Scholar
| known_for = Transitional justice, African feminisms
| employer = [[Memorial University of Newfoundland]]
| employer = [[Memorial University of Newfoundland]]
| title = Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms
| title = Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms
}}
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”’Ruth Ratidzai Murambadoro”’ (known professionally as ”’Ruth Murambadoro”’) is a Zimbabwean political scientist and African feminist scholar.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ruth Murambadoro |url=https://www.yorku.ca/research/tubman/profile/ruth-murambadoro/ |website=York University – Harriet Tubman Institute |access-date=7 November 2025}}</ref> She is recognized for her research on [[transitional justice]], [[gender justice]], and [[peacebuilding]] in [[Africa]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruth Murambadoro, Author at Kujenga Amani|url=https://kujenga-amani.ssrc.org/author/ruth-murambadoro/|website=Social Science Research Council|access-date=7 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
”’Ruth Ratidzai Murambadoro”'<ref>{{cite web |title=Ruth Murambadoro |url=https://.ca//ruth-murambadoro/ |access-date= November 2025}}</ref> is on [[transitional justice]], [[gender justice]], and [[peacebuilding]] in [[Africa]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruth Murambadoro |url=https://..//ruth-murambadoro/|website= |access-date=7 November 2025}}</ref>
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Her research explores African mechanisms for conflict resolution, women’s resistance movements, and the gendered nature of post-colonial states.<ref>{{cite web |last=Murambadoro |first=Ruth |title=Echoes of Women’s Resistance in Africa: A Conversation with Ruth Murambadoro |url=https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/echoes-of-womens-resistance-in-africa-a-conversation-with-ruth-murambadoro/ |website=Centre for Feminist Research, York University |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ruth Murambadoro – Harriet Tubman Institute |url=https://www.yorku.ca/research/tubman/profile/ruth-murambadoro/ |website=York University |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
Her research explores African mechanisms for conflict resolution, women’s resistance movements, and the gendered nature of post-colonial states.<ref>{{cite web |title=Echoes of Resistance in Africa: A Conversation with Ruth Murambadoro |url=https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/echoes-of-womens-resistance-in-africa-a-conversation-with-ruth-murambadoro/ |website=York University – |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
She has conducted [[ethnographic studies]] in [[Zimbabwe]], [[South Africa]], [[Mozambique]], and [[Ghana]], where she examined how community-based and tradition-based justice mechanisms operate and how women resist [[structural violence]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Murambadoro |first=Ruth |title=Echoes of Women’s Resistance in Africa: A Conversation with Ruth Murambadoro |url=https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/echoes-of-womens-resistance-in-africa-a-conversation-with-ruth-murambadoro/ |website=Centre for Feminist Research, York University |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
She has conducted [[ethnographic studies]] in [[Zimbabwe]], [[South Africa]], [[Mozambique]], and [[Ghana]], where she examined how community-based and tradition-based justice mechanisms operate and how women resist [[structural violence]].<ref = />
She has collaborated with Ugandan scholar and editorial cartoonist [[Jimmy Spire Ssentongo]] on feminist research and creative projects, including events hosted by York University’s Centre for Feminist Research in 2025.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mukadzi, Musha, Rugare: Woman, Home, Freedom |url=https://gazette.mun.ca/events/mukadzi-musha-rugare-woman-home-freedom/ |website=Memorial University Gazette |publisher=Memorial University of Newfoundland |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
She has collaborated with Ugandan scholar and editorial cartoonist [[Jimmy Spire Ssentongo]] on feminist research and creative projects, including events hosted by York University’s Centre for Feminist Research in 2025.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mukadzi, Musha, Rugare: Woman, Home, Freedom |url=https://gazette.mun.ca/events/mukadzi-musha-rugare-woman-home-freedom/ |website=Memorial University Gazette |publisher=Memorial University of Newfoundland |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
== Contributions ==
== Contributions ==
Murambadoro served as an Emerging Scholar Leader on the [[African Studies Association]] Board of Directors in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=ASA Board Announcement|url=https://africanstudies.org|website=ASA|access-date=7 November 2025}}</ref> She received the ASA Presidential Fellowship in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=ASA Fellowship Recipients|url=https://africanstudies.org|website=ASA|access-date=7 November 2025}}</ref>
Murambadoro served as an Emerging Scholar on the [[African Studies Association]] Board of Directors in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=ASA Board |url=https://.|website= |= |access-date= November 2025}}</ref>
Murambadoro’s book, ”Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe” (2020), has been recognized for exploring how justice is understood and applied in African contexts, emphasizing local and community-based approaches to post-conflict reconciliation.<ref>{{cite web |last=Govender |first=Kemantha |title=Justice in Africa: what it means to Africans? |url=https://www.wsg.ac.za/news/justice-africa-what-it-means-africans |website=Wits School of Governance |publisher=University of the Witwatersrand |date=29 July 2020 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
Murambadoro’s book, ”Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe” (2020), has been recognized for exploring how justice is understood and applied in African contexts, emphasizing local and community-based approaches to post-conflict reconciliation.<ref>{{cite web |last=Govender |first=Kemantha |title=Justice in Africa: what it means to Africans? |url=https://www.wsg.ac.za/news/justice-africa-what-it-means-africans |website=Wits School of Governance |publisher=University of the Witwatersrand |date=29 July 2020 |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref>
Zimbabwean political scientist and African feminist scholar
Ruth Ratidzai Murambadoro[1] (also known as Ruth Murambadoro) is a Zimbabwean political scientist and African feminist scholar, whose work focuses on transitional justice, gender justice, and peacebuilding in Africa.[2]
[3][4] Murambadoro is currently an Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada.[5]
Early Life and Education
Murambadoro earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Pretoria in 2018, focusing on tradition-based approaches to transitional justice in Zimbabwe.[6] She also holds an MA in Political Science (2014), a BA Honours in International Relations, and a Bachelor of Political Sciences from the same institution.[6]
Academic Career
Murambadoro joined Memorial University in 2024 as Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms. She previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at York University (2021–2024), affiliated with the Harriet Tubman Institute and the Centre for Feminist Research.[7] From 2019 to 2021, she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand.[8][9]
Her research explores African mechanisms for conflict resolution, women’s resistance movements, and the gendered nature of post-colonial states.[2][10]
She has conducted ethnographic studies in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ghana, where she examined how community-based and tradition-based justice mechanisms operate and how women resist structural violence.[10]
She has collaborated with Ugandan scholar and editorial cartoonist Jimmy Spire Ssentongo on feminist research and creative projects, including events hosted by York University’s Centre for Feminist Research in 2025.[11]
Contributions
Murambadoro received the ASA Presidential Fellowship in 2015 and served as an Emerging Scholar representative on the African Studies Association Board of Directors in 2016.[12]
Murambadoro’s book, Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe (2020), has been recognized for exploring how justice is understood and applied in African contexts, emphasizing local and community-based approaches to post-conflict reconciliation.[13]
Selected Publications
- The PhD Experience in African Higher Education (Co-editor, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). ISBN 9781793645371
- Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). ISBN 9783030480912
- Murambadoro, Ruth; Wielenga, Cori; Batley, Mike. “Beyond restorative justice: Understanding justice from an African perspective,” *Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation*, 9(1), 2020, pp. 43–69. [14]
- Women in the Context of Justice: Continuities and Discontinuities in Southern Africa (ed. Cori Wielenga, CSA&G Press, University of Pretoria, 2018). Contributor: Ruth Murambadoro.
- Murambadoro, Ruth. “‘We cannot reconcile until the past has been acknowledged’: Perspectives on Gukurahundi from Matabeleland, Zimbabwe,” *African Journal on Conflict Resolution*, 15(1), 2015, pp. 33–57. [15]
See also
References
- ^ Murambadoro, Ruth Ratidzai. “Ruth Ratidzai Murambadoro”. Canadian Black Scientists. Canadian Black Scientists Network. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
- ^ a b “Ruth Murambadoro”. York University – Harriet Tubman Institute. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
- ^ “Ruth Murambadoro, Author at Kujenga Amani”. Social Science Research Council. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
- ^ Philipps-Universität Marburg (2022). “We are pleased to welcome Ruth Murambadoro as a guest researcher!”. Centre for Conflict Research. Philipps-Universität Marburg. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
- ^ “Faculty Profile: Ruth Murambadoro”. Memorial University. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
- ^ a b “On the Blue Couch with Dr Ruth Murambadoro”. Odile Mackett. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
- ^ “York University Faculty”. York University. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
- ^ Murambadoro, R. R. (2024). ORCID profile. ORCID. Retrieved 8 November 2025, from https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4347-2433
- ^ Govender, Kemantha (1 October 2019). “Meet our new staff at WSG”. Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
- ^ a b “Echoes of Women’s Resistance in Africa: A Conversation with Ruth Murambadoro”. York University – Centre for Feminist Research. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
- ^ “Mukadzi, Musha, Rugare: Woman, Home, Freedom”. Memorial University Gazette. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
- ^ “African Studies Association (ASA) Board Member”. University of Pretoria – Department of Political Sciences. University of Pretoria. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
- ^ Govender, Kemantha (29 July 2020). “Justice in Africa: what it means to Africans?”. Wits School of Governance. University of the Witwatersrand. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
- ^ Wielenga, Cori; Batley, Mike; Murambadoro, Ruth (2020). “Beyond restorative justice: Understanding justice from an African perspective”. Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation. 9 (1): 43–69. doi:10.10520/EJC-1d589e7a61.
- ^ Murambadoro, Ruth (2015). “From Reconciliation to Justice: The Politics of Memory and the Gukurahundi Massacres in Zimbabwe”. African Journal on Conflict Resolution. 15 (1): 33–57. doi:10.10520/EJC173114.
