Conversations with the Dreamers: Dr Anotida Chikumbu

Dr. Anotida Chikumbu is an Assistant Professor of African History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. He previously studied and taught in the department of history and the writing program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA where he also worked as an assistant to the editor in chief at the University of Massachusetts Press. He is also a member of the Military Welfare History Network (MWHN) at the University College Dublin in Ireland.

In 2022, he was a Society for Military History inaugural fellow at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Chikumbu previously studied and taught Economic history at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. His broader research interest is the history of Southern Africa and the United States.

He is particularly interested in histories of slavery and resistance, colonialism, apartheid and nationalism, civil rights and liberation movements, military welfare, war veterans, assassinations, military coup d'états, post-conflict reconstruction, peace building, elections and presidential leadership. His scholarship includes single-authored journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, newspaper articles, podcasts, documentary films, critical commentaries, and numerous conference presentations.

His latest single authored research paper, "The Forgotten Narratives," was published by Brill in the International Journal of Military History and Historiography. Chikumbu is the producer of the Anotida Chikumbu - BOOK SERIES, the most prestigious interdisciplinary live television podcast show in academia. This program is sponsored by Global South Opportunities.