1st Edition

Extractive Industry Indigenisation in Zimbabwe Neoextractivism, Resource Nationalism and Uneven Development

By Kennedy Manduna Copyright 2026
246 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explains how and why Zimbabwe’s extractive industry Indigenisation over-promised its benefits yet under-delivered upon implementation. This book traces the history of uneven development in Zimbabwe from the initial days of colonialism to the present, using the extractive industry as the unit of analysis to carve out a granular and empirical analysis of the preponderance of... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Neo-Extractivism, Resource Nationalism and Green Imperialism  3.  The Colonial Mining Regime: Extractivism, Accumulation and Dispossession  4. But then what is Indigenisation?  5.  Contested Framings of Indigeneity and Impact of Indigenisation in Zimbabwe  6. Community and Share Ownership Trusts: The Controversies around them  7.  The Indigenisation Programme and the Natural Capital Accounting in Zimbabwe  8.  Political Settlements and Zimbabwe's Extractive Industry Indigenisation  9.  Business Fronting, Beneficial Ownership and Political Settlements  10.  Regime Survivalism and Private Accumulation of Public Resources Objectives  11.  Green Colonialism, the Second Republic and The Reversal of the Indigenisation Programme  12.  Conclusion: Policy Recommendations and the Proposed Way Forward

Biography

Kennedy Manduna is a Research Associate at the African Centre for the Study United States (ACSUS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Between January 2023 and December 2024 he was one of only 12 fellows globally awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) of the Rosa‑Luxemburg‑Stiftung in Germany. As IRGAC’s sole African-based postdoctoral fellow, he was hosted by the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He holds several academic affiliations, including associate fellow at the IRGAC, visiting scholar and fellow at the University of Potsdam, and academic trustee at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany.