Museums as Agents for Social Change: Collaborative Programmes at the Mutare Museum - Paperback

by Njabulo Chipangura (Author), Jesmael Mataga (Author)

Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and presentation.

Author Biography

Njabulo Chipangura is a postdoctoral research fellow at Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (CUBES), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a visiting fellow in the Museum and Gallery Practice Programme at University College London, Qatar. He has previously worked as curator of archaeology at Mutare museum, Eastern Zimbabwe for ten years.

Jesmael Mataga is an Associate Professor of Heritage Studies and the Head of the School of Humanities at Sol Plaatje University (SPU), a new university in Kimberley, South Africa. He previously worked for the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) and taught at the University of Zimbabwe and at the National University of Lesotho