PLC2601 (Understanding Political Behaviour and Participation)
Decoloniality
Grassroots healing and reconciliation mechanisms
HIV and AIDS
OVCs
Gender and women’s rights
Community based training and monitoring
Coping mechanisms of the poor and the marginalised
The human rights of minority groups
Indigenous, customary and non-state transitional justice
Transitologies
Peacebuilding
Transformative justice
Books
Benyera, Everisto. (2022). The Failure of the International Criminal Court in Africa: Decolonising Global Justice. Routledge: London and New York. ISBN 9781032212333.
Benyera, Everisto. (ed.). 2022. Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Curse or Cure? Springer: Cham. ISBN 9783030875237.
Benyera, Everisto. (2021). The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa: The Coloniality of Data. Routledge: London and New York. ISBN 9780367744151.
Benyera, Everisto. (ed.). 2020. Breaking the Colonial “Contract”: From Oppression to Autonomous Decolonial Futures. Lexington: Lanham, Boulder, New York and London. ISBN 9781793622730.
Benyera, Everisto. (ed.). 2020. Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths. Springer: Cham. ISBN 9783030251437.
Benyera, Everisto. (ed.). 2019. Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Namibia and Zimbabwe. Lexington: Lanham, New York and London. ISBN 9781498592826.
Book Chapters
Benyera, E. 2020. The Colonial State is the Problem in Africa, in Benyera, E. (ed). Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in African Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths. Springer: Cham, pp. 21-35. ISBN 978-3-030-25143-7.
Benyera, E. Francis R. and Jazbhay RH. 2020. Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths: Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa, in Benyera, E. (ed). Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths. Springer: Cham, pp. 3-20. ISBN 978-3-030-25143-7.
Benyera, E. 2019. ‘South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Nigeria’s Oputa Panel: Comparison, Lessons and the Future of Truth Commissions in Africa’. In Tella, O. (ed). Nigeria-South Africa Relations and Regional Hegemonic Competence. Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development.
Benyera, E. 2019. ‘Transitology, Transitional Justice and Transformative Justice’ in Benyera, E (ed). Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Namibia and Zimbabwe. Rowman and Littlefield: New York. ISBN 9781498592826.
Benyera, E. 2019. ‘A Dozen Transitional Justice Realities and Some Preliminary Problematisation’, in Benyera, E (ed). Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Namibia and Zimbabwe. Rowman and Littlefield: New York.
Benyera, E. 2019. ‘The Case for Indigenous, Traditional and Non-State Transitional Justice’, in Benyera, E (ed). Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Namibia and Zimbabwe. Rowman and Littlefield: New York.
Benyera, E. 2019. “The Barrel of the Gun Guiding Politics or Politics Guiding the Barrel of the Gun: On the Role of the Military During Political Transitions In Zimbabwe.” In Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Marina L. Butovskaya (eds.), The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, pp. 273-299. ISBN 978-5-907117-76-1
Mtapuri, O and Benyera, E. 2019. “Displacements in Colonial Zimabwe: Contestations, Meanings and Some Lessons.” In Warikandwa, V. Nhemachena, A. Mpofu N. and H. Chitimira (eds.), Grid-Locked African Economic Sovereignty: Decolonising the Neo-Impeerrla Socio-Economic and Legal Force-fields in the 21st Century. Langaa: Bamenda, Cameroon, pp. 137-158. ISBN: 978 9956 550 30 2.
Benyera, E. 2019. “African Borders and the Coloniality of Human Movement.” In Innocent Moyo and Chris. C. Nshimbi. (eds.), African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration, Routledge: London. ISBN: 9780 36717 4835.
Benyera, Everisto. (ed.). 2019. Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Namibia and Zimbabwe. Rowman and Littlefield: New York.
Benyera E. 2018. ‘Xenophobia-Coloniality Nexus: Zimbabwe’s Experience’. In Adeoye O. Akinola (eds). The Political Economy of Xenophobia in Africa. Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Springer: Cham, pp. 135-151. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64897-2_11
Benyera, E. 2018. ‘Colonialism, the Theft of History and the Quest for Justice for Africa’. In Nhemachena A., Warikandwa T.V. and SK Amoo (eds). Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality: (Re-)Envisioning African Jurisprudence in the 21st Century. Langaa: Bamenda, Cameroon, pp. 121-164.
Benyera, E, Mtapuri, O & Nhemachena A. 2018. ‘The Man, Human Rights, Transitional Justice and African Jurisprudence in the Twenty-First Century’. In Nhemachena A., Warikandwa T.V. and SK Amoo (eds). Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality: (Re-)Envisioning African Jurisprudence in the 21st Century. Langaa: Bamenda, Cameroon, pp. 187-218.
Mtapuri, O, Nhemachena, A and Benyera E. 2018. ‘Towards a Jurisprudential Theory of Migration, Foot-looseness and Nimble-footedness: The New World Order or Pan-Africanism?’ In Nhemachena A., Warikandwa T.V. and SK Amoo (eds). Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality: (Re-)Envisioning African Jurisprudence in the 21st Century. Langaa: Bamenda, Cameroon, pp. 236-298.Benyera, E. 2017. ‘Joshua Nkomo on Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe’. In Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (ed.). Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe: Politics, Power and Memory. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 279-295. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60555-5_12
Book chapters
Benyera Everisto. 2020. The Lamentations of Thomas Mapfumo: Pfumvu Paruzevha as an Expression of Rural Suffering and Resistance in Colonial Zimbabwe, in Ubaldo, Rafiki & Hintjens, Helen (eds.). Music and Peacebuilding: African and Latin American Experiences. Lexington: Lanham, Boulder, New York and London. pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-6748-0, pp. 157-180.
Benyera, Everisto. 2020. How and Why is Colonialism a Contract? In Benyera E. (ed.). Breaking the Colonial Contract: From Oppression to Autonomous Decolonial Futures. Lexington: Lanham, Boulder, New York and London. ISBN 978-1-7936-2273-0, pp. 1-28.
Benyera, Everisto. (2020). Towards Autonomous Decolonial Futures: Using the Master’s Tool to Destroy the Master’s House, in Benyera E. (ed.). Breaking the Colonial Contract: From Oppression to Autonomous Decolonial Futures. Lexington: Lanham, Boulder, New York and London. ISBN 978-1-7936-2273-0, pp. 259-276.
Benyera, E. Francis R. and Jazbhay AH. 2020. Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths: Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa, in Benyera, E. (ed). Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths. Springer: Cham, pp. 3-20. ISBN 978-3-030-25143-7.
Benyera, E. 2020. The Colonial State is the Problem in Africa, in Benyera, E. (ed). Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in African Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths. Springer: Cham, pp. 21-35. ISBN 978-3-030-25143-7.
Benyera, E. 2020. Tinkering with the Commission: Zimbabwe’s Use of Commissions of Inquiry as a Transitional Justice Mechanism, in Chitando Ezra, Kelvin Chikonzo, and Nehemiah Chivandikwa (eds.). National Healing, Integration and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 69-82. ISBN 9780367342463
Benyera, E. 2019. Transitology, Transitional Justice and Transformative Justice, in Benyera, E (ed). Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Namibia and Zimbabwe. Lexington: Lanham, Boulder, New York and London, pp. 1-17. ISBN 978-1-7936-2273-0.
Benyera, E. 2019. A Dozen Transitional Justice Realities and Some Preliminary Problematisation, in Benyera, E (ed). Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Namibia and Zimbabwe. Lexington: Lanham, Boulder, New York and London, pp. 17-32. ISBN 978-1-7936-2273-0.
Benyera, E. 2019. The Case for Indigenous, Traditional and Non-State Transitional Justice, in Benyera, E (ed). Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Namibia and Zimbabwe. Lexington: Lanham, Boulder, New York and London, pp. 33-48. ISBN 978-1-7936-2273-0.
Benyera, E. 2019. The Barrel of the Gun Guiding Politics or Politics Guiding the Barrel of the Gun: On the Role of the Military During Political Transitions in Zimbabwe. In Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Marina L. Butovskaya (eds.), The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, pp. 273-299. ISBN 978-5-907117-76-1
Mtapuri, O and Benyera, E. 2019. Displacements in Colonial Zimabwe: Contestations, Meanings, Consequencies and Some Lessons. In Warikandwa, V. Nhemachena, A. Mpofu N. and H. Chitimira (eds.), Grid-Locked African Economic Sovereignty: Decolonising the Neo-Imperial Socio-Economic and Legal Force-fields in the 21st Century. Langaa: Bamenda, Cameroon, pp. 137-158. ISBN: 978 9956 550 30 2.
Benyera, E. 2019. African Borders and the Coloniality of Human Movement. In Innocent Moyo and Chris. C. Nshimbi. (eds.), African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration, Routledge: London. ISBN: 9780 36717 4835.DOI 10.4324/9780429057014
Benyera, E. 2019. South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Nigeria’s Oputa Panel: Comparison, Lessons and the Future of Truth Commissions in Africa. In Tella, O. (ed). Nigeria-South Africa Relations and Regional Hegemonic Competence. Springer: Cham, ISBN:978-3-030-00080-6, pp. 183-202.
Mtapuri, O, Nhemachena, A and Benyera E. 2018. Towards a Jurisprudential Theory of Migration, Foot-looseness and Nimble-footedness: The New World Order or Pan-Africanism? In Nhemachena A., Warikandwa T.V. and SK Amoo (eds). Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality: (Re-)Envisioning African Jurisprudence in the 21st Century. Langaa: Bamenda, Cameroon, pp. 236-298.
Benyera, E, Mtapuri, O & Nhemachena A. 2018. The Man, Human Rights, Transitional Justice and African Jurisprudence in the Twenty-First Century. In Nhemachena A., Warikandwa T.V. and SK Amoo (eds). Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality: (Re-)Envisioning African Jurisprudence in the 21st Century. Langaa: Bamenda, Cameroon, pp. 187-218.
Benyera, E. 2018. Colonialism, the Theft of History and the Quest for Justice for Africa. In Nhemachena A., Warikandwa T.V. and SK Amoo (eds). Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality: (Re-)Envisioning African Jurisprudence in the 21st Century. Langaa: Bamenda, Cameroon, pp. 121-164.
Benyera E. 2018. Xenophobia-Coloniality Nexus: Zimbabwe’s Experience. In Adeoye O. Akinola (eds). The Political Economy of Xenophobia in Africa. Springer: Cham, pp. 135-151.
Benyera, E. 2017. Joshua Nkomo on Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe. In Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (ed.). Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe: Politics, Power and Memory. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 279-295. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60555-5_12.
Benyera E. 2023. Neither child soldier nor warlord but a survivor: Dominic Ongwen and the Need for Survivors’ Justice in International Criminal Justice, African Security Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2023.2198998
Benyera, E. 2021. Covid-19 Vaccine Nationalism and Vaccine Diplomacy: A New Currency in Soft Power? Strategic Review for Southern Africa. 43(2): 193-217. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35293/srsa.v43i2.871
Benyera, E. 2021. Child victim, loyal war spirit medium or war criminal: Shifting the geography and logic of historical accountability in Dominic Ongwen’s ICC trial, African Identities, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2021.2005537.
Benyera, E. 2018. Is the International Criminal Court Unfairly Targeting Africa? Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean States, 37(1): DOI: https://doi.org/10.25159/0256-8845/2403
Benyera, E. 2017. On The Complexities Of Prosecuting Robert Mugabe at the International Criminal Court. Austral: Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations, 6(12): 111-131. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22456/2238-6912.77616
Benyera E. 2017. HIV and AIDS in Rustenburg, South Africa: Trends, risk behaviours and some lessons. Studies on Ethno Medicine, 11(3): 239-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/09735070.2017.1316949
Benyera, E. 2016. On the question of the transition: Was Zimbabwe a transition state between 2008 and 2013, Journal of Human Ecology. 55(3): 160-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/09709274.2016.11907020
Benyera E, 2015. Presenting ngozi as an Important Consideration in Pursuing Transitional Justice for Victims: The case of Moses Chokuda. Gender and Behaviour. 13(2): 6760-6773. http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC182547
Benyera E, 2015. Rebuking Impunity Through Music: The case of Thomas Mapfumo’s Masoja neMapurisa. Journal of Communication. 6(2): 260-269.
Benyera E and Nyere C. 2015. An Exploration of the Impact of Zimbabwe’s 2005 Operation Murambatsvina on Women and Children. Gender and Behaviour. 13: (1): 6522-6534. http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC172614
Ndlovu-Gatsheni S and Benyera E, 2015. Strategy Recommendation Framework for Resolving the Justice and Reconciliation Question in Zimbabwe, African Journal of Conflict Resolution. 15(2): 9-33. http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC182441
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Benyera, Everisto. (ed.). 2020. Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths. Springer: Cham.
