rmurambadoro@mun.ca
Ruth Murambadoro is a Black political feminist and seasoned public speaker whose scholarship sits at the intersection of feminist theory, politics, and justice. Her work interrogates the structures of power and oppression that shape the lived experiences of marginalized communities in the Global South—particularly women in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms at Memorial University of Newfoundland, located in Mi’kma’ki—the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq and Beothuk peoples.
Her growing body of work includes the monograph Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and the co-edited volume The PhD Experience in African Higher Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Ruth also contributes thought-provoking essays to platforms such as Kujenga Amani, Africa Is A Country, and Herizons, among others.
A former board member of the Zimbabwe Peace Project and the African Studies Association, Ruth is a committed scholar-activist who works to advance holistic peace and development—both within academia and in broader society. She holds research affiliations with the Harriet Tubman Institute and the Centre for Feminist Research. Her long-term project, Humanizing African Women Movements, brings together diverse Black artists to build a digital repository of research creations that (re)present African women’s resistance to the geographies of violence shaping their everyday lives.
Keywords: Black feminisms, African Indigenous epistemologies, decolonial methods, intersectionality, gender justice, peacebuilding, sub-Saharan Africa