Dr Cecilia Nedziwe

Email: cecilia.nedziwe@ru.ac.za

Qualifications

BA Hons (Don State), MA (Queensland), PhD (Rhodes)

 Dr Cecilia Nedziwe

Cecilia Lwiindi Nedziwe, born in Lusaka, Zambia is an African Scholar who writes on Southern Africa’s International Relations, transnationalism, women, gender justice and the politics of the Global South. Her writings include a recent co-authored book Transnational Activities of Women-Focused Civil Society Actors in Southern Africa, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023. She holds a doctorate in Political and International Studies from Rhodes University, where she studied as a CODESRIA African Pathways and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) fellow, as well as the Next Generation Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) scholar. She holds a Master’s degree in International Studies, Peace and Conflict Resolution from the University of Queensland, Australia, where she studied as a Rotary peace scholar; and a BA (Honours) degree in International Economics for Don-State Technical University, Russia. Before joining Rhodes University, Cecilia taught development studies at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa. She has also held positions as senior researcher at UJ’s Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), as regional coordinator and director of operations at the Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa (CPIA), Zimbabwe; as Research Assistant at International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Norway and as a Researcher at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Zambia. Cecilia has a growing research interest in examining Southern Africa’s International Relations (IR), international and regional organisations, transnationalism, foreign policy, and civil society with a women and gender focus. She is currently a member of Rhodes University’s Human Research Ethics Committee. Her research has allowed her to invest time exploring agency in IR, as well as amplifying African voices, particularly those of women in IR.  Over the next 5-10 years, she endeavours to continue working closely with emerging and seasoned African Scholars to broaden her current project on Southern Africa’s IR (re)presenting African women’s experiences, as well as diverse non-state actors organising within transnational spaces.

 

Teaching

She teaches courses in (Africa’s) International Relations, African Gender Studies, and the Politics of Migration and Identity.

 

Research

She has published on the following topics: Southern Africa’s International Relations, transnationalism, foreign policy, migration, civil society and gender.

More about her research can be found on Orcid ID is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4598-0124

  

Publications

Nedziwe, C. L. & Tella, O. (2023). Transnational Activities of Women-Focused Civil Society Actors in Southern Africa. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

NedziweC. L. 2020. “Rethinking SADC: A mixed actor approach to collective policymaking on external relations”in Bischoff P-H (eds) African Foreign Policies: Selecting signifiers to explain agency, London: Routledge. 

Nedziwe, C.L. 2019. “Transforming ivory towers to ebony towers: lessons for South Africa’s curriculum transformation in the humanities from Africa and African-American studies”, IPATC Policy Research Brief. Published in February 2019.

Nedziwe C. L. et al. 2018. “Migration in the EU-ACP partnership after 2020 post-Cotonou as an opportunity to implement the global compact for migration”, IPATC Policy Research Brief. Published in 2018.

Nedziwe, C.L. 2018. “The Leviathan on The Limpopo: South Africa’s post-apartheid foreign and trade policies”, IPATC Policy Research Brief. Published in September 2018.

Nedziwe, C.L. 2018. “As Migration Increases”, The Sunday Independent, 2 December 2018.https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-sunday-independent/20181202.

Nedziwe, C.L. 2018. “Turning Ivory Towers into Ebony Towers. The Star, 16 August 2018. https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-star-south-africa-late-edition/20180816.

Nedziwe, C.L. 2018. “New Free Education Deal: An Opportunity or a Dilemma”. The Star, 12 February 2018. http://africa-live.info/new-free-education-deal-an-opportunity-or-a-dilemma.

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