Nicholas Nyachega is an African historian from Zimbabwe’s Honde Valley borderlands. He earned his Ph.D. in African History (and Development Studies & Social Change) from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His interdisciplinary and comparative research and teaching interests cover African History, Global Borders and Borderlands, Migration and Security, Gender and Mobility, Colonialism(s), and Liberation Movements.

His current book project, which builds from his doctoral dissertation, conceives African borderlands as contested spaces and places of contradictions—geographies of complex everyday encounters, knowledge and power struggles, self-determination strategies, and possibilities. 

Prior to his Ph.D. journey, Nicholas held various significant roles in institutions in Zimbabwe. As part of his journey to ‘give back’ to the communities that nurtured him, he worked as a History Teacher at Muparutsa Secondary School in Honde Valley where he was also a Rugby Coach and Chairperson of the Mutasa Schools Rugby Development. He also taught at the University of Zimbabwe.