Kudzai Chimhangwa

Kudzai Chimhangwa is a columnist for openDemocracy's ourEconomy, and a business and investigative journalist, with specialisation in digital rights and internet freedom advocacy.

Why is a company accused of looting diamonds back in Zimbabwe’s mines?

A Chinese-Zimbabwean military venture has been handed one of the country’s most lucrative diamond-producing blocks, despite past problems

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 28 May 2021

Why is a company accused of looting diamonds back in Zimbabwe’s mines?

Regional trade could help solve Africa’s economic woes, so what’s holding it back?

A common market like the one in eastern and southern Africa can bring great benefits, but only if governments look beyond short-term solutions.

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 12 Jan 2021

Regional trade could help solve Africa’s economic woes, so what’s holding it back?

Zimbabwe citizens demand accountability from government over debt in a landmark high court ruling

Crippling debt and endemic corruption are all too familiar stories, but the ruling marks a small victory in the quest for transparency.

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 22 Dec 2020

Zimbabwe citizens demand accountability from government over debt in a landmark high court ruling

Zimbabwe's odious debts

At a time when the country is grappling with COVID-19 and acute droughts, can debt cancellation save its economy?

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 18 Nov 2020

How green innovation can transform African agriculture

With the threat of climate change and coronavirus, decentralized renewable energy could be key to building more resilient food systems.

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 7 Oct 2020

How green innovation can transform African agriculture

Green revolution: the solution to African energy poverty?

Southern Africa can lead the world in renewable energy – if it can overcome its obstacles.

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 10 Sep 2020

Green revolution: the solution to African energy poverty?

Zimbabwe's new gold rush

Amid COVID restrictions, families, youths and women are flooding into the sector. Policy interventions are needed to support them.

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 7 Aug 2020

War in Mozambique: a natural gas blessing, turned curse

As the world battles COVID-19, a different war is playing out in Mozambique, home to one of the world’s richest recent gas finds.

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 26 Jun 2020

War in Mozambique: a natural gas blessing, turned curse

Counting corona losses in Africa

It doesn't take a crystal ball to foretell the catastrophe awaiting the continent. But how did it get to this, and how do we get out of it?

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 20 May 2020

Will Zimbabwe’s diamonds be forever? A glimpse into a nation’s resource rich curse

Murky deals with Russian and Chinese firms mean super-exploitation in Zimbabwe's communities and super-profits for people thousands of miles away.

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 10 Apr 2020

Will Zimbabwe’s diamonds be forever? A glimpse into a nation’s resource rich curse

How globalisation has informalised African womens’ lives

Women’s rising participation in the informal economy has seen an intensification rather than a reversal of gender inequality.

By Kudzai Chimhangwa

/ 24 Feb 2020

How globalisation has informalised African womens’ lives