Bio

Dr. Teverayi Muguti is a Postdoctoral Researcher associated with the History Department at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He holds a BA Honors Degree in Economic History (University of Zimbabwe), an MSc in Intelligence and Security (Bindura University of Science Education – Zimbabwe), and a PhD in History (Stellenbosch University). He has published book chapters and journal articles engaging themes including African border studies, interstate diplomacy, and borderland community livelihoods in southern Africa. He also has growing interests in African sports history, particularly the cue sport of pool. He has been awarded various research awards, including the Lisa Maskell PhD Fellowship (2021- 2023), Erasmus+ PhD Researcher Mobility Grant (2022), SSRC-Next Generation Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship (2022), and the Harvard |Cambridge|Paris Universities History Project Research Grant (2023). He currently serves as an Editorial Assistant at the South African Historical Journal. In his 2025 APN-IRF project, Muguti uses the human security and ungoverned spaces concepts to examine a history of uncertainty and vulnerability within Sengwa Island’s livelihoods in Lake Kariba – Binga district. The study focuses on a marginal area within an already peripheral border district of Zimbabwe, examining various aspects such as cross-border criminality, law enforcement, and social service delivery.