Dr Norita Mdege
Senior Scientist
Dr Norita Mdege is a strategic thinker and qualitative research expert with 10 years of experience in development research. She has led various projects covering many issues, including health, food security, political conflict, media, inequalities and climate change. She is passionate about building an inclusive future through processes that integrate intersectional identities into addressing societal challenges. She has worked in various African countries and multicultural and multidisciplinary environments, which has broadened her knowledge and skills and enabled her to offer a unique perspective. She is the author of the book ‘Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict’, published by Routledge.
Current project
Women, Digital Activism and Everyday Political Agency: African Feminist Perspectives from Zimbabwe
Publications
No | Title | Year | All Authors | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
16 | Challenging gender norms and taboos: women’s economic resilience to climate change in the fish food systems in Nigeria and Tanzania. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue Canadienne d’études Du Développement, 47(1), 148–172. | 2026 | Mdege, Norita, Netsayi Noris Mudege, Olajumoke Adeyeye and Devis Mwakanyamale | Journal Article |
15 | Gender norms and women’s economic resilience to climate change challenges: a case study of Ogun and Oyo states in Nigeria, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 23:1, 2534316 | 2025 | Mudege, Netsayi Noris, Norita Mdege, Olajumoke Adeyeye, Lizzy Muzungaire and Keagan Kakwasha | Journal Article |
14 | Dialogues on gender, gender-based violence, masculinities, and ethical and gender-responsive leadership in the Fisheries sector: Facilitators manual. Penang Malaysia: WorldFish. Manual: 2025-88. | 2025 | Mudege, Netsayi Noris, Norita Mdege, Lucy Kilanga, Editrudith Lukanga | Training Manual |
13 | African feminist interpretations of political actions, practices and policies: Zimbabwe’s Bustop TV, Feminist Media Studies, 1-17. | 2025 | Norita Mdege | Journal Article |
12 | Towards greater visibility of African women in politics, Global Challenges, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, No. 15, Chapter 7. | 2024 | Norita Mdege | Knowledge Exchange Article |
11 | Affordances and platformed visual misogyny: A call for feminist approaches in visual methods, Feminist Media Studies, 24(5), 962–983. | 2024 | Özkula, Suay Melisa, Patricia Prieto-Blanco, Xuanxuan Tan, Norita Mdege | Journal Article |
10 | 2024 | Norita Mdege | Journal Article | |
9 | Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict, London: Routledge. | 2023 | Norita Mdege | Book |
8 | Women In Political Leadership And The Glass Labyrinth, Geneva Graduate Institute. | 2023 | Norita Mdege | Newsletter |
7 | Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda, Third World Quarterly, 43:10, 2430-2449. | 2022 | Mdege, Norita, Sarah Mayanja, Netsayi Noris Mudege | Journal Article |