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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
6 | “Your husbands are bringing it to you”: South African rural women and HIV in Darrell Roodt’s Yesterday (2004), Culture, Health & Sexuality, 22:S1, pp. 96-110. | 2020 | Norita Mdege | Journal Article |
5 | Making the agriculture sector work for young people: A tool to promote young men and women’s engagement, International Potato Centre. | 2019 | Mudege, Netsayi N., Daniel Mbiri, Norita Mdege | Policy Brief |
4 | Outsiders, fairytales and rainbowism in South African comedies: Soweto Green: This is a ‘Tree’ Story (1995) and Fanie Fourie’s Lobola (2013), Journal of African Cinemas, 11:1, pp. 11–29. | 2019 | Norita Mdege | Journal Article |
3 | 2018 | Norita Mdege | Journal Article | |
2 | Scaling up of sweetpotato vine multiplication technologies in Phalombe and Chikwawa districts in Malawi: A gender analysis, NJAS – Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 85(1), 1–9. | 2018 | Mudege, Netsayi N., Robert O.M. Mwanga, Norita Mdege, Tafadzwa Chevo, Putri E. Abidin | Journal Article |
1 | The role of gender norms in access to agricultural training in Chikwawa and Phalombe, Malawi, Gender, Place & Culture (CGPC), 24(12), 1689–1710. | 2017 | Mudege, Netsayi N, Norita Mdege, Putri E Abidin, Sandra Bhatasara | Journal Article |