Malaika is an MPhil/PhD student specialising in decolonial conflict, identity, and ideology. She explores the mutually constructive power of irregular warfare, nationalism, and transnational landscapes in conflict and state-building, with a particular focus on Zimbabwe’s liberation war.

PhD Title: "A history of ZANLA operatives in Africa, China and the Eastern Block, 1963-80: imagining Home and Nation in exile"

PhD Supervisor: Professor Joanna Lewis