Elijah Doro

Elijah Doro is a visiting research fellow at the African Studies Centre in Leiden from Zimbabwe and is based at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany.

He did his Ph.D at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and his research is on histories of toxic waste, poison and pollution in southern Africa. He is currently researching on gold mining, arsenic contamination and the toxic legacies in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe.

Recent publications

Doro, E. (2023). Plunder for profit: A socio-environmental history of tobacco farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Doro, E. (2024). No body, no crime? Vicariously imagining Africa’s arsenic century: Bovines, arsenic poisoning and multi-species toxic histories in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–1940s. Environment and History, 30(4), 641–664.

Doro, E. (2024). The chemical violence of colonial encounters in Africa: Historiographical reflections and theoretical perspectives. In O. B. Mlambo & E. Chitando (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of violence in Africa (pp. 167–176). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Doro, E., & Armiero, M. (2024). Toxicity, racial capitalism and colonial mining: Lessons from cyanide in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia). In E. O’Gorman, W. S. Martin, M. Carey, & S. Swart (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of environmental history (pp. 261–273). London, UK: Routledge.