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Prof. Lloyd M Sachikonye attended Ahmadu Bello University graduating with a BA Hons in Government and History in 1978, an M Sc in Political Science in 1981, and Leeds University, completing a Ph D in Political Studies in 1989.
He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate classes and researched at the University of Zimbabwe since 1990 in the fields of Industrial Sociology, Politics and Governance.
His research interests have revolved around Employment Policy, Labour and Industrial Relations; Governance and Electoral Studies; Civil Society and Democratization. More recently, he has developed interest in Conflict Management and Peace Building. Amongst his recent publications are the book award-winning Labour Unions and Party Politics: Labour Movements in Africa co-edited with Bjorn Beckman and Sakhela Buhlungu (Pretoria: HSRC, 2010); When the State turns on its Citizens (Johannesburg: Jacana Media 2011); Zimbabwe’s Lost Decade (Harare: Weaver Press, 2012), and a chapter on ‘Citizenship and Farmworkers’ in D. Kaulemu ( ed.) Imagining Citizenship in Zimbabwe (Harare: KAF and AFCAST, 2012).
Prof. Sachikonye has served as a Consultant Adviser to such institutions as the African Union and International Labour Organization on Employment Policy between 2007 and 2009, and the UN Economic Commission for Africa between 2011 and 2012 on the African Governance Report (AGR 111), 2013. He has served as a member of the CODESRIA Scientific Committee and serves on editorial boards of nine international journals including Africa Development, Journal of African Elections, Afriche e Oriente, Global Labour Journal and Review of African Political Economy.
A. Positions and Honours:
SECRETARY-GENERAL: AFRICAN ASSOCIATION OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (ZIMBABWE CHAPTER) 1984-1990. CHAIRMAN: AFRICAN ASSOCIATION OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (ZIMBABWE CHAPTER) 1990-1994.CHAIRMAN: SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES COMMITTEE, ZIMBABWE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO 1989-1992.BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR: SOUTHERN AFRICA POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MONTHLY, HARARE, 1990-1993ASSOCIATE EDITOR: SOUTHERN AFRICA POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MONTHLY, 1998 – 2002 EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER: ZAMBEZIA, AFRICA DEVELOPMENT, AFRICA ECH ORIENTE, JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ELECTIONS, REVIEW OF AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY, GLOBAL LABOUR JOURNAL, Journal of Public Policy in Africa, Zambia Journal of Social Science. Member of CODESRIA Scientific Committee, 2008, International Sociological Association, International Industrial Relations, International Society for Third-Sector Research.
B. Peer-reviewed publications:
(1986)'State, Capital and Trade Unions Since Independence' in Mandaza (ed.) Zimbabwe: The Political Economy of Transition Dakar: Codesria.
(1989) Changing Patterns of Employment and Labour Process Zimbabwean Agriculture African Journal of Political Economy no.2.
(1992) ‘‘Drought, Food and Adjustment’’ Review of African Political Economy, no.53.
(1993) “Structural Adjustment and Organized Labour in Zimbabwe in P. Gibbon (ed.) Social Change and Economic Reform in Africa Uppsala: SIAS
(1994)'Collective Bargaining in Zimbabwe: Problems and Prospects in Political Transformation, Structural Adjustment and Industrial Relations: English Countries (Co-authored with L.G.Dhlakama) Geneva: ILO
(1994) Female Workers in Agribusiness in Zimbabwe, A Research Report Addis Ababa : OSSREA
(1995) 'Industrial Restructuring and Labour Relations under Adjustment in P.Gibbon (ed.) Structural Adjustment and the Working Poor in Zimbabwe Uppsala: NAI
(1998) Labour Markets and Migration Policy in Southern Africa Southern Africa Political and Economic Monthly (SAPEM) vol. 11 no.4
(1998) Labour Markets and Migration Policy in Southern Africa, Harare: SAPES
(1998) ‘The State, Workers and Industrial Relations’ in S. Agere (ed.) Zimbabwe Post-Independence Administration Dakar: Codesria
(1999) Restructuring or De-industrialising: Textile and Metal Industries under Adjustment, Uppsala: NAI (1999) Tenure Security for Farm Workers in Zimbabwe A Report prepared for the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Harare (with O. Zishiri).
(1999) Structural Adjustment, Labour Market Institutions and the Role of Social Partners Harare: ILO-SAMAT
(2000) ‘The Socio-Economic Effects of Structural Adjustment on Labour’ in A. Sibanda and D.Nyamukapa (eds.) Industrial Relations and Structural Adjustment inZimbabwe, Harare: FES and ZIIRA and B.BECKMAN (eds.) (2001) Labour Regimes and Liberalisation: The Restructuring of State- Society Relations in Africa: Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications.
(2001) ‘Labour Regimes and Liberalisation in Africa: an Introduction’ in L. Sachikonye and B. Beckman (eds.) Labour Regimes and Liberalisation Harare: UZ Publications
(2001) ‘The State and Union Movement in Zimbabwe: co-optation, conflict and accommodation’ in L. Sachikonye and B. Beckman (eds.) Labour Regimes and Liberalisation Harare: UZ Publications
and B. RAFTOPOULOS (eds.) (2001) The Labour Movement in Post- Independence Zimbabwe: Problems and Prospects Harare: Weaver Press
(2001) ‘Introduction: The Labour Movement – Politics and Economic Crisis’ in L. Sachikonye and B. Raftopoulos (eds.) The Labour Movement in Post-Independence Zimbabwe Harare: Weaver Press
(2001) ‘The Institutional Development of Unions in Zimbabwe’ in L. Sachikonye and B. Raftopoulos (eds.) The Labour Movement in Zimbabwe Harare: Weaver Press.
(2001) ‘’ The Art of the Possible: Labour’s Role in Change’’ South African Labour Bulletin, Vol.25 No.3
(2001) ‘The Changing Balance in State-Society Relations: A Review of Selected Labour Regimes’ in B. Beckman et. al. Civil Society and Authoritarianism in the Third World Stockholm: PODSU.
(2003) ‘’From Growth with Equity to Fast Track Land Reform’’ Review of African Political Economy, no. 94 (2004) ‘Land Reform in Namibia and Zimbabwe: a comparative perspective’ in J. Hunter (ed.)Who should own the Land?Windhoek: NID
(2004) Inheriting the Earth: Land Reform in Southern Africa London: CIIR
(2004) ‘Land Reform and Farm Workers’ in D. Harold-Barry (ed) Zimbabwe: The Past is the Future Harare: Weaver Press.
(2005) ‘The Promised Land: from Expropriation to reconciliation to Jambanja’ in B. Raftopoulos and T. Savage (eds.) Zimbabwe: Injustice and Reconciliation, Cape Town: IJR
(2005) ‘The Land is the Economy: revisiting Zimbabwe’s Land Question’African Security Review, vol. 14 no. 3
(2006) Remittances, Poverty Reduction and the Informalization of Household Wellbeing, Global Poverty Research Group, GRPG-WPS-045(with Sarah Bracking)
(2007) ‘Industrial Relations in Conditions of Economic Stress’in G. Wood (ed.)Industrial Relations in Africa
London: Routledge 31.
(2007) ‘David and Goliath duel? Zimbabwe labour movement under tyranny’’ South African Labour Bulletin, Vol. 31 No. 3 and B. Beckman and S. Buhlungu (eds.) (2010) Trade Unions and Party Politics: Labour Movements in Africa Johannesburg: HSRC
(2009) ‘’Remittances and Household Wellbeing in urban Zimbabwe’’International Migration, 2009 (with Sarah Bracking)
(2009) Development Finance, private and public sectors in Zimbabwe:sustainable or odious debt?, Brooks World Poverty Institute WP 84 University of Manchester, 22 pp. (with Sarah Bracking)
(2010) “Remittances, Informalisation and Dispossession in Urban Zimbabwe” in J. Crush and D. Tevera (eds.) Zimbabwe’s Exodus: crisis, migration, survival Kingston and Cape Town: SAMP and IDRC (with Sarah Bracking)
and B. Beckman ‘(2010) Introduction: Trade Unions and Politics in Africa’ in L.Sachikonye, B. Beckman and S. Buhlungu (eds.) Trade Unions and Party Politics in Africa Johannesburg: HSRC and L. Matombo (2010) ‘The Labour Movement and Democratisation in Zimbabwe’ in L. Sachikonye et.al. (eds.) Trade Unions and Party Politics in Africa Johannesburg: HSRC
‘’Citizenship and Farmworkers’ in D. Kaulem (ed.) (2012) Imagining Citizenship in Zimbabwe Harare: AFCAST and KAF
Harare: Sapes
C. Research Support
REGIONAL CO-ORDINATOR (1998-2000), PROGRAMME ON GOVERNANCE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: TRAINING OF PARLIAMENTARIAN AND COUNCILLORS, A Programme of the Southern Africa Regional Institute of Policy Studies, Harare
ELECTION OBSERVER, MEMBER OF THE SADC ELECTORAL COMMISSIONS FORUM TEAM TO THE 1999 MOZAMBIQUE GENERAL ELECTION
ELECTION OBSERVER, MEMBER OF THE EISA OBSERVATION TEAM TO THE BOTSWANA ELECTION, 2004
CONTRIBUTOR, IDEA Publication ‘ Democracy in Nigeria: Continuing Dialogues for Nation-Building’, 2000 Stockholm: IDEA.
D. Teaching
TEACHING ASSISTANT: DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, 1978-1980
SENIOR DESK OFFICER: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ZIMBABWE 1981-1982
SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER: ZIMBABWE INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, 1983-1987
HEAD: DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STUDIES, ZIMBABWE INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, 1987-1990
CHAIRMAN: DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN AND LABOUR STUDIES 1990-97
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR: INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE 1998-
CONSULTANT: International Labour Office (ILO) and AFRICAN UNION, DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT, Addis Ababa, 2007-09
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