Dr Njabulo Chipangura is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology with an interest in the empirical ways in which museum practices can be decolonised through epistemic and aesthetic disobedience, benchmarked by undoing earlier ways of knowledge production, particularly by examining African collections and their representations. Njabulo has published several research papers that examine ongoing debates about the coloniality of museums and associated knowledge production and representation practices, with the aim of imagining a decolonised museum in Africa. He is also a managing editor for the Museum and Society, published by the University of Leicester Open Journals. Njabu is currently working on a co-edited volume entitled The Museologies of Africa: Rethinking African Museums, Community Inclusion, Living Cultures and Decolonisation which will be published by Routledge in 2026.
Provenance Research in Museums: Principles, Practices and Possibilities, Volume 1; Truth-telling as a form of decolonial care: stories from a collaborative object biography research with the Ndau community of Eastern Zimbabwe; Community Collaborations and Social Biographies of Museum Collections from Colonial Contexts: Meanings of Zulu Beadwork; Where are Nehanda's remains?: A Zimbabwean Search in the Context of Shifting Museum Politics (In Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums); “Bring the Objects out of the Basement!”: The Wellcome African Collection at Manchester Museum