Prof Enocent Msindo is an Associate Professor and currently the Dean of Humanities, Rhodes University. He completed his MPhil and PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, and was subsequently awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Scholarship in Rhodes University's History Department in 2005/6. He was then appointed as a lecturer on the Next Generation Academic Programme from 2007 to 2009, also funded by Mellon He is a National Research Foundation (NRF, RSA) rated researcher. He has wide-ranging research interests in African social and political history. Over the years, he has researched and published on social and political identities such as ethnicity, nationalism, and chieftaincy, and also on marginalization in precolonial, colonial, and post-colonial Zimbabwe. He completed a major work on ethnicity and its intersection with other identities in Southern Zimbabwe which he published in his well-received monograph entitled Ethnicity in Zimbabwe: Transformations in Kalanga and Ndebele Societies, 1860-1990. As a post-doctoral fellow at Rhodes University, he was part of the community of Zimbabwean scholars in South Africa who debated the contents of the Ian Smith Papers that were housed at Rhodes University. At the time, the Papers were only accessible through special permission. This inter-Africa diapsoric community joined the Zimbabwean archival community in calling for an investigation into the nature of the collection's content. In 2010, Msindo was commissioned by the President Robert Mugabe to produce a report. Msindo's investigation found that more than 90% of the documents contained in the collection were governmental in nature. His investigation into what are now termed The Rhodesia Cabinet Files lay the foundation for Zimbabwe to demand the repatriation of the collection.