Dr. Ronald Chipaike

Summary

Dr Ronald Chipaike obtained a PhD in International Relations from Rhodes University, South Africa in 2017. His thesis focused on African agency in the context of Chinese development assistance engagements with African countries. Dr Chipaike has subsequently extensively written on the same subject and presented a good number of research papers at academic conferences across the globe. Dr Chipaike also holds an Msc in International Relations and a Bsc in Political Science from University of Zimbabwe. From 2011 to date, Dr Chipaike teaches International Relations in the Department of Peace and Governance at Bindura University of Science Education. He has also done research with and for the Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe on the implications of Chinese engagement of African countries on democracy. Dr Chipaike’s research interests are in the area of Africa-China relations, Foreign Policy and International Political Economy. Lastly, besides being an academic, Dr Chipaike is also a pastor in the Christian Transformation Church, Bindura.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters

  1. Chipaike Ronald. (2012). The Libya crisis: The militarisation of the New Scramble and More. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (IJHSS). Vol 2 (8), page 43-48. http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_2_No_8_Special_Issue_April_2012/5.pdf
  2. Chipaike Ronald. (2012). Zimbabwe’s economic empowerment initiatives: A critical review. In Maruta S (ed) Sustainable peace and development at community level: beneficiaries are actors too (117-137), Harare: Southern Institute of Peace-building and Development
  3. Makwerere David and Chipaike Ronald. (2012). China and United States of America in Africa: A New Scramble or A New Cold War? International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (IJHSS). Vol 2 (17), pp 311-319. http://www.ijhssnet.com/view.php?u=http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_2_No_17_September_2012/35.pdf
  4. Dodo Obediah, Chipaike Ronald, Ngwerume Emmaculate and Chigondo Etiya. (2012). Four Years into Zimbabwe’s Government of National Unity: Assessing the challenges and successes from the Civil Society’s perspective. LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol 9 (3), pp 202-215. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/lwati/article/view/80984
  5. Chipaike Ronald. (2013).The Zimbabwe Government of National Unity as a Conflict Transformation mechanism: A critical review. Southern Peace Review Journal of the Southern Institute of Peace Building and Development (SIPD), Vol 2(1), pp 17-35,
  6. Chipaike Ronald and Mhandara Lawrence (2013). Evading Punishment: An analysis of China-Zimbabwe relations in an age of sanctions. In Mulugeta GB and Liu H (eds), China-Africa Relations: Governance, Peace and Security (pp 146-165). Addis Ababa: Institute of African Studies (Zhezhiang Normal University) and Institute for Peace and Security studies (Addis Ababa University). https://media.africaportal.org/documents/China_Africa_book_3.pdf
  7. Mhandara Lawrence and Chipaike Ronald (2013) .Chinese Investments in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for Peace and Security in Zimbabwe. In Mulugeta GB and Liu H (eds), China-Africa Relations: Governance, Peace and Security (pp 211-226). Addis Ababa: Institute of African Studies (Zhezhiang Normal University) and Institute for Peace and Security studies (Addis Ababa University). https://media.africaportal.org/documents/China_Africa_book_3.pdf
  8. Matarutse Knowledge and Chipaike Ronald (2017). Impediments besetting the European Union (EU) – East and Southern Africa (ESA) negotiations for a transition from an interim Economic Partnership Agreement (iEPA) to a comprehensive EPA 2007-2014. South African Journal of International Affairs, 20 (3), 355-374. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10220461.2017.1382386
  9. Chipaike Ronald & Matarutse Knowledge (2018). Evaluating ZIMASSET: The need for Foreign Policy Reorientation and (Re) engagement of International Partners. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research, 6 (1), 1-12.
  10. Chipaike Ronald & Matarutse Knowledge (2018). South-South Cooperation and Africa’s Economic Development: The Case of FOCAC. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research, 6 (2), 822-833.
  11. Chipaike Ronald & Bischoff Paul-Henri (2018). A challenge to conventional wisdom: Locating agency in Angola and Ghana’s economic engagements with China. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 53 (7), 1-16. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021909618763922
  12. Chipaike Ronald & Matarutse Knowledge (2018). The Question of African Agency in International Relations. Cogent Social Sciences, 4 (1487257), 1-16. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2018.1487257
  13. Chipaike Ronald & Bischoff Paul-Henri (2019). Chinese engagement of Zimbabwe and the limits of elite agency. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 54 (7), 947-964. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021909619848783
  14. Chipaike Ronald, Tshuma Nduduzo & Hofisi Sharon (2019). African Move to Withdraw from the ICC: Assessment of issues and implications. Indian Quarterly, 75 (3), 1-17. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0974928419860918
  15. Chipaike Ronald & Marufu Eugenia (2020) Chinese Construction Companies and the Question of Labour Rights in Zimbabwe. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 0 (00), 1-13. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021909620912777
  16. Mafuta Wonder, Zuvarimwe Jethro, Kamuzhanje Joseph, Mwale Marizvikuru& Chipaike Ronald (2020). Sustainable Conflict Resolution through Community Based Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Planning in Fragile and Conflict Situations: The Case of Somalia. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 0(00), 1-12. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00219096209281
  17. Chipaike Ronald, Book Review (2022), Kornegay, F and Mthembu Philani (Eds) (2021) Africa and the World: Navigating the Shifting Global Geopolitics, Johannesburg: Mapungubwe Institute
  18. Chipaike, R (2021) Zimbabwe Country Profile, People’s Map of Global China.
  19. Mahuku Darlington, Chipaike Ronald and Mbanje Bowden (2023) Russia-Ukraine war: Overtures of Imperialism and neo-colonialism on Africa in Nhemachena, Artwell (EDT)/Rwodzi, Aaron (EDT)/Mawere, Munyaradzi (EDs) The Russia-Ukraine War from an African Perspective: Special Operations in the Age of Technoscientific Futurism. London: Lexington Books. Pp 330-352.
  20. Ronald Chipaike, Isaac Nunoo & Nyasha Chingono (2023) Chinese covid diplomacy in Africa: Interrogating Zimbabwe’s experience, Cogent Social Sciences, 9:2, 2275442, DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2023.2275442
  21. Isaac Nunoo, Justice Atenka and Ronald Chipaike (2023) Kwame Nkrumah’s Intervention in the 1960s Congo Crisis: a Pan-African Geopolitics and Personality Trait. The African Review, 1-19, doi:10.1163/1821889X-bja10095

Newspaper Contributions

  1. Chipaike, R (2016, June 26) ‘Brexit: Implications for Africa and Zimbabwe’. Sunday Mail. Available at http://www.sundaymail.co.zw/brexit-implications-for-africa-and-zim/
  2. Chipaike, R (2016, June 21) ‘Africa’s Engagement with China’. Available at http://www.chronicle.co.zw/africas-engagement-with-china/
  3. Chipaike, R (2016, November 28) ‘Trump victory: possible implications for Africa’. Available at http://www.chronicle.co.zw/trump-victory-possible-implications-for-africa/
  4. Chipaike, R (2017, May 25) ‘Africa at 54: achievements, prospects and challenges’. Daily News.
  5. Chipaike, R (2017, November 12) ‘China and the West in Zimbabwe: Continuity and competition’. Sunday News. Available at http://www.sundaynews.co.zw/china-and-the-west-in-zimbabwe-continuity-and-competition/
  6. Chipaike, R (2018, June 10) ‘Africa at 55: Remember nothing is for free, even from the Chinese!’ Daily News.
  7. Chipaike R, (2023, December 18) ‘Chinese donations of African Parliaments: bad report on Africa’, The Independent.
  8. Chipaike, R (2024, January 5) ‘China playing a long trade game in Africa’, The Standard.

 

Conference Papers

  1. ‘Zimbabwe’s economic empowerment initiatives: A critical review’. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Community-driven-Peace Building and Development, Harare, Zimbabwe, 20-21 October 2011.
  2. ‘Evading punishment: An analysis of China-Zimbabwe relations in an age of sanctions’. Paper presented at the China Africa Think Tanks Forum held in Bishoftu Town, Ethiopia, 12-13 October 2012
  3. ‘An analysis of the impact of China-Africa relations on human security: the case of Zimbabwe (2000-2012)’. Paper presented at the China-Africa symposium, Harare 22-24 October 2013.
  4. ‘Human insecurity in Africa and the lure of the European paradise: analysing the African Union’s response to the “illegal” migration problem’. Paper presented at the International-Africa Peace and Security Education Conference, Bindura, Zimbabwe, 2-3 July 2015.
  5. ‘The Case for Afro-Centred International Relations Theory in the African University’. Paper presented at the UNISA-UZ Second Political Science Colloquium, Harare, Zimbabwe, 28 August 2015.
  6. ‘All weather friend or economic saviour: representations of China in Zimbabwe’s public media since 2003’. Paper accepted for conference entitled “Building Images: Exploring 21st century Sino-African dynamics through cultural exchange, media representation and translation’, University of Nottingham, UK, 14-16 January 2016.
  7. ‘Shortcomings of state based agency in Zimbabwe’s development assistance relations with China’. Paper presented at the Yale Africa-China Conference in Lagos, Nigeria, 15-18 March 2016.
  8. ‘The Question of African Agency in International Relations’. Paper accepted for African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) 2nd Biennial Conference, University of Ghana, Legon, 12-14 October 2017.
  9. ‘Agency at the margins: Zimbabwe’s economic engagement with China since 2000’. Paper presented at the ‘Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network (CA/AC)’ conference entitled ‘”China-Africa” in Global Perspective’, held at Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 27-29 June 2018.
  10. ‘The need for enhanced agency in China-Africa interactions’, Paper Presented at the Ruzivo Trust Zimbabwe-China business symposium, Rainbow Towers Hotel, Harare, Zimbabwe, 17 October 2022.
  11. Discussant at the Launch of a study by Friedrich Naumann Foundation entitled ‘Inversion of Democracy: China’s Investments in African Parliaments’, Harare, 20 October 2023.
  12. ‘Relationship between China and former liberation movements: implications for democratic governance’ Paper presented at the China in Africa Dialogue Series 1 hosted by the Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe, 30 November 2023, on zoom.

 

Related Career Activities

  1. Qualifications assessor and programmes reviewer: Zimbabwe Council of Higher Education (ZIMCHE).
  2. Article reviewer for the following Journals:
  • International Relations and Diplomacy
  • Third World Quarterly (Taylor and Francis)
  • Asian Ethnicity (Taylor and Francis)
  • Journal of African Foreign Affairs
  • Cogent Social Sciences (Sage)
  • African Journal of Political Science and International Relations
  • Journal of Asian and African Studies (Sage)


Professional Associations

  1. Member-Chinese in Africa and Africans in China (CA/AC) network.

Contact Details
Phone: +263 773 244 767
Email: rchipaike@buse.ac.zw, chipaiker84@gmail.com

Faculty of Social Sciences