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Nancy Rushohora is a Tanzanian archaeologist and heritage scholar whose work deeply engages with memory, colonial history, and cultural heritage. She is a Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies staff member and an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter (UK) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Her research more specifically focuses on the archaeology of resistance, heritage, trauma, collective memory, and the politics of photographs and memorialization. A key project she leads is “Transgenerational Memories of the Majimaji War (1904–1908)”, a digital initiative exploring memory landscapes, war memorials, and the repatriation of human remains from Tanzania to Germany. This effort aims to open missionary archives, amplify diverse narratives, and develop a documentary film addressing colonial trauma and memory landscapes.
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Mahonge, F. R., Kisarwa, M. I., Rushohora, N., & Letara, B. (2025). Myth and Mythology in the Conservation of Tanzania’s Forest and Water Resources. Studies in the African Past, 1(aop), 1-16.
Mukingambeho, D., Buhigiro, J. L., Ndagijimana, J. B., Rushohora, N., Gakwenzire, P., & Rwabukamba, J. C. (2025). Integration of genocide studies in Rwandan secondary schools: challenges and strategies for enhanced educational impact. Cogent Education, 12(1), 2532234.
Foliard, D., Willcock, S., Schill, P., Protschky, S., Rushohora, N., Fattal, A. L., ... & Mailänder, E. (2023). ‘Working with Grievous Images’, a special issue of History of Photography:. History of Photography, 47(4), 411-418.
Rushohora, N. (2024). Memories of Resistance to Slavery in Southeastern Tanzania. Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), 13(2).
Rushohora, N. (2024). Museum and Digitization in the Aftermath of Colonialism in Southern Africa. In The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and the Media in the 21st Century(pp. 326-335). Routledge.
Rushohora, N. (2024). Tanzania and the Apparent Lack of Restitution Activism. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 50(1), 168-181.
Rushohora, N. Reimagining Monuments of Trauma and the German Colonial Space: Liwale, Nandete and Mahenge in Southern Tanzania. MONUMENTS AND SITES DE-COLONIAL!, 201.
Rushohora, N. (2023). Beyond Zinjanthropus: Historical Archaeology Pedagogy in Tanzania. Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era, 167.
Rushohora, N. (2022). "German Colonialism and Trading in African Skulls: The Case of Chief Hassan Omar Makunganya in Kilwa, Tanzania," Jahazi, 10(1), 27-29.
Rushohora, N. (2022). Monuments of the Exiles and Memorialisation of Shared Heritage Between Mozambique and Tanzania. African Historical Review, 53(1-2), 65-90.
Rushohora, N. (2021). "The Challenges of Teaching the Majimaji War in Contemporary Tanzania," in Teaching African History in Schools (pp. 107-123). Brill Sense.
Rushohora, N. A. (2021). Graves, Houses of Pain and Execution: Memories of the German Prisons after the Majimaji War in Tanzania (1904–1908). In Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century (pp. 75-99). Routledge.
Rushohora, N. (2020). Tafakari Mpya ya Vita ya Majimaji na Mauaji ya Kimbari 1904- 1908, University of Dar es Salaam Press.
Rushohora, N. A. (2020). "The Majimaji War Mass Graves and the Challenges of Repatriation, Identity, and Remedy," in The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation (pp. 277-292).
Rushohora, N. (2019). "Desperate Mourning and Atrophied Representation: A Tale of Two Skulls," African Historical Review, 51(1), 25-45.
Rushohora, N., & Silayo, V. (2019). Cults, crosses, and crescents: Religion and healing from colonial violence in Tanzania. Religions, 10(9), 519.
Rushohora, N. A. (2019). Facts and fictions of the Majimaji war graves in southern Tanzania. African Archaeological Review, 36(1), 145-159.
Rushohora, N., & Kurmann, E. (2018). Look at Majimaji! A plea for historical photographs in Tanzania. African Studies, 77(1), 87-104.
Rushohora, N. (2017). German colonial missionaries and the Majimaji memorials in southern Tanzania. Journal of Social History, 50(3), 481-501.
Rushohora, N. A. (2017). Theorising the Majimaji–Landscape, memory and agency. Journal of African Cultural Heritage Studies, 1(1).
Rushohora, N. A. (2015). History teachers and the use of History textbooks in Africa-From textbook to'desa': A personal narrative of teaching History in Tanzania. Yesterday and Today, (14), 238-243.
Rushohora, N. A. (2015). An archaeological identity of the Majimaji: toward an historical archaeology of resistance to German colonization in southern Tanzania. Archaeologies, 11(2), 246-271.