Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	May 25, 1955(1955-05-25)
Age	69
Birthplace	Harare
Country	Zimbabwe
Birth City	Harare Province
Horoscope	Gemini

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Biography

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on May 25, 1955 in Harare, Harare Province, Zimbabwe.

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (born 25 May 1955) is a Malawian historian, literary critic, novelist, short-story writer and blogger at The Zeleza Post. He was (2009) president of the African Studies Association. He was the Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Quinnipiac University. He is the current Vice Chancellor of the United States International University Africa, located in Nairobi, Kenya.

Zeleza is also a renowned writer of fiction. He is the author of three books, two collections of short stories, Night of Darkness and Other Stories (Montfort Press, Limbe, 1976), and The Joys of Exile: Stories (Anansi: Toronto, 1994), and a novel, Smouldering Charcoal (Oxford: Heinemann, 1992).

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Net Worth

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is one of the richest Novelist from Zimbabwe. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Zeleza was born on 25 May 1955 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (today Harare, Zimbabwe) to Malawian parents. His family returned to Nyasaland (today Malawi) in 1956, before returning to Rhodesia in 1972. Zeleza attended primary school (1961–1968) and secondary school (1968–1972) in the cities of Lilongwe and Blantyre in Malawi. He matriculated at the University of Malawi, majoring in English and History and earning a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in 1976. He then served as a staff associate at the University of Malawi’s Chancellor College from 1976 to 1977 before going to the United Kingdom for graduate school. He studied at the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies and the London School of Economics, earning a Master of Arts in African History and International Relations in 1978. He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy in Economic History from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1982.

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In August 1995, Zeleza was recruited to become director of the Center for African Studies and professor of history and African studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the United States, where he spent the next eight years and where he produced some of his most important academic work. In August 2003, he relocated to Pennsylvania State University where he was served as a professor in the departments of history and African and African American studies.

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Gilda Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Zimbabwe. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza celebrates birthday on May 25 of every year.

Over the years, Zeleza has also established himself as a leading intellectual historian of Africa, with influential publications on the development of ideas and higher education institutions. His scholarly output and reputation also extends to gender studies, human rights studies and diaspora studies. In 2003, he was appointed by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) to a nine-member advisory board to oversee the publication of “Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World”, a research study issued to mark the 10th anniversary of, and assess progress since, the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995.