Joost Fontein - Remaking Mutirikwi : landscape, water and belonging in Southern Zimbabwe

Maps

1 Map of Lake Mutirikwi

Photographs

Many people assisted in making this book. The British Academy funded my postdoctoral fellowship during which much of its research was done, and I am also thankful for small grants from the Munro, Tweedy and Hayter funds. More significant has been the friendship, intellectual stimulation and wise counsel of many colleagues in Edinburgh. John Harries, Tom Molony, Dimitri Tsintjiloni, Sara Dorman and Paul Nugent deserve particular mention. My much missed late friend and mentor Charles Jedrej inspired me to do this project, and it is a continuing sadness that he could not witness its completion. Jeanne Cannizzo is another much missed colleague, now enjoying well-deserved retirement. I am also grateful to my PhD students who made me think harder in my own work. Some of them are already building academic careers. In Oxford I benefit-ted from Terry Rangers enormous experience and generous engagement, often within hours of unruly drafts appearing in his inbox. His death in January 2015, just before this book went to press, has robbed African Studies of one its greatest and most committed scholars. Colleagues at the Journal of Southern African Studie s too deserve a mention for their enthusiastic and critical encouragement, particularly Lyn Schumacher, Matthew Engelke, Joss Alexander, JoAnn McGregor and Dick Werbner. In Nairobi, Susan Ongoro produced a wonderful map of Lake Mutirikwi.