Hamisi Hemedi Hamisi is an Assistant Lecturer and Associate Researcher in the Department of History and Civilization at the Muslim University of Morogoro (Tanzania) and a PhD candidate in History at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He completed his MA in Economic History at St. Augustine University of Tanzania. His academic work focuses on African studies, economic history, and women’s/gender history, with particular interest in labour, plantation economies, and the gendered dimensions of economic change.

His doctoral research, titled “A Historical Discourse of Women’s Labour Involvement in Tanzania: A Case of Tanga Sisal Plantations, 1920s–1960s,” examines the roles, experiences, and agency of women labourers within the sisal plantation economy across the late colonial and early postcolonial periods. The project explores how gendered labour regimes, economic policy, and social relations shaped women’s work, household livelihoods, and community structures, bringing marginalized voices into the center of Tanzanian labour history.

Hamisi’s methodology combines archival research, oral history, and fieldwork conducted in Tanga and surrounding regions, with attention to the intersection of local testimony and colonial administrative records. He approaches women’s labour as both lived practice and historical source, using interdisciplinary methods to situate local experiences within broader imperial and global economic contexts. While at IIUM he is refining data analysis and drafting chapters of his dissertation. During his tenure as an Erasmus+ Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, he is concentrating on data analysis and the preparation of research reports.

First Supervisor at IIUM: Dr. Olsi Jazexhiu

Supervisor at BGSMSC: Prof. Kai Kresse