The Second Great Zimbabwe Economic Journal
The Second Great Zimbabwe Economic Journal examines the economic journey of Zimbabwe — and, through it, of Southern Africa and the wider continent — through rigorous research and an unapologetically African lens. Its premise is that a nation’s civilisational weight is measured not by what its soil yields, but by how much of that value it captures, controls, and keeps at home.
The journal is the applied home of value sovereignty, an original framework for African political economy developed on this platform and openly deposited in the scholarly record. Value sovereignty asks who captures the value the world adds to an African resource, and how a nation deliberately climbs its own value chains rather than exporting them raw. The framework has been set out in a DOI-registered working paper and tested across a comparative study of African mineral economies, and it forms the foundation of the forthcoming book series Studies in the Second Great Zimbabwe.
🎯 What We Study
The journal moves past the noise of daily news to analyse the architecture of national and continental wealth. Its recurring concerns include value addition and beneficiation; monetary and fiscal sovereignty; development finance and the terms of global re-engagement; and regional integration within SADC and the African Continental Free Trade Area. Its scope is not fixed in advance: it follows the economic story wherever it leads, from mineral value chains to trade corridors to the institutions of African finance.
🛡️ Method & Standard
The journal holds to a documented standard rather than a partisan one. Every analysis verifies its premises, distinguishes what is achieved from what is merely aspired to, and keeps an honest ledger — crediting genuine progress on the evidence while naming what remains unfinished with the same candour. It reads global commodity markets, the friction of unilateral coercive measures, and the distance between policy announced and value delivered, always from the standpoint of the economies concerned rather than the institutions observing them.
🖋️ From the Desk of Tete Getty
This journal is written for the scholar, the policy-maker, the investor, the diaspora professional, and the citizen who demands a sophisticated, evidence-led account of how African economies rise. It does not merely report on the economy; it studies the sovereign architecture beneath it — and contributes original theory to the global conversation on how the world should read Africa: not as a market to be modelled or a periphery to be managed, but as an author of its own development.
📥 Access, Archive & Citation
The journal’s scholarly output is openly deposited and citable through the Tete Getty Academic Press & Research Hub, building a permanent, open-access record of African economic thought authored from within.
