A Study Of Harare Urban Expansion And Its Impact On Rural Domboshava Community, 2000-2020

Abstract

Using the social history approach, the study explores the dynamics surrounding Harare Urban expansion and how it has affected the rural community of Domboshava between 2000 and 2020. This is achieved by using oral interviews, archival sources, and theoretical innovations of the study of how peri-urban communities like Domboshava are being affected by inward migrations of people from the overpopulated cities. The research explains that the influx of people into Domboshava is largely a result of the problems arising in Harare because of the overpopulation in Harare. These problems have encouraged people to move into Domboshava. These migrations have however resulted in many sociocultural and economic changes in Domboshava, which can be identified as both negative and positive changes. These transformations caused by the inward migration of people into Domboshava have also opened doors to many conflicts in the area.