Research Focus

Evolutionary Economic Geography, Agency and Power in Path formation, Tourism value chains, Cities and Socio-spatial equity

Regional Focus

Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa

Academic Career

05/2022-
Research Associate and PhD candidate in Economic Geography at the Institute of Geography, Prof. Dr. Revilla Diez in the DFG funded CRC 228, Future Rural Africa

09/2015- 12/2016
MSc Regional and Urban Planning, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

08/2013- 06/2014
Hubert Humphrey Fellowship, University of Minnesota, USA

08/2012 – 06/2014
MA Public Policy and Governance, Africa University, Zimbabwe 

06/2007- 08/2011
B.A Development Studies, University of South Africa, South Africa

Publications

Mlilo, M.; Bollig, M. & Revilla Diez, J. (2024): Coloniality of power and the imaginaries of tourism in Victoria Falls. Geoforum 156, 104131

Mlilo, M.; Bollig, M. & Revilla Diez, J. (2024). Nation-state influence on tourism path creation in Southern Africa. Regional Studies, 1-16

Lendelvo, S.; Mlilo, M.; Angula, M. N.; Heita, J. & Hasheela, R. (2024): International Laws and Wildlife Tourism in Southern Africa. In Wildlife Tourism Dynamics in Southern Africa: Contemporary Issues, Challenges and Prospects for Sustainable Development , 199-215. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland

Master Thesis

MSc Regional and Urban Planning
Business Improvement Districts and the Reproduction of Social Inequality in South Africa 

MA Public Policy and Governance

Neo-Patrimonialism and Predatory Accumulation in Zimbabwe: A focus on the implementation of the Indigenization policy in Diamond mining in Marange, Zimbabwe