She researches and writes about African politics. Dr. Dendere’s work on the relationship between authoritarian and migration is influenced by her experience of emigrating from Zimbabwe along with millions of Zimbabweans at the height of the country’s economic crisis. While Zimbabwe has gone through worst economic crisis in modern history with inflation hitting a staggering 79,600,000,000% monthly rate ZANU PF managed to stay in power. Her research finds that the forced emigration of millions of young educated urbanites helped ZANU PF consolidate power and weakened the opposition. This work also highlights the ways in which ruling parties manipulate remittances to keep themselves in power at the expense of their citizens.