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First Steps in The Oral Historiography of The Midlands: a Review of the Work of Harald von Sicard
(2006-05-23)
For over 25 years Harald von Sicard made a sterling contribution to the history of Mberengwa and adjoining areas. By1971 he had well over 23 articles on several aspects of this area published in various languages and ...
"Where Civil Blood Made Soldiers Hands Unclean" Rethinking War Time Coercion
(Academy Publishing/ SACDP, 2000)
The Rhodesia Security forces and ZANLA guerrillas operating in Chivi had to win the war. It mattered little to them whether this goal was to be achieved by means of fair or foul, and as the war progressed, the problem ...
Coercive Discourse Patterns in President George Bush’s 2001 and 2005 Inaugural Addresses.
(Zambezia, 2006-06-28)
This paper investigates coercive strategies employed by President Bush in his 2001 and 2005 inaugural addresses. The study is situated in the broad field of discourse analysis whose main thrust is to investigate the use ...
The Conversion of Paul in the Light of the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2004)
Paul’s influence on Christian teaching and practice cannot be underestimated.
Several times his teaching is quoted to support certain Christian practices even in
African Christianity today. However, the conversion of ...
A Critical Re-Engagement With Stultifying Gender Binaries in HIV and AIDS Related Shona Novelistic Discourses.
(2006-09-12)
The paper is an exposition and a critique of selected novelistic voices in Shona
whose subject matter also includes HIV/AIDS. Yet, the informing philosophy on
Aids in the novels is gender difference as the modus operandi ...
Forms And Functions Of Questions In The Speech Of A 28- Month -0ld Monolingual Shona Speaker.
(Zambezia, 2006-05-30)
This paper analyses the forms and functions of Yes/No and Wh-questions produced by a 28-month-old child acquiring Shona as a first language (L1). Elicitation of data which spanned over a period of four weeks called for ...
Perspectives From the Past, Technology of the Present and the Future: A Critical Appreciation of the Oral Aesthetic in Mapenzi (1999) and Masango Mavi (1998)
(2006-09-12)
The paper critically analyses the contrastive use of Shona oral art forms in
Chiwome’s Masango Mavi and Mabasa’s Mapenzi. It proceeds from realisation that
the two writers identify with Shona people’s oral experiences, ...
Echoing Silences as a Paradigm for Restorative Justice in Post-conflict Zimbabwe: A Philosophical Discourse
(Zambezia, 2006)
Drawing corroborative data from Echoing Silences (1997), an internationally acclaimed Zimbabwean liberation war novel written by Alexander Kanengoni, the article explores some perspectives on the history of violent pasts ...
Issues and Implications in Staging Mungoshi's Inongova Njakenjake (Each Does his Own Thing)
(Prestige Books, 2006)
Charles Mungoshi is one of the most prolific writers Zimbabwe has produced. As with any attempt at categorisation, it proves futile to bunch Mungoshi with most Zimbabwean writers in the same cauldron of realism, as some ...