Browsing Faculty of Arts and Humanities e-Theses Collection by Title
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Dynamics of Democracy and Human Rights Among the Ndebele of Zimbabwe, 1818-1934.
(2012-08-30)This thesis is at once a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed mediation on key Ndebele concepts and ideas. Throughout the thesis, the Ndebele historical experiences are consistently ... -
Environment and Culture: A Study of Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe
(2012-08-30)There is always a symbiotic relationship between the physical environment and cultural behaviour of a society. The physical environment provides resources and options for subsistence, raw materials for economic development, ... -
The exclusion of the African contribution to the conceptual development of reality, appearance and knowledge in the history of philosophy
(2014-05-21)Few histories of philosophy have probed the contributions of Africans or people of African descent. A significant section of modern and contemporary intellectual historians, unlike their classical counterparts, regards ... -
IDENTITY AND DEMOCRACY IN PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTEST THEATRE IN ZIMBABWE: 1999-2012
(2015-07)This study investigates a brand of theatre that is oppositional to oppression. This theatre, which this study calls protest theatre, predicates its practice upon democratic intentions and values. In Zimbabwe, some scholars ... -
Identity and democracy in pro-democracy protest theatre in Zimbabwe: 1999-2012
(2017-03)This study investigates a brand of theatre that is oppositional to oppression. This theatre, which this study calls protest theatre, predicates its practice upon democratic intentions and values. In Zimbabwe, some scholars ... -
An investigation into the impact of Super Roma’s Healing Ministry on the Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe: a case study of Gweru and Masvingo Dioceses
(2017-03)Religious movements of renewal, revival and healing have been a key characteristic feature of Christianity in Zimbabwe. From as early as the pre-independence era, both national and transnational healing communities have ... -
Land and identity in Zimbabwean fiction writings in English from 2000 to 2010: a critical analysis
(2014-09-08)This thesis uses African-centred frameworks to critically analyse how selected black and white Zimbabwean-authored fictional narratives published between 2000 and 2010 against the backdrop of Zimbabweans’ post-2000 land ... -
Natural law ethics, Hunhuism and the concept of retributive justice among the Korekore- Nyombwe people of Northern Zimbabwe: An ethical investigation
(2014-06-03)This work first looked at the evolution and power of natural law ethics and retributive justice in regulating human behaviour in contemporary society in general and in Korekore-Nyombwe culture in particular. This background ... -
A phenomenological investigation into the effects of traditional beliefs and practices on women and HIV and AIDS, with special reference to Chipinge district, Zimbabwe
(2014-06-17)The thrust of this study is to highlight and expose the effects of HIV and AIDS on the traditional Ndau woman in Chipinge District. This thesis emphasises how much the woman in Chipinge has sacrificed in terms of providing ... -
‘Rewriting’ the Bible: its Canonical Implications and Meaning for Anglicans in the City of Harare.
(2012-09-04)The subject of ‘rewriting’ the Bible has caused considerable discussion in several forums. In theological debates this has led to the writing of a number of books. In church situations, there has been a lot of talk concerning ... -
Schism in Pentecostal churches: a case study of Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe 2018 great schism
(2019)This dissertation has been an analysis of the causes of schism in Pentecostalism with special focus on the great schism of 2018 in the AFM in Zimbabwe. Qualitative research methodology has been used in this research through ... -
A Social and Political History of Chishanga: South-Central Zimbabwe c.1750-2000
(2014-04-24)This thesis is about a ‘place’ that effectively no longer exists-in the sense of being a recognisable unit of territory. ‘Chishanga’ has always been a term of contestation, referring more or less tenuously to a stretch of ... -
The Sociolinguistics of Personal Address and Reference in Urban Shona Society
(2012-07-02)This thesis examines the forms, interpersonal or social functions and patterns of terms used as address or reference resources in spoken urban Shona, integrating Hymes’s (1962) Ethnography of Communication theory and a ... -
A study of the theme of persecution and the relationships between victims and aggressors in four tragedies by Jean Racine: Andromaque, Britannicus Bajazet and Phedre.
(2013-09-06)Human violence has generated a lot of discussion and led to so many attempts, both scientific and philosophical, to understand its prevalence. Why do human beings inflict voluntary suffering or death to others? This is the ... -
Towards an educational charter for Little Children of our Blessed Lady religious congregation (LCBL)
(2014-06-03)This study set out to investigate the Philosophical Foundations of Education for the Little Children of Our Blessed Lady Congregation (LCBL). In this regard I presented information obtained from research conducted from ... -
Transitivity In Kalanga
(2012-08-31)This thesis examines transitivity as a grammatical aspect of the Kalanga language. The investigation is done using two theoretical frameworks: Relational Grammar (RG) and Hopper and Thompson’s (1980) Transitivity Theory. ... -
Where did the African leaders go wrong? An analysis of selected texts by peter Abrahams and Ayi Kwei Armah.
(2018-01)The aim of this dissertation is to examine where the African leaders have gone wrong considering that they have been blamed for the lack of development in Africa. It looks at their failure as a betrayal of the aims and ... -
Where did the African leaders go wrong?An analysis of selected texts by Peter Abrahams and Ayi Kwei Armah
(1999)The aim of this dissertation is to examine where the African leaders have gone wrong considering that they have been blamed for the lack of development in Africa. It looks at their failure as betrayal of the aims and ideals ... -
White women and domesticity in colonial Zimbabwe, c.1890 to 1980
(2015)The study analyses white women‟s experiences in colonial Zimbabwe in relation to domesticity. As in most new colonial territories, one of the mandates of the coloniser was to domesticate „the wild‟ (that is the indigenous ... -
Zimbabwean video films as alternative cinema
(2017-03-14)This study examines the filmmaking practices of selected Zimbabwean video filmmakers across the filmmaking value chain in order to explore how they ‘negotiate’, ‘appropriate’, ‘contaminate’ and ‘violate’ mainstream ...
