https://hdl.handle.net/10646/26 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:47:16 GMT 2026-04-09T20:47:16Z https://hdl.handle.net/10646/4079 Title: Taking a melodic approach in preventing road accidents: an instructive therapy from Charles Charamba's song, Musatyaire Makadhakwa. Authors: Marongedze, Reggemore; Chinouriri, Bridget; Nyakudya, Munyaradzi Abstract: It is envisaged that music influences emotions, but little attention has been given to understanding how it affects emotion regulation in driving accidents. To the music therapist, an understanding of this phenomenon has therapeutic implications for a variety of clinical populations that find it a challenge to regulate and manage their emotional experiences. Music instructive therapy provides avenues for communication that help those who find it difficult to express themselves in deeds. This paper provides an analysis of the instructive music therapy which Charles Charamba, a musician, offers to Zimbabwean drivers to combat the menace of driving accidents. It analyses the psycho-therapeutic-remedial implications inherent in the musician’s l yrics with the view to offer instructive insights to drivers. A driving accident is an accident which is caused by human errors. Thus, this paper advances the contention that the musician through his music offers an instructive therapy which is psychologically rehabilitating in alleviating the rate of driving accidents in Zimbabwe. This discursive discourse emerges against the realization that there is a high rate of driving accidents in Zimbabwe that have become a cause of concern to human security. Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10646/4079 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10646/645 Title: Echoing Silences as a Paradigm for Restorative Justice in Post-conflict Zimbabwe: A Philosophical Discourse Authors: Mangena, Fainos; Muwati, Itai; Gambahaya, Zifikile Abstract: 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 and restorative justice that can be of use to post-conflict Zimbabwe. Considering that Zimbabwe is a country freighted with a history of violent pasts starting from the armed struggle in the 1970s, the Matabeleland atrocities in the 1980s as well as electoral violence from the 1980s to date, the article argues that the message of violence and the project of restoration canvassed for in Echoing Silences present important insights that can be useful to efforts aimed at national healing and development. The effects of the history of violence on individuals, nation and community have largely received cursory attention, and in a number of instances, these effects have been left unattended for political expediency since addressing them would create a counter¬narrative to ZANU PF's revolutionary mission by exposing and accepting the violent nature of nationalism before and after the attainment of political independence. For that reason, the article argues that the violent pasts, as portrayed in the historical novel, need to be acknowledged and effectively dealt with on the basis of people's lived experiences. Both the wronged and the wrongdoers need to be involved in this exercise in order to unburden the past, the present and the future. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10646/645 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10646/514 Title: Harare Shona Slang: A Linguistic Study Authors: Mawadza, Aquilina Abstract: This article discussed the linguistic origins and forms of the Shona language and examines words and phrases that are normally used casually in Harare. It illustrates that slang is a informal language that generally follows the grammatical pattern from which it sterms but reflects on an alternate lexicon with connotations of informality. Finally it seeks to demonstrate that most slang term originates from borrowing, a result of language contact with English and African language. Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10646/514 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10646/493 Title: An Afro-centred View of HIV/AIDS as a Long Term European Project in Africa Authors: Muhwati, Itai Abstract: Aids is an inverted colonialism. For this reason, the paper discusses HIV/AIDS as a new technology of African domination and exploitation in the 21st century and beyond. It transcends the mere understanding of HIV/AIDS in purely medical terms by locating it within the context of the ideological value thrust of the European cultural thought and behaviour, where the need for self-significance and superiority has degenerated into a form of pathology. The paper contends that HIV/AIDS must be understood within the context of Europe’s obsession with black xenophobia, power and domination. In this regard, it is not different from a conveyor belt of other European projects on African genocide like slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism, globalisation and many others. Description: This paper was accepted for publication by Zambezia and will appear in Vol.33 No.1. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10646/493 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z