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Ideophones in Shona
(Oxford University Press, 2018-03-23)
Harare Shona Slang: A Linguistic Study
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2000)
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 ...
Teaching Shona In English/Shona: Ideological Challenges And Implications- Whither UZ & MASU?
(2006-05-18)
This paper investigates ideological challenges and implications associated with two models in the teaching and learning of Shona at university level. The UZ model involves the use of English as a medium of instruction ...
Gender representation in Zimbabwe ordinary level 2010-2015 prescribed Chishona literature texts
(unpublished, 2018-12)
Textbooks play a crucial role in the moulding of pupils’ gender identities. The purpose of this
study is to explore gender representation in the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level 2010-2015
ChiShona prescribed literature texts ...
Ethics Among the Shona
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2001)
This essay is a contribution towards an appreciation of Hunhu/Ubuntu as
the basis of African philosophy. It seeks to demonstrate, by means of a
specific example taken from an African text, that within the African ...
Morpho(?) Phono (?) Logical Fuzzy Edges: The Case of {-/I/-}/{-/U/-} Semantic (?) Contrast in Shona
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2000)
Although the Western world of Science continues to be dominated by the black and white (or 'binary')laws of logic, the binary logic has always faced doubt. (Un)fortunately, logical positisim has remained the working ...
Naming the Pandemic: Semantic and Ethical Foundations of HIV/AIDS Shona Vocabulary
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2002)
The article investigates the names that Shona-speaking people in contermporary Zimbabwe create and use in casual communication on the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome(HIV/AIDS), the messages transmitted through these ...
Metaphors in Shona: A Cognitive Approach
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2003)
This article discuses the pervasiveness of metaphors in everyday Shona language. It argues that metaphorical expressions are not mere words, but they are part of a much bigger way of conceptualising things. Examples are ...
Revival of Indigenous Food Security Strategies at the Village Level: The Human Factor Implications
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2001)
This article reports findings of an evaluation of the Zunde raMambo practice
as a survival strategy in selected rural districts in Zimbabwe. The assumption
made when the Zunde was being revived was that its revival would ...
Defence Consiousness as a Way of Life: The Refuge Period and Karanga Defence Strategies in the 19th Century
(2006-05-23)
Defensible settlement patterns are neither a new phenomenon in pre-colonial Zimbabwean history nor are they a development peculiar to the 19th century Shona alone. Nonetheless the 19th century in many ways constituted a ...