Faculty of Arts & Humanities: Recent submissions
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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 Fading Sun.
(http://memorychirere.blogspot.com/, 2010-01-14) -
Interviewing David Mungoshi on his new book ‘The Fading Sun.’
(Memory Chirere Blog, 2010-01-14) -
Musaemura Zimunya: ever read his prose?
(Memory Chirere Blog, 2010-01-29) -
Imagine your mother writing your biography
(Memory Chirere Blog, 2009-12-11) -
State of the Nation: Contemporary Zimbabwean poetry.
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‘Dismantling “Reason-based Moral Status” in Environmental Ethics.’
(2009-08-01)This article critically explores the assumptions of ‘reason-based moral status’ theorists, as well as ‘sentient’ theorists in establishing moral status. While ‘reason based moral status’ theorists regard reason as the key ... -
Ignatius Mabasa’s MAPENZI and innovation in The Shona novel of Zimbabwe
(Southern Times, 2004-11-28) -
The Rhodesian “Soldier Literature"
(Southern Times, 2005-04-17) -
Zimbabwean Literature and Land
(Southern Times, 2004-11-07) -
Marechera-mania and Zimbabwean Literature
(Southern Times, 2004-12-05) -
Reading Chenjerai Hove’s Ancestors
(Southern Times, 2005-06-05) -
Charles Mungoshi “and other writers”
(Southern Times, 2005-08-28) -
Armando Guebuza among the Poets
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Migrant Chewa Identities and their Construction through Gule Wamkulu/Nyau Dances in Zimbabwe
(2007-05-22)This paper focuses in the construction of the Chewa identity in Zimbabwe through the use of Gule Wamkulu or ‘nyau’ dances. The Chewa are an immigrant ethnic group from Malawi and are a matrilineal entity who distinctly use ... -
‘This is our school…’:Identity, cultural hybridity and the development of an education system among the BaSotho in the Dewure Purchase Areas, Gutu 1932-1960
(2007-05-22)The development of an Education System among the BaSotho people in Gutu largely revolved around Bethel School, which they established in 1937. In no time at all the school had grown to represent the development of education ... -
The Marumbi Rain cult: Gender and the interface between rainmaking and the politics of water in Gutu
(2007-03-28)The major concern of this paper is to analyse the socio-political dynamics of the Marumbi Rain cult in Gutu. Of central importance here will be the interface between rainmaking and the politics of water. The Marumbi Rain ... -
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 ... -
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, ...
