Father Zimbabwe

Author : Z. Muchemwa,Robert Muponde
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781779221315

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Manning the Nation. Father Figures in Zimbabwean Literature and Society by Z. Muchemwa,Robert Muponde Pdf

Gender studies in Zimbabwe have tended to focus on women and their comparative disadvantages and under-privilege. Assuming a broader perspective is necessary at a time when society has grown used to arguments rooted in binaries: colonised and coloniser, race and class, sex and gender, poverty and wealth, patriotism and terrorism, etc. The editors of Manning the Nation recognise that concepts of manhood can be used to repress or liberate, and will depend on historical and political imperatives; they seek to introduce a more nuanced perspective to the interconnectivity of patriarchy, masculinity, the nation, and its image. The essays in this volume come from well-respected academics working in a variety of fields. The ideals and concepts of manhood are examined as they are reflected in important Zimbabwean literary texts. However, if literature provides a rich vein for the analysis of masculinities, what makes this collection so interesting is the interplay of literary analysis with chapters that provide a critical examination of the ways in which ideals of manhood have been employed in, for example, leadership and the nation, as a justification for violent engagement, in the field of AIDS and HIV, etc. Manning the Nation: Father figures in Zimbabwean literature and society sets the stage for a fresh and engaging discourse essential at a time when new paradigms are needed.

Author : Fortune Senamile Nkomo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : National liberation movements
ISBN : 0797448241

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Father Zimbabwe by Fortune Senamile Nkomo Pdf

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319605555

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Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Pdf

This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country’s anti-colonial struggle has largely gone unrecognized. These essays trace his early influence on Zimbabwean nationalism in the late 1950s and his leadership in the armed liberation movement and postcolonial national-building processes, as well as his denigration by the winners of the 1980 elections, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. The Nkomo that emerges is complex and contested, the embodiment of Zimbabwe’s tortured trajectory from colony to independent postcolonial state. This is an essential corrective to the standard history of twentieth-century Zimbabwe, and an invaluable resource for scholars of African nationalist liberation movements and nation-building.

Author : Tonderai Munyevu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350186088

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Mugabe, My Dad and Me by Tonderai Munyevu Pdf

Something strange happens when the past comes crushing into you, right in the present. April, 1980. The British colony of Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe. A born-free, Tonderai Munyevu is part of the hopeful next generation from a country with a new leader, Robert Mugabe. Mugabe, My Dad and Me charts the rise and fall of one of the most controversial politicians of the 20th century through the lens of Tonderai's family story and his relationship with his father. Interspersing storytelling with Mugabe's unapologetic speeches, this high-voltage one man show is a blistering exploration of identity and what it means to return 'home'.

Author : Rinos Mwanaka
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781779272768

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Zimbabwe: Essays, Non Fictions and Letters by Rinos Mwanaka Pdf

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka wrote letters to Robert Mugabe, Constantine Chiwenga, Morgan Tsvangirai, The Zimbabweans, Emerson Mnangagwa, Nelson Chamisa, The Police, and in between infused the letters with deeply literary and psychoanalytic essays on the motivations of political players in Zimbabwe. Using this nonfiction literary form, the letter writing form, to protest against Robert Mugabe and the Mugabeism the letters were initially written to protest against Mugabe's continuing clinging to power, the collection has been expanded to include other issues related to Zimbabwe society. As the country moves towards a better multiparty democracy if there is change in thinking in these very important facets shaping Zimbabwe such as constitutionalism and rule of law, change and devolution of government, developmental agenda, and freedom of expression and association.

Author : Remi Okwu Esho
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546283850

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R.O.E Hate & Love by Remi Okwu Esho Pdf

Roe was a boy that was living with the rule of his country, a rule that was his father, a rule that lost his life fighting for his country. As Roe lost his family was slavered by orcs, orc that took of him, orc that took him as slave, orc that training him to defend himself Roe was in the middle of war until for some reason the war was stop leaving the middle world in totally peace A peace that was Roe chance to win his freedom again back. a freedom that only was given once a hundred years, Roe that was only was thirteen years old only. Roe that was as the weaker, Roe that was trained by the orc, and supernatural human, demons, and orc that were fear through the underworld and the middle world.

Author : Catherine Kanhema?Blinston
Publisher : Author House
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781481792998

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My Father Before Me by Catherine Kanhema?Blinston Pdf

Seventy years after the establishment of Rhodesia by the European settlers, a little girl was born to an activist. Her father fought to establish a one man, one vote system. He was arrested and imprisoned for ten years. The girl was ecstatic to have her father back until she realized that he had become a stranger to her. My Father before Me is a vivid journey through Catherine Kanhema-Blinston's early life. It chronicles her life in the midst of poverty, war, and prison camps. Her happiest moments during her childhood were the fun, light-hearted times she shared with her big family and the bonds she formed with her siblings during her outdoor adventures. These pleasant memories create a sharp contrast to the instability faced by a young girl growing up as a political activist's daughter.

Author : Blessing-Miles Tendi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Intellectuals
ISBN : 3039119893

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Making History in Mugabe's Zimbabwe by Blessing-Miles Tendi Pdf

The crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000 is not simply a struggle against dictatorship. It is also a struggle over ideas and deep-seated historical issues, still unresolved from the independence process, that both Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF regime and Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC are vying first to define and then to address. This book traces the role of politicians and public intellectuals in media, civil society and the academy in producing and disseminating a politically usable historical narrative concerning ideas about patriotism, race, land, human rights and sovereignty. It raises pressing questions about the role of contemporary African intellectuals in the making of democratic societies. In so doing the book adds a new and rich dimension to the study of African politics, which is often diluted by the neglect of ideas.

Author : Oliver Nyambi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429785757

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Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe by Oliver Nyambi Pdf

This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c. 2000–2009). Much of what has been written about the Zimbabwean crisis – a decade-long period of unprecedented economic collapse and political upheavals in the southern African country – is strictly discipline-specific and therefore limited to unidimensional modes of theorising the crisis’s many and complex dimensions and dynamics. In this context, this book charts a paradigm shift in hermeneutic and epistemological approaches to comprehending the Zimbabwean crisis. Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe centres the experiences and memories of ordinary Zimbabweans in pluralizing modes of seeing and knowing the crisis. The book argues that these life-writings present a rich site for encountering versions of the crisis that relate in counter-discursive ways, to the dominant, state-authored narrative of the nation in crisis. Oliver Nyambi’s analysis contributes new ideas to ongoing debates about how cultural texts reflect on the postcoloniality of both power, and experiences and negotiations of power in the context of crisis. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of African literature, Zimbabwean/African studies, postcolonial literature, life-writing and cultural studies.

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 995 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Men
ISBN : 9783031491672

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities by Ezra Chitando Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of key theoretical and analytical approaches, topics and debates in contemporary scholarship on African masculinities. Refusing to privilege Western theoretical constructs (but remaining in dialogue with them), contributors explore the contestations around and diversities within men, masculinities and sexualities in Africa; investigate individual and collective practices of masculinity; and interrogate the social construction of masculinities. Bringing together insights from scholars across gender studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, literature and religion, this book demonstrates how recognizing and upholding the integrity of African phenomena, locating and reflecting on men and masculinities in varied African contexts and drawing new theoretical frameworks all combine to take the discourse on men and masculinities in Africa forward. Chapters examine a range of issues within the context of masculinities, including embodiment, sport, violence, militarism, spirituality, gender roles, fatherhood, homosexuality, health and work. This handbook will be valuable reading for scholars, researchers, and policymakers in Gender Studies (particularly Masculinity Studies) and Africana Studies.

Author : Jacob Hodgkinson,Tonderai Munyevu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Mothers and daughters
ISBN : 1350171190

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Mugabe, My Dad and Me by Jacob Hodgkinson,Tonderai Munyevu Pdf

"Something strange happens when the past comes crushing into you, right in the present. April, 1980. The British colony of Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe. A born-free, Tonderai Munyevu is part of the hopeful next generation from a country with a new leader, Robert Mugabe. Mugabe, My Dad and Me charts the rise and fall of one of the most controversial politicians of the 20th century through the lens of Tonderai's family story and his relationship with his father. Interspersing storytelling with Mugabe's unapologetic speeches, this high-voltage one man show is a blistering exploration of identity and what it means to return 'home'"--About the play.

Author : Rodwell Makombe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538150924

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Cultural Texts of Resistance in Zimbabwe by Rodwell Makombe Pdf

Cultural Texts of Resistance in Zimbabwe explores how ordinary citizens appropriate and deploy cultural texts such as internet memes, songs, political cartoons and social media discussions as vehicles to contest hegemonic narratives of the state and insert alternative ways of imagining the future of the nation. This book is a timely attempt to examine the multiple and complex dimensions of resistance in post-millennial Zimbabwe through analysing different cultural productions. It centres the voices of ordinary Zimbabweans by examining popular cultural texts that reflect their experiences and ways of living within the Zimbabwean crisis of the post-2000 period. The book argues that subversive cultural texts have become important tools that ordinary citizens appropriate to challenge the repressive political environment and imagine different ways of writing the nation. The book brings a fresh perspective to ongoing discussions on how popular cultural texts contribute to the narration of the nation, especially in the context of crisis.

Author : Debra Chidakwa-akue
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640286658

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The Forgotten Child of Zimbabwe by Debra Chidakwa-akue Pdf

December 1966. A baby girl is born in the forests of central Zimbabwe. Seventeen years on, on a cold concrete floor at Gatwick arrivals, she sits alone, afraid, abandoned by the country she fought for. The Forgotten Child of Zimbabwe is the heart-rending story of Debra Mina Chidakwa-Akue, her early life of abuse, slavery, war, and betrayal. Set during the years of Zimbabwe's long and bloody struggle for independence, Debra's journey shines a harrowing light on life in her country, how conflict and power corrupts, and what horror the human spirit can somehow endure. It is through one girl's life experiences and the desire to share how we meet with life's challenges and how we should never give up that the author opened her heart to share a journey of a thousand miles full of pain, heartache, disappointments, near-death experiences, physical and emotional abuse, and the experiences of the bitter liberation war in Zimbabwe. Through every little journey that she endured there exists tremendous encouragement, inspiration, sadness, and thought-provoking encounters, of which some will send shivers in your spine. The Forgotten Child of Zimbabwe reveals the hidden agendas and real life stories that human beings experience, which is sometimes impossible to talk about. The Forgotten Child of Zimbabwe brings into the open the realities of life through the life and experiences of this brave young African girl. It will leave you with a challenge to take control of your life, to do something positive, and to see other human beings with fresher eyes. It will make you laugh, cry, and celebrate life and uplift you as well give you hope and be thankful. It is a story that is difficult to put down as it takes you on journey that is full of adventure and real life experiences, and, in the end, strengthens your faith or leads you to it.

Author : Ezra Chitando,Francis Machingura
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666903294

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Religion and Sexuality in Zimbabwe by Ezra Chitando,Francis Machingura Pdf

Religion and Sexuality in Zimbabwe highlights the complex interplay between religion and sexuality in Zimbabwe. It shows how religion both facilitates and complicates the expression of sexuality in Zimbabwe. Approaching religion from a broader perspective, this volume reviews the impact of African Indigenous Religions and Christianity in its varied forms on the construction and expression of sexuality in Zimbabwe. These contributors examine the role of indigenous beliefs, as well as interpretations of sacred texts, in the understanding of sexuality in Zimbabwe. They also address themes relating to sexual diversity and sexual and gender-based violence. Overall, this book sheds light on the ongoing relevance and strategic role of religion to contemporary discourses on human sexuality.

Author : Francis Chikerema
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781543472653

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Lest We Forget from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe by Francis Chikerema Pdf

The partition of Africa was an invasion of the continent of Africa by European nations, including the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Yes, the United Kingdom wanted to rule the whole world, and it nearly did, as can be seen on the globe on how many countries were under the British Empire. This was done to enrich the United Kingdom with no regard to whoever found them in those regions of the world. This was done without the consultation of the Africans who occupied the land. As to the African continent, this was the occupation of our land by the British and its division into their colonies. The British people of the United Kingdom were ahead of many countries in this act. William Gladstone, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, was given the power to sign a peace treaty. The peace treaty with whom? The Africans were never in agreement with whatever came out of the so-called Berlin Conference of the 18841885. Africans were not considered or allowed to have their views heard or have an input as to what was being decided to happen in their motherland, Africa. This treaty was done in Germany, since it had emerged as an imperial power under chancellor Otto von Bismarck. It was formalized and agreed upon that the scramble for Africa should go ahead without the consultation of the African people, who owned and lived in Africa. All African autonomy was eliminated and overridden, so to speak. Through devious means, Africa was stolen and possessed, and its people were enslaved and reduced to the untold indignity by the foreign powers.