ABSTRACT The West and Southern regions of Africa are two parts that have attempted to integrate member countries within their respective regions. Regional integration in these regions of Africa have been facilitated by two hegemons who, like other hegemons, have been driven in their foreign policy pursuits by the determinants of foreign policy. Nigeria and South Africa had been two regional hegemons in the two regions respectively who have motivated integration in various ways. The work exami...
ABSTRACT The study‘s main aim is to demonstrate how the Varemba people preserved their cultural activities and to unpack the reasons behind the survival of the Varemba cultural practices in Zvishavane district. The Varemba ethnic group is a distinct group in Zvishavane, this is due to their unique way of life, their cultural practices includes Komba initiation rite, Murundu, virginity testing, testing for fertility, Female genital Mutilation (FGM), Child marriages, and inheritance. Komba is...
Abstract The dissertation examine contemporary Zimbabwean ideologies and ideals of female beauty through the beauty pageant phenomenon. The concept of beauty is revealed in the study as many people wildly use beauty as something to deal with outer appearance in today’s world. The study represent all types of beauty pageants including fashion modelling, commercial modelling and advertising. Similar events for men and boys are called by other names and are more likely to bodybuilding. The res...
Abstract The study analyzed the contribution of IMK in treating stroke since 1980 to 2015 in Chipinge District . The objectives of the study were to locate the importance of IMK in providing primary health care to the rural people . Factors that encourage people to continue using IMK were also uncovered in the study . Different causes of ailments were also discussed in depth in the study and these causes include witchcraft , bad spirits and diseases that are natural those that are caused by n...
ABSTRACT This research sought to highlight how cultural dynamism solved conflicts between the four ethnic groups of Gokwe south. The research argues that clinging to individual cultures and seeing the next person’s culture as inferior was the major cause for conflicts. Therefore accepting one another and bearing in mind that culture is dynamic marked the end of conflicts. As a result people are now living together peacefully and one cannot tell the difference between these groups today. Thi...
Abstract The study is an assessment of the effects of the Look East Policy (LEP) on Zimbabwe„s infrastructural development.. Its aim is to collect, describe and analyse the extent to which the infrastructural development of Zimbabweans has been affected by the Look East Policy from 2003 up to 2016. The findings of the research were that the policy had yielded both tangible and intangible benefits as well as negative effects but, not without criticism and impediments. Some of the findings fu...
Abstract This research attempts to unearth the dynamics of the struggles of the BaTonga tribe of Binga in the quest for national identity. The research grapples with competing forces which hinders the minority groups in attainment of their autonomous identity without contradicting national question of identity formation project. What has emerged in post-colonial state is conflation of minority tribes into two major competing which are Shona and generalisation of identity of these groups. The ...
ABSTRACT The concept of Ubuntu has been long existing in the Ndebele society, Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole. The concept has been existing since the pre-colonial times, yet little has been done to trace the contributions of the ideological frameworks which were used to promote the philosophy of Ubuntu. Hence the research work`s main aim was to assess the role of the Ndebele ideological framework in promoting the philosophy of Ubuntu. Evidence shows that the Ndebele traditional values played ...
ABSTRACT It was in the year 2006, when diamonds were officially revealed in the Marange communal lands of Zimbabwe. In as much as people who remained behind at Chiadzwa were depressed of their farm lands, those villagers who had already been relocated also professed themselves as cursed due to a twine of misfortunes affecting their destiny.1 Ecologically, Chiadzwa lies in the aridity region. Its annual rainfall is not only low, but also unreliable. Over an extensive period of time, inhabitant...
ABSTRACT The predominant discourse around Governments of National Unity (GNUs) in Africa involves the role they play towards ushering nations from dire political situations to a more democratic dispensation. Contemporary studies on African GNUs highlight that these governments have been utilised to serve as conflict resolution mechanisms and they have realised much success in pacifying violent situations. This study seeks to explore into the 2009-2013 Government of National Unity (GNU) that w...
ABSTRACT The history of the MDC has been authored by various scholars. Most available literature focused on the emergence of the MDC’s activism in general and was silent on the democratic nature of the party in particular. The role played by public and critical public intellectuals in authoring history about the MDC has been associated with subjectivity vis-à-vis objectivity. Praise texts have been published from a pro-MDC perspective but the nature of democracy in the party has been under...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the rise and fall of the mining industry in Zimbabwe focusing on ZISCOSTEEL. The study was carried out in Redcliff the home town of ZISCO. This research was mainly based on primary sources which includes books, news papers, archived company files and most importantly oral interviews. It was found out that the iron and steel industry dates back to pre-colonial times were indigenous people mined and processed iron to make tools like axes, hoes and weapons. Large s...
Abstract The study examines the position of traditional games as a form of informal education in Zimbabwe, with a particular focus to Matsapa in the HondeValley region. African traditional games was an important educative tool which was used during the pre-colonial era to teach children real life experiences and instill life skills in them which would carry them the rest of their life The study makes use of qualitative research design using key informant, unstructured in-depth interviews and ...