ABSTRACT Double consciousness in not peculiar to African Americans who have suffered from the injustices of slavery. It can be traced among those who are excluded from center to the periphery in domination and control, irrespective of race or location. Though the white race has considered whiteness as a stable identity, or signifier of rationality, sanity, power, it can be noted it is an unstable identity that is always under construction. White people also find themselves occupying the botto...
Abstract This study sets motion for systematic academic investigations on the Algiers Charter of 1975 and film production in Zimbabwe and Africa at large. The charter stipulates that filmmakers should be committed to the development of an ‘African’ cinema, radically different from previous cinematic representations of Africa by the Western world, rejecting commercial influence. Despite the centrality of the charter in film production, systematic academic studies on the phenomenon in the Z...
ABSTRACT The Research Thesis has the aim of interrogating gender dynamics in pornographic films. The research focuses on masculine characteristics, feminine characteristics, masculine and feminine relationships and film techniques used and their effect. The study will interrogate these gender dynamics in three films which are Kelly’s Public Disgrace by kink, Tarzan X Shame of Jane and Fifty Shades of Grey XXX Adaption. Qualitative research methodology was used to carry out the research. Lib...
ABSTRACT The research focuses on the transformation of ‘Imbube’ music in Zimbabwe. It interrogates the role and value of the transformation of ‘Imbube’ music in Bulawayo. The study is largely qualitative but it also employs some quantitative techniques. Similarly the study uses data collection methods such as structured and unstructured interviews, questionnaires, focus group discussions and document analysis in collecting data from ‘Imbube’ groups, audiences and academics. The Af...
ABSTRACT Governance in Africa has been since driven by poor policy formulation and lack of political will by leading officials. Decentralisation has mainly been used to bribe the masses given that African states are a product of colonialism and for redistribution of resources to mean equality in accessing them. African states has decentralised power of which decentralisation as a process suffered incompletion in practice. Since 1980 the government have been aiming at eradicating poverty throu...
ABSTRACT The Zimbabwean society as always been homophobic and homohysteric in nature since the late nineties with the largely publicised homophobic utterances by the former president Mugabe influencing media discourse in the post-independence era. However, studies examining queer sexual identities and digital media platforms in contemporary times are scarce. Guided by the queer theory, this study qualitatively examines how Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe Facebook page and Unheard voices blog ar...
ABSTRACT The study was on the role of music in the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe, and Matabeleland region in particular. The main focus of the study was to examine how liberation music in Matabeleland region provided an outlet for their anguish and bitterness about the insensitive colonial system. The use of liberation songs in the decolonization process in Zimbabwe depicted music as a bludgeon which was dedicated to express the people's experiences under a colonial system which had proved ...
Abstract This research focused on introductory documentation of archaeological heritage, specifically dry-stone walls and grain bins found in the settlement of Mukaro, Gutu, showing how the heritage is linked to the people of Mukaro specifically the MoyoNyakuvengwa. The most important part of this study was to give a record of the type of heritage found in Mukaro through documentation processes like conditional survey, geo mapping among others. The other aspect of this research highlights how...
ABSTRACT The study start out to determine the role of language in the strategic representation of the Community Share Ownership Trust programme particularly the case of the Zimbabwe Independent and The Herald issues from 23 January to 18 October 2014. The research intended to analyse language used in the selected print media articles with specific focus on highlighting how it was manipulated by reporters of both newspapers to advance their ideological inclinations. The findings of the study r...
Abstract The purpose of this research is to scrutinize the impact of political crises on the judicial independence from 2000 to 2013. Zimbabwe experienced political crises that include violation of human rights, contested polls to mention just a few. These predicaments had a major and negative impact while only a few saw a shed of positivity on the bench. The study brings to light the lack of judicial independence and how this has negatively affected its constitutional mandated duties. The pu...
Abstract: This article seeks to assess the practice and approaches of Corporate Citizenship (CC) by the PR department at Nestle Zimbabwe to enhance corporate reputation from 2010 to 2013. It looks at how Nestle Zimbabwe has managed to boost its corporate reputation through CC and how they influence people‟s decision making process through their help mechanisms. The study would be guided by Carroll‟s (1991) model, two-way symmetrical model and the stakeholder‟s salience model. Furthermor...
ABSTRACT The bilateral diplomatic relations of Zimbabwe and China re surfaced in a crucial time of economic and international politics hardship for Zimbabwe. This has caused too much expectation from the Zimbabweans and serious bargain allegations on China from these relations. This has led to a number of people including the international arena questioning the relevance or rather importance of these bilateral relations. Therefore, the focus of the study is on the impact of bilateral diplomat...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the teachers’ understanding and experiences in the teaching of oral communication in English at O’ Level in Sadza Cluster in Chikomba District. The study was necessitated by the need to know the teachers’ understanding and experiences in the teaching of oral communication in English. A qualitative research design premised on phenomenology was used for it enabled the researcher to get current and on the ground information of teachers�...
ABSTRACT This thesis is a critical and analytical study of Immanuel Kant‟s moral philosophy. Kant‟s moral philosophy is grounded on human pure reason and erected on the notion of duty, hence deontological. Kant is of the view that there is the moral law operating in man the reason why man must not shirk his moral responsibility. For Kant there is no room for moral anarchy and moral phobia for any rational being since human beings have moral nature. He concludes that man is condemned to b...
ABSTRACT The study used quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate the quality of service delivery by the MVA Fund and MoHSS through EMRS bases in Namibia. The positivist research strategy was used for the quantitative non-experimental research survey that includes the gathering and analysis of quantitative data. The sample of the study consisted of 20 respondents, of which 10 were from the EMRS bases (Windhoek, Omuthiya and Usakos bases) and 10 were key informants, represen...