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Journal articles on the topic "Shona (African people) – Fiction"

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Prozesky, Maria. "African speculative fiction as Indigenous remembering: Contrasting stories by Jonathan Dotse and Masima Musodza." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 59, no. 1 (2022): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v59i1.12727.

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How to understand what uniquely African contribution speculative fiction created by African authors makes is a vexed question. Drawing on concepts of the geopolitics of knowledge and locus of enunciation, from the South American tradition of decolonial theory, I argue that the term “Indigenous” must be retained to specify works that speak from epistemic locations within Indigenous African cultures. Such fiction does important remembering work by recovering, renewing, and extending Indigenous knowledge traditions and so claiming the right to imagine futures in Indigenous terms. This remembering

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Chingombe, Agrippa, Mandova Evans, and Simon Nenji. "Perception And Management of Human Fertility: A Shona Landscape." International Journal of Management and Sustainability 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18488/journal.11/2012.1.1/11.1.1.12.

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The history of the Shona people has it formally and informally that fertility is an issue of major concern to the couple, family and community. However, very little literature has been documented concerning the Shona worldview of fertility, as well as its causes and effects. Most of the knowledge and belief systems exist in oral form to the extent that, there is a temptation to exaggerate and mystify as well as misrepresent the concept and its practice. This makes it difficult for outsiders and other non-practising Shona people to appreciate the value of this real life-long African belief syst

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Masinire, Sam, Benjamin Mudzanire, and Kudakwashe Mapetere. "Unpacking the Eurocentric Indictment of Pre-colonial African Socio-political Institutions in literary works; Pfumo Reropa and Gonawapotera." Greener Journal of Social Sciences 3, no. 2 (2013): 75–83. https://doi.org/10.15580/gjss.2013.2.011213366.

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This study examines the reliability and utility of Chakaipa and Zvarevashe’s old world novels;Pfumo Reropa and Gonawapotera respectively as historical novels. The novels were examined with the view to making an academic interrogation of how chieftainship, law courts and polygamy institutions which formed the soul of the Shona people’s culture in pre-colonial Zimbabwe are portrayed. An afro-centric analysis of the disparity between novels and other researches was done and it revealed a glaring distortion of the Shona people’s culture in pre-colonial Zimbabwe. Th

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Chekero, Tamuka, and Shannon Morreira. "Mutualism Despite Ostensible Difference: HuShamwari, Kuhanyisana, and Conviviality Between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa." Africa Spectrum 55, no. 1 (2020): 33–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002039720914311.

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This ethnographic study explores forms of mutuality and conviviality between Shona migrants from Zimbabwe and Tsonga-speaking South Africans living in Giyani, South Africa. To analyse these forms of mutuality, we draw on Southern African concepts rather than more conventional development or migration theory. We explore ways in which the Shona concept of hushamwari (translated as “friendship”) and the commensurate xiTsonga category of kuhanyisana (“to help each other to live”) allow for conviviality. Employing the concept of hushamwari enables us to move beyond binaries of kinship versus friend

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B, Mupini, Chaputsira S, and Sibanda Bk. "Survey on Speech to Text Modelling for the Shona Language." Survey on Speech to Text Modelling for the Shona Language 9, no. 1 (2024): 4. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10609671.

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Conversion of speech to text (STT) for various applications is of huge interest, which involves technological approaches which are innovative that should be applied to accommodate spoken languages in Africa. However, African countries are falling behind on the embracing of STT technologies, with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) having been done for popular East African languages. This has always kept transcription at a minimum and has also resulted in a  retard in the use of many African languages on a world- wide scale, with another problem being that a single  African language ma

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Mazuru, Michael, and Grand Nesbeth. "HIV and AIDS, Globalisation and the Shona Indigenous Knowledge Systems: the Impact of HIV and AIDS on the Shona Culture." Greener Journal of Social Sciences 3, no. 4 (2013): 171–79. https://doi.org/10.15580/gjss.2013.4.020713440.

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HIV and AIDS pandemic have wrecked havoc among humankind. They have caused a plethora of problems to the chagrin of humanity as humans fail to find a permanent panacea to the deadly diseases thereby prompting them to experiment in different ways in a bid to curtail their adverse impact on mankind. This has caused a review of different people’s cultural practices such as living styles, medicinal practices, beliefs and faiths, marriage practices among others as well as different people’s perceptions of the pandemic. In the struggle it has emerged that there are some western cultural

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Samanga, T., and V. M. Matiza. "Depiction of Shona marriage institution in Zimbabwe local television drama, Wenera Diamonds." Southern Africa Journal of Education, Science and Technology 5, no. 1 (2020): 53–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sajest.v5i1.39824/sajest.2020.001.

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Marriage is a highly celebrated phenomenon among the African people. It is one of the important institutions among the Shona and Ndebele people in Zimbabwe as expressed in the saying ‘musha mukadzi’ and ‘umuzingumama’ (home is made by a woman) respectively. However with the coming of colonialism in Zimbabwe, marriage was not given the appropriate respect it deserves. This has given impetus to this paper where the researchers in the study through drama want to bring out the depiction of marriage institution in a post -independence television drama, Wenera Diamonds (2017). This paper therefore,

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Samanga, T., and V. M. Matiza. "Depiction of Shona marriage institution in Zimbabwe local television drama, Wenera Diamonds." Southern Africa Journal of Education, Science and Technology 5, no. 1 (2023): 53–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sajest.v5i1.39824.

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Marriage is a highly celebrated phenomenon among the African people. It is one of the important institutions among the Shona and Ndebele people in Zimbabwe as expressed in the saying ‘musha mukadzi’ and ‘umuzingumama’ (home is made by a woman) respectively. However with the coming of colonialism in Zimbabwe, marriage was not given the appropriate respect it deserves. This has given impetus to this paper where the researchers in the study through drama want to bring out the depiction of marriage institution in a post -independence television drama, Wenera Diamonds (2017). This paper therefore,

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Brzostek, Dariusz. "Constructing African future: Africa and African people in Polish science fiction of the socialist era." Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, no. 3 (49) (2021): 479–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843860pk.21.033.14353.

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The paper’s main objective is to analyse the visions of an African future in the Polish Socialist Era science fiction. Speculative fiction played an important part in the cultural landscape of socialist Poland, being integral to the popular culture as well as to communist propaganda. The image of a communist future was a major motif in the early Socialist Era science fiction narratives and also the impressive political forecast of the final worldwide triumph of the Communist Party. These narratives also included some interesting examples of the African future and the African people in the futu

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Nhengu, Collins, and Robert Matikiti. "Religion and Animals: Lessons for Christians Drawn from African Traditional Practices in Zimbabwe." Advances in Social Sciences and Management 3, no. 2 (2025): 65–77. https://doi.org/10.63002/assm.32.871.

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This article will argue that since time immemorial biological diversity has been central to human survival. Indigenous peoples have developed stages of technology and culture appropriate for different environments of climate, vegetation and animals. African traditional religion practices and promotes peace for both human and non-human animals. Crises for survival in the environment such as drought removed the animals that people were hunting and this threatened sustainable development. The symbiotic relationship between human beings and animals was clearly recorded in paintings. Indigenous peo

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Shona (African people) – Fiction"

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Latham, C. J. K. "Mwari and the divine heroes: guardians of the Shona." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004666.

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Mutate, Joe Kennedy. "A critique of the Shona people of Zimbabwe's concept of salvation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Maraire, Dumisani. "The position of music in Shona mudzimu (ancestral spirit) possession /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11274.

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Maxwell, David James. "A social and conceptual history of North-East Zimbabwe, 1890-1990." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670267.

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Goodwin, David Pell, and n/a. "Belonging knows no boundaries : persisting land tenure custom for Shona, Ndebele and Ngai Tahu." University of Otago. Department of Surveying, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080807.151921.

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Aspects of customary land tenure may survive even where formal rules in a society supersede custom. This thesis is about persisting custom for Maori Freehold land (MFL) in New Zealand, and the Communal Areas (CAs) of Zimbabwe. Three questions are addressed: what unwritten land tenure custom still persists for Ngai Tahu, Shona and Ndebele, what key historical processes and events in New Zealand and Zimbabwe shaped the relationship between people and land into the form it displays today, and how do we explain differences between surviving customary tenure practices in the two countries? The rese

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Fort, L. Gregg. "Training churches in the Hurungwe district of Zimbabwe to deal with demonized persons through a contextualized Biblical approach." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Nguluwe, Johane A. "The "puny David" of Shona and Ndebele cultures a force to reckon with in the confrontation of the "Goliath" of violence /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.

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Rutsate, Jerry. "Performance of Mhande song-dance: a contextualized and comparative analysis." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002321.

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This thesis is an investigation of the significance of Mhande song-dance in two performance contexts: the Mutoro ritual of the Karanga and the Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Competition. In addition, I undertake comparative analysis of the structure of Mhande music in relation to the structure of selected genres of Shona indigenous music. The position of Mhande in the larger context of Shona music is determined through analysis of transcriptions of the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic elements of chizambi mouth bow, karimba mbira, ngororombe panpipes, ngano story songs, game, hunting, war,

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Chipendo, Claudio. "Towards a changing context and performance practice of mbira dzavadzimu music in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/6357.

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Mbira dzavadzimu music and performance practice has been in existence since the pre-colonial era. It played a crucial role in ritual and non-ritual activities of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. However, political, social and global influences as well as technological advancement have resulted in change of context and performance practice. Unfortunately, these have not been recorded for future generations. The major aim of the study is therefore to examine the change of context and performance practice of mbira dzavadzimu in Zimbabwe. This was achieved by reviewing mbira dzavadzimu music and perf

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Steiner, Christina. "Translated people, translated texts : language and migration in some contemporary African fiction." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8100.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-215)<br>This thesis examines contemporary migration narratives by four African writers living in the diaspora and writing in English: Leila Aboulela and Jamal Mahjoub from the Sudan, now living in Scotland and Spain respectively and Abdulrazak Gurnah and Moyez G. Vassanji from Tanzania now residing in the UK and Canada. Focusing on how language operates in relation to both culture and identity, this study foregrounds the complexities of migration as cultural translation. Cultural translation is a concept which locates itself in postcolonial liter

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Books on the topic "Shona (African people) – Fiction"

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Chiwome, Emmanuel. A social history of the Shona novel. Mambo Press, 2002.

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Chiwome, Emmanuel. A social history of the Shona novel. Juta Zimbabwe (Pvt), 1996.

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Farmer, Nancy. A girl named disaster. Puffin Books, 1998.

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Farmer, Nancy. A girl named Disaster. Thorndike Press, 2005.

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Johnson, Robert, Jr., J.D., ed. Shona. Rosen Pub. Group, 1997.

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Beach, D. N. Shona oral traditions. University of Zimbabwe, History Dept., 1990.

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Mungoshi, Charles. Stories from a Shona childhood. Baobab Books, 1989.

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M, Mutswairo Solomon, ed. Introduction to Shona culture. Juta Zimbabwe (Pvt), 1996.

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Gombe, J. M. The Shona idiom. Mercury Press, 1995.

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Bourdillon, M. F. C. The Shona peoples: An ethnography of the contemporary Shona, with special reference to their religion. 3rd ed. Mambo Press, 1987.

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Gudhlanga, Enna Sukutai, and Patience Yeukai Museruka. "Ngozi (the justice-seeking spirit) as a form of restorative justice among the Shona people of Zimbabwe." In Gender, African Philosophies, and Concepts. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032623900-4.

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Zabala, Lino J., and Elis Meza. "A people made of mud." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.37.22zab.

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Abstract Enslavement memories provide a fruitful field for transcending disciplinary boundaries. In Brazil, colonial structures still permeate racial relationships; therefore, representations of the past can influence the present. We incorporate an artistic/academic approach in order to both rethink enslavement experiences and explore non-linear ways to narrate African diaspora history. This chapter is a literary tale created from our reading of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic sources. The story presents a non-fiction scenario based on a beef jerky plantation in Pelotas city, with

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Dovey, Lindiwe, and Estrella Sendra. "Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds." In Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14171-3_14.

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AbstractThis chapter is in part a manifesto and in part an engagement with the thinking and practice already re-shaping film festivals in this era of decolonization and Covid-19. We take as a starting point and analyze the provocative docu-fiction film titled Film Festival Film (dir. Perivi Katjavivi and Mpumelelo Mcata, 2019, South Africa) which raises myriad, difficult, and enduring questions about film festivals and contemporary film culture. Reading the provocations of this film alongside our own respective research into and work with film festivals and film curation (mostly in relation to

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Thompson, Katrina Daly. "7 Imported Alternatives Changing Shona Masculinities in Flame & Yellow Card." In Men in African Film and Fiction. Boydell and Brewer, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781846159329-009.

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Achieng' Akuno, Emily, Akosua Obuo Addo, Elizabeth Achieng' Andang'o, Andrea Emberly, Mudzunga Davhula, and Perminus Matiure. "Sub-Saharan African Musical Learning Communities." In The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190927523.013.26.

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Abstract This chapter tackles the childhood music practiced in traditional and modern African settings with emphasis on teaching and learning as facilitated and enhanced by children’s songs and music-making. The spaces where music making takes place, the types of children’s music material, and the occasions during which children make music today are explored from the context of South Africa’s Venda, Zimbabwe’s Shona, Ghana’s Akan, and Kenya’s Luo communities and cultural practices, as representative people of Sub-Saharan Africa. The music practices are interrogated as elements of the African I

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Cataliotti, Robert H. "“Not Many People Ever Really Hear it”: Richard Wright, Ann Petry & James Baldwin." In The Music in African American Fiction. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429423864-8.

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Cataliotti, Robert H. "“There Must Be Some People Who Lived for Music”: Margaret Walker & William Melvin Kelley." In The Music in African American Fiction. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429423864-11.

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Puig, Steve. "‘Qui fait la France?’ New configurations of Frenchness in contemporary urban fiction." In Reimagining North African immigration. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719099489.003.0002.

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This essay traces the change in focus from beur literature in the 1980s to urban literature in the 1990s onwards. Whereas beur literature showed characters torn between their original culture and their adopted culture, urban literature presents characters claiming and asserting their belonging to France and refusing to be confined to racist stereotypes. Relying on a collection of short stories entitled Chroniques d’une société annoncée published in 2005 by a group of writers named Qui Fait la France?, Puig shows how the short stories give fresh and different representations of people living in

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Purdon, James. "Mitchison, Decolonisation and African Modernity." In Naomi Mitchison. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474494748.003.0010.

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From the late 1950s, Naomi Mitchison was a vocal critic of the Apartheid system in South Africa, and a consistent advocate of Black African self-government. During the 1960s, as British colonies in sub-Saharan Africa were gaining their independence, Mitchison spent much of her time in Botswana, as a guest of, and adviser to, Kgosi Linchwe II, the leader of the Kgatla people. This chapter describes Mitchison’s anti-colonial activism, her fiction set in Botswana and the wider region, and her developing understanding of decolonisation as a cultural and psychological, as well as a political, proce

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Death, Carl. "Strange Places and Unfamiliar Homesteads." In African Climate Futures. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198960775.003.0004.

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Abstract This chapter explores where African climate fictions are located. Three particular features of place are identified. First, these stories are often located in unsettling, unfamiliar landscapes that can be described as heterotopian in the way that they disrupt and disturb our maps of the world. Second, the focus of many of these stories on cities works to destabilize utopian and hyper-modernist ‘African urban renaissance’ storylines. Third, many of these stories pay close attention to the domestic spaces and homesteads of the future, often suggesting that families and homes are places

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