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Mamvura, Zvinashe, and Shumirai Nyota. "The Form and Communicative Impact of Shona Postproverbials." Matatu 51, no. 2 (2020): 282–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05102005.

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Abstract This article explores the syntax-semantics nexus of Shona postproverbials in the contemporary Zimbabwean society. In terms of syntax, Shona postproverbials are aligned to the following types of sentences found in the Shona language; substantival, verbal, and a combination of both. Like traditional proverbs, there is no postproverbial that takes the form of the ideophonic sentence. The communicative power of postproverbials is an inherent, inbuilt, and internal property stemming from their syntactic and lexical properties. The postproverbial forms, studied in this article, exhibit inno

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Masowa, Angeline, and Zvinashe Mamvura. "African philosophy of development as expressed in Shona proverbs." AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities 6, no. 2 (2017): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijah.v6i2.3.

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Mangena, Tendai, and Sambulo Ndlovu. "Reflections on how Selected Shona and Ndebele Proverbs Highlight a Worldview that Promotes a Respect and/or a Violation of Children’s Rights." International Journal of Children’s Rights 22, no. 3 (2014): 660–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02203003.

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This paper sets out to demonstrate that though the un Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is the most widely accepted Human Rights Convention and Zimbabwe is one of the 193 states acceding to the treaty, there are still challenges in the promotion of children’s rights. Irrespective of the fact that human rights discourse is believed to be a modern concept and its universal application is contested, this paper also demonstrates that children’s rights have always been moral imperatives for both the Shona and Ndebele of Zimbabwe since time immemorial, as shown in their proverbs. Neverthe

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WASOSA, WELLINGTON, and EVANS MANDOVA. "The Role of Proverbs in the Shona Judicial System with Special Reference to Nhango Dzokusuma Nyaya Padare." Matatu 41, no. 1 (2013): 369–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401209151_023.

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MANDOVA, EVANS. "The Shona Proverb as an Expression of." Matatu 41, no. 1 (2013): 357–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401209151_022.

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Degener, Almuth. "Family relationships in proverbs from Northern Pakistan." Proverbium 39 (July 10, 2022): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.29162/pv.39.1.56.

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Proverbs from Pakistan are one of the lesser-noted areas of paremiology. The article examines proverbs in five orally transmitted languages from northern Pakistan for statements about relationships and values within the family. Many clichés are confirmed: women are subordinate, and untrustworthy, children are wished for, but hard to raise, mothers are good, and stepmothers evil, the honour of the family must be protected. However, there are remarkably few proverbs about the stupidity of women and their talkativity. And the values depicted in the proverbs, despite cultural and geographical clos

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Nhemachena, Artwell. "Hakuna Mhou Inokumira Mhuru Isiri Yayo: Examining the Interface between the African Body and 21st Century Emergent Disruptive Technologies." Journal of Black Studies 52, no. 8 (2021): 864–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00219347211026012.

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Colonially depicted as a region distinctive for fables and fabrications, Africa has ever since not been allowed to reclaim anything original. Dispossessed of their original wealth, Africans have been forced to live in fabled and fabricated houses, eating fabled, and fabricated food—closer to animals. Similarly, dispossessed of their original human identities, Africans have been forced to adopt fabricated identities. With the 21st century not promising any return to original African human identities, Africans are set to be further nanotechnologically (using tiny nanoparticles) fabricated into c

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Bronner, Shaw. "Here’s To Our Community." Medical Problems of Performing Artists 35, no. 4 (2020): 233–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.21091/mppa.2020.4034.

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Memorialized in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s children’s book entitled It Takes a Village, “it takes a village to raise a child” is an African proverb that means an entire community of people must interact with children for those children to experience and grow in a safe and healthy environment. The need of the artist to create is undeniable and their villages continue to support them. During these dark days of the COVID-10 pandemic, performing and fine artists have been denied their traditional communication with their public as theaters and museums closed down throughout the wo

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Makaudze, Godwin. "Children and Childhood in Shona Proverbs." Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 30, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/7486.

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Childhood is not a neatly definable concept as it differs among cultures. Among the Shona, a child and childhood are defined in terms of age, marital status, behaviour and also relations to other members in society. The Shona, like other ethnic groups, have a plethora of ways through which their worldview is fashioned and conveyed, and these include songs, folktales, riddles and proverbs, among others. In this article, Shona proverbs are analysed in terms of how they present Shona people’s perception and conceptualisation of childhood. Afrocentricity is used to analyse the content of proverbs

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Makaudze, Godwin. "The Shona Proverbs Portrayal of the Institution of African Traditional Leadership." Alternation Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa SP38C (December 1, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c17.

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Makaudze, Godwin. "Disability in Shona Proverbial Lore." Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 29, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/4069.

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Disability is a world-wide human condition approached differently by different societies. Contemporary society has seen efforts by United Nations (UN) member states to adopt, uphold and safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities. In Africa today, constitutions of various countries have provisions for the rights of persons with disabilities. However, the ratification of conventions and birthing of constitutions that pay heed to the rights of persons with disabilities do not mean that African societies had no place and platforms for those with disabilities before and now. In fact, disabil

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Nhemachena, Artwell. "Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza: Anthropological Musings on the Coloniality of Dispossession in Africa." Journal of Black Studies, January 10, 2023, 002193472211451. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00219347221145187.

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Africans need to be careful with discourses on coloniality that avoid dealing with central aberrations of colonialism. Focusing on coloniality of power, coloniality of being, coloniality of knowledge and coloniality of gender, contemporary discourses on coloniality sidestepped a central aspect of colonialism. Motivated not by quests to merely exercise power, as is assumed in coloniality of power; and motivated not merely by quests to dominate Africans using knowledge, as is assumed in coloniality of knowledge; and motivated not ultimately by the quest for gender domination, as is assumed in th

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Mandova, Evans, and Agrippa Chingombe. "The SHONA Proverb as an Expression of UNHU/ UBUNTU." International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development 2, no. 1 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/ijarped/v2-i1/9753.

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Mapara, Jacob, and Simangenkosi Thebe. "It has always been a man’s world: The woman as other in the Shona and Ndebele proverb." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 2, no. 4 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.24.925.

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Mujinga, Martin. "Musha mukadzi: An African women’s religio-cultural resilience toolkit to endure pandemi." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 79, no. 3 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v79i3.8977.

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Life among most African families and communities revolves around women. In both African religion and culture, women’s lives oscillate between two opposite extremes of being at the centre and periphery at the same time. Women are both the healers and the often wounded by the system that respects them when there are problems and displaces them whenever there are opportunities. Their central role is expressed by a Shona proverb musha mukadzi (the home is a woman). This proverb expresses how women endure the pain of both religion and culture to create a decent society. Women also endure the pain o

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Chigwedere, Yuleth, and Isaac Choto. "The Colonial Boomerang: A Comparative Analysis of the Traumatic Effect of the Violence of War in Alexander Kanengoni’s Echoing Silences and Alexandra Fuller’s Scribbling the Cat." Imbizo 8, no. 2 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2078-9785/2978.

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This literary analysis explores how the repercussions of violence had both metaphysical and traumatic consequences for those involved in the war that led to the liberation of Zimbabwe, regardless of which side they fought for. This scarring of the psyche is vividly explored in Alexandra Kanengoni’s Echoing Silences and Alexander Fuller’s Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier. The main character in the former text is a black Zanla freedom fighter, while the protagonist in Fuller’s text is an ex-Rhodesian white soldier. This allows for insightful comparative analysis. Despite their

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Dvalidze, Nino. "IDIOMS AND SLOGANS IN POSTER LIKE PROPAGANDA." International Journal of Innovative Technologies in Social Science, no. 4(40) (November 2, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal_ijitss/30122023/8066.

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21-st century is very busy, contradictive and tensed because of several cores of wars, accordingly abundant information flows out from the internet. Nobody has time to read several pages for a long time. Minimalism in words is appreciated more. As the 12 th century renaissance period Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli said in the prologue to his famous masterpiece "The Man in the Panther’s Skin”: “A long word is told shortly” (in few words is uttered a long discourse) as “Minstrelsy is, first of all, a branch of wisdom “… So, the idioms, slogans, proverbs, parables, some other kinds of phrasa

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