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Journal articles on the topic "Zimbabwean poetry"

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Bhebhe, P. "Perceptions of Advanced Level Students and Teachers Towards the Learning of Poetry in Literature in English in the Zimbabwean Classroom." International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation XI, no. VI (2024): 206–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.51244/ijrsi.2024.1106017.

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This paper is a desktop review of the perceptions of advanced-level students and teachers towards learning poetry in English literature in the Zimbabwean classroom. English language is one of the core subjects in the Zimbabwean education curriculum. From early childhood development to the university level, students are taught and examined in English. In advanced level (‘A’ level) classes, particularly in Nkayi District, students even learn English and communication skills and write them as a fourth subject. Although it does not contribute towards an individual student’s points, it is considered a desirable subject. English and communication skills are compulsory in almost all the schools in Nkayi District. The subject of Literature in English comprises three categories, which are prose, drama, and poetry. However, Poetry is the most complicated of the three. This paper examined perceptions of advanced-level students and teachers towards learning poetry in literature in English in the Zimbabwean classroom. The research objective was the perception of ‘A’ level students and teachers in Nkayi District, Zimbabwe, towards the learning of poetry in Literature in English. A desktop research methodology was utilized, along with a qualitative case study design, and a thorough evaluation of literature on the perceptions of advanced level students and teachers towards learning poetry in English literature, as emphasized in the literature review. Constructivism’s theoretical perspective underpinned the study. Data were also collected using face-to-face interviews and focused group discussion instruments. The research findings revealed that the perceptions of ‘A’ level students and teachers in Zimbabwe, towards studying poetry in English were that the nature of poetry in English is very complicated and open to many interpretations. The findings also revealed that the historical context of the poems makes the learners understand, associate, and enjoy the history of the different poems. However, the poems taught at the ‘A’ level were too old and foreign to learners. The results also disclosed that the challenge in poetry emanates from sounds and vocabulary. The poetic devices and their level of difficulty may become a hindrance to effecting learning. Learners prefer constructivism and interactive methodologies, if teachers properly implement them in the teaching process, they will tend to get best results out of it. It emerged that failure of students to use the dictionaries may hamper in seeing the aesthetics in poetry in literature in English. This paper recommended that the strategies that can be recommended in order to change these perceptions are the learner centred methods of teaching, availability of resources and provision of functional fully stocked library for research purposes. This will foster the studying of poetry in Literature in English.
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McCarthy, Tracey. "In Closing…American Friends Making Zimbabwean Sahwiras." Language Arts 85, no. 1 (September 1, 2007): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/la20076167.

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Children and educators from two continents learn together through the sharing of art, poetry, music, native language, letters, e-mails, stories, literature, gifts, and resources. Through the celebration of sharing one another’s lives, the children have opened their eyes to awareness of culture first hand as they bond the global educational community through friendship and love.
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Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde. "Contextualizing the versification of genocide and gender violence in Zimbabwean poetry." African Identities 18, no. 4 (June 24, 2020): 466–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2020.1778442.

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Hofmeyr, Isabel. "‘I am the new man and you are the new woman’: the iconography of the guerilla in some recent Zimbabwean poetry." English Academy Review 3, no. 1 (January 1985): 51–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131758585310041.

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Dlodlo, Sindile. "Articulation of Women’s Empowerment Through Poetry: Critical Perspective." DANDE Journal of Social Sciences and Communication 2, no. 2 (2018): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/dande.v2i2.43.

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This is a literary study which analyses poetic works produced by Zimbabwe Women Writers. It seeks to establish the position of women as far as articulation of their emancipation and empowerment is concerned. This is done in the light of the fact that Zimbabwe Women Writers is an organisation which represents both the achievements of women and an arena for women to speak out. The Ndebele anthology Inkondlo (1998) is analysed and in the course of the analysis, Spivak’s (1988) argument of the woman being a subaltern who cannot speak is interrogated. It is the author’s submission that contributions in the anthology Inkondlo actually deconstruct the feminist way of thinking which guides the publisher.
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Sackett, J. R. "Richard Murphy’s The God Who Eats Corn: A Colonizer’s Critique of British Imperialism in Ireland and Africa." International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 2, no. 3 (April 22, 2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.47631/ijecls.v2i3.220.

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With the passing of Richard Murphy in 2018, Ireland lost its last poet of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy. Yet his poetry often displays the poet’s sense of unease with his background and features attempts to reconcile Ireland’s colonial history with feelings of guilt and self-consciousness as an inheritor to the gains of the British imperialist project. A dedicatory poem to his aging father who had retired to what was then known as Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), ‘The God Who Eats Corn’ draws parallels between Irish and African colonial experiences. Yet far from celebrating the ‘civilizing’ mission of British imperialism, Murphy deftly challenges and questions the legitimacy of his family legacy. I argue that rather than reinforcing the poet’s image as representative of the Ascendancy class, ‘The God Who Eats Corn’ reveals sympathies with the subject peoples of British imperialism and aligns Murphy with a nationalist narrative of history and conception of ‘native’ identity. For this reason, the poem should be considered a landmark of modern Irish poetics in its articulation of trans-racial anti-colonial solidarity.
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Zulu, Eldon. "The Entrepreneurial Drive of the Reformation Age Inherent Within the Poetic Ingenuity of Christ in Song: An Examination of its Impact to Culture, Work Ethic, Metaphors of Work and Value System of the 21st Century Protestantism." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science VIII, no. VI (2024): 3047–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2024.806231.

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The study anchored on the quantitative research paradigm presents a study sample size of (N=300) respondents were given questionnaires were utilised to gather data amongst 10 churches in Zimbabwe that utilise Christ in Song in their worship pattern. However, precaution was exercised, so that the core-mandate of the Church which is about reaching out with the message of Jesus Christ without compromise like the reformist of old, through worship, discipleship, evangelism, mission and social at will not be lost in the pursuit of academic excellence. The study reveals, through regression analysis 0.00 that it is significant. The Coefficient table results reveal that knowledge on work ethic value is significant .000, finance and stewardship value is not significant at .729, Age and diversity not significant at .265 and Social responsibility not significant at .151. The knowledge “Beta value “is 0.261 which means that the relationship between knowledge work ethic and dependent value expansion of the reformation theology is inverse. The other three independent variables Finance “Beta value” is .020, Age and diversity “Beta value” is .051 and Social responsibility “Beta value” is .051. The study concludes that the SZC of the Seventh day Adventist denomination should promote the entrepreneurial drive membership drive to knowledge on work ethic and in the future also consider the other insignificant variables for future studies. The study recommends future empirical studies to demystify and unpack in more detail the effects of sociocultural issues on work ethic and cultural value system of different conferences and unions in the global church of the SDA denomination general conference.
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Mutanda, Darlington. "Performance Arts in Zimbabwe: Setting the Agenda for Peace and Development." Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, November 9, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15423166231211301.

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Using purposively selected works of Zimbabwean artists posted on YouTube, and the public comments on this content, this article demonstrates the agenda-setting capabilities of performance artists, particularly those anchored on theatre, music and poetry. It does this by analysing how the artists set the agenda for peace, economic equity, political justice, social harmony and development in Zimbabwe. The paper notes that performance arts have been vital cogs in supporting and strengthening interventions aimed at achieving peace and development in the country. On the other hand, the comments section on social media sites was viewed as a ‘public space’ where people ‘converge’ to share their thoughts on various issues affecting them as raised by artists. Using document analysis and social media for observational data, this article argues that artists are critical in contributing to the peacebuilding discourse in Zimbabwe through putting important governance issues on the public agenda. The onus is on the authorities and other development partners to use this information to address the needs and the plight of the masses as a prerequisite for conflict transformation.
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Bhebhe, Sindiso. "Interrogating Myths Surrounding Sex Education in Zimbabwean Schools: Lessons to be Learned from Ndebele Traditional Literature/Oral Traditions." Oral History Journal of South Africa 6, no. 1 (October 19, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2309-5792/3322.

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Sex education is one of the most divisive aspects of the school curriculum in Zimbabwe. It is shrouded in myths and controversies—with some parents, culturists and religious groups asserting that it can contribute to immorality among learners. Others even go to an extent of claiming that sex education in primary and secondary schools should not be allowed as culturally it is a taboo to discuss issues of sex with teenagers. However, an analysis of traditional Ndebele literature seems to tell a different story. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to deliberate on these so-called taboos and claims, and to establish where the Ndebele culture stands with regards to sex education. The article critiques the Ndebele traditional literature/oral traditions, which boasts riddles, folktales, proverbs and wise sayings and even praise poetry, which are so rich in sex education.
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Tembo, Charles, Allan Maganga, and Shereck Mbwera. "Guilty at Law: Analysing Simon Chimbetu’s and Paul Matavire’s Memoirs from Prison." Imbizo, November 20, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/11219.

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A prison is limiting, dehumanising, isolating, stressful and dismembering. Such experiences are expressed through different sites of expression including but not limited to novels, poetry, autobiographies and even music. Zimbabwean musicians Simon Chimbetu and Paul Matavire are some of the artists who served jail terms having been found guilty at law and then decided to recount their experiences through music. Against that background, this article critically engages Simon Chimbetu’s and Paul Matavire’s music within the context of their attitude towards prison. Emerging in the exegesis of the songs is that in terms of attitude, Simon Chimbetu largely laments the horrendous experiences that involve entrapment, loss and angst, while Matavire deliberately mocks the prison itself to the extent that he is not as disillusioned as Chimbetu. He adopts an approach that helps him regain strength, confidence and agency in the midst of incarceration. It is the vision(s) of the artists that is of keen interest in this critical dialogue. It is apparent in Chimbetu’s lyricism that a prison is a dehumanising and depersonalising entity that generates pain, envy, grief, denial and in turn dislocates, disorients and decentres, while Matavire tends to mock his handlers in a subtle but powerful manner. He transcends victimhood and adopts a perspective in which the prison is viewed as a site of rehabilitation, reformation and human factor development. Our analysis is guided and oriented by the reformative theory of criminal justice.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Zimbabwean poetry"

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Gambahaya, Zifikile. "An analysis of the social vision of post-independence Zimbabwean writers with special reference to Shona and Ndebele poetry." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9678.

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This dissertation analyses creative trends in Shona and Ndebele poetry published after the attainment of political independence in 1980. The research tries to establish the close link between poems in the two national languages and post-independence Zimbabwean history in order to examine the link between creative writing and nationalism, which is the context in which creativity takes place, an attempt is made to outline major trends in nationalist history vis-a-vis colonialism. Having set the background for analysis, the research focuses on texts that are published in the context of the apparent cultural renaissance that is ushered by the apparent victory of African nationalism over colonialism. The texts are analysed in the context of the dialectic of nationalism and colonialism.
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Musvoto, Rangarirai Alfred. "Recasting history : imagining and mapping out identities in some Zimbabwean poetry." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28905.

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This study investigates how selected Zimbabwean poets use their poetry to re-imagine and rewrite Zimbabwean history to create new identities. It seeks to achieve this by analyzing the poetry of Musaemura Zimunya, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera, Philip Zhuwao, Freedom Nyamubaya and some other women poets from the anthology A Woman’s Plea and John Eppel’s poetry. The study argues that history and identity are unstable concepts whose meanings and usages are influenced by a variety of factors. It further contends that while the significations of history are generally split between how it is regarded in the academic discipline of history and its meanings outside the academic discipline, the controversies surrounding history are about the ways of representing the past. The study builds its central arguments around this existence of multiple ways of ordering the past, and asserts that poetry is also a form of representing history which utilizes its own rhetoric to authorize its versions of the past and construct identities in its own unique ways. These arguments are raised in Chapter One. The analysis of the selected poets’ texts in Chapters Two, Three, Four, Five and Six links them to the arguments raised in Chapter One. It critiques the versions of histories and the nature of identities that are represented differently by different poets. The study in these chapters reveals that poetic narratives are unstable accounts of both the past and identity, but it is this instability that allows poetry to interrogate narrow concepts of what is ‘real’ in history. There are both similar and dissimilar trends that abound in the selected poets’ texts which reveal that even within the poetic mode of representation, there are layers of understanding of the metaphorical symbols which we use to fix the meanings of Zimbabwean history and identities. The study applies different theoretical approaches to the work of each poet in order to show how each has different contribution to make towards the recovery of Zimbabwe’s past and how it speaks to our present.
Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Kostelac, Sofia Lucy. "Poetic language and subalternity in Yvonne Vera's butterfly burning and the stone virgins." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/2155.

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Student Number : 9803321X - MA Dissertation - School of Literature and Language Studies - Faculty of Humanities
The primary aim of this dissertation is to trace the ways in which Yvonne Vera’s final two novels, Butterfly Burning and The Stone Virgins, provide a discursive space for the enunciation of subaltern histories, which have been silenced in dominant socio-political discourse. I argue that it is through the deployment of ‘poetic language’ that Vera’s prose is able to negotiate the voicing of these suppressed narratives. In exploring these questions, I endeavour to locate Vera’s texts within the theoretical debates in postcolonial scholarship which question the ethical limitations of representing oppressed subjects in the Third World, as articulated by Gayatri Spivak, in particular. Following Spivak’s claim that subalternity is effaced in hegemonic discourse, I focus on the ways in which Vera’s inventive prose works to bring the figure of the subaltern back into signification. In order to elucidate how this dynamic operates in both novels, I employ Julia Kristeva’s psycholinguistic theory of ‘poetic language’. I argue that Kristeva’s understanding of literary practice as a transgressive modality, which is able to unsettle the silencing mechanisms of dominant monologic discourse, critically illuminates the subversive value of Vera’s fictional style for marginalised subaltern narratives.
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Mthatiwa, Syned Dale Makani. "Human-animal relationships and ecocriticism: a study of the representation of animals in poetry from Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/10813.

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Ph.D. Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, 2011
This study analyses the manner in which animals are represented in selected poetry from Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It discusses the various modes of animal representation the poets draw on, and the ideological influences on their manner of animal representation. It explores the kinds of poetic forms the poets employ in their representation of animals and examines the manner in which ecological or environmental issues are reflected in the poetry. Further, the study determines the extent to which the values expressed in the poems are consistent with, or different from, current ecological orthodoxies and the ways in which the metaphors generated in relation to animals influence the way we treat them. The study shows that in the selected poetry animals occupy a significant position in the poets’ exploration of social, psychological, political, and cultural issues. As symbols in, and subjects of, the poetry animals, in particular, and nature in general, function as tools for the poets’ conceptualisation and construction of a wide range of cultural, political, and philosophical ideas, including among others, issues of justice, identity, compassion, relational selfhood, heritage, and belonging to the cosmos. Hence, the animal figure in the poetry acts as a site for the convergence of a variety of concepts the poets mobilise to grapple with and understand relevant political, social, psychological and ecological ideas. The study advances the argument that studying animal representation in the selected poetry reveals a range of ecological sensibilities, as well as the limits of these, and opens a window through which to view and appreciate the poets’ conception, construction and handling of a variety of significant ideas about human to human relationships and human-animal/nature relationships. Further, the study argues that the poets’ social vision influences their animal representation and that their failures at times to fully see or address the connection between forms of abuse (nature and human) undercuts their liberationist quests in the poetry.
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Books on the topic "Zimbabwean poetry"

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Kabwato, Ethel. Traps: English poetry. Harare, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Women Writers, 2015.

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Nettleingham, David, and Tinashe Mushakavanhu. State of the nation: Contemporary Zimbabwean poetry. Faversham: Conversation PaperPress, 2009.

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Browne, Philippa-Alys. Elephants & emus: And other animal rhymes. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Pub., 1997.

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Tapureta, Beaven. Flowers of a dry season: A poetry anthology. [Harare]: Forteworx Press, 2015.

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Tapureta, Beaven, C. J. Milton, and Kimberly S. Chuka Silibaziso. Tribute to Penny: Various poets. Harare: Forteworx Press, 2018.

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Veit-Wild, Flora. Patterns of poetry in Zimbabwe. Gweru, Zimbabwe: Mambo Press, 1988.

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Moyo, Perfect. In the shadows. Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: MediaPlus Pvt Ltd., 2019.

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1956-, Hove Chenjerai, Mandishona Gibson, and Zimunya Musaemura, eds. Samora!: Tribute to a revolutionary. Harare: Zimbabwe Writers Union, 1986.

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1953-, Morris Jane, ed. Long time coming: Short writings from Zimbabwe. Ascot, Bulawayo: 'amaBooks, 2008.

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Promise, Moyo, ed. A woman's plea. Harare, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Pub. House, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Zimbabwean poetry"

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Taringa, Beatrice. "A Hermeneutical Exploration of Gender Perceptions Inherent in Some Selected ChiShona Poetry Texts Prescribed for Ordinary-Level Secondary School Learners in Zimbabwe." In Gendered Spaces, Religion, and Migration in Zimbabwe, 127–44. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003317609-11.

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Taringa, Beatrice. "Political Poetic/Theatrical Campaigning Pieces in Indigenous Languages in Rural Communities: The Case of Bikita District in Masvingo, Zimbabwe." In Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe, Volume I, 233–53. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27140-3_12.

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Bräunlein, Peter. "Patterns of Poetry in Zimbabwe." In Critical Approaches to <i>Anthills of the Savannah</i>, 138–41. BRILL, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004655973_026.

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Nsemwa, Amani. "MY ZIMBABWEAN BUNNY." In Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology, 31. Mwanaka Media and Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1b74285.20.

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Chikowore, Handsen. "Zimbabwe." In Best "New" African Poets 2018 Anthology, 217. Mwanaka Media and Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh9vtn3.147.

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Farinha, Ismael. "Zimbabwe." In Best "New" African Poets 2018 Anthology, 271. Mwanaka Media and Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh9vtn3.183.

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Mairosi, Cosmas. "Beautiful Zimbabwe." In Best "New" African Poets 2018 Anthology, 131–33. Mwanaka Media and Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh9vtn3.86.

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Vuma, Hleko. "The poet’s cryptogram." In Zimbolicious Anthology. An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts. Volumen 6, 38. Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.9165170.16.

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Mwanaka, Tendai R. "A Flower Zimbabwe as Much Loved." In Shaping Up: Art drawings, Essays, Poetry and Interpretations, 50. Mwanaka Media and Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2z860sf.49.

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Mwanaka, Tendai R. "A Flower Zimbabwe as Much Loved." In Shaping Up: Art drawings, Essays, Poetry and Interpretations, 51. Mwanaka Media and Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2z860sf.50.

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