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NA - North America 552
AS - Asia, other 532
AF - Africa 338
EU - Europe 161
OC - Oceania 92
SA - South America 11
Unknown 7
Total 1693
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US - United States of America 515
SG - Singapore 434
ZW - Zimbabwe 243
AU - Australia 89
ZA - South Africa 42
CA - Canada 31
CI - Cote d'Ivoire 28
DE - Germany 28
CN - China 27
GB - United Kingdom 26
other - Other Country 230
Total 1693
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Singapore 308
Harare 165
Boardman 94
Hanover 48
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Marondera 35
Melbourne 32
Brisbane 25
Beijing 21
Johannesburg 20
other 821
Total 1615
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ID: fa7b2936-c72a-409e-8e3e-b22716bca389 - Violence and the postcolonial state: an analysis of Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with mother, They are coming and Noviolet Bulawayo’s We need new names 58
ID: a8dfacbf-5271-4266-9baa-24c3e98cb004 - A content analysis of literary evidence of slave trade in Zimbabwe focusing on Zimbabwean women’s trafficking to Kuwait. 52
ID: 7a7d05cd-dad9-4d13-8d64-43605463cfc9 - Facebook as an alternative public sphere: online discussions of bond notes in Zimbabwe 49
ID: 8b3ab274-89a2-48ef-bde0-ce6adb93f575 - Zimdancehall: a rising platform in addressing socio-political injustices through lyrics. 49
ID: c89d6e61-d113-4068-8789-cef471f7e38f - ‘Remaining a man…’ representations of the constructions of men and masculinities in contemporary Zimbabwean literature: an analysis of Tagwira’s The uncertainty of hope (2006); Chikwava’s Harare north (2009) and Nyota et al’s Hunting in foreign lands (2010). 48
ID: 777c5e8e-c9e2-47e5-8b50-25720622bee1 - What's up with Whatsapp profile pictures and statuses ? a multimodal approach 47
ID: 4994d498-6441-40d9-8404-71987c9c74bb - Drama and the struggle for social change Zimbabwe: the case of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s She Nolonger Weeps, George Mujajati’s The Wretched Ones and Raisedon Baya and Leonard Matsa’s Super Patriots and Morons, 45
ID: 67bf5472-ea86-4685-b51d-0193fc9a36ce - A critical analysis of prisons as discourse communities: an examination of Whawha prison complex. 45
ID: 466354b5-0f95-4d44-8a82-16a0e3c15272 - Return migration, space and identity in Daniel Mandishona’s White gods black demons (2009) 44
ID: 7821f8cb-6d17-4c24-bb55-88390dcaefa9 - An exploration of the metaphor of a lost home in the post 2000 Zimbabwe. A case of Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006), NoViolet Bulawayo We need New name, (2013) and Pettina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly (2009). 43
ID: a740e967-1fd8-4c17-882b-261eb1230fc0 - The feminization of poverty: A critical analysis of Bones (1988) and The Uncertainty of Hope (2006). 43
ID: ac299a1b-d094-40ec-8a93-96759d71a9c8 - Shifting gender roles: A critical analysis of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) and Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly (2009). 43
ID: 6e6249a0-0c3a-4eff-9a1f-b51c28191f4f - Communicating loss through #bringbackourgirls images on twitter 42
ID: 32e282ca-1071-4b89-b7b0-298706ee441c - The vulnerability of both genders in HIV and AIDS narratives: a study of Lutanga Shaba’s Secrets of a Woman’s Soul (2006), The Haunted Trail by Philip Chidavaenzi (2012) and Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) 41
ID: 5f576830-1a9c-46bd-9b1f-f777bb106f94 - Engaging the regime of comedy: An analysis of the representation of “blackness” and “whiteness” in Leon Schuster’s: There is Zulu on My Stoep (1993) and Mr. Bones 1 (2001). 40
ID: 6f3de0c1-3c17-4faa-bdac-b36b01f9e625 - White female experiences of the Zimbabwean liberation war: Patricia Charter’s Crossing the boundary fence, Sylivia Bond Smith’s Ginette, Partridge’s To breathe and wait. 40
ID: 99017207-585a-4643-a9e8-8da2f51a84ad - Contesting the feminist paradigm in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s texts: an africana womanist reading of She no longer weeps, nervous conditions and the book of not 40
ID: 26c3e2b4-e18c-4157-95ab-f438b41d1d4b - Lifting the veil: white zimbabwean writing and the treatment of double consciousness in Doris Lessing’s The grass is singing (1950), John Eppel’s Absent: The english teacher (2009) and Andreas Eames’ The cry of the go- away bird (2011) 38
ID: f1e7b143-1487-4bf2-ab18-943a42ff8edb - The liberating role of stand up comedy in exposing socio-political concerns: an analysis of Kate William’s Katepakalypse and Trevor Noah’s That’s racist 38
ID: 160eff09-7201-4403-ac8a-5e8c3e2ba62e - An exploration of the destructive impact of the construct of physical beauty on the African American woman. An analysis of Toni Morrison: The bluest eye (1970) and Zora Neale Hurston: Their eyes were watching God (1937) 37
ID: 664ac9ae-3880-45e8-99db-5dfef1fcf40f - The search for utopia in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013). 37
ID: 3c2be8c7-ee5a-4acf-a083-44555aaa9375 - The dialogic relationship between mass media and society: an assessment of triadic reciprocal determinism of Zimbabwean mass media websites 36
ID: 515ddfd9-c3af-469c-a0ea-7bafdfc29e71 - Exploring the digital space as a site of literary creation 35
ID: 96c49919-6494-403c-ae4b-783580174071 - Ideology and the representation of black male characters in selected african american literary texts: Bontemps’s Black thunder; Wright’s Black boy; Walker’s The third life of Grange Copeland and Morrison’s Song of Solomon 35
ID: c2007cc8-6f69-472a-8dc7-dbd85839b23c - (Re)construction of valentine’s day on social media platforms: a study of messages circulating on whatsapp around valentine’s day. 34
ID: 7af092ef-d308-40be-aeac-e0cf0d0a5722 - Cultural interfaces and collisions: the influence of western cinema on Zimbabwean youth culture. 33
ID: a883f736-be77-44aa-9f4c-940f2797a0ac - An appraisal of the three political principals' speeches on the occasion of the signing of the Global Political Agreement of 15 September 2008 33
ID: e4da6dc4-4874-4fcd-b23b-f71056b98901 - Representation of the Community Share Ownership Trust programme in print media analysing power relations between public and private newspapers: A study of The Herald and the Zimbabwe Independent, from 23 January to 18 October 2014. 33
ID: 33bfbbf5-dcdb-4a9f-837c-653f61a6273e - Comparing vowel hiatus resolution strategies in ChiHwesa and ChiManyika: an optimality theoretic account 31
ID: d500f933-aa16-4746-9358-daba1998f125 - Monsters or victims: an analysis of the African child soldier as depicted in Chris Abani’s song for Night, Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny mad dog and Ieweala Uzodinma’s beasts of no nation. 31
ID: dd5b0aa7-86e0-4ee6-9e51-58a84cde591b - Selves in the making: a critical analysis of Barack Obama's ascendancy to power 30
ID: 1deada70-48e2-43c2-8fbf-ccac2b767204 - In search of elusive identities: a critical examination of Negro identities in James Weldon Johnson’s Ex Colored Man, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Zora Nearle Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. 29
ID: 38c36bf2-5a3c-4662-b244-8081dba4fdd2 - An ethnographic study of tertiary students greeting 29
ID: 4ea62021-cf0e-4e4d-869f-965a5b979404 - The rise of ‘the Joshua generation?’: perspectives and attitudes on Facebook activism in Zimbabwe. 29
ID: 43080760-a949-471f-9738-7997e58010d9 - Children’s texts prescribed in Zimbabwean high schools as historical narratives: a close study of Hanson’s Takadini, Gascoigne’s Tunzi the Faithful shadow and Chater’s Crossing the boundary fence. 28
ID: 8eabdb2f-1d0f-4eb3-a350-2e52672e34d9 - Masks and the question of identity: an examination of multiple identities in Smith’s Ginette (1980) ,Charter’s Crossing the boundary fence(1988), Partridge’s To breathe and wait(1986). 28
ID: fba230e9-fbfa-4cd4-8f23-cb631ab15d0f - Conceptualizing Ndebele particularism in the context of the Zimbabwean crisis. 28
ID: b6439566-4d21-4b66-bc4d-fac4705649c5 - Adulthood in Zimbabwean literature for children: an analysis of the representation of adult characters in Takadini (1997) by Hanson B, A visit to the Gods (1987) by N.S Sigogo and Tapiwa and the Kidnappers(1997) by G. Hozo 27
ID: 66734934-914c-4348-9a87-1beb84cd23a7 - Discourse communication strategies used by the deaf community: a case study of Nzeve deaf children’s centre, zimbabwe. 26
ID: eea902a5-1483-4ccc-b9a6-1f1bc3c0eaf2 - Narrating selves: Alterity and Simultaneity In Lutanga Shaba’s Secret of a Woman’s Soul, Peter Godwin’s Mukiwa: A White Boy In Africa, Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk To Freedom And Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father 26
ID: 16e08c2b-838e-4bd5-8398-3f68829d4d73 - The Portrayal of Homosexuality in Selected American Soap Operas: A Case of Filmic Cultural Hegemony? 25
ID: 788640d3-6733-46d9-808c-48bb139fc242 - A representation of Zimbabwe’s socio-political and economic situation in P.O Box TV.: a case study of Anotenga here, Chaunoda chii and Hatiuye ikoko 25
ID: 38b04687-a7ff-458e-8c69-b51e8c644a00 - Exploring the nexus between the Zimbabwean crisis, migration and identity in Brian Chikwava Harare North (2009), Daniel Mandishona’s white gods black demons (2009) and NoViolet Bulawayo’s we need new names (2013). 24
ID: 478c622f-e6b0-487d-92a5-32a17184b6b1 - The woman is subject to man on account of the weakness of her nature . . . Man is the beginning of woman…”, St Thomas of Aquinas (1225-1274), an analysis of biblical related literary works as perpetrators of women discrimination and subjugation by man: a case of John Milton ‘Paradise Lost’ (1961), ‘Samson Agonists’ (1967) and Wim Boswinkel (2003) Erina. By 23
ID: 980f1a4a-8937-4fde-a8ee-5e04673e7fc5 - A critical interrogation of the themes of politics and governance in the creative works of Mlalazi and Baya’s Crocodile of Zambezi (2008), Matsa and Baya’s Super Patriots and Morons (2003), and Chifunyise’s Waiting for the Constitution (2010) 23
ID: c962ef24-5920-42d3-8b79-252f56a62f7e - The impact of cultural diversity in a polarised society: a study Bessie Head's maru, Phaswane Mpe's welcome to our hilbrow and Paul Freeman's rumours of ophir 20
ID: d77dee9e-ea67-427a-91f8-1fac9d11211a - An investigation of the relationship between ethnography and implicature : a case study of shona funeral gatherings 19
ID: b507b573-e292-4455-8889-164aba5b9b14 - An appraisal on participation and decision making at community development meetings at Caledonia Housing Cooperatives (February 2014) 18
ID: 1410aa39-2065-4a65-b471-013a77723f1e - An intertextual reading of contemporary Zimbabwean poetry with particular attention to the anthology, State of the Nation 16
Total 1693
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Ever 1693