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Region	#
NA - North America	2952
AS - Asia, other	2079
AF - Africa	866
EU - Europe	609
OC - Oceania	372
SA - South America	75
Unknown Continent - Not applicable	2
Unknown	128
Total	7083

Country	#
US - United States of America	2899
SG - Singapore	1412
ZW - Zimbabwe	604
AU - Australia	369
CN - China	313
IN - India	216
DE - Germany	148
CI - Cote d'Ivoire	125
FR - France	102
BR - Brazil	60
other - Other Country	835
Total	7083

City	#
Singapore	979
Harare	459
Hanover	390
Boardman	220
Shanghai	136
Santa Clara	128
Perth	109
Mumbai	102
Brisbane	95
Melbourne	87
other	4149
Total	6854

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ID: 70af3835-0d05-46d8-a0c1-b172648e39f9 - War songs and hope during the Second Chimurenga in Zimbabwe: a critical discourse analysis approach	121
ID: 4888a9e6-1a88-4e21-99d4-1f889ff3bee7 - The origins of theatre in Zimbabwe	110
ID: 49dd0426-848c-47af-a338-bfac9ab3c7ff - Family disintegration and migration in selected Shona musical voices in Zimbabwe	100
ID: b704dea4-4bfc-4644-b780-991372d8847a - Forging Strong and Purposeful Husband-and-Wife Relations: An Africana Womanist Study of Love in Kireni Zulu’s Songs “Zveimba” and “Ndichakuvaraidza”	92
ID: f5160b9a-a154-43e3-bc49-11bbdd67b8b4 - Language Preservation, Evolution, and Loss: The Case of the Shona Language Spoken in Kenya	88
ID: c871ad25-c4a3-4a22-a516-daaf43366333 - The politics of colonial residential place names in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe: unmasking European hegemony	81
ID: 426e8633-ce3e-495b-a84e-8f7ae32b4faa - Migration dynamics and the devolution agenda in Matabeleland South Province of Zimbabwe	80
ID: 508834b8-b3d7-4d7c-8255-bc5ef1b12fdf - The African concept of a dual-sex system and Freir’s characteristics of dialogue as potential pivots of globalising world	78
ID: 6909b6bf-f7b5-4fff-ad09-f664701748f9 - Tracing the historical experiences of the Nambya people through their toponyms and antroponyms: paper presented at NSA (22-26 September 2014, Victoria Falls)	76
ID: a9999f7d-c379-4d8b-acf9-3c55e2faa4c9 - An investigation into English second language competence and performance of Shona and Ndebele first language learners	76
ID: 78c131a9-744a-4f31-9320-53f109f41ee3 - Linguistic and cultural cognitive relevance of televised narratives to the Ndebele child in Bulawayo: paper presented at RIE (2-4 September 2014, UZ Harare)	75
ID: 08d5f151-85f3-47c4-bc42-6282c6d4d8c8 - Tracing family agency in Alick Macheso’s selected songs	74
ID: 0ca33bd5-338a-459f-a2b0-4594523ee722 - The intersections of comedy and politics in Zimbabwe: analysing Baba Tencen’s ‘Borderphobia’ and Prosper Ngomashi’s ‘Pastor and his wives’	73
ID: 9c9a797e-cc78-4fc5-8077-11088e18cef5 - Black September et al: Chimurenga songs as historical narratives in the Zimbabwean Liberation war*	73
ID: 8c5b4534-8079-46eb-b28d-cbb1b8974f29 - Looking back in order to go forward: reading the proverb on a signpost.	70
ID: 4b88133c-7dd3-44e5-945c-b361f11785fa - Visualisation of female characters in Huturu Hwemavanga (Vernom from the Scars), Chakwesha (The Boss) and Nguva Yakaoma (Hard Times)	69
ID: 5495229f-a41d-40e0-94c8-dbc793a06137 - Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe	67
ID: baf4b3a3-2813-4565-8526-8d9db8752b32 - The depiction of Pungwe meetings (Night vigil) as theatre of the oppressed in selected Zimbabwean war literature.	67
ID: e832e254-dbc0-4356-a1f3-8329ddf55049 - Shona names: their origins and import.	67
ID: ef0c3eff-796f-46e0-bb55-d8f15bdebf19 - Language harmonization in southern africa: toward a standard unified shona orthography (SUSO) for Botswana ,Mozambique and Zimbabwe	66
ID: 0bbebb43-0203-489b-b0d0-34acc9429a2c - Legal issues in lexicography: an examination of the handling of brand names in the isichazamazwi sesindebele: Paper presented at the 16th International conference of the African association for Lexicography, Windhoek, Namibia, 5-7 July 2011	64
ID: 9f56378b-45a6-4d17-a2fb-dff6558cd4cf - (Re)naming patterns, initiation names and their significance among the Lemba people of Mberengwa, Zimbabwe	64
ID: 3e288048-05b7-40e4-a6ec-3b64a7530863 - When cultures speak back to each other: The legacy of benga in Zimbabwe	63
ID: 5def5736-77ba-4b89-9de5-51610af53509 - Sex gospel in Zimbabwe’s pentecostal christianity as a response to social change: the case of Apostle Kapandura and Mai Lucia Gunguwo	63
ID: 76b829f2-f543-409d-b121-2f04f94dc4f2 - ‘Ngena ku Smart’: Implications of Medical Male Circumcision on the Xhosa Custom of Ukusoka in Zimbabwe.	63
ID: 008314fc-2512-4780-91df-ad9fc99f60c7 - Entanglements of globalisation: representation of K’NAAN’s song waving flag during FIFA World Cup and the re-imag(ni)ng of Africa	62
ID: 4f7bc726-c3dc-4962-9710-851091fef189 - Language for development through drama and theatre in Zimbabwe: an African perspective	61
ID: 79df88f9-d3cc-4b67-aeb0-8d5b85716008 - Pungwe gatherings as forms of drama for development through music in Zimbabwe	61
ID: bb6b60fa-3235-4656-898c-71ac677c55e9 - Multilingualism, localism and the nation : identity politics in the Zimbabwe Braodcasting Corporation	61
ID: f51ac2aa-abb1-4890-8c00-f7e30d5093d3 - African cosmology and the duality of western hegemony: the search for an African identity	61
ID: 149dbfb9-6757-4efd-bf0e-61d69c9364f2 - Adopting virtual classes during the COVID-19 lockdown: interrogating new approaches to teaching and the exclusion of learners in rural settings	60
ID: 44ad016d-1abd-4998-90ef-42422a6a5438 - Media construction of reality : a critical analysis of the reportage of land reform in Shona and English Zimbabwean newspapers : the case of Kwayedza, The Herald, The Daily News and The Daily Mirror, 2000-2008	60
ID: acb7e0b5-561e-4d2e-bc41-7cb6870c55d0 - The cultural and historical significance of Kalanga place names in Midlands Province of Zimbabwe	60
ID: cb8831af-fdb6-49af-99b1-e35c12b7a81b - The role of creative industries in economic development: the human factor development approach	60
ID: f4ef895f-f9ef-4af2-978c-1a308f4e4b73 - Singing the second chimurenga (war of liberation): an Afrocentric elucidation of Simon Chimbetu’s selected songs	60
ID: 7dc2d54a-c6c2-4df4-9b7b-1babec75f884 - “Seiko musina morari?”: the carnivalesque modes of the pungwe institution in selected Shona novels	59
ID: 8d66c998-2a45-47ff-ae2f-19f701eb2c2b - The semiotics of unconventional automobile naming in Zimbabwe	59
ID: 89919952-6967-42f9-bfc6-d42d824d2cce - Articulation of Women’s Empowerment Through Poetry: A Critical Perspective	58
ID: 9ef88878-e547-4568-8708-7008e4a7ba96 - Traditional performances and creative art among the Shona people	57
ID: 03cda90c-856d-4783-b390-7e1c0ecd011d - “Language Planning in Zimbabwe; the Conservation and Management of Indigenous Languages in Zimbabwe”. Paper presented at ICOMOS 14th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe on the 30th of October 2003.	56
ID: 4977dcc9-4eda-49cf-a9dc-ea2c2ca52c18 - Black writers’ Shona novels of the liberation war in Zimbabwe: an art that tells the truth of its day	56
ID: 2b71a7a9-1187-4d46-b703-104601ce2021 - Culture of sensationalism and indigenous language press in Zimbabwe: implications on language development	55
ID: 72e547ab-7bb3-49d3-8e21-10fe859d3537 - Untranslatability is a myth	55
ID: 94d77de3-4858-4656-a3b3-2fafa60a78a9 - Matters of survival: a case of heavy handed didactic moralism in Ndau cautionary folktales	55
ID: a1914cd8-1644-49b8-9298-6e44d309430e - Influence of an African Language on European place names in Zimbabwe: is it language corruption, language development or resistance?	55
ID: c2fdfef3-f96b-4c2a-a540-8fd0f870288f - A strategy to alleviate poverty in the Matobo Hills World Heritage Site of Zimbabwe	54
ID: 0a7529b9-c62f-47f9-bc90-f34bf95ed330 - Shona taboos: the language of manufacturing fears for sustainable development	52
ID: 9b19b097-ddc9-4edc-9a9c-afe5a6a3289d - Exploring figurative language of daughtering and fathering in Albert Nyathi's poem my daughter.	52
ID: 9eefdd93-5ad8-4ace-a6b9-3d55f5b647c8 - Folk-telling and Freire’s (1970) framework of banking versus dialogical methods of education – In search of innovation and social cohesion	52
ID: cebbee46-8245-4774-817a-a324bc13c9d7 - The problematics of language-in-education policies in post-independence in Zimbabwe	52
ID: f5841dcc-65fa-423b-b343-5aeaf059aaca - Revisiting the language question in Zimbabwe: a multilingual approach to the language in education policy	52
Total	3405

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Tot
2022	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	26	30
2023	14	37	192	57	51	73	26	23	61	90	3	0	627
2024	0	1	84	160	230	691	147	335	1276	583	298	1335	5140
2025	181	689	241	175	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1286
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