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Region #
AF - Africa 339
AS - Asia, other 220
NA - North America 191
EU - Europe 91
OC - Oceania 25
SA - South America 9
Unknown 35
Total 910
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Country #
ZW - Zimbabwe 281
US - United States of America 179
SG - Singapore 132
CN - China 48
DE - Germany 41
ZA - South Africa 32
AU - Australia 22
GB - United Kingdom 14
IE - Ireland 14
CA - Canada 10
other - Other Country 137
Total 910
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City #
Harare 188
Singapore 100
Boardman 74
Marondera 51
Beijing 37
Johannesburg 16
Dublin 12
Melbourne 10
Bindura 9
Tappahannock 9
other 359
Total 865
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ID: 8b3ab274-89a2-48ef-bde0-ce6adb93f575 - Zimdancehall: a rising platform in addressing socio-political injustices through lyrics. 30
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. 23
ID: 6e6249a0-0c3a-4eff-9a1f-b51c28191f4f - Communicating loss through #bringbackourgirls images on twitter 22
ID: 7a7d05cd-dad9-4d13-8d64-43605463cfc9 - Facebook as an alternative public sphere: online discussions of bond notes in Zimbabwe 22
ID: a17b2df4-5a0a-424a-870d-722aebce3cc8 - Mediation of the Black African identity through social media humour 22
ID: cba1b8af-b8ee-4856-b999-1d16486f3b71 - WhatsApp coup jokes and the dialogue on Zimbabwean politics 19
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). 17
ID: bf002bf0-a35e-4c3f-af0a-34b1f69bd6d3 - Endangering the endangered: impact of fake Covid-19 social media communications in Zimbabwe 17
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 17
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 16
ID: 777c5e8e-c9e2-47e5-8b50-25720622bee1 - What's up with Whatsapp profile pictures and statuses ? a multimodal approach 16
ID: 515ddfd9-c3af-469c-a0ea-7bafdfc29e71 - Exploring the digital space as a site of literary creation 15
ID: 5a801d80-48bf-439a-be21-a93c5dacf235 - An analysis of intertextual entanglements in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools 15
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. 15
ID: 3ccdc5d9-44f5-4699-9674-a1ffc0e87e43 - The discursive construction of blackness on WhatsApp status post updates in Zimbabwe 14
ID: b7c0e66c-e12d-4e76-86a1-64f9bb5cb2a3 - A literary approach to the human rights discourse: the case of Zimbabwean literature 14
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). 14
ID: 1b4a9e74-c98a-4c47-bd72-c91e3b60ac77 - Identity construction or obfuscation on social media: a case of Facebook and WhatsApp 13
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). 13
ID: 7af092ef-d308-40be-aeac-e0cf0d0a5722 - Cultural interfaces and collisions: the influence of western cinema on Zimbabwean youth culture. 13
ID: 67bf5472-ea86-4685-b51d-0193fc9a36ce - A critical analysis of prisons as discourse communities: an examination of Whawha prison complex. 12
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) 11
ID: 33bfbbf5-dcdb-4a9f-837c-653f61a6273e - Comparing vowel hiatus resolution strategies in ChiHwesa and ChiManyika: an optimality theoretic account 11
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). 11
ID: 42a102a7-2830-43fb-99cc-52a9f0c42801 - Mama Jack and the Spectre of makwerekwere 10
ID: b93c8fe7-ff0a-4e35-9ff1-0d1d45be99ce - The nexus between tertiary students’ ‘side-line’ sports chants and the perpetuation of attitudes towards gender-based violence in Zimbabwe. 10
ID: d0ce8f24-e5b6-4bee-bc8b-abbdc5e7568a - The ‘reporter voice’ and ‘objectivity’ in cross linguistic reporting of ‘controversial’ news in Zimbabwean newspapers. an appraisal approach 10
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 10
ID: fba230e9-fbfa-4cd4-8f23-cb631ab15d0f - Conceptualizing Ndebele particularism in the context of the Zimbabwean crisis. 10
ID: 2654fdba-bd52-4537-842e-0d7f7c1d5b5c - Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self-identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa. 9
ID: 5b69d950-95ae-41f1-8c64-311afc84eced - Mythicised selves: constructions of political self Identities in Nkomo's The Sun) of My Life (1984) and Tekere's 'A Lifetime of Struggle (2007) 9
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ID: dd5b0aa7-86e0-4ee6-9e51-58a84cde591b - Selves in the making: a critical analysis of Barack Obama's ascendancy to power 9
ID: 3134c38d-3c3e-4e1d-82bc-213ae17d9cf9 - “Ngozi” (avenging spirit), zimbabwean transnational migration, and restorative justice in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009) 8
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. 8
ID: 664ac9ae-3880-45e8-99db-5dfef1fcf40f - The search for utopia in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013). 8
ID: 6c299577-9af6-483f-89e1-1163cf682f91 - Wakasikirei satani? Christian subversion in Sungura discourse: Paper presented at the African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA) from 18-20 July 2012 at University of Venda, Thohoyandou - South Africa 8
ID: 875c6679-0173-4d87-8f0d-2a3791487599 - Shona-Ndebele symbolic ethnic violence in institutions of higher learning: an analysis of male toilet graffiti at Midlands State University 8
ID: a740e967-1fd8-4c17-882b-261eb1230fc0 - The feminization of poverty: A critical analysis of Bones (1988) and The Uncertainty of Hope (2006). 8
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. 8
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 8
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) 7
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. 7
ID: 1f1580d7-ef81-4633-bbbc-85d6ec2304fb - Perspectives of Zimbabwe–China relations in Wallace Chirumiko’s ‘Made in China’ (2012) and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013) 7
ID: 33b9417e-f111-4e6e-bd86-5e0082396d77 - “Significant silences” and the politics of National Reconciliation in Chater’s Crossing the Boundary Fence 7
ID: 3867fac1-3919-4260-9462-930a31fe7a6c - The Simultaneity of Past and Present in Ian Douglas Smith's The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith (1997) 7
ID: 466354b5-0f95-4d44-8a82-16a0e3c15272 - Return migration, space and identity in Daniel Mandishona’s White gods black demons (2009) 7
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, 7
ID: 67f2d08e-2e3b-41a4-b04d-cbf40dcec17f - Portrait of a political liberation theologian: liberation theology and the making of Abel Muzorewa’s autobiographical subjectivity in Rise up and walk 7
ID: 764ca1dd-0514-4763-8ca6-60a46e0f0d86 - Contesting narratives: constructions of the self and the nation in Zimbabwean political auto/biography 7
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