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AF - Africa 216
AS - Asia, other 137
NA - North America 89
EU - Europe 45
OC - Oceania 19
SA - South America 5
Unknown 5
Total 516
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ZW - Zimbabwe 173
SG - Singapore 84
US - United States of America 81
ZA - South Africa 26
CN - China 24
AU - Australia 16
DE - Germany 15
GB - United Kingdom 8
IE - Ireland 8
NG - Nigeria 8
other - Other Country 73
Total 516
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Harare 122
Singapore 56
Boardman 34
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Beijing 21
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Monte Vista 8
Dublin 7
Melbourne 7
Bindura 5
other 214
Total 515
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ID: 8b3ab274-89a2-48ef-bde0-ce6adb93f575 - Zimdancehall: a rising platform in addressing socio-political injustices through lyrics. 33
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. 25
ID: 6e6249a0-0c3a-4eff-9a1f-b51c28191f4f - Communicating loss through #bringbackourgirls images on twitter 24
ID: 7a7d05cd-dad9-4d13-8d64-43605463cfc9 - Facebook as an alternative public sphere: online discussions of bond notes in Zimbabwe 24
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). 19
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 19
ID: 515ddfd9-c3af-469c-a0ea-7bafdfc29e71 - Exploring the digital space as a site of literary creation 18
ID: 777c5e8e-c9e2-47e5-8b50-25720622bee1 - What's up with Whatsapp profile pictures and statuses ? a multimodal approach 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: 7af092ef-d308-40be-aeac-e0cf0d0a5722 - Cultural interfaces and collisions: the influence of western cinema on Zimbabwean youth culture. 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: 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). 14
ID: 67bf5472-ea86-4685-b51d-0193fc9a36ce - A critical analysis of prisons as discourse communities: an examination of Whawha prison complex. 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: 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) 13
ID: 33bfbbf5-dcdb-4a9f-837c-653f61a6273e - Comparing vowel hiatus resolution strategies in ChiHwesa and ChiManyika: an optimality theoretic account 12
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). 12
ID: fba230e9-fbfa-4cd4-8f23-cb631ab15d0f - Conceptualizing Ndebele particularism in the context of the Zimbabwean crisis. 12
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 11
ID: dd5b0aa7-86e0-4ee6-9e51-58a84cde591b - Selves in the making: a critical analysis of Barack Obama's ascendancy to power 11
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. 11
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: 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. 9
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, 9
ID: 664ac9ae-3880-45e8-99db-5dfef1fcf40f - The search for utopia in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013). 9
ID: a740e967-1fd8-4c17-882b-261eb1230fc0 - The feminization of poverty: A critical analysis of Bones (1988) and The Uncertainty of Hope (2006). 9
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. 8
ID: 466354b5-0f95-4d44-8a82-16a0e3c15272 - Return migration, space and identity in Daniel Mandishona’s White gods black demons (2009) 8
ID: 4ea62021-cf0e-4e4d-869f-965a5b979404 - The rise of ‘the Joshua generation?’: perspectives and attitudes on Facebook activism in Zimbabwe. 8
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 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: 16e08c2b-838e-4bd5-8398-3f68829d4d73 - The Portrayal of Homosexuality in Selected American Soap Operas: A Case of Filmic Cultural Hegemony? 6
ID: 38c36bf2-5a3c-4662-b244-8081dba4fdd2 - An ethnographic study of tertiary students greeting 6
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 6
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 6
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. 6
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. 5
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). 5
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) 5
ID: d77dee9e-ea67-427a-91f8-1fac9d11211a - An investigation of the relationship between ethnography and implicature : a case study of shona funeral gatherings 5
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 4
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 4
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 4
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). 3
ID: 66734934-914c-4348-9a87-1beb84cd23a7 - Discourse communication strategies used by the deaf community: a case study of Nzeve deaf children’s centre, zimbabwe. 3
ID: b507b573-e292-4455-8889-164aba5b9b14 - An appraisal on participation and decision making at community development meetings at Caledonia Housing Cooperatives (February 2014) 3
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) 2
ID: 1410aa39-2065-4a65-b471-013a77723f1e - An intertextual reading of contemporary Zimbabwean poetry with particular attention to the anthology, State of the Nation 1
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