MSUIR Collection:https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/352024-03-29T00:28:44Z2024-03-29T00:28:44ZStreet theatre in Zimbabwe: a history of connection, disconnection, and reconnectionPeace Mukwarahttps://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/60552024-03-28T13:17:35Z2024-03-05T00:00:00ZTitle: Street theatre in Zimbabwe: a history of connection, disconnection, and reconnection
Authors: Peace Mukwara
Abstract: The main thrust of this article is to trace and analyze the development of street theatre practice in contemporary Zimbabwe, paying particular attention to street theatre’s form and the context in which it has operated and operates. Concurrently, the paper examines how the political environment in Zimbabwe has been critical in shaping street theatre form and style. Scott’s theory of hidden transcripts is used to interrogate how street theatre navigates a censorious environment. Drawing on the post-linear and public and hidden transcript theories, the article historically interrogates street theatre as a performance form which adopts radical performance elements, allowing it to navigate an environment dominated by various censorial controls. Based on Scott (1990)’s assertion that the environment in which the subordinate find themselves shapes their public displays, this study argues that street theatre’s style of delivery is a result of the cultural and political background.2024-03-05T00:00:00ZPeace MukwaraChildren scripting sexualities, adult attitudes and school-based sex education in ZimbabweHugh Mangeyahttps://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/59832024-03-27T08:40:04Z2018-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Children scripting sexualities, adult attitudes and school-based sex education in Zimbabwe
Authors: Hugh Mangeya
Abstract: The paper explores the relationship between graffiti produced by primary school
children in Zimbabwe and sexuality and/reproductive education offered by the school
system. It tags onto a newspaper article that revealed a proposed bid by the
Zimbabwean government to legalise the provision and distribution of contraceptives
to teenagers in a bid to alleviate the negative consequences of reckless and
irresponsible teen sexual behaviours. The ensuing national outrage and debate was
reflective of endemic and latent adult attitudes towards adolescent sexuality. The
research is based on findings from data obtained from boys’ and girls’ toilets from six
primary schools in the Zimbabwean urban City of Gweru. Using a Bakhtinian dialogic
approach in calling for a need to include children’s voices in the formulation and
development of sexuality education, the paper reveals how the confinement of sexuality
into adult matrimonial spaces has resulted in a sexuality education that is inherently
moralistic and didactic in which explicit pictures of shame, disease and death are
painted. Moreover, sexuality education is based on what adults think the children
know about sexuality. It therefore argues that graffiti inscriptions by adolescents is
evidence of how children are not empty vessels they take them to be and that sexuality
education should at least speak to issues emerging from children’s sexual inscriptions.2018-01-01T00:00:00ZHugh MangeyaThree pandemics in post-2017 Zimbabwe: authoritarianism, corruption, and ruling through Covid-19Urther Rwafahttps://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/58872023-10-27T12:44:02Z2023-06-12T00:00:00ZTitle: Three pandemics in post-2017 Zimbabwe: authoritarianism, corruption, and ruling through Covid-19
Authors: Urther Rwafa
Abstract: Existing work on Zimbabwe’s crises of governance post-2017 focuses on searching for continuities and discontinuities between Mugabe’s policies and those of Mnangagwa. This article questions the assumptions that continuities can occur without disruption in such a context and that Mnangagwa’s discontinuity with the past is a straightforward road that will lead to a positive culture of governance. It particularly considers the domains of life in which the military continues to assert its authority and control over Zimbabwean citizens. This study is based on qualitative approaches, which recognise the interconnectedness of politics (authoritarianism), cultures of affect (corruption), and the manipulation of a fragile context induced by Covid-19. Critical hermeneutics and postcolonial theories help explain subjective motivations in actions by politicians. The major contribution of the article is to show how and where power is reconstituted by the Mnangagwa administration to guarantee regime survival by controlling the masses.2023-06-12T00:00:00ZUrther RwafaJournalism beyond the Coup: Emerging Forms of Digital Journalism Practices in Post-Coup ZimbabweAlbert ChibuweAllen Munoriyarwahttps://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/58812023-10-27T12:26:59Z2021-08-24T00:00:00ZTitle: Journalism beyond the Coup: Emerging Forms of Digital Journalism Practices in Post-Coup Zimbabwe
Authors: Albert Chibuwe; Allen Munoriyarwa
Abstract: Utilizing a constellation of conceptual tenets drawn from critical digital technology theory, field theory and concepts of digital democracy, this article argues that the post-coup period in Zimbabwe has solidified digital journalism practices in three main ways. These are: (i) the consolidation of a digital leak journalism culture, (ii) an increasingly ferocious form of digital guerrilla journalism, and (iii) the rise in popularity, of small digital-based news platforms that, arguably, are increasingly eclipsing already established mainstream (digital) news platforms as sources of news. These practices’ nascent roots have their genesis in the early 2000 period. In the post-coup context, they have assumed a new and wider meaning, and have become part of the mainstream. This solidification of digital journalism practices has consequently enabled journalists to “speak back” to power by providing robust forms of investigative journalism, and simultaneously avoiding being ‘swallowed’ by the state. While we admit to various gradations of digital journalism practices before the coup, we use the coup as our point of departure in order to factor in the incrementally disruptive and repressive political environment that has forced journalists to adopt digital journalism practices more than in any period of the country’s history.2021-08-24T00:00:00ZAlbert ChibuweAllen Munoriyarwa