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2024-03-29T09:05:21ZIntertextuality as textual practice in Zimbabwean religious discourses: a textual analysis of the founding text of the African Apostolic Church
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/4444
Title: Intertextuality as textual practice in Zimbabwean religious discourses: a textual analysis of the founding text of the African Apostolic Church
Authors: Manyawu, Andrew Tichaenzana
Abstract: This article discusses ways in which African Apostolic Church founder, Paul Mwazha, an indigenous Zimbabwean religious leader, has taken advantage of the linguistic resources available to him to attain specific rhetorical goals. It is concerned with the discursive relation between the Shona and English versions of his two-volume founding text titled, in Shona, Kutumwa kwaPaul Mwazha we Africa and, in English, The Divine Commission of Paul Mwazha of Africa. The article deconstructs that relationship in terms of Mwazha’s use of intertextuality as textual strategy in the context of his rhetorical goal of building up Apostolic African Instituted Church (AAIC) spiritual practice as the inevitable choice of every true Christian believer. It is argued that Mwazha has treated the linguistic need for an English version of his founding text as an opportunity to not only address the needs of an audience different from that of his initial Shona text, but also draw on various intertextual strategies to adjust aspects of the message of his Shona text in light of new thinking about his spirituality and the dynamic socio-cultural context of his teaching. The English version of the founding text thus becomes an intertextual discursive event illustrative of the pragmatic imperative underpinning Mwazha’s rhetoric.2016-01-01T00:00:00ZManyawu, Andrew TichaenzanaIndigenous African generic footprints: the case of Paul Mwazha's The Divine Commission of Paul Mwazha of Africa
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/1292
Title: Indigenous African generic footprints: the case of Paul Mwazha's The Divine Commission of Paul Mwazha of Africa
Authors: Manyawu, Andrew T.; Parichi, Mandiedza
Abstract: Contemporary African text genres have mostly been viewed as imitating foundational Western templates such that, other than folkloric genres representative of an exotic pre- colonial past, one cannot truly talk of African text genres as in genres that originated in Africa. This article argues that the wave of African liberation movements of all guises is likely to have engendered new (spoken and written) text genres or significantly modified existing ones but that this impact has gone largely unrecognised in the areas of discourse analysis and genre studies. In the religious domain, an example is Zimbabwean African
Instituted Church (AIC) founder Paul Mwazhaís stand against White hegemony in the Methodist Church, which culminated in the production of a foundational text titled The Divine Commission of Paul Mwazha of Africa Part 1 and Part II. Viewing genre as text type, this article identifies and discusses prominent textual cues on the surface of Mwazhaís book to demonstrate that he has contributed to the development of a genre hitherto unrecognised by genre specialists: the Apostolic AIC founding text. Buying into the postmodern thinking that there is no absolute textual originality but only idiosyncratic selection and mixing of pre-existing textual, generic and discursive resources in response to particular rhetorical needs, intertextuality is used to frame the analysis of Mwazhaís text. The article reveals a unique selection and blending of characteristics of other textual genres and discourses, such as autobiography, allegory, apocalypse and Apostolic AIC
spirituality. The article argues that it is this creative and unprecedented blend that signals the emergence of a new textual genre, the Apostolic AIC founding text.2014-01-01T00:00:00ZManyawu, Andrew T.Parichi, MandiedzaThe state of french in Lesotho: local “ownership” as the only viable way forward
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/1169
Title: The state of french in Lesotho: local “ownership” as the only viable way forward
Authors: Manyawu, Andrew T.
Abstract: It is common cause that French has a unique place in Sotho culture compared to its place in the cultures o f fellow SADC countries. But this language and culture, to which Lesotho owes, among other things, the Sesotho orthography, are slowly but surely vanishing from the landscape of modern Lesotho where French now seems to be the preserve of private or “ international" schools. This paper explores the need for indigenous Basotho, the vast majority of whom attend government-run schools, to study French. It goes
further to propose possible changes to the national language policy and schools curriculum that will ensure that French is treated like any other subject in Lesotho's schools.2007-01-01T00:00:00ZManyawu, Andrew T.The role of African christian discourse in redefining identity, literature and language education in Southern Africa: the case of the founding text of Paul Mwazha’s African Apostolic church
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/1168
Title: The role of African christian discourse in redefining identity, literature and language education in Southern Africa: the case of the founding text of Paul Mwazha’s African Apostolic church
Authors: Manyawu, Andrew T.
Abstract: Being both a subject and a medium of learning, language is the vehicle through which society passes its worldview to youths. This raises questions of selection and grading of material to be incorporated into syllabi and textbooks. This paper argues that Southern African language syllabi need a paradigm shift in order to better reflect an African society seeking to reaffirm its identity after decades of oppression. There is need to open up the language curriculum to discourses widely consumed by Africans but hitherto ignored by formal educational systems still biased towards Western worldview. These include the discursive production of African Instituted Churches (AIC). The founding text of the African Apostolic Church (AAC) of Zimbabwean, Paul Mwazha, is examined from the perspective of intertextuality in order to illustrate its literary and educational value. A case is then made for the inclusion of such texts in secondary school curricula in Southern Africa.2009-01-01T00:00:00ZManyawu, Andrew T.