ABSTRACT Female refugees have been presented by many scholars as vulnerable to psychosocial problems during their journey to exile and upon resettlement where they would have sought sanctuary. The researcher is intrigued to employ a different perspective by researching on positive aspects of female refugees optimal functioning and their coping strategies amidst risk and protective factors to their psychological wellbeing. Psychological wellbeing will take an eclectic and ecological perspectiv...
ABSTRACT The history of the MDC has been authored by various scholars. Most available literature focused on the emergence of the MDC’s activism in general and was silent on the democratic nature of the party in particular. The role played by public and critical public intellectuals in authoring history about the MDC has been associated with subjectivity vis-à-vis objectivity. Praise texts have been published from a pro-MDC perspective but the nature of democracy in the party has been under...
Abstract This dissertation is an exploration of the controversy on media silence on interethnic discourses in the media of Zimbabwe. It draws its case study to the years immediately after the signing of the Unity Accord 1987 with the assumption that the media of that time was most likely to report discourses of inter-ethnic discourses as it was the period of national healing. It analyses two weekly newspapers under the Zimpapers stable The Sunday Mail and The Sunday News .Kunyarara hakusi kut...
Abstract This dissertation seeks to explore, understand and critique the role played by the daily news and The Herald in their representation of factional and succession battles in ZANU PF. The period covered is prior and post the December 2014 ZANU PF elective congress. It is for the first time the factional battles in ZANU PF have been fought in the media. The study is qualitative in nature and it uses the Archival research method in the collection of data. Through content analysis and Crit...
ABSTRACT The research focuses on Facebook users’ perceptions and attitudes of social media activism in Zimbabwe. Following a rise in social media campaigns in Zimbabwe, particularly in 2016, political participation has shifted to social media with a number of people demonstrating awareness and interest in the national issues. Drawing insights from Critical Discourse Analysis, this research discusses how the Facebook community responds to this new dispensation of social media activism. By fo...
ABSTRACT This study explores power in selected plays of Wole Soyinka and Femi Osofisan, focusing on its social manifestations, use, effects and characters‘ responses to its exercise in Soyinka‘s Kongi’s Harvest, Madmen and Specialists, From Zia with Love and The Trials of Brother Jero, as well as in Osofisan‘s Morountodun, Another Raft, Once upon Four Robbers and Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels. The study reveals that in spite of ideological differences, Soyinka and Osofisan have rema...
ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary approaches to criticism contribute much to the understanding of library tests. The principle of psychoanalysis, for instance, can reveal that many opinions often expressed about African and African American literary works can be interrogated. Within the context of psychoanalytic principles, it can be argued that biology and culture work together to shape the lives of individuals, and works of literature which portray human actions should highlight the influences of ...
ABSTRACT this paper evaluates the relevance of the culture industry thesis in understanding the econimic and aesthetic production processes of zim, dancehall music in zambabwe.
abstract the issue of poverty attracted international policy attention around the time when the UN system named it number one and the bedrock of its eight millennium development goal (MDGs).
ABSTRACT The end of the cold war ushered in an era of anticipation and hope in africa, a continent that still suffers the adverse effect of slavery
ABSTRACT The title of the thesis is: “Written Igbo Drama: A Critical Analysis”. The study examines the origin of written Igbo drama; traces the factors that facilitated its growth and examines the prevalent motifs that helped to sustain its development to a matured form of art. It further seeks to identify the various events and situations that have informed the themes of written Igbo drama at three specific periods and proves that to some extent, written Igbo drama has influenced people�...
ABSTRACT Community media ought to be vehicle for development yet community newspaper in the midlands provinces of Zimbabwe seem to be logging behind in terms of environmental reportage
ABSTRACT this study examined zimbabwean sdolescent belief on perceived predictive and protectve factor for substance