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Research paper thumbnail of The National Investment Trust: a new hope for black business?

Southern Africa political and economic monthly, 1997

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Research paper thumbnail of Promoting Epistemic Vigilance Against Racist Attacks on Africans on Mediatised Permanent Education Sites

African Sociological Review

This paper analyses how tropes of racism against people of African descent manifest in public tex... more This paper analyses how tropes of racism against people of African descent manifest in public texts (permanent education sites) of different genres and forms. The selected permanent education sites include the mediatisation of the public and private lives of the British royal family’s Prince Harry and Meghan’s break away from royal duties, the FIFA World Cup and the English Premier League, the Chinese Museum in Hubei, and other public incidences that provoked racial controversies. These activities, controversies and exhibitions are vehicles through which racism is reproduced as part of the historical global capitalist system. This is the ubiquitous public pedagogy of permanent education. The porous but multifarious dominant sitesdiffuse diverse forms of pedagogical address to put into play a limited range of identities, ideologies, and subject positions that both reinforce neoliberal social relations and undermine the capacity for democratic politics. Critical scholarship has a norm...

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Research paper thumbnail of 5 - Aesthetic of Innocence: Experiencing Self-filming by the San of Zimbabwe

Africa Development

This article discusses the process and outcome of a participatory video production endeavour in w... more This article discusses the process and outcome of a participatory video production endeavour in which selected members of the Twai Twai San community in Zimbabwe were taught to operate video cameras and mobile phones for the purpose of documenting their realities. The study was aimed at finding out the nature of audio-visual narratives that the marginalised community would create if empowered to do so. The article pays particular attention to representations of the self by the San community, the underlying power dynamics and socio-technical concerns of the production process. A combination of participatory action research and filmmaking methodology was employed for the study. Data for the study were collected through interviews and focus group discussions with the filmmakers and some members of the community. The article also benefits from the authors’ observations of the film production process, which is critical in the analysis of the completed ethnographic video-films The Golden ...

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Research paper thumbnail of 4 - The Discursive Dynamics of Action-Research and Zimbabwean San People’s Production of Audio-Visual Stories

Africa Development

When conducting research with historically marginalised peoples, such as Zimbabwe’s autochthonous... more When conducting research with historically marginalised peoples, such as Zimbabwe’s autochthonous San, it is necessary to observe the most sensitive ethical and methodological practice. The San are a group of people living largely on the edges of the contemporary market economy in the whole of southern Africa, including Zimbabwe. The San of Zimbabwe often work as unskilled labourers for their Ndebele and Kalanga neighbours in rural areas of Matebeleland. Historically, the San’s identity and culture was denigrated in popular oral and media myths. This article presents a theoretical and methodological approach steeped in critical social sciences and cultural studies to restore the San image through making the San themselves the constructors of contemporary cultural texts about their way of life using modern film and video technologies. The San tell their stories after being trained in filming and editing techniques by researchers from Midlands State University. The negotiation of spac...

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Research paper thumbnail of Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems in the Zimbabwean media industry and the debate on self-regulation

Journal of African Media Studies, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Under Fire Essay: From May Shame to 2030 or There About: A Tale of Xenophobia, Zimbabwe and Fictive Identities

Critical Arts, Jul 1, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Imploding or Perpetuating African Myths through Reporting South Africa 2010 World Cup Stories on Business Opportunities

African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives

The 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament was expected to bring economic development and financial oppor... more The 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament was expected to bring economic development and financial opportunities to South Africa and the African continent. Infrastructural development, especially the building and improvement of stadiums, roads and hotels, was generally anticipated, but it was in the ability by African companies and entrepreneurs to win lucrative deals that the success of the soccer showcase would be measured locally. There were expectations on the African continent that the World Cup would help reduce dehumanizing discourses and stigma, dating back to colonial days, which emphasized the notion of Africa being a dark continent, a nest of diseases and poverty-stricken (Alegi, 2010; Pannenborg, 2010). This chapter traces media and scholarly reportage of business or economic success, or lack thereof, associated with the 2010 World Cup. The research largely draws from archival press reports of selected online newspapers from South Africa and the rest of the world that tried to represent the take-up of opportunities by African business people. We conveniently sampled press reports from the time South Africa won the bid to host the World Cup to 2013, when some stories continue to be produced on the success or failure of African entrepreneurship.

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Research paper thumbnail of Reflecting on the conference

Critical Arts, 2014

I found the conference on San Representation a refreshing occasion where scholars from different ... more I found the conference on San Representation a refreshing occasion where scholars from different academic disciplines and racial and ethnic groups re-engaged with one of Africa’s First Peoples. In many ways the presentations made each and every one of us obliquely or directly counterpoise her or his own identity with that of the imagined San. This was not always reassuring, since there were no San or Bushmen scholars to speak for themselves, or even to speak about us ‘outsider’ researchers who depend on their cultural capital for our own academic careers. Indeed, at least one paper raised the issue of mentoring San graduate and postgraduate researchers who are a necessarily intellectual alter-ego to all those who attended the conference. This is a practical redressing of a glaring absence, where each one of us spoke on behalf of the San, notwithstanding our varied hesitations induced by that reflexive tendency that requires exposure of how we come to know about the San, why we want to know and for whose benefit.

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Research paper thumbnail of African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives

African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of (Auto)Biographical and cinematographic exposition of Dambudzo Marechera on documentary film and video

Journal of African Cinemas, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Danger! Stay Away From Meaningless Poetry

Emerging perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera, 1999

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Research paper thumbnail of Thematic concerns in the emergent Zimbabwean short film genre

Journal of African Cinemas, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Social Media, New ICTs and the Challenges Facing the Zimbabwe Democratic Process

Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Social media in its various forms drew international attention to Zimbabwe during the most intens... more Social media in its various forms drew international attention to Zimbabwe during the most intense period of the Zimbabwe crisis up to 2008. It is arguable that social media activism was contributory to the current dispensation of Government of National Unity between ZANU PF and the former opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Social media induced revolution and mass rejection of the status quo of the magnitude seen in the Arab Spring might be difficult to replicate in Zimbabwe. A similar revolution with different magnitude but critical results unfolds in Zimbabwe, especially since the disputed 2008 presidential elections and the mayhem that followed. The use of new communication technologies helped publicize extra-legal activities and human rights abuses often blamed on ZANU PF affiliated militia groups and the security forces. International attention has led to diplomatic intervention.

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Research paper thumbnail of Dancing through the Crisis: Survival Dynamics and Zimbabwe Music Industry *

The details of how Zimbabwe – once lauded as the jewel of Africa – slid into a mess over the past... more The details of how Zimbabwe – once lauded as the jewel of Africa – slid into a mess over the past decade have been well chronicled (see Melber 2004; HaroldBerry 2004; Vambe 2008). President Robert Mugabe and his ruling ZANU PF blame the economic meltdown on the British and their allies the United States of America, Australia and the European Union, who are vindictive over the fasttrack land reform programme that forcibly wrests land from white farmers. Mugabe’s critics blame corruption, dictatorship, gross disrespect for the rule of law and no protection of private property, jeopardizing productivity and foreign currency earnings through the land reform programmes, and the abuse of human rights as the main causes of the country’s problems (Mhiripiri 2008). At a time of very serious political and economic crisis, Zimbabweans seem to be entertaining themselves with music. There has been a massive shut-down of manufacturing industries, but the music industry remains resilient. Accordin...

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Research paper thumbnail of Theoretical Paradoxes of Representation and the Problems of Media Representations of Zimbabwe in Crisis

Critical Arts

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Research paper thumbnail of A Resilient Unwanted Civil Society: The Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe Use of Facebook as Alternative Public Sphere in a Dominant Homophobic Society

Digital Activism in the Social Media Era, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of Criminal Defamation, the Criminalisation of Expression, Media and Information Dissemination in the Digital Age

Media Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Digital Age, 2000

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Research paper thumbnail of Crisis Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications Information Resources Management Association USA Volume III

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Research paper thumbnail of Narratives of the Zimbabwe Crisis, National Sovereignty, and Human and Media Rights Violations

National Democratic Reforms in Africa, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Reporting Homophobia in the Zimbabwean and Nigerian media

This report is on a Survey undertaken in Nigeria and Zimbabwe among journalists and the media org... more This report is on a Survey undertaken in Nigeria and Zimbabwe
among journalists and the media organizations in
relation to how they address homophobia. This survey
has come at a time when a robust public discourse has
been triggered by a wave of legislations being adopted
against homosexuality in Africa.

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Research paper thumbnail of The National Investment Trust: a new hope for black business?

Southern Africa political and economic monthly, 1997

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Research paper thumbnail of Promoting Epistemic Vigilance Against Racist Attacks on Africans on Mediatised Permanent Education Sites

African Sociological Review

This paper analyses how tropes of racism against people of African descent manifest in public tex... more This paper analyses how tropes of racism against people of African descent manifest in public texts (permanent education sites) of different genres and forms. The selected permanent education sites include the mediatisation of the public and private lives of the British royal family’s Prince Harry and Meghan’s break away from royal duties, the FIFA World Cup and the English Premier League, the Chinese Museum in Hubei, and other public incidences that provoked racial controversies. These activities, controversies and exhibitions are vehicles through which racism is reproduced as part of the historical global capitalist system. This is the ubiquitous public pedagogy of permanent education. The porous but multifarious dominant sitesdiffuse diverse forms of pedagogical address to put into play a limited range of identities, ideologies, and subject positions that both reinforce neoliberal social relations and undermine the capacity for democratic politics. Critical scholarship has a norm...

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Research paper thumbnail of 5 - Aesthetic of Innocence: Experiencing Self-filming by the San of Zimbabwe

Africa Development

This article discusses the process and outcome of a participatory video production endeavour in w... more This article discusses the process and outcome of a participatory video production endeavour in which selected members of the Twai Twai San community in Zimbabwe were taught to operate video cameras and mobile phones for the purpose of documenting their realities. The study was aimed at finding out the nature of audio-visual narratives that the marginalised community would create if empowered to do so. The article pays particular attention to representations of the self by the San community, the underlying power dynamics and socio-technical concerns of the production process. A combination of participatory action research and filmmaking methodology was employed for the study. Data for the study were collected through interviews and focus group discussions with the filmmakers and some members of the community. The article also benefits from the authors’ observations of the film production process, which is critical in the analysis of the completed ethnographic video-films The Golden ...

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Research paper thumbnail of 4 - The Discursive Dynamics of Action-Research and Zimbabwean San People’s Production of Audio-Visual Stories

Africa Development

When conducting research with historically marginalised peoples, such as Zimbabwe’s autochthonous... more When conducting research with historically marginalised peoples, such as Zimbabwe’s autochthonous San, it is necessary to observe the most sensitive ethical and methodological practice. The San are a group of people living largely on the edges of the contemporary market economy in the whole of southern Africa, including Zimbabwe. The San of Zimbabwe often work as unskilled labourers for their Ndebele and Kalanga neighbours in rural areas of Matebeleland. Historically, the San’s identity and culture was denigrated in popular oral and media myths. This article presents a theoretical and methodological approach steeped in critical social sciences and cultural studies to restore the San image through making the San themselves the constructors of contemporary cultural texts about their way of life using modern film and video technologies. The San tell their stories after being trained in filming and editing techniques by researchers from Midlands State University. The negotiation of spac...

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Research paper thumbnail of Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems in the Zimbabwean media industry and the debate on self-regulation

Journal of African Media Studies, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Under Fire Essay: From May Shame to 2030 or There About: A Tale of Xenophobia, Zimbabwe and Fictive Identities

Critical Arts, Jul 1, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Imploding or Perpetuating African Myths through Reporting South Africa 2010 World Cup Stories on Business Opportunities

African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives

The 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament was expected to bring economic development and financial oppor... more The 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament was expected to bring economic development and financial opportunities to South Africa and the African continent. Infrastructural development, especially the building and improvement of stadiums, roads and hotels, was generally anticipated, but it was in the ability by African companies and entrepreneurs to win lucrative deals that the success of the soccer showcase would be measured locally. There were expectations on the African continent that the World Cup would help reduce dehumanizing discourses and stigma, dating back to colonial days, which emphasized the notion of Africa being a dark continent, a nest of diseases and poverty-stricken (Alegi, 2010; Pannenborg, 2010). This chapter traces media and scholarly reportage of business or economic success, or lack thereof, associated with the 2010 World Cup. The research largely draws from archival press reports of selected online newspapers from South Africa and the rest of the world that tried to represent the take-up of opportunities by African business people. We conveniently sampled press reports from the time South Africa won the bid to host the World Cup to 2013, when some stories continue to be produced on the success or failure of African entrepreneurship.

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Research paper thumbnail of Reflecting on the conference

Critical Arts, 2014

I found the conference on San Representation a refreshing occasion where scholars from different ... more I found the conference on San Representation a refreshing occasion where scholars from different academic disciplines and racial and ethnic groups re-engaged with one of Africa’s First Peoples. In many ways the presentations made each and every one of us obliquely or directly counterpoise her or his own identity with that of the imagined San. This was not always reassuring, since there were no San or Bushmen scholars to speak for themselves, or even to speak about us ‘outsider’ researchers who depend on their cultural capital for our own academic careers. Indeed, at least one paper raised the issue of mentoring San graduate and postgraduate researchers who are a necessarily intellectual alter-ego to all those who attended the conference. This is a practical redressing of a glaring absence, where each one of us spoke on behalf of the San, notwithstanding our varied hesitations induced by that reflexive tendency that requires exposure of how we come to know about the San, why we want to know and for whose benefit.

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Research paper thumbnail of African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives

African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of (Auto)Biographical and cinematographic exposition of Dambudzo Marechera on documentary film and video

Journal of African Cinemas, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Danger! Stay Away From Meaningless Poetry

Emerging perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera, 1999

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Research paper thumbnail of Thematic concerns in the emergent Zimbabwean short film genre

Journal of African Cinemas, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Social Media, New ICTs and the Challenges Facing the Zimbabwe Democratic Process

Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Social media in its various forms drew international attention to Zimbabwe during the most intens... more Social media in its various forms drew international attention to Zimbabwe during the most intense period of the Zimbabwe crisis up to 2008. It is arguable that social media activism was contributory to the current dispensation of Government of National Unity between ZANU PF and the former opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Social media induced revolution and mass rejection of the status quo of the magnitude seen in the Arab Spring might be difficult to replicate in Zimbabwe. A similar revolution with different magnitude but critical results unfolds in Zimbabwe, especially since the disputed 2008 presidential elections and the mayhem that followed. The use of new communication technologies helped publicize extra-legal activities and human rights abuses often blamed on ZANU PF affiliated militia groups and the security forces. International attention has led to diplomatic intervention.

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Research paper thumbnail of Dancing through the Crisis: Survival Dynamics and Zimbabwe Music Industry *

The details of how Zimbabwe – once lauded as the jewel of Africa – slid into a mess over the past... more The details of how Zimbabwe – once lauded as the jewel of Africa – slid into a mess over the past decade have been well chronicled (see Melber 2004; HaroldBerry 2004; Vambe 2008). President Robert Mugabe and his ruling ZANU PF blame the economic meltdown on the British and their allies the United States of America, Australia and the European Union, who are vindictive over the fasttrack land reform programme that forcibly wrests land from white farmers. Mugabe’s critics blame corruption, dictatorship, gross disrespect for the rule of law and no protection of private property, jeopardizing productivity and foreign currency earnings through the land reform programmes, and the abuse of human rights as the main causes of the country’s problems (Mhiripiri 2008). At a time of very serious political and economic crisis, Zimbabweans seem to be entertaining themselves with music. There has been a massive shut-down of manufacturing industries, but the music industry remains resilient. Accordin...

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Research paper thumbnail of Theoretical Paradoxes of Representation and the Problems of Media Representations of Zimbabwe in Crisis

Critical Arts

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Research paper thumbnail of A Resilient Unwanted Civil Society: The Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe Use of Facebook as Alternative Public Sphere in a Dominant Homophobic Society

Digital Activism in the Social Media Era, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of Criminal Defamation, the Criminalisation of Expression, Media and Information Dissemination in the Digital Age

Media Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Digital Age, 2000

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Research paper thumbnail of Crisis Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications Information Resources Management Association USA Volume III

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Research paper thumbnail of Narratives of the Zimbabwe Crisis, National Sovereignty, and Human and Media Rights Violations

National Democratic Reforms in Africa, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Reporting Homophobia in the Zimbabwean and Nigerian media

This report is on a Survey undertaken in Nigeria and Zimbabwe among journalists and the media org... more This report is on a Survey undertaken in Nigeria and Zimbabwe
among journalists and the media organizations in
relation to how they address homophobia. This survey
has come at a time when a robust public discourse has
been triggered by a wave of legislations being adopted
against homosexuality in Africa.

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Research paper thumbnail of African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives: The Legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup

This edited collection examines the ways in which football in Africa is intimately bound up with ... more This edited collection examines the ways in which football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and political currents, using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens for this analysis. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, the volume explores symbolic inscriptions and multiple narratives around the first World Cup on African soil and how these narratives inform an understanding of football and Africa. The authors are drawn from diverse disciplines across cultural studies, sports science, journalism, media studies and sociology, and they tackle four key themes: identity construction, African fan cultures, African media narratives and global media narratives. Empirical data is gleaned from a variety of sources such archival media texts, blogs, travelogues, diary material, ethnographic interviews and other online sources. This is the first book to consider African football as mediated discourse around which multiple narratives cohere.

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