Lucas Mafu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1113016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucas Mafu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mafu |
| SIGNATURE | MAFU L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zululand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1125-6859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Discourse Structures, Weaponization of Language and Ethiopia’s Civil War
The use of language to alienate, ostracize, dehumanize, and mobilize people on racial, ethnic, and other forms of profiling has been a prominent feature of the Ethiopian conflict between the government of Mr Abiy Ahmed and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). In fact, the jingoistic vitriol in the civil war amounted to hate speech which reflected the deeper ethno-regional fissures which have been embedded in Ethiopia’s political tapestry …
Fiction, Reality and Contested Memory in God’s Bits of Wood and the “Marikana Commission Report”
Reportage of violence against workers is often compromised by age-old tendencies in oppressive states to control narratives on epochal events considered potentially disruptive of existing exploitative economic relations through excision of uncomfortable truths from the official memories of states. Thus memory, in colonial and postcolonial contexts, has been a contested terrain, especially in the relationships between the state-aligned businesses …
Land, Race and Victimhood in Peter Godwin’s When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
In this article, I discuss different interpretations of Zimbabwean land in relation to the contradictory notions of victimhood in Peter Godwin’s memoir When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. I also explore the concepts of race, landownership and redress in relation to the legacy of colonialism in Zimbabwe. Through the use of the Cultural Interpretive Theory, Genre Theory and the Theories of Autobiographies, I explore how the politics of victimhood are us…
The Libyan/Trans-Mediterranean Slave Trade, the African Union, and the Failure of Human Morality
In this article, I argue that the recently exposed slave trade in Libya involving Black African migrants seeking opportunities in Europe is not merely a crime against humanity that has been justly condemned by the international community, but is also a serious indictment on the failings of the African Union's leadership. It is a reflection of the duplicitous nature of Europe's commitment to human rights and exposes the African leaders' moral and …
Reflections on the Limitations Imposed by the Zimbabwean State's Essentialist Interpretation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Identity on Yvonne Vera's Representation of Human Rights in The Stone Virgin…
Yvonne Vera's novel The Stone Virgins (2002) stands out as a courageous text that questions the Zimbabwean state's use of violence and an ethnically exclusivist nationalist ideology in its pursuit of a one‐party state objective between 1982 and 1987. This article argues that subtle intimidation through the articulation of a violent postcolonial nationalist discourse and the state's deployment of a military unit and other instruments of coercion m…
The Libyan/Trans-Mediterranean Slave Trade, the African Union, and the Failure of Human Morality
In this article, I argue that the recently exposed slave trade in Libya involving Black African migrants seeking opportunities in Europe is not merely a crime against humanity that has been justly condemned by the international community, but is also a serious indictment on the failings of the African Union's leadership. It is a reflection of the duplicitous nature of Europe's commitment to human rights and exposes the African leaders' moral and …
Reflections on the Limitations Imposed by the Zimbabwean State's Essentialist Interpretation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Identity on Yvonne Vera's Representation of Human Rights in The Stone Virgin…
Yvonne Vera's novel The Stone Virgins (2002) stands out as a courageous text that questions the Zimbabwean state's use of violence and an ethnically exclusivist nationalist ideology in its pursuit of a one‐party state objective between 1982 and 1987. This article argues that subtle intimidation through the articulation of a violent postcolonial nationalist discourse and the state's deployment of a military unit and other instruments of coercion m…
Reflections on the Limitations Imposed by the Zimbabwean State's Essentialist Interpretation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Identity on Yvonne Vera's Representation of Human Rights in The Stone Virgin…
Yvonne Vera's novel The Stone Virgins (2002) stands out as a courageous text that questions the Zimbabwean state's use of violence and an ethnically exclusivist nationalist ideology in its pursuit of a one‐party state objective between 1982 and 1987. This article argues that subtle intimidation through the articulation of a violent postcolonial nationalist discourse and the state's deployment of a military unit and other instruments of coercion m…
Fiction, Reality and Contested Memory in God’s Bits of Wood and the “Marikana Commission Report”
Reportage of violence against workers is often compromised by age-old tendencies in oppressive states to control narratives on epochal events considered potentially disruptive of existing exploitative economic relations through excision of uncomfortable truths from the official memories of states. Thus memory, in colonial and postcolonial contexts, has been a contested terrain, especially in the relationships between the state-aligned businesses …
Land, Race and Victimhood in Peter Godwin’s When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
In this article, I discuss different interpretations of Zimbabwean land in relation to the contradictory notions of victimhood in Peter Godwin’s memoir When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. I also explore the concepts of race, landownership and redress in relation to the legacy of colonialism in Zimbabwe. Through the use of the Cultural Interpretive Theory, Genre Theory and the Theories of Autobiographies, I explore how the politics of victimhood are us…
The Libyan/Trans-Mediterranean Slave Trade, the African Union, and the Failure of Human Morality
In this article, I argue that the recently exposed slave trade in Libya involving Black African migrants seeking opportunities in Europe is not merely a crime against humanity that has been justly condemned by the international community, but is also a serious indictment on the failings of the African Union's leadership. It is a reflection of the duplicitous nature of Europe's commitment to human rights and exposes the African leaders' moral and …
Discourse Structures, Weaponization of Language and Ethiopia’s Civil War
The use of language to alienate, ostracize, dehumanize, and mobilize people on racial, ethnic, and other forms of profiling has been a prominent feature of the Ethiopian conflict between the government of Mr Abiy Ahmed and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). In fact, the jingoistic vitriol in the civil war amounted to hate speech which reflected the deeper ethno-regional fissures which have been embedded in Ethiopia’s political tapestry …
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · History (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Morality (2 works)