Davie E Mutasa
Biographic Data
| ID | 121507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davie E Mutasa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davie E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mutasa |
| SIGNATURE | MUTASA D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3375-6125 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Artist’s cognitive level and the style and form trails in graffiti: An analysis of graffiti from selected Bikita-Matsai secondary schools
This work is an exploration of the influence of cognitive levels in graffiti writing with special reference to content, style and form. Basing the narrative on the analysis of graffiti by learners from selected Bikita-Matsai secondary schools and guided by historical-philological semantics, this study investigates the idea that different situations and cognitive levels influence the topics, choice of words and presentation of graffiti. Triangulat…
Manipulation, Socio-psychological Impact of False Promises of Marriage to Shona Women in Selected Shona Novels
This article discusses the victimisation of women who were promised false marriage by men in selected Shona literature. It unravels why women fall prey and quizzes why men manipulate the marriage institution for personal satisfaction. The article utilises the feminist literary theory to interrogate two novels, Makudo Ndomamwe (Men are All the Same) (2004) by R. Makaya and Imbwa Nyoro (1982) (Innocent Ones are Often Guilty) by R. M. Mumvuma. Patri…
Emotive Art: An Analysis of Graffiti from Selected Secondary Schools in Bikita-Matsai District, Zimbabwe
This study makes an in-depth analysis of graffiti from selected secondary schools in the Bikita-Matsai district in Zimbabwe that includes but is not limited to trusses, office doors, chalkboards, classroom and toilet walls. The Study focuses on the words and drawings in these spaces. The emphasis on the importance of contextualisation of text is used to bring to the fore different contextual meanings of graffiti words. For this study, the psychol…
Aspects of deceptive cognate derived loanwords in Kinyarwanda
Loanwords derived from French and English deceptive cognates in Rwanda have caught the researchers’ attention because of the complexity they present in the areas of language contact and language teaching and learning. Deceptive cognates very often constitute obstacles to the understanding of the meaning and the pronunciation of a word because they have tricky similarities. In Rwanda, where most English learners have already acquired French as Tar…
Graffiti, Ban or Boon? A Bakhtinian Appreciation of Selected Latrinalia from Bulawayo in Zimbabwe
This article explores the messages that are created and expressed in alternative and generally informal platforms in response to the cultural practice of tabooing certain themes and language usage in the presentation and sharing of feelings and ideas about such themes. Graffiti and the carnivalesque converge on the fact that their setup is informal in terms of language, themes and manipulated identity of participants. Their content is mainly on t…
The inevitability of linguistic change: The motivation of borrowing English terms by Shona speakers
Europeans brought new concepts, ideas and technologies with them that had not existed before colonialism in Zimbabwe. This led Shona and other indigenous languages (such as Ndebele, Venda, Nambya, Kalanga) to absorb a substantial new vocabulary into their lexicons. Speakers of these languages have been creating terms to cope with the new concepts through various strategies. This article aims at studying the motivation of Shona speakers to prefer …
War songs and hope during the Second Chimurenga in Zimbabwe: A critical discourse analysis approach
War songs played a pivotal role during the struggle for independence in Zimbabwe. War songs provoked people’s thoughts, feelings and mood to fight for the liberation of the country. Slogans, songs and music that were sung and performed during the war of liberation, popularly known as the Second Chimurenga (1971–1979), instilled hope in both the liberation fighters and the masses as they gave them the strength to continue fighting until the attain…
The Effects of an Unplanned Pregnancy in the Post-Independence Shona Novel: “De-Womanisation” or Women’s Empowerment
This article foregrounds the theme of unplanned pregnancy in Sharai Mukono-weshuro’s novel Ndakagara ndazviona (1991) and Mabasa’s novel Ndafa here? (2008). The article scrutinises the two novelists’ treatment of the girl child character when she becomes a victim of an unplanned pregnancy. This is a qualitative, critical literary study that adopts the tenets of Africana womanism theory to argue its case. It uses those tenets to discuss two forms …
The Influence of Kalanga Parents’ Language Ideologies on Children’s Language Practices
This article explores the nexus between parents’ language ideologies and children’s language practices in the home. It focuses on the perspectives of 34 L1 Kalanga-speaking parents to understand the extent to which their language ideologies impact on children’s language choices, in light of the diminished use of Kalanga in Zimbabwe generally. Drawing on insights from Family Language Policy (FLP), we argue that although parents’ language ideologie…
Effects of Expectations and Perceptions of Mother-Tongue Education in Oromo in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
This article investigates how people’s expectations and perceptions affect mother-tongue education in general and in Oromo in particular in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. The study employed questionnaires and interviews to gather relevant data. The data gathered through questionnaires were analysed using percentage and chi-square tests, whereas the data collected through interviews were analysed by generating thematic and conceptual categorisat…
Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists: White Authors and the Fast Track Land Reform Program in Post-2000 Zimbabwe
Texts written by some white Zimbabweans in the post-2000 dispensation are largely shaped by their authors’ endeavor to contest the loss of lands they held prior to the onset of the Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP). Written as memoirs, these texts are bound by the tendency to fall back on colonial settler values, Rhodesian identities, and Hegelian supremacist ideas in their narration of aspects of a conflict in which tropes such as truth, ju…
Toponymic commemoration is not for one sex: The gender politics of place renaming in Harare
This article adds to discussions on gender and collective memory. During the war, the nationalist movement was generally gender inclusive. This collective discourse was driven by the need for forming a united front against colonialism. However, this inclusive aspect ceased to exist in the post-independence because post-colonial policies were sexist. After the attainment of independence, the government made attempts to commemorate the war through …
Place naming and the discursive construction of imagined boundaries in colonial Zimbabwe (1890–1979): The case of Salisbury
A potentially dystrophic era: Analysing the lyrical sociology of selected sungura songs in Zimbabwe in the 1990s and beyond
This article provides an exegesis of selected sungura songs sung in the 1990s and beyond by some of Zimbabwe's renowned musicians. Sungura is a Swahili word for rabbit. The word has become so naturalised in Shona to the extent that it now refers to a popular music genre sung mainly in indigenous languages. The beat is fast and furious and with a lot of emphasis on the footwork. The 1990s mark the incubation of new nation-state politics in which t…
The zimbabwean liberation-war novel in shona: An analysis of the symbolic value of the guerrilla as legitimating discourse of nation
The article discusses the Shona war novel published in the early 1980s as an avatar of human-factor content for the fledgling nation. It particularly draws corroborative evidence from selected Shona war narratives published between 1980 and 1985, a time when Zimbabwe attained political independence. While this novel has largely received negative criticism, the article advances the contention that it was/is legiti-mating discourse of the new natio…
Black writers' Shona novels of the liberation war in Zimbabwe: An Art That Tells the Truth of Its Day
Over the years Shona fiction that portrays Zimbabwe's liberation war has been a subject of severe criticism because of its tendency to falsify and distort history. This article attempts to provide answers to the question of why authors of Shona war fiction tended to romanticise the war of liberation. In pursuance of this objective this article looks at circumstances and conditions that prevailed at the time that most of the Shona stories about Zi…
An analysis of selected Shona children's songs: Philosophical perspectives on child development
Over the years children's songs have been at the core of the physical and cognitive development of a child. They aid in the child's understanding of his social and physical environment and, needless to say, they provide entertainment that helps soothe his or her soul. Indubitably, children's songs have undergone metamorphosis commensurate with the dynamism of life and historical developments. Hence, using an analytical approach, the article seeks…
Language Policy and Language Practice in South Africa: An Uneasy Marriage
The change to democracy in South Africa in 1994 brought with it many changes in various spheres of activity. Language could not escape these changes. The linguistic situation, which was previously characterized by the dominance of English and Afrikaans, could not be immune to the process of change. The other languages (Bantu languages) which had been left out were brought into the linguistic scenario. This means that South Africa, an emerging nat…
Modern Shona Poets and their Art: A Preliminary Survey
Modern Shona poets as artists have contributed considerably to the development of Shona poetry. However, many of their works are yet to be analysed by literary critics. Thus, this paper, which is a preliminary study, focuses on Shona poets' artistry on the basis of observations made on a few modern Shona poets and their poems
The Problems of Standardizing Spoken Dialects: The Shona Experience
What we as researchers see as a dialect, is some other people's mother tongue: one of our enigmatic possessions as humans and the quintessence of our humanity. It is therefore essential that all major dialects play a role in writing instead of opting for standardization based on the elimination of other dialects. This paper highlights some of the sociological and linguistic problems associated with the standardization of dialects
Toponymic commemoration is not for one sex: The gender politics of place renaming in Harare
This article adds to discussions on gender and collective memory. During the war, the nationalist movement was generally gender inclusive. This collective discourse was driven by the need for forming a united front against colonialism. However, this inclusive aspect ceased to exist in the post-independence because post-colonial policies were sexist. After the attainment of independence, the government made attempts to commemorate the war through …
Place naming and the discursive construction of imagined boundaries in colonial Zimbabwe (1890–1979): The case of Salisbury
Black writers' Shona novels of the liberation war in Zimbabwe: An Art That Tells the Truth of Its Day
Over the years Shona fiction that portrays Zimbabwe's liberation war has been a subject of severe criticism because of its tendency to falsify and distort history. This article attempts to provide answers to the question of why authors of Shona war fiction tended to romanticise the war of liberation. In pursuance of this objective this article looks at circumstances and conditions that prevailed at the time that most of the Shona stories about Zi…
The Problems of Standardizing Spoken Dialects: The Shona Experience
What we as researchers see as a dialect, is some other people's mother tongue: one of our enigmatic possessions as humans and the quintessence of our humanity. It is therefore essential that all major dialects play a role in writing instead of opting for standardization based on the elimination of other dialects. This paper highlights some of the sociological and linguistic problems associated with the standardization of dialects
Modern Shona Poets and their Art: A Preliminary Survey
Modern Shona poets as artists have contributed considerably to the development of Shona poetry. However, many of their works are yet to be analysed by literary critics. Thus, this paper, which is a preliminary study, focuses on Shona poets' artistry on the basis of observations made on a few modern Shona poets and their poems
Language Policy and Language Practice in South Africa: An Uneasy Marriage
The change to democracy in South Africa in 1994 brought with it many changes in various spheres of activity. Language could not escape these changes. The linguistic situation, which was previously characterized by the dominance of English and Afrikaans, could not be immune to the process of change. The other languages (Bantu languages) which had been left out were brought into the linguistic scenario. This means that South Africa, an emerging nat…
An analysis of selected Shona children's songs: Philosophical perspectives on child development
Over the years children's songs have been at the core of the physical and cognitive development of a child. They aid in the child's understanding of his social and physical environment and, needless to say, they provide entertainment that helps soothe his or her soul. Indubitably, children's songs have undergone metamorphosis commensurate with the dynamism of life and historical developments. Hence, using an analytical approach, the article seeks…
Black writers' Shona novels of the liberation war in Zimbabwe: An Art That Tells the Truth of Its Day
Over the years Shona fiction that portrays Zimbabwe's liberation war has been a subject of severe criticism because of its tendency to falsify and distort history. This article attempts to provide answers to the question of why authors of Shona war fiction tended to romanticise the war of liberation. In pursuance of this objective this article looks at circumstances and conditions that prevailed at the time that most of the Shona stories about Zi…
The zimbabwean liberation-war novel in shona: An analysis of the symbolic value of the guerrilla as legitimating discourse of nation
The article discusses the Shona war novel published in the early 1980s as an avatar of human-factor content for the fledgling nation. It particularly draws corroborative evidence from selected Shona war narratives published between 1980 and 1985, a time when Zimbabwe attained political independence. While this novel has largely received negative criticism, the article advances the contention that it was/is legiti-mating discourse of the new natio…
A potentially dystrophic era: Analysing the lyrical sociology of selected sungura songs in Zimbabwe in the 1990s and beyond
This article provides an exegesis of selected sungura songs sung in the 1990s and beyond by some of Zimbabwe's renowned musicians. Sungura is a Swahili word for rabbit. The word has become so naturalised in Shona to the extent that it now refers to a popular music genre sung mainly in indigenous languages. The beat is fast and furious and with a lot of emphasis on the footwork. The 1990s mark the incubation of new nation-state politics in which t…
Place naming and the discursive construction of imagined boundaries in colonial Zimbabwe (1890–1979): The case of Salisbury
The Influence of Kalanga Parents’ Language Ideologies on Children’s Language Practices
This article explores the nexus between parents’ language ideologies and children’s language practices in the home. It focuses on the perspectives of 34 L1 Kalanga-speaking parents to understand the extent to which their language ideologies impact on children’s language choices, in light of the diminished use of Kalanga in Zimbabwe generally. Drawing on insights from Family Language Policy (FLP), we argue that although parents’ language ideologie…
Effects of Expectations and Perceptions of Mother-Tongue Education in Oromo in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
This article investigates how people’s expectations and perceptions affect mother-tongue education in general and in Oromo in particular in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. The study employed questionnaires and interviews to gather relevant data. The data gathered through questionnaires were analysed using percentage and chi-square tests, whereas the data collected through interviews were analysed by generating thematic and conceptual categorisat…
Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists: White Authors and the Fast Track Land Reform Program in Post-2000 Zimbabwe
Texts written by some white Zimbabweans in the post-2000 dispensation are largely shaped by their authors’ endeavor to contest the loss of lands they held prior to the onset of the Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP). Written as memoirs, these texts are bound by the tendency to fall back on colonial settler values, Rhodesian identities, and Hegelian supremacist ideas in their narration of aspects of a conflict in which tropes such as truth, ju…
Toponymic commemoration is not for one sex: The gender politics of place renaming in Harare
This article adds to discussions on gender and collective memory. During the war, the nationalist movement was generally gender inclusive. This collective discourse was driven by the need for forming a united front against colonialism. However, this inclusive aspect ceased to exist in the post-independence because post-colonial policies were sexist. After the attainment of independence, the government made attempts to commemorate the war through …
The inevitability of linguistic change: The motivation of borrowing English terms by Shona speakers
Europeans brought new concepts, ideas and technologies with them that had not existed before colonialism in Zimbabwe. This led Shona and other indigenous languages (such as Ndebele, Venda, Nambya, Kalanga) to absorb a substantial new vocabulary into their lexicons. Speakers of these languages have been creating terms to cope with the new concepts through various strategies. This article aims at studying the motivation of Shona speakers to prefer …
War songs and hope during the Second Chimurenga in Zimbabwe: A critical discourse analysis approach
War songs played a pivotal role during the struggle for independence in Zimbabwe. War songs provoked people’s thoughts, feelings and mood to fight for the liberation of the country. Slogans, songs and music that were sung and performed during the war of liberation, popularly known as the Second Chimurenga (1971–1979), instilled hope in both the liberation fighters and the masses as they gave them the strength to continue fighting until the attain…
The Effects of an Unplanned Pregnancy in the Post-Independence Shona Novel: “De-Womanisation” or Women’s Empowerment
This article foregrounds the theme of unplanned pregnancy in Sharai Mukono-weshuro’s novel Ndakagara ndazviona (1991) and Mabasa’s novel Ndafa here? (2008). The article scrutinises the two novelists’ treatment of the girl child character when she becomes a victim of an unplanned pregnancy. This is a qualitative, critical literary study that adopts the tenets of Africana womanism theory to argue its case. It uses those tenets to discuss two forms …
Aspects of deceptive cognate derived loanwords in Kinyarwanda
Loanwords derived from French and English deceptive cognates in Rwanda have caught the researchers’ attention because of the complexity they present in the areas of language contact and language teaching and learning. Deceptive cognates very often constitute obstacles to the understanding of the meaning and the pronunciation of a word because they have tricky similarities. In Rwanda, where most English learners have already acquired French as Tar…
Graffiti, Ban or Boon? A Bakhtinian Appreciation of Selected Latrinalia from Bulawayo in Zimbabwe
This article explores the messages that are created and expressed in alternative and generally informal platforms in response to the cultural practice of tabooing certain themes and language usage in the presentation and sharing of feelings and ideas about such themes. Graffiti and the carnivalesque converge on the fact that their setup is informal in terms of language, themes and manipulated identity of participants. Their content is mainly on t…
Emotive Art: An Analysis of Graffiti from Selected Secondary Schools in Bikita-Matsai District, Zimbabwe
This study makes an in-depth analysis of graffiti from selected secondary schools in the Bikita-Matsai district in Zimbabwe that includes but is not limited to trusses, office doors, chalkboards, classroom and toilet walls. The Study focuses on the words and drawings in these spaces. The emphasis on the importance of contextualisation of text is used to bring to the fore different contextual meanings of graffiti words. For this study, the psychol…
Artist’s cognitive level and the style and form trails in graffiti: An analysis of graffiti from selected Bikita-Matsai secondary schools
This work is an exploration of the influence of cognitive levels in graffiti writing with special reference to content, style and form. Basing the narrative on the analysis of graffiti by learners from selected Bikita-Matsai secondary schools and guided by historical-philological semantics, this study investigates the idea that different situations and cognitive levels influence the topics, choice of words and presentation of graffiti. Triangulat…
Manipulation, Socio-psychological Impact of False Promises of Marriage to Shona Women in Selected Shona Novels
This article discusses the victimisation of women who were promised false marriage by men in selected Shona literature. It unravels why women fall prey and quizzes why men manipulate the marriage institution for personal satisfaction. The article utilises the feminist literary theory to interrogate two novels, Makudo Ndomamwe (Men are All the Same) (2004) by R. Makaya and Imbwa Nyoro (1982) (Innocent Ones are Often Guilty) by R. M. Mumvuma. Patri…
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