T Gwekwerere
Biographic Data
| ID | 14308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Gwekwerere |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Gwekwerere |
| SIGNATURE | GWEKWERERE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4661-816X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religious ideologies, legitimation, and citizenship in "second republic" Zimbabwe
In his 2017 rise to the Zimbabwean presidency, Emmerson Mnangagwa conflated religion and politics through, among other strategies, ad nauseum deployment of the phrase: "The voice of the people is the voice of God." Defining the phrase as dialectical (religious ideology and political philosophy) we explore its intersection with citizenship and legitimation in Zimbabwe's second republic body politic. By conceptually deploying citizenship and legiti…
Othering the Alternative: Nelson Chamisa in the Post-2017 Chief Shumba Hwenje Song
Although Emmerson Mnangagwa's replacement of Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe prompted celebration among Zimbabweans when it happened, his tenure is hamstrung by contested political legitimacy. At the centre of perceptions of Mnangagwa as politically illegitimate is the location of his presidency in the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) coup of November 2017 and his failure to win resoundingly in the presidential elections of July 2018 and Augu…
Patriot, Revolutionary and Liberator? Representations of Emmerson Mnangagwa in the Post-2017 Chief Shumba Hwenje Song
While the advent of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 with Robert Mugabe as founding prime minister was largely received as the best outcome of the liberation struggle of the 1970s and as the foundation upon which a prosperous nation could be built, the euphoria did not last long. Over the years, Mugabe's rule became increasingly authoritarian to the extent that his ouster by Emmerson Mnangagwa through the coup of November 2017 would momentarily oc…
Unemployment, hustling, and waithood: Exploring Zimbabwean urban male youth’s utilisation of ICT in soccer betting
This article explores how urban male youth in Zimbabwe have created economies of hustle and waithood through soccer betting to ensure alternative means of survival in a country facing rapid urban growth and endless economic challenges. Data were collected using a combination of ethnographic methods, including participant and non-participant observations, betting experimentation, and informal conversations. The findings show that urban male youth …
Narrating the Struggle, Theorizing the Genre: The Convergence of Narrative and Literary-Critical Theory in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
This article explores Achebe’s insertion of literary-theoretical discourse into traditional narrative space in Anthills of the Savannah with a view to demonstrating part of the limitless possibilities that the continental African novel pulsates with. It evokes the coexistence of narrative and literary-theoretical discourse in this particular novel through critical focus on selected characters’ reflections on the place and role of the story and th…
Names, labels, the Zimbabwean Liberation War veteran and the third Chimurenga: The language and politics of entitlement in post-2000 Zimbabwe
This article investigates the Zimbabwean Liberation War veterans’ naming and labelling of individuals and groups opposed to the Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in post-2000 Zimbabwe. As instruments of political coercion, the two processes participated in the production of images of individuals and groups opposed to land expropriation, particularly white farmers and political opponents in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), that were …
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…
Universal, Normative, and Indispensable: Exploring the Emphasis on Eurocentric Literary-Critical Perspectives in the Criticism of the Black Zimbabwean Novel
Literary-critical discourse on the Black Zimbabwean novel constitutes one of several platforms on which the self-other dialectic in Zimbabwe finds expression. This is especially the case at the level of literary-critical theory where the tendency is to advance arguments that frame Afrocentric and Eurocentric literary-critical theories as mutually exclusive. In this article, I explore the scholarship of Flora Veit-Wild and Ranka Primorac on the Bl…
The African Diaspora in continental African struggles for freedom: Implications on the criticism of African Renaissance literature
If African Renaissance literature is critiqued against the backdrop of historical narratives of global African commitment to collective African self-reclamation, it will be possible to entrench the strategic values that will expedite the fruition of an African Renaissance. In light of this realization, this article discusses the contributions of the African Diaspora towards continental African liberation from European colonial domination, with a …
From Nat Turner to Molefi Kete Asante: Reading the European Intellectual Indictment of the Afrocentric Conception of Reality
The desperate Eurocentric intellectual undertaking to undermine the Afrocentric conception of reality is not a recent development. It originated the moment Europeans awoke from the slumber of their Dark Ages to find themselves lagging far behind in the march of the world's civilizations. The subsequent expropriation of principles and standards from ancient African civilization, the brazen European abduction of African people into slavery, and the…
Names, labels, the Zimbabwean Liberation War veteran and the third Chimurenga: The language and politics of entitlement in post-2000 Zimbabwe
This article investigates the Zimbabwean Liberation War veterans’ naming and labelling of individuals and groups opposed to the Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in post-2000 Zimbabwe. As instruments of political coercion, the two processes participated in the production of images of individuals and groups opposed to land expropriation, particularly white farmers and political opponents in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), that were …
Patriot, Revolutionary and Liberator? Representations of Emmerson Mnangagwa in the Post-2017 Chief Shumba Hwenje Song
While the advent of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 with Robert Mugabe as founding prime minister was largely received as the best outcome of the liberation struggle of the 1970s and as the foundation upon which a prosperous nation could be built, the euphoria did not last long. Over the years, Mugabe's rule became increasingly authoritarian to the extent that his ouster by Emmerson Mnangagwa through the coup of November 2017 would momentarily oc…
The African Diaspora in continental African struggles for freedom: Implications on the criticism of African Renaissance literature
If African Renaissance literature is critiqued against the backdrop of historical narratives of global African commitment to collective African self-reclamation, it will be possible to entrench the strategic values that will expedite the fruition of an African Renaissance. In light of this realization, this article discusses the contributions of the African Diaspora towards continental African liberation from European colonial domination, with a …
From Nat Turner to Molefi Kete Asante: Reading the European Intellectual Indictment of the Afrocentric Conception of Reality
The desperate Eurocentric intellectual undertaking to undermine the Afrocentric conception of reality is not a recent development. It originated the moment Europeans awoke from the slumber of their Dark Ages to find themselves lagging far behind in the march of the world's civilizations. The subsequent expropriation of principles and standards from ancient African civilization, the brazen European abduction of African people into slavery, and the…
The African Diaspora in continental African struggles for freedom: Implications on the criticism of African Renaissance literature
If African Renaissance literature is critiqued against the backdrop of historical narratives of global African commitment to collective African self-reclamation, it will be possible to entrench the strategic values that will expedite the fruition of an African Renaissance. In light of this realization, this article discusses the contributions of the African Diaspora towards continental African liberation from European colonial domination, with a …
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…
Universal, Normative, and Indispensable: Exploring the Emphasis on Eurocentric Literary-Critical Perspectives in the Criticism of the Black Zimbabwean Novel
Literary-critical discourse on the Black Zimbabwean novel constitutes one of several platforms on which the self-other dialectic in Zimbabwe finds expression. This is especially the case at the level of literary-critical theory where the tendency is to advance arguments that frame Afrocentric and Eurocentric literary-critical theories as mutually exclusive. In this article, I explore the scholarship of Flora Veit-Wild and Ranka Primorac on the Bl…
Names, labels, the Zimbabwean Liberation War veteran and the third Chimurenga: The language and politics of entitlement in post-2000 Zimbabwe
This article investigates the Zimbabwean Liberation War veterans’ naming and labelling of individuals and groups opposed to the Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in post-2000 Zimbabwe. As instruments of political coercion, the two processes participated in the production of images of individuals and groups opposed to land expropriation, particularly white farmers and political opponents in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), that were …
Narrating the Struggle, Theorizing the Genre: The Convergence of Narrative and Literary-Critical Theory in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
This article explores Achebe’s insertion of literary-theoretical discourse into traditional narrative space in Anthills of the Savannah with a view to demonstrating part of the limitless possibilities that the continental African novel pulsates with. It evokes the coexistence of narrative and literary-theoretical discourse in this particular novel through critical focus on selected characters’ reflections on the place and role of the story and th…
Unemployment, hustling, and waithood: Exploring Zimbabwean urban male youth’s utilisation of ICT in soccer betting
This article explores how urban male youth in Zimbabwe have created economies of hustle and waithood through soccer betting to ensure alternative means of survival in a country facing rapid urban growth and endless economic challenges. Data were collected using a combination of ethnographic methods, including participant and non-participant observations, betting experimentation, and informal conversations. The findings show that urban male youth …
Religious ideologies, legitimation, and citizenship in "second republic" Zimbabwe
In his 2017 rise to the Zimbabwean presidency, Emmerson Mnangagwa conflated religion and politics through, among other strategies, ad nauseum deployment of the phrase: "The voice of the people is the voice of God." Defining the phrase as dialectical (religious ideology and political philosophy) we explore its intersection with citizenship and legitimation in Zimbabwe's second republic body politic. By conceptually deploying citizenship and legiti…
Othering the Alternative: Nelson Chamisa in the Post-2017 Chief Shumba Hwenje Song
Although Emmerson Mnangagwa's replacement of Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe prompted celebration among Zimbabweans when it happened, his tenure is hamstrung by contested political legitimacy. At the centre of perceptions of Mnangagwa as politically illegitimate is the location of his presidency in the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) coup of November 2017 and his failure to win resoundingly in the presidential elections of July 2018 and Augu…
Patriot, Revolutionary and Liberator? Representations of Emmerson Mnangagwa in the Post-2017 Chief Shumba Hwenje Song
While the advent of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 with Robert Mugabe as founding prime minister was largely received as the best outcome of the liberation struggle of the 1970s and as the foundation upon which a prosperous nation could be built, the euphoria did not last long. Over the years, Mugabe's rule became increasingly authoritarian to the extent that his ouster by Emmerson Mnangagwa through the coup of November 2017 would momentarily oc…
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