Zvenyika Eckson Mugari
Biographic Data
| ID | 236249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zvenyika Eckson Mugari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zvenyika Eckson |
| FAMILY NAME | Mugari |
| SIGNATURE | MUGARI Z E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Midlands State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8628-1370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring gerontology in Tuku’s selected songs
This paper critically discusses two (2) songs of Oliver Mtukudzi (Tuku) to decipher his perceptions and imaginings of the process and experience of aging in Zimbabwe. These songs are Wasakara (2000) and Ndakuvara (2002). Mtukudzi’s music popularly known as Tuku music is hailed for entertaining and admonishing the public through powerful moral messages of personhood and self-discipline. It is important to appreciate his teachings regarding aging, …
Effects of Covid-19 on the Livelihoods of Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe
Let Them Stay There”
This paper explains the indignation against and stigmatization of return migrants and travelers when Zimbabwe first recorded cases of COVID-19 in 2020. While xenophobic hatred toward foreign migrants enjoyed much media and scholarly attention, the similar risk faced by the return migrants and travelers among “their own” during the pandemic was largely left on the back burner. The paper uses secondary analysis of information from social media, gov…
Keeping African women in social reproduction roles
They Do Not Perceive Us as People
The portrayal of older persons in grade 3 primary school children’s textbooks in Zimbabwe
This paper employs textual analysis to explain how older adults are depicted in children’s textbooks at primary school with specific focus on grade 3 level which is the beginning of Junior school at primary level. Because these textbooks are studied throughout the country, this discussion provides a picture of the national situation in so far as depiction of older people is concerned at junior stage in Zimbabwe. Contrary to the educational aims o…
Representations of Ageing in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
This book focuses on news silence in Zimbabwe, taking as a point of departure the (in)famous blank spaces (whiteouts) which newspapers published to protest official censorship policy imposed by the Rhodesian government from the mid-1960s to the end of that decade. Based on archived news content, the author investigates the cause(s) of the disappearance of blank spaces in Zimbabwe’s newspapers and establishes whether and how the blank spaces may h…
Media in a changing southern Africa
Dumisani Moyo and Wallace Chuma, eds. Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2010. Pp. 319 ISBN 978-1-86888-569-5 (paperback)
Media in a changing southern Africa
Dumisani Moyo and Wallace Chuma, eds. Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2010. Pp. 319 ISBN 978-1-86888-569-5 (paperback)
Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
This book focuses on news silence in Zimbabwe, taking as a point of departure the (in)famous blank spaces (whiteouts) which newspapers published to protest official censorship policy imposed by the Rhodesian government from the mid-1960s to the end of that decade. Based on archived news content, the author investigates the cause(s) of the disappearance of blank spaces in Zimbabwe’s newspapers and establishes whether and how the blank spaces may h…
The portrayal of older persons in grade 3 primary school children’s textbooks in Zimbabwe
This paper employs textual analysis to explain how older adults are depicted in children’s textbooks at primary school with specific focus on grade 3 level which is the beginning of Junior school at primary level. Because these textbooks are studied throughout the country, this discussion provides a picture of the national situation in so far as depiction of older people is concerned at junior stage in Zimbabwe. Contrary to the educational aims o…
Representations of Ageing in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Effects of Covid-19 on the Livelihoods of Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe
Let Them Stay There”
This paper explains the indignation against and stigmatization of return migrants and travelers when Zimbabwe first recorded cases of COVID-19 in 2020. While xenophobic hatred toward foreign migrants enjoyed much media and scholarly attention, the similar risk faced by the return migrants and travelers among “their own” during the pandemic was largely left on the back burner. The paper uses secondary analysis of information from social media, gov…
Keeping African women in social reproduction roles
They Do Not Perceive Us as People
Exploring gerontology in Tuku’s selected songs
This paper critically discusses two (2) songs of Oliver Mtukudzi (Tuku) to decipher his perceptions and imaginings of the process and experience of aging in Zimbabwe. These songs are Wasakara (2000) and Ndakuvara (2002). Mtukudzi’s music popularly known as Tuku music is hailed for entertaining and admonishing the public through powerful moral messages of personhood and self-discipline. It is important to appreciate his teachings regarding aging, …
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)