Macloud Sipeyiye
Biographic Data
| ID | 4051918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Macloud Sipeyiye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Macloud |
| FAMILY NAME | Sipeyiye |
| SIGNATURE | SIPEYIYE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8748-6570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Soil and identity in the indigenous spirituality of the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe: Unlocking the potential for environmental sustainability in the 21st century
Global climate change threatens both human and non-human lives due to unprecedented high temperatures and abnormal volumes of rain resulting in floods damaging the land and threatening livelihoods. This article employs the re-enchantment theory to engage the Ndau people’s indigenous spiritual relationship with the soil with a view to promoting a framework that engenders an innovative and sustainable response to the threats of climate change in Zi…
The Potential of the Negative: A gender critique of men and HIV and Aids in Johanne Masowe weChishanu among the Shona of Zimbabwe
This article makes a gender critical analysis of the Johanne Masowe weChishanu (JMwC) beliefs and practices in the context of HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe. In current times in sub– Saharan Africa, poverty is both a direct and an indirect effect of HIV that feeds on skewed gender relations. Efforts at forestalling the HIV and AIDS pandemic have often concentrated on empowering women through giving them a voice in negotiating for safer sex with their m…
(Re)imagining Ndau indigenous religion of Zimbabwe in the digital age
The twenty-first century has been characterized by various digital communication technologies that are a major agent of globalization. Today Africans find themselves in new geo-cultural contexts within their countries and in the diaspora through migration triggered by many factors. These geographical dislocations disrupt the traditional clan settlement patterns and in turn challenge indigenous media of communication in indigenous African societie…
Negotiating Identity through Music in Zimbabwe: Interrogating Some Selected Nambya Music
The Nambya music speaks to the socio-cultural identity of the Nambya people yet it has been jettisoned in music discourse in Zimbabwe. The article critically engages with selected song texts of the previously marginalised ethnic minority to glean the musicians' use of their indigenous language voices to negotiate issues of identity. The article is qualitative and interpretive, grounded in the constructionist strand of Afrocentricity. Data were co…
On pfukwa/mhvuko and the Ndau Christian Dilemma: A Case of the United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ)
The article engages with the notion of pfukwa/mhvuko (avenging spirits) among the Ndau Christians using the case study of the United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ). The study was motivated by a recurring question among some members of UCCZ on the phenomenon of the avenging spirits and the plight of the Ndau Christians. The article argues that the Ndau Christian converts are not immune to the effects of the avenging spirits in the metaphysica…
A blessing in disguise? The socio-economic impact of Covid-19 on urban women in Zimbabwe
The Covid-19 pandemic that broke out in 2019 was one of the largest epidemics in human history after the Spanish flu of 1918-1919 (Trilla, Trilla and Daer, 2008). Its spread across Africa, and Zimbabwe in particular, shook economies and disrupted social structures, severely affecting the mental health of the populace. However, calamities like Covid-19 are hardly gender-neutral. While Covid-19 had negative psychosocial and economic impacts on all …
The agency of the elderly women in indigenous responses to Covid-19-related mental health challenges among the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe
Pandemic-related stressors are many and they are known to cause mental health challenges to people. Research has shown that women are disproportionately affected by the effects of pandemics on mental health than their male counterparts (Manyonganise, 2022). It has also shown that the elderly people are at risk of the pandemic-related mental health challenges because of their advanced age that undermines their resilience. There is not much literat…
Shifting notions in maternal health system of Johane Masowe Chishanu of Chitekete, Gokwe in Zimbabwe
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is an acclaimed journal with broad coverage that promotes multidisciplinary, religious, and biblical aspects of studies in the international theological arena. The journal’s publication criteria are based on high ethical standards and the rigor of the methodology and conclusions reported
Elderly women and Covid-19 vaccination in the indigenous religio-culture of the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is steadily becoming a tameable, mild communicable disease globally. In the Western countries and some countries in Asia, such as China, for example, this milestone is owed to a high response to vaccination programmes. The same cannot be said of Africa, where the uptake of vaccines has not been encouraging. In Zimbabwe, for example, the government had intended to vaccinate at least 10 million of its estimated 1…
Sex Gospel in Zimbabwe’s Pentecostal Christianity as a Response to Social Change: The Case of Apostle Kapandura and Mai Lucia Gunguwo
Sexuality has always been a closely guarded subject in both Christianity and African Traditional Religions (ATRs), and regarded as a sensitive topic unfit for public discussion. In Zimbabwe, there is an emerging trend of sex gospel in Pentecostal Christianity. This has stirred mixed feelings among Christians and ATR adherents. Deploying the religion and social transformation perspective, this netnographic study of Christopher Kapandura of ZAOGA (…
Gendered small-scale crops and power dynamics: A case of uninga (sesame) production amongst the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe
Women in Ndau communities, like in many African communities, are the fulcrum of household economies that ensure improved livelihoods of their communities. Thus, they are an indispensable factor in the sustainable development equation of their communities. It is sadly true that women do not own land in most African societies. Consequently, most studies analyse the realities of gender inequality in the distribution of resources that include land. H…
Rethinking Environmental Sustainability through the Ndau Notion of Communal Existence
The twenty-first century faces a life-threatening environmental crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Scientists posit that the balance of life on the planet Earth is in danger as a result of human activities. Religions have not been seriously considered as potential partners in providing solutions to the crisis, but are in fact often blamed for causing it. This can be explained by the misleading disenchantment theory that holds that religions expos…
Religion and Social Marginalization in Zimbabwe
Marginalization means being disregarded, ostracized, harassed, disliked, persecuted, or generally looked down upon. Marginalized people often include women and children, the poor, the disabled, sexual, religious, or ethnic minorities, refugees. The marginalized are those who are socially, politically, culturally, or economically excluded from main-stream society. In history, the Church in Zimbabwe has played a role in improving the lives of the m…
(Re)imagining Ndau indigenous religion of Zimbabwe in the digital age
The twenty-first century has been characterized by various digital communication technologies that are a major agent of globalization. Today Africans find themselves in new geo-cultural contexts within their countries and in the diaspora through migration triggered by many factors. These geographical dislocations disrupt the traditional clan settlement patterns and in turn challenge indigenous media of communication in indigenous African societie…
Rethinking Environmental Sustainability through the Ndau Notion of Communal Existence
The twenty-first century faces a life-threatening environmental crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Scientists posit that the balance of life on the planet Earth is in danger as a result of human activities. Religions have not been seriously considered as potential partners in providing solutions to the crisis, but are in fact often blamed for causing it. This can be explained by the misleading disenchantment theory that holds that religions expos…
Religion and Social Marginalization in Zimbabwe
Marginalization means being disregarded, ostracized, harassed, disliked, persecuted, or generally looked down upon. Marginalized people often include women and children, the poor, the disabled, sexual, religious, or ethnic minorities, refugees. The marginalized are those who are socially, politically, culturally, or economically excluded from main-stream society. In history, the Church in Zimbabwe has played a role in improving the lives of the m…
Gendered small-scale crops and power dynamics: A case of uninga (sesame) production amongst the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe
Women in Ndau communities, like in many African communities, are the fulcrum of household economies that ensure improved livelihoods of their communities. Thus, they are an indispensable factor in the sustainable development equation of their communities. It is sadly true that women do not own land in most African societies. Consequently, most studies analyse the realities of gender inequality in the distribution of resources that include land. H…
Elderly women and Covid-19 vaccination in the indigenous religio-culture of the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is steadily becoming a tameable, mild communicable disease globally. In the Western countries and some countries in Asia, such as China, for example, this milestone is owed to a high response to vaccination programmes. The same cannot be said of Africa, where the uptake of vaccines has not been encouraging. In Zimbabwe, for example, the government had intended to vaccinate at least 10 million of its estimated 1…
Sex Gospel in Zimbabwe’s Pentecostal Christianity as a Response to Social Change: The Case of Apostle Kapandura and Mai Lucia Gunguwo
Sexuality has always been a closely guarded subject in both Christianity and African Traditional Religions (ATRs), and regarded as a sensitive topic unfit for public discussion. In Zimbabwe, there is an emerging trend of sex gospel in Pentecostal Christianity. This has stirred mixed feelings among Christians and ATR adherents. Deploying the religion and social transformation perspective, this netnographic study of Christopher Kapandura of ZAOGA (…
Shifting notions in maternal health system of Johane Masowe Chishanu of Chitekete, Gokwe in Zimbabwe
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is an acclaimed journal with broad coverage that promotes multidisciplinary, religious, and biblical aspects of studies in the international theological arena. The journal’s publication criteria are based on high ethical standards and the rigor of the methodology and conclusions reported
A blessing in disguise? The socio-economic impact of Covid-19 on urban women in Zimbabwe
The Covid-19 pandemic that broke out in 2019 was one of the largest epidemics in human history after the Spanish flu of 1918-1919 (Trilla, Trilla and Daer, 2008). Its spread across Africa, and Zimbabwe in particular, shook economies and disrupted social structures, severely affecting the mental health of the populace. However, calamities like Covid-19 are hardly gender-neutral. While Covid-19 had negative psychosocial and economic impacts on all …
The agency of the elderly women in indigenous responses to Covid-19-related mental health challenges among the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe
Pandemic-related stressors are many and they are known to cause mental health challenges to people. Research has shown that women are disproportionately affected by the effects of pandemics on mental health than their male counterparts (Manyonganise, 2022). It has also shown that the elderly people are at risk of the pandemic-related mental health challenges because of their advanced age that undermines their resilience. There is not much literat…
The Potential of the Negative: A gender critique of men and HIV and Aids in Johanne Masowe weChishanu among the Shona of Zimbabwe
This article makes a gender critical analysis of the Johanne Masowe weChishanu (JMwC) beliefs and practices in the context of HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe. In current times in sub– Saharan Africa, poverty is both a direct and an indirect effect of HIV that feeds on skewed gender relations. Efforts at forestalling the HIV and AIDS pandemic have often concentrated on empowering women through giving them a voice in negotiating for safer sex with their m…
(Re)imagining Ndau indigenous religion of Zimbabwe in the digital age
The twenty-first century has been characterized by various digital communication technologies that are a major agent of globalization. Today Africans find themselves in new geo-cultural contexts within their countries and in the diaspora through migration triggered by many factors. These geographical dislocations disrupt the traditional clan settlement patterns and in turn challenge indigenous media of communication in indigenous African societie…
Negotiating Identity through Music in Zimbabwe: Interrogating Some Selected Nambya Music
The Nambya music speaks to the socio-cultural identity of the Nambya people yet it has been jettisoned in music discourse in Zimbabwe. The article critically engages with selected song texts of the previously marginalised ethnic minority to glean the musicians' use of their indigenous language voices to negotiate issues of identity. The article is qualitative and interpretive, grounded in the constructionist strand of Afrocentricity. Data were co…
On pfukwa/mhvuko and the Ndau Christian Dilemma: A Case of the United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ)
The article engages with the notion of pfukwa/mhvuko (avenging spirits) among the Ndau Christians using the case study of the United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ). The study was motivated by a recurring question among some members of UCCZ on the phenomenon of the avenging spirits and the plight of the Ndau Christians. The article argues that the Ndau Christian converts are not immune to the effects of the avenging spirits in the metaphysica…
Soil and identity in the indigenous spirituality of the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe: Unlocking the potential for environmental sustainability in the 21st century
Global climate change threatens both human and non-human lives due to unprecedented high temperatures and abnormal volumes of rain resulting in floods damaging the land and threatening livelihoods. This article employs the re-enchantment theory to engage the Ndau people’s indigenous spiritual relationship with the soil with a view to promoting a framework that engenders an innovative and sustainable response to the threats of climate change in Zi…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Virology (4 works)