Itai Muwati
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Itai Muwati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Itai |
| FAMILY NAME | Muwati |
| SIGNATURE | MUWATI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Traditional games and child-centred development: Affirming disabled and female bodies in applied theatre projects in Zimbabwe
Traditional/indigenous children’s games are yet to be appreciated as sites of critical engagement. The limited available literature on traditional children’s games is mainly focused on the deployment of traditional games in the teaching of conventional curriculum subjects. On the other hand, applied theatre projects appear to mainly rely on ‘foreign’ games. Curiously, there seems to be bias towards theatre games from North America, South America …
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 …
Negotiating space, voice and recognition: An analysis of the ‘District Song’ of the Tonga people of Binga, Zimbabwe
The article discusses the operationalization of geography and history as both method and content in what the Tonga people of Zimbabwe refer to as the District Song. These furnish the axes operandi in the Tonga people’s abiding search for a dignity-affirming memory and other discourses of legitimation. In the face of potential delegitimation of presence and identity and also possible erasure of their history of civilisation, the District Song, com…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Negotiating space, voice and recognition: An analysis of the ‘District Song’ of the Tonga people of Binga, Zimbabwe
The article discusses the operationalization of geography and history as both method and content in what the Tonga people of Zimbabwe refer to as the District Song. These furnish the axes operandi in the Tonga people’s abiding search for a dignity-affirming memory and other discourses of legitimation. In the face of potential delegitimation of presence and identity and also possible erasure of their history of civilisation, the District Song, com…
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 …
Traditional games and child-centred development: Affirming disabled and female bodies in applied theatre projects in Zimbabwe
Traditional/indigenous children’s games are yet to be appreciated as sites of critical engagement. The limited available literature on traditional children’s games is mainly focused on the deployment of traditional games in the teaching of conventional curriculum subjects. On the other hand, applied theatre projects appear to mainly rely on ‘foreign’ games. Curiously, there seems to be bias towards theatre games from North America, South America …
Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Nationalism (3 works)