Hugh Mangeya
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh Mangeya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh |
| FAMILY NAME | Mangeya |
| SIGNATURE | MANGEYA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Midlands State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4292-8646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dialoguing hunger and survival during the Zimbabwe Covid-19 lockdowns through WhatsApp jokes
This article analyses the dialogue on hunger and survival issues emanating from viral COVID-19-induced jokes circulated via WhatsApp during Zimbabwe’s consecutive lockdowns. The lockdowns were part of public health measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. They, however, disrupted the socio-economic activities in a largely informal economy. The jokes offer discursive spaces for ordinary people to engage with new socio-economic realities brought to…
The discursive construction of blackness on WhatsApp status posts in Zimbabwe
The paper unpacks the discursive construction of black Zimbabwean identities through multimodal WhatsApp status update posts by Zimbabweans on the WhatsApp social media platform. Cognisant that WhatsApp constitutes part of the public sphere where public discourses are generated and shaped, it explores and interrogates how status update content provoke and inspire identity discourses that perpetuate unequal racial relations that we argue are roote…
“Breaking Taboos”
Humour can function as a protest against bad governance, and citizens often appropriate digital humour to speak back to power. The article analyses 20 satirical memes and texts shared on Facebook and WhatsApp after the government of Zimbabwe introduced bond notes in 2016. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe indicated that the bond notes would be pegged equally against the US dollar. However, the Zimbabwean populace did not embrace the idea of the bond n…
The Influence of Frames of Reference in Understanding Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
The study unpacks some of the frames of reference that people use to explain and understand Covid-19 in Zimbabwe. The study used a qualitative research approach to explore participants’ frames of reference. A phenomenological research design was adopted. Purposive sampling was used to select research participants, whilst two online focus group discussions were held. Data were collected through the use of semi-structured interview questions, which…
WhatsApp coup jokes and the dialogue on Zimbabwean politics
This article analyses the dialogue stemming from viral WhatsApp jokes on the Zimbabwean coup in November 2017. It argues that coup jokes have created an opportunity to discuss the nature of Zimbabwean politics since 2000. This dialogue, characterised by ambivalence, multiplicity, and open-endedness, provides insights on the political traits that have dominated Zimbabwe since 2000. These are rendered as politics of personality, chimurenga and part…
Endangering the Endangered
The human species is in great danger of extinction due to the novel coronavirus that was first detected in China around December 2019. By March 2021, the world had witnessed over 116million cases, of which 36,223 are Zimbabwean. The disease that the coronavirus stimulates is quite fatal and has seen 2.57million lives succumbing to it, of which 1483 are Zimbabwean, by the same date. No cure has been discovered for it yet, though scientific researc…
Shona-Ndebele symbolic ethnic violence in institutions of higher learning
This research studies the discursive ways in which male student graffiti at Midlands State University reveal ethnic tensions between the Shona and Ndebele of Zimbabwe. The study is carried out in a sociopolitical environment in which spaces for openly discussing issues of ethnicity have been greatly limited, especially in conventional media. Any discussion of ethnicity is quickly labelled as fanning tribalism and is therefore suppressed or critic…
A Dialogic Analysis of Audiences’ Interactions on Online Media Sites in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean mainstream media has been profoundly polarised by two significant camps, namely the pro-government and anti-government media. Public opinion has primarily split between the binary ideological alignments of these two camps. The heavily censored political environment in Zimbabwe since the imposition of the Public Order and Security Act 11:17 (and regulated in a multiplicity of overt and covert ways) resulted in political expressive space…
Wakasikirei Satani ? Christian subversion in sungura discourse
The paper explores a unique type of theological discourse, discursively constructed through Zimbabwe’s sungura music that cannot be properly accounted for by existing theoretically definitions of gospel music. It is argued that this brand of religious discourse is a protest one which owes its character to the influence of Traditional African Religions (ATRs) that are practised in the country. The result of this dialogue between aspects of Christi…
Graffiti as a site for cultural literacies in Zimbabwean urban high schools
It is widely believed that education is a socially situated cultural process. Generally, schools are regarded as the key educational institutions. However, education can be formal, non-formal and informal, based on media-driven communicative settings. These types coalesce within formal institutions of learning. This study focuses on the transmission of cultural knowledge in informal spaces such as the bathroom. It argues that graffiti is a medium…
WhatsApp coup jokes and the dialogue on Zimbabwean politics
This article analyses the dialogue stemming from viral WhatsApp jokes on the Zimbabwean coup in November 2017. It argues that coup jokes have created an opportunity to discuss the nature of Zimbabwean politics since 2000. This dialogue, characterised by ambivalence, multiplicity, and open-endedness, provides insights on the political traits that have dominated Zimbabwe since 2000. These are rendered as politics of personality, chimurenga and part…
Graffiti as a site for cultural literacies in Zimbabwean urban high schools
It is widely believed that education is a socially situated cultural process. Generally, schools are regarded as the key educational institutions. However, education can be formal, non-formal and informal, based on media-driven communicative settings. These types coalesce within formal institutions of learning. This study focuses on the transmission of cultural knowledge in informal spaces such as the bathroom. It argues that graffiti is a medium…
Wakasikirei Satani ? Christian subversion in sungura discourse
The paper explores a unique type of theological discourse, discursively constructed through Zimbabwe’s sungura music that cannot be properly accounted for by existing theoretically definitions of gospel music. It is argued that this brand of religious discourse is a protest one which owes its character to the influence of Traditional African Religions (ATRs) that are practised in the country. The result of this dialogue between aspects of Christi…
Graffiti as a site for cultural literacies in Zimbabwean urban high schools
It is widely believed that education is a socially situated cultural process. Generally, schools are regarded as the key educational institutions. However, education can be formal, non-formal and informal, based on media-driven communicative settings. These types coalesce within formal institutions of learning. This study focuses on the transmission of cultural knowledge in informal spaces such as the bathroom. It argues that graffiti is a medium…
Shona-Ndebele symbolic ethnic violence in institutions of higher learning
This research studies the discursive ways in which male student graffiti at Midlands State University reveal ethnic tensions between the Shona and Ndebele of Zimbabwe. The study is carried out in a sociopolitical environment in which spaces for openly discussing issues of ethnicity have been greatly limited, especially in conventional media. Any discussion of ethnicity is quickly labelled as fanning tribalism and is therefore suppressed or critic…
A Dialogic Analysis of Audiences’ Interactions on Online Media Sites in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean mainstream media has been profoundly polarised by two significant camps, namely the pro-government and anti-government media. Public opinion has primarily split between the binary ideological alignments of these two camps. The heavily censored political environment in Zimbabwe since the imposition of the Public Order and Security Act 11:17 (and regulated in a multiplicity of overt and covert ways) resulted in political expressive space…
Endangering the Endangered
The human species is in great danger of extinction due to the novel coronavirus that was first detected in China around December 2019. By March 2021, the world had witnessed over 116million cases, of which 36,223 are Zimbabwean. The disease that the coronavirus stimulates is quite fatal and has seen 2.57million lives succumbing to it, of which 1483 are Zimbabwean, by the same date. No cure has been discovered for it yet, though scientific researc…
“Breaking Taboos”
Humour can function as a protest against bad governance, and citizens often appropriate digital humour to speak back to power. The article analyses 20 satirical memes and texts shared on Facebook and WhatsApp after the government of Zimbabwe introduced bond notes in 2016. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe indicated that the bond notes would be pegged equally against the US dollar. However, the Zimbabwean populace did not embrace the idea of the bond n…
The Influence of Frames of Reference in Understanding Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
The study unpacks some of the frames of reference that people use to explain and understand Covid-19 in Zimbabwe. The study used a qualitative research approach to explore participants’ frames of reference. A phenomenological research design was adopted. Purposive sampling was used to select research participants, whilst two online focus group discussions were held. Data were collected through the use of semi-structured interview questions, which…
WhatsApp coup jokes and the dialogue on Zimbabwean politics
This article analyses the dialogue stemming from viral WhatsApp jokes on the Zimbabwean coup in November 2017. It argues that coup jokes have created an opportunity to discuss the nature of Zimbabwean politics since 2000. This dialogue, characterised by ambivalence, multiplicity, and open-endedness, provides insights on the political traits that have dominated Zimbabwe since 2000. These are rendered as politics of personality, chimurenga and part…
The discursive construction of blackness on WhatsApp status posts in Zimbabwe
The paper unpacks the discursive construction of black Zimbabwean identities through multimodal WhatsApp status update posts by Zimbabweans on the WhatsApp social media platform. Cognisant that WhatsApp constitutes part of the public sphere where public discourses are generated and shaped, it explores and interrogates how status update content provoke and inspire identity discourses that perpetuate unequal racial relations that we argue are roote…
Dialoguing hunger and survival during the Zimbabwe Covid-19 lockdowns through WhatsApp jokes
This article analyses the dialogue on hunger and survival issues emanating from viral COVID-19-induced jokes circulated via WhatsApp during Zimbabwe’s consecutive lockdowns. The lockdowns were part of public health measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. They, however, disrupted the socio-economic activities in a largely informal economy. The jokes offer discursive spaces for ordinary people to engage with new socio-economic realities brought to…
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Dialogic (3 works)