Owen Seda
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Seda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Seda |
| SIGNATURE | SEDA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tshwane University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9056-2979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Musical arts and the Karanga world-view
Music-making among Indigenous peoples (First Peoples or First Nations) is often framed by traditional identities and world-views that are unique to the people and have stood the test of time. The creation of music and dance arts among the Indigenous Karanga people of Zimbabwe is informed by epistemes that date back to pre-colonial times. In this article, we argue that despite the centrality of Indigenous world-views in the making of music, studie…
Occupational Health and Safety concerns within the live events industry at selected venues in Gaborone, Botswana
This paper investigates potential hazards and health and safety risks in the live events industry in the city of Gaborone, Botswana. The study borrows from Charles Sanders Peirce’s (1995) philosophical pragmatism and John Stuart Mill’s (1879) utilitarianism to investigate potential hazards and health and safety risks in the city of Gaborone’s growing live events industry and how the risks could be mitigated. Using a fieldwork investigation conduc…
Shifting sands of the past and the present in drama of the New South Africa
The experimental pedigree of South African drama of the anti-apartheid period requires no introduction. This pedigree was established during the years of anti-apartheid playwriting of the 1970s and 80s when South Africa's iniquitous politics of race relations was put under the spotlight on local and world stages. This was achieved through the work of playwrights such as Mbongeni Ngema, Percy Mtwa, Athol Fugard and Matsemela Manaka, among others. …
Transgressive marginalities in youth pop culture
In the last two decades, Zimbabwe has faced a series of intractable political and socio-economic crises, resulting in abject economic collapse, stratospheric levels of inflation and massive youth unemployment. The country’s youth have responded to these endless crises through creative artistic expression via music and satirical videos, which are often circulated on social media platforms. This cultural activism by Zimbabwean youth is indicative o…
Hybrid ‘Authenticities’ in youth popular culture
The professional stage act of one of South Africa’s newest musical prodigies, Sho Madjozi, may be analysed as a quintessential Afropolitan example of the innovative and hybrid combination of music, costume, and dance in urban youth popular culture in Africa. This paper analyses the dynamic intersection between costume, music, and dance, presenting it as a crucial site where urban youth popular culture can reimagine tradition, while simultaneously…
Immobile Cabmen and Single-track Railroads
August Wilson’s celebrated ten-play cycle in which he focuses on the African American condition during the twentieth century has been hailed for the way the playwright grapples with issues of history and identity. This paper adopts aspects of the New Mobilities Paradigm (NMP) as it carries forward the theme of alienation, confusion and despair in Wilson’s plays. It argues that Jitney and Two Trains Running deploy highly deceptive cause-to-effect …
Cula Mzansi
This article outlines a critical analysis of two of a series of three operas that were produced by Gauteng Opera, South Africa, and presented at the Soweto Theatre in 2016 under the generic title of Cula Mzansi (which means “Sing South Africa”). The three operas were Bongani Ndodana-Breen's Hani, Peter Klatzow's Words from a Broken String, and Martin Watt's Tronkvoël, with the first two being the subject of the current analysis. The authors argue…
The Rhetoric of Shimon Wincelberg’s Resort ‘76 and the Aesthetics of Atrocity in Drama of the Holocaust
The question of whether or not it is proper to create fictionalised works of art out of traumatic episodes of human history such as the Nazi Holocaust of the 2nd World or the Rwandan genocide of 1994 is one which continues to trouble mankind.This dilemma was famously posed by Theodor Adorno (1965) and Lawrence Langer (1975) when they questioned the potential dangers and the morality of “re-victimising the victim” (Hove 2015) through the productio…
Ambivalent Narratives of Traditional African Womanhood as Normalising Discourse in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost
Feminist critics of African literature have observed that the domination of African literary outputs by male writers has led to romanticised and negative portrayals of the female character in contemporary African literature. Male writers have been accused (and often rightly so) of valorising and projecting the female character as not only docile and passive, but largely dependent on menfolk for her basic sustenance and survival (Ajayi 1997; Nfah-…
Power dynamics in applied theatre
One of the central tenets in applied theatre is the ability to confront issues of ‘power’ and ‘powerlessness’. Indeed, success or lack thereof in applied theatre projects is often adjudged against the ability or the extent to which these projects are, or have been able to ‘empower’ the ‘powerless’. In this paper we seek to examine the extent to which, in spite of the traditional tensions between ‘power’ and ‘powerlessness’, the power of the facil…
Theatre in Combat with Violence. The University of Zimbabwe Department of Theatre Arts and Amani Trust Popular Travelling Theatre Project on Political Violence and Torture – Some Basic and Non-Basic C…
African Theatre 9
The Fourth Dimension. Dambudzo Marechera as a Dramatist – An Analysis of Two Plays
A Response to Hazel Barnes’ ‘Ihlanzi Ishelwe Amanzi — As Fish Out of Water
(2000). A Response to Hazel Barnes’ ‘Ihlanzi Ishelwe Amanzi — As Fish Out of Water: Finding authentic voices in a multicultural student production’ (RIDE 4.2) Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 95-97
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A Response to Hazel Barnes’ ‘Ihlanzi Ishelwe Amanzi — As Fish Out of Water
(2000). A Response to Hazel Barnes’ ‘Ihlanzi Ishelwe Amanzi — As Fish Out of Water: Finding authentic voices in a multicultural student production’ (RIDE 4.2) Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 95-97
The Fourth Dimension. Dambudzo Marechera as a Dramatist – An Analysis of Two Plays
African Theatre 9
Theatre in Combat with Violence. The University of Zimbabwe Department of Theatre Arts and Amani Trust Popular Travelling Theatre Project on Political Violence and Torture – Some Basic and Non-Basic C…
Power dynamics in applied theatre
One of the central tenets in applied theatre is the ability to confront issues of ‘power’ and ‘powerlessness’. Indeed, success or lack thereof in applied theatre projects is often adjudged against the ability or the extent to which these projects are, or have been able to ‘empower’ the ‘powerless’. In this paper we seek to examine the extent to which, in spite of the traditional tensions between ‘power’ and ‘powerlessness’, the power of the facil…
Ambivalent Narratives of Traditional African Womanhood as Normalising Discourse in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost
Feminist critics of African literature have observed that the domination of African literary outputs by male writers has led to romanticised and negative portrayals of the female character in contemporary African literature. Male writers have been accused (and often rightly so) of valorising and projecting the female character as not only docile and passive, but largely dependent on menfolk for her basic sustenance and survival (Ajayi 1997; Nfah-…
Cula Mzansi
This article outlines a critical analysis of two of a series of three operas that were produced by Gauteng Opera, South Africa, and presented at the Soweto Theatre in 2016 under the generic title of Cula Mzansi (which means “Sing South Africa”). The three operas were Bongani Ndodana-Breen's Hani, Peter Klatzow's Words from a Broken String, and Martin Watt's Tronkvoël, with the first two being the subject of the current analysis. The authors argue…
The Rhetoric of Shimon Wincelberg’s Resort ‘76 and the Aesthetics of Atrocity in Drama of the Holocaust
The question of whether or not it is proper to create fictionalised works of art out of traumatic episodes of human history such as the Nazi Holocaust of the 2nd World or the Rwandan genocide of 1994 is one which continues to trouble mankind.This dilemma was famously posed by Theodor Adorno (1965) and Lawrence Langer (1975) when they questioned the potential dangers and the morality of “re-victimising the victim” (Hove 2015) through the productio…
Occupational Health and Safety concerns within the live events industry at selected venues in Gaborone, Botswana
This paper investigates potential hazards and health and safety risks in the live events industry in the city of Gaborone, Botswana. The study borrows from Charles Sanders Peirce’s (1995) philosophical pragmatism and John Stuart Mill’s (1879) utilitarianism to investigate potential hazards and health and safety risks in the city of Gaborone’s growing live events industry and how the risks could be mitigated. Using a fieldwork investigation conduc…
Shifting sands of the past and the present in drama of the New South Africa
The experimental pedigree of South African drama of the anti-apartheid period requires no introduction. This pedigree was established during the years of anti-apartheid playwriting of the 1970s and 80s when South Africa's iniquitous politics of race relations was put under the spotlight on local and world stages. This was achieved through the work of playwrights such as Mbongeni Ngema, Percy Mtwa, Athol Fugard and Matsemela Manaka, among others. …
Transgressive marginalities in youth pop culture
In the last two decades, Zimbabwe has faced a series of intractable political and socio-economic crises, resulting in abject economic collapse, stratospheric levels of inflation and massive youth unemployment. The country’s youth have responded to these endless crises through creative artistic expression via music and satirical videos, which are often circulated on social media platforms. This cultural activism by Zimbabwean youth is indicative o…
Hybrid ‘Authenticities’ in youth popular culture
The professional stage act of one of South Africa’s newest musical prodigies, Sho Madjozi, may be analysed as a quintessential Afropolitan example of the innovative and hybrid combination of music, costume, and dance in urban youth popular culture in Africa. This paper analyses the dynamic intersection between costume, music, and dance, presenting it as a crucial site where urban youth popular culture can reimagine tradition, while simultaneously…
Immobile Cabmen and Single-track Railroads
August Wilson’s celebrated ten-play cycle in which he focuses on the African American condition during the twentieth century has been hailed for the way the playwright grapples with issues of history and identity. This paper adopts aspects of the New Mobilities Paradigm (NMP) as it carries forward the theme of alienation, confusion and despair in Wilson’s plays. It argues that Jitney and Two Trains Running deploy highly deceptive cause-to-effect …
Musical arts and the Karanga world-view
Music-making among Indigenous peoples (First Peoples or First Nations) is often framed by traditional identities and world-views that are unique to the people and have stood the test of time. The creation of music and dance arts among the Indigenous Karanga people of Zimbabwe is informed by epistemes that date back to pre-colonial times. In this article, we argue that despite the centrality of Indigenous world-views in the making of music, studie…
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