Mandlenkosi Mpofu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6211190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mandlenkosi Mpofu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mandlenkosi |
| FAMILY NAME | Mpofu |
| SIGNATURE | MPOFU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9655-5681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Memory and Erasure
Music, performance and Zanu-PF’s hegemony in Mugabe’s newly independent Zimbabwe
The premise of this article is that popular music was a critical space for enforcing hegemonic dominance of ZANU-PF during the first decade of its rule, as perhaps in other eras. When it assumed power in 1980, ZANU-PF did not hide its intention to establish single-party rule, which was then popular across Africa. Top among competing priorities for the new regime was removing all centres of political opposition or resistance. But PF-ZAPU, ZANU-PF’…
Mediating a regime in crisis
Political scandals are rarely the focus of major academic research in Zimbabwe where tight control of the dominant state media by the ruling party ensures that scandals involving senior government officials are suppressed. Informed by Altheide and Snow’s media logic and Thompson’s concept of mediated political scandals, this article uses framing analysis to examine The Herald’s logic behind exposing the ZIMDEF scandal involving former Minister of…
Theatre as alternative media in Zimbabwe
Popular theatre occupies a special space in Matabeleland because it is situated in the everyday lives of ordinary people, and is able to articulate their experiences and to create spaces for them to ‘speak to power’. In the wake of the Gukurahundi massacres and perceived marginalization of Matabeleland in the 1980s, theatre groups used their plays to probe issues that were shunned by mainstream media. We argue that theatre has been used as part o…
On virtuality and the aesthetics of spectacle
Social networking and the individuated privacy of the virtual space have emerged as new forms of communicative platforms, conflating social identities and free speech for most subaltern communities. While it is accepted that the notion of social networking has always existed as part of oramedia (orality) within most African communities, it has gained more positive value from the grapevine as a notch of communication, while current trends in commu…
Internet Public Spheres, Civil Society Organisations and the State in the Zimbabwean Crisis
This article focuses on the use of e-newsletters to disseminate information and provide a platform for individual bloggers, NGOs, political parties and activists during the Zimbabwean crisis, using the online activist NGO Kubatana.net’s 2010 e-newsletters as an example. The article concludes that the e-newsletters were important for disseminating information, providing spaces for alternative views and facilitating dialogue between various social …
Mediating a regime in crisis
Political scandals are rarely the focus of major academic research in Zimbabwe where tight control of the dominant state media by the ruling party ensures that scandals involving senior government officials are suppressed. Informed by Altheide and Snow’s media logic and Thompson’s concept of mediated political scandals, this article uses framing analysis to examine The Herald’s logic behind exposing the ZIMDEF scandal involving former Minister of…
On virtuality and the aesthetics of spectacle
Social networking and the individuated privacy of the virtual space have emerged as new forms of communicative platforms, conflating social identities and free speech for most subaltern communities. While it is accepted that the notion of social networking has always existed as part of oramedia (orality) within most African communities, it has gained more positive value from the grapevine as a notch of communication, while current trends in commu…
Internet Public Spheres, Civil Society Organisations and the State in the Zimbabwean Crisis
This article focuses on the use of e-newsletters to disseminate information and provide a platform for individual bloggers, NGOs, political parties and activists during the Zimbabwean crisis, using the online activist NGO Kubatana.net’s 2010 e-newsletters as an example. The article concludes that the e-newsletters were important for disseminating information, providing spaces for alternative views and facilitating dialogue between various social …
Theatre as alternative media in Zimbabwe
Popular theatre occupies a special space in Matabeleland because it is situated in the everyday lives of ordinary people, and is able to articulate their experiences and to create spaces for them to ‘speak to power’. In the wake of the Gukurahundi massacres and perceived marginalization of Matabeleland in the 1980s, theatre groups used their plays to probe issues that were shunned by mainstream media. We argue that theatre has been used as part o…
On virtuality and the aesthetics of spectacle
Social networking and the individuated privacy of the virtual space have emerged as new forms of communicative platforms, conflating social identities and free speech for most subaltern communities. While it is accepted that the notion of social networking has always existed as part of oramedia (orality) within most African communities, it has gained more positive value from the grapevine as a notch of communication, while current trends in commu…
Mediating a regime in crisis
Political scandals are rarely the focus of major academic research in Zimbabwe where tight control of the dominant state media by the ruling party ensures that scandals involving senior government officials are suppressed. Informed by Altheide and Snow’s media logic and Thompson’s concept of mediated political scandals, this article uses framing analysis to examine The Herald’s logic behind exposing the ZIMDEF scandal involving former Minister of…
Memory and Erasure
Music, performance and Zanu-PF’s hegemony in Mugabe’s newly independent Zimbabwe
The premise of this article is that popular music was a critical space for enforcing hegemonic dominance of ZANU-PF during the first decade of its rule, as perhaps in other eras. When it assumed power in 1980, ZANU-PF did not hide its intention to establish single-party rule, which was then popular across Africa. Top among competing priorities for the new regime was removing all centres of political opposition or resistance. But PF-ZAPU, ZANU-PF’…
African studies and sociopolitical issues (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Art (2 works)