Terrence Musanga
Biographic Data
| ID | 642203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terrence Musanga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Musanga |
| SIGNATURE | MUSANGA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Midlands State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7773-5860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Zimbabwe’s post-2000 land reform programme, inter-ethnic hierarchies among ‘Black Zimbabweans’ and the potential of resource conflict
This article examines the inter-ethnic hierarchies among ‘Black Zimbabweans’ and the potential of tension and conflict over land in Zimbabwe. The land reform programme executed in 2000, with the intention of restoring land to its ‘rightful’ owners (read blacks/Africans), has accentuated this tension and conflict. However, ‘black Zimbabweans’, irrespective of the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front’s (ZANU-PF) patriotic history and nat…
The depiction of chiramu register and the female voice and communicator in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
This article examines Tsitsi Dangarembga’s depiction of the Chiramu register in Nervous Conditions. The article argues that, in Shona culture, the type of relationship one enjoys in the family determines the register that he/she employs in order to score success in communication. Therefore, as the article argues further, an appreciation of these relationships and registers is critical to our understanding of the politics and power dynamics in Ner…
HIV and Aids, naming and identity in Tendayi Kateketa Westerhof’s Unlucky in Love (2005)
Unlucky in Love (2005) is Tendayi Westerhof’s autobiography chronicling her life experiences as a gender and HIV and AIDS activist. One of the most intriguing features of the Westerhof’s autobiography is her depiction of how she became HIV positive and the strategies she employed to survive and transcend the stigma associated with HIV. This article, thus, explores the depiction of the relationship between HIV and AIDS, naming and the formation of…
Toward the Survival and Wholeness of the African American Community
This article attempts a womanist reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Walker provides a gendered perspective of what it means to be “black,” “ugly,” “poor,” and a “woman” in America. This perspective is ignored in the majority of male-authored African American texts that privilege race and class issues. Being “black,” “poor,” “ugly,” and a “woman,” underscores the complexity of the African American woman’s experience as it condemns African…
HIV/Aids, Gender, and Identity in Phillip Chidavaenzi's The Haunted Trail
This article examines the depiction of the relationship between HIV/AIDS, gender, and identity in Phillip Chidavaenzi's The Haunted Trail (Harare: Longman, 2006). HIV/AIDS is transforming the way we think about femininity, masculinity, and identity in Zimbabwean contemporary society. This transformation has resulted in the production of a new type of femininity that is resilient and seeks to survive HIV/AIDS. Additionally, this type of femininity…
“Ngozi” (Avenging Spirit), Zimbabwean Transnational Migration, and Restorative Justice in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009)
This article explores the nexus between the Zimbabwean Shona concept of “ngozi” (avenging spirit), Zimbabwean transnational migration, and restorative justice in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North. In Shona cosmology, once “ngozi” is committed, it has to be recompensed in order for restorative justice to occur between individuals, families, and the community in general. However, failure to appease “ngozi” results in inexplicable misfortunes such as si…
Zimbabwe’s land reform programme, migration and identity in Lawrence Hoba’sThe Trek and Other Stories
Zimbabwe’s land reform programme in 2000 has generated a lot of local, regional and global attention complemented by a surge of historical and sociological analysis of the land question in Zimbabwean society. In addition to this coverage and analysis, the land reform programme also polarised people within and outside the country with some viewing it as a revolutionary and progressive move in the decolonisation of the country. Others, conversely, …
Perspectives of Zimbabwe-China relations in Wallace Chirumiko's 'Made in China' (2012) and NoViolet Bulawayo'sWe Need New Names(2013)
This article offers a literary/textual analysis of the perceptions of ordinary Zimbabweans to Zimbabwe–China relations. It does this through an analysis of examples drawn from Zimbabwe's urban grooves music and literature, namely Wallace Chirumiko's song 'Made in China' and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names. Both texts offer a counter-narrative that contests and subverts the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front's (ZANU PF) 'Look Ea…
Zimbabwean Transnational Migration, (In) Visible Masculinities, and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools
This article examines the effect of the relationship between Zimbabwean transnational migration and gender on the concept of “invisible masculinities” and how the space that would have been evacuated by these “masculinities,” as a direct consequence of the migratory experience, is reorganized or reconfigured in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools. This space, both marital and familial, compels us to reconfigure our conceptualization of masculini…
History, migration and identity in contemporary Zimbabwean biography as reflected in Peter Orner and Annie Holmes’ (2010)Hope Deferred
This article endeavours to establish the relationship between history, migration and identity in contemporary Zimbabwean biography as reflected in Peter Orner and Annie Holmes’ Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives. History is conceptualised as a heterogeneous discourse constitutive of conflictual and competing personal and public histories that contest for hegemony in defining individual and national identities. Through the power of narr…
Intra-Urban Mobilities and the Depiction of the City in Zimbabwean Fiction as Reflected in Valerie Tagwira’s Uncertainty of Hope (2006)
This article explores intra-urban mobilities and the depiction of the city in contemporary Zimbabwean literature as reflected in Valerie Tagwira’s Uncertainty of Hope. It shall be argued that intra-urban mobilities are closely related to the depiction of the city as a heterogeneous space that is unevenly constituted. This unevenness is influenced by economic and political factors and translates into the realm of the social and symbolic as some sp…
White Zimbabwean farmers’ unstable mobilities, identity and history in Douglas Rogers’ The last resort
White displacement as a consequence of Zimbabwe's land reform programme resulted in white economic and social mobilities and the need to reconfigure identities and preserve white Zimbabwean farmers’ history and memory as reflected in Douglas Rogers’ The last resort: A memoir of Zimbabwe (2009). This dislocation provokes a fear of loss of memory and history in the white Zimbabwean community and therefore triggers a desire to preserve history and m…
Supra-masculinities and supra-femininities in Solomon Mutsvairo'sChaminuka
This essay is a contribution towards gaining conceptual clarity with regard to the task of understanding masculinities and femininities, especially in the Zimbabwean Shona context. Our argument is that masculinities and femininities in Zimbabwean Shona society have what we term in this essay a ‘supra’ dimension that is spiritual, and it is this supra dimension that we submit has not been given attention in critical discourses on masculinities and…
Destabilizing and Subverting Patriarchal and Eurocentric Notions of Time
This article explores the notion of time as conceptualized and articulated in Chenjerai Hove’s Bones and Ancestors. These texts, as this article sets out to demonstrate, are characterized by a deliberate attempt to subvert and transcend the Eurocentric and patriarchal notions of time as premised and predicated on linearity and progression. The authors argue, as is reflected in the texts, that these notions of time are a simplistic model and do no…
Perspectives of Zimbabwe-China relations in Wallace Chirumiko's 'Made in China' (2012) and NoViolet Bulawayo'sWe Need New Names(2013)
This article offers a literary/textual analysis of the perceptions of ordinary Zimbabweans to Zimbabwe–China relations. It does this through an analysis of examples drawn from Zimbabwe's urban grooves music and literature, namely Wallace Chirumiko's song 'Made in China' and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names. Both texts offer a counter-narrative that contests and subverts the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front's (ZANU PF) 'Look Ea…
Zimbabwe’s land reform programme, migration and identity in Lawrence Hoba’sThe Trek and Other Stories
Zimbabwe’s land reform programme in 2000 has generated a lot of local, regional and global attention complemented by a surge of historical and sociological analysis of the land question in Zimbabwean society. In addition to this coverage and analysis, the land reform programme also polarised people within and outside the country with some viewing it as a revolutionary and progressive move in the decolonisation of the country. Others, conversely, …
White Zimbabwean farmers’ unstable mobilities, identity and history in Douglas Rogers’ The last resort
White displacement as a consequence of Zimbabwe's land reform programme resulted in white economic and social mobilities and the need to reconfigure identities and preserve white Zimbabwean farmers’ history and memory as reflected in Douglas Rogers’ The last resort: A memoir of Zimbabwe (2009). This dislocation provokes a fear of loss of memory and history in the white Zimbabwean community and therefore triggers a desire to preserve history and m…
Destabilizing and Subverting Patriarchal and Eurocentric Notions of Time
This article explores the notion of time as conceptualized and articulated in Chenjerai Hove’s Bones and Ancestors. These texts, as this article sets out to demonstrate, are characterized by a deliberate attempt to subvert and transcend the Eurocentric and patriarchal notions of time as premised and predicated on linearity and progression. The authors argue, as is reflected in the texts, that these notions of time are a simplistic model and do no…
Destabilizing and Subverting Patriarchal and Eurocentric Notions of Time
This article explores the notion of time as conceptualized and articulated in Chenjerai Hove’s Bones and Ancestors. These texts, as this article sets out to demonstrate, are characterized by a deliberate attempt to subvert and transcend the Eurocentric and patriarchal notions of time as premised and predicated on linearity and progression. The authors argue, as is reflected in the texts, that these notions of time are a simplistic model and do no…
Supra-masculinities and supra-femininities in Solomon Mutsvairo'sChaminuka
This essay is a contribution towards gaining conceptual clarity with regard to the task of understanding masculinities and femininities, especially in the Zimbabwean Shona context. Our argument is that masculinities and femininities in Zimbabwean Shona society have what we term in this essay a ‘supra’ dimension that is spiritual, and it is this supra dimension that we submit has not been given attention in critical discourses on masculinities and…
Intra-Urban Mobilities and the Depiction of the City in Zimbabwean Fiction as Reflected in Valerie Tagwira’s Uncertainty of Hope (2006)
This article explores intra-urban mobilities and the depiction of the city in contemporary Zimbabwean literature as reflected in Valerie Tagwira’s Uncertainty of Hope. It shall be argued that intra-urban mobilities are closely related to the depiction of the city as a heterogeneous space that is unevenly constituted. This unevenness is influenced by economic and political factors and translates into the realm of the social and symbolic as some sp…
White Zimbabwean farmers’ unstable mobilities, identity and history in Douglas Rogers’ The last resort
White displacement as a consequence of Zimbabwe's land reform programme resulted in white economic and social mobilities and the need to reconfigure identities and preserve white Zimbabwean farmers’ history and memory as reflected in Douglas Rogers’ The last resort: A memoir of Zimbabwe (2009). This dislocation provokes a fear of loss of memory and history in the white Zimbabwean community and therefore triggers a desire to preserve history and m…
Zimbabwean Transnational Migration, (In) Visible Masculinities, and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools
This article examines the effect of the relationship between Zimbabwean transnational migration and gender on the concept of “invisible masculinities” and how the space that would have been evacuated by these “masculinities,” as a direct consequence of the migratory experience, is reorganized or reconfigured in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools. This space, both marital and familial, compels us to reconfigure our conceptualization of masculini…
History, migration and identity in contemporary Zimbabwean biography as reflected in Peter Orner and Annie Holmes’ (2010)Hope Deferred
This article endeavours to establish the relationship between history, migration and identity in contemporary Zimbabwean biography as reflected in Peter Orner and Annie Holmes’ Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives. History is conceptualised as a heterogeneous discourse constitutive of conflictual and competing personal and public histories that contest for hegemony in defining individual and national identities. Through the power of narr…
“Ngozi” (Avenging Spirit), Zimbabwean Transnational Migration, and Restorative Justice in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009)
This article explores the nexus between the Zimbabwean Shona concept of “ngozi” (avenging spirit), Zimbabwean transnational migration, and restorative justice in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North. In Shona cosmology, once “ngozi” is committed, it has to be recompensed in order for restorative justice to occur between individuals, families, and the community in general. However, failure to appease “ngozi” results in inexplicable misfortunes such as si…
Zimbabwe’s land reform programme, migration and identity in Lawrence Hoba’sThe Trek and Other Stories
Zimbabwe’s land reform programme in 2000 has generated a lot of local, regional and global attention complemented by a surge of historical and sociological analysis of the land question in Zimbabwean society. In addition to this coverage and analysis, the land reform programme also polarised people within and outside the country with some viewing it as a revolutionary and progressive move in the decolonisation of the country. Others, conversely, …
Perspectives of Zimbabwe-China relations in Wallace Chirumiko's 'Made in China' (2012) and NoViolet Bulawayo'sWe Need New Names(2013)
This article offers a literary/textual analysis of the perceptions of ordinary Zimbabweans to Zimbabwe–China relations. It does this through an analysis of examples drawn from Zimbabwe's urban grooves music and literature, namely Wallace Chirumiko's song 'Made in China' and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names. Both texts offer a counter-narrative that contests and subverts the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front's (ZANU PF) 'Look Ea…
Toward the Survival and Wholeness of the African American Community
This article attempts a womanist reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Walker provides a gendered perspective of what it means to be “black,” “ugly,” “poor,” and a “woman” in America. This perspective is ignored in the majority of male-authored African American texts that privilege race and class issues. Being “black,” “poor,” “ugly,” and a “woman,” underscores the complexity of the African American woman’s experience as it condemns African…
HIV/Aids, Gender, and Identity in Phillip Chidavaenzi's The Haunted Trail
This article examines the depiction of the relationship between HIV/AIDS, gender, and identity in Phillip Chidavaenzi's The Haunted Trail (Harare: Longman, 2006). HIV/AIDS is transforming the way we think about femininity, masculinity, and identity in Zimbabwean contemporary society. This transformation has resulted in the production of a new type of femininity that is resilient and seeks to survive HIV/AIDS. Additionally, this type of femininity…
HIV and Aids, naming and identity in Tendayi Kateketa Westerhof’s Unlucky in Love (2005)
Unlucky in Love (2005) is Tendayi Westerhof’s autobiography chronicling her life experiences as a gender and HIV and AIDS activist. One of the most intriguing features of the Westerhof’s autobiography is her depiction of how she became HIV positive and the strategies she employed to survive and transcend the stigma associated with HIV. This article, thus, explores the depiction of the relationship between HIV and AIDS, naming and the formation of…
Zimbabwe’s post-2000 land reform programme, inter-ethnic hierarchies among ‘Black Zimbabweans’ and the potential of resource conflict
This article examines the inter-ethnic hierarchies among ‘Black Zimbabweans’ and the potential of tension and conflict over land in Zimbabwe. The land reform programme executed in 2000, with the intention of restoring land to its ‘rightful’ owners (read blacks/Africans), has accentuated this tension and conflict. However, ‘black Zimbabweans’, irrespective of the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front’s (ZANU-PF) patriotic history and nat…
The depiction of chiramu register and the female voice and communicator in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
This article examines Tsitsi Dangarembga’s depiction of the Chiramu register in Nervous Conditions. The article argues that, in Shona culture, the type of relationship one enjoys in the family determines the register that he/she employs in order to score success in communication. Therefore, as the article argues further, an appreciation of these relationships and registers is critical to our understanding of the politics and power dynamics in Ner…
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Linguistics (4 works)