ABSTRACT Researchers and others involved in the research enterprise from 12 African countries met with those working in ethics and oversight in the United States as part of an effort to develop research ethics capacity. Drawing on a wealth of experience among participants, discussions at the meeting revealed five categories of issues that, warrant careful attention by those engaged in similar efforts as well as international policy makers and those charged with oversight of research.(1) Princ...
Sexuality in the African society is a serious and an embarrassing issue and it is not supposed to be discussed in the open. It is a taboo to utter taboed words or the act of sex. Euphemisms play a great role in the way people view issues and the way they construct reality in their mind. They help to reduce the impact of the taboed words that we use. Euphemisms are mostly used and are of different types. Connect is a program that uses different types of euphemisms, but we do not know the ...
ABSTRACT Diagnosis in Ifá therapeutic practice makes a distinction between àìsàn ara(physical disease) - conditions that are diagnosable and treatable, and àmódi (somatoform disorders) - conditions that are not diagnosable and treatable using Western medicine. Studies in Ifá therapeutic practice have placed emphasis on àìsàn ara, while the diagnosis and treatment of àmódi have not been adequately addressed. This study, therefore, examines how àmódi is diagnosed and treated in Y...
INTRODUCTION When I grow up I’d like to be a dog... (A little girl in a Warsaw Ghetto) The muse as endangered specie In their book, Extreme Situations. ■.. David Craig and Michael Egan write, detailing the behavior of literature in the interwar years: “In the ghetto in Warsaw in 1914, Ludwik Hirszfeld asked a little girl, ‘What would you like to be.’ She answered, ‘A dog, because the sentries like dogs’.” Literature continues to recount and transform experiences, such as has...
ABSTRACT The study focuses on the shapes of buildings, decorative motifs and their cosmological underpinnings. The symbols are so engrained into a people‟s culture that when people see these symbols they do not get the messages infused on the symbols. The thrust of this study is to unpack the cosmogonies, worldview and philosophy of life embedded on the designs and decorative motifs executed on houses in Matobo district. The study is qualitative and relied on interviews, observations and pi...
Abstract This study is in the field of culture and counseling studies. The main focus of the study is on the prospects and challenges of cross cultural counseling at tertiary learning institutions. The research was informed by the culture relativism theory. The research was given impetus by the cultural diversity at the Midlands State University and how it causes challenges to counseling. The researcher discovered that there are challenges that are associated with cross cultural counseling in...
Abstract The study is given impetus by the idea that there are conflicting statements surrounding the formulation and implementation of the 2007 National Culture Policy of Zimbabwe. The study reviews the 2007 National Culture Policy of Zimbabwe document, inorder to expose the challenges in the formulation and implementation of the policy so as to map the way forward. The study is guided by the by Neo Marxist Critique theory of hegemony and ideology. The theories are important in this study b...
ABSTRACT State-sponsored electoral violence targeting opposition political party supporters prior to and in the aftermath of elections remains a recurring phenomenon in post-independence Zimbabwe. Significant literature shows that the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party are the main engineers and beneficiaries of this culture of electoral violence. Much scholarly work has focused on the violent side of Zimbabwe’s electoral contests. This paper, however, f...
ABSTRACT The Shangwe under Chireya were not the first to settle on the Mufungabutsi plateau. The original Shangwe on the Mapfungabutsi plateau were the Karanga under Nyamusasa, Mubvuma,Mufunga, Mupare and Manyowi. According to oral traditions Nyamusasa was the paramount ruler while Mubvuma, Mufunga, Mupare and Manyowi were his sub rulers. These were the first to adopt the term Shangwe. Chireya and his people established themselves on the Mapfungabusi Plateau after conquering the local inhabit...
ABSTRACT This study is in the field of cultural studies and is on the values celebrated by the Shangani people in komba songs in the post-independence Zimbabwe. The study employs different data collection instruments like interviews and observation methods to gather much needed data in the compilation of this research. Qualitative research design is used in this study because it best suits in the field of social studies. The case study of Mwenezi has been used as the main point of data colle...
ABSTRACT Schools in Khami District have not been spared from the influence of loan words in the teaching of the Ndebele language. The researcher focused on the impact of loan words in the teaching of Ndebele language in the selected Khami District Schools of Bulawayo Province .The Schools were Dumezweni Primary School, Godlwayo Primary School and Ngwalongwalo Primary School. The target population comprised of the heads of the schools , teachers and grade 7 pupils in selected Khami District S...
ABSTRACT This research sought to find out the extent to which polygamy influences the pupils in their academic achievement in Bubi District. The researcher employed the descriptive survey design method. Data was collected through the use of questionnaires for pupils and for teachers and an interview schedule for School Heads and senior teachers. The population was made up of five secondary schools in Bubi district. The sample comprised of thirty pupils, (six pupils from each school), twenty ...
Abstract This study focuses on the crisis of masculinity during Zimbabwe‟s post year 2000 socioeconomic and political degeneration. Through a masculinist re-reading of Tagwira‟s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006), Chikwava‟s Harare North (2010) and Nyota et al‟s Hunting in Foreign Lands (2010) I seek to show the difficulties men face in sustaining the normative masculine roles as providers and protectors of families, communities and the nation within a context of political insecurity, jo...
ABSTRACT The research focuses on an Afrocentric muse on Sis Noe‘s blogspot in ‗counseling‘ youths on courtship, marriage and sexual matters in Sunday News. It explores how relevant is Sis Noe‘s ‗counseling‘ role on youths as far as the handling of courtship, marriage and sexual matters is concerned within the African cultural matrix. As such, this study is largely informed by the traditional way of counseling which is rooted in the fecund African philosophy of life in dealing with...
ABSTRACT The research focuses on the transformation of ‘Imbube’ music in Zimbabwe. It interrogates the role and value of the transformation of ‘Imbube’ music in Bulawayo. The study is largely qualitative but it also employs some quantitative techniques. Similarly the study uses data collection methods such as structured and unstructured interviews, questionnaires, focus group discussions and document analysis in collecting data from ‘Imbube’ groups, audiences and academics. The Af...