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...
ABSTRACT This study is an analysis of auto-biographical narratives reinterpreted as auto-heterobiography to open space to an exploration and interrogation of alterity. Analysis of these narratives operated via postmodernist, postcolonial and philosophical discourses.The problem of narrating traumatized, political and hybrid or cosmopolitan selves was sited as resident in the primordial polytropos of the human experience which exposes narratives as aporetic and incomplete once postured as clos...
SHUKRANI Shukrani za awali ziende kwa Mwenyezi Mungu, muumba wa viumbe vyote, kwa kunisaidia kwa uwezo wake mkubwa kunilinda na kunipa afya katika kipindi chote cha kufanya utafiti huu mpaka ukakamilika. Shukrani nyingine ni kwa msimamizi wangu wa utafiti huu Dkt. Muhammed Seif Khatib kwa kuniongoza, kunishauri na kunipa changamoto mbalimbali za kutafuta taarifa zaidi na zaidi. Mungu mzidishie baraka na kumlinda na mabaya yote ya dunia. Wahadhiri wangu wote kwa kuwa nao pamoja tangu mwanzo w...
SHUKRANI Kwanza kabisa, kabla sijasema neno lolote, napenda nitoe shukrani zangu zisizo na ukomo kwa Mwenyezi Mungu, kwa sababu, Yeye, ndiye Mkuu; na anayepaswa kushukuriwa kwa hatua yoyote ya maisha ya mwanadamu. Ninamshukuru kwa kunijaalia afya njema, kunipa nguvu, uwezo, akili, busara na maarifakatika kipindi chote cha masomo yangu ya uzamili. Nasema kwa unyenyekevu, Mungu ndiye muweza wa kila kitu.
SHUKRANI Kwanza kabisa shukurani za dhati anastahiki Mwenyezi Mungu Mtukufu ambaye ameniwezesha kufanya kazi hii kwa afya njema na nguvu nyingi. Pili, namshukuru kwa dhati mwalimu na msimamizi wangu wa utafiti huu Dkt Elias Manandi Songoyi aliyekubali au aliyejitolea kuwa mlezi na msimamizi wa kazi hii akielewa shida mbalimbali za mwanafunzi/mtoto wake kwa kunielekeza, kuniongoza, kunikosoa na kunishauri hadi kukamilika vyema tasnifu hii. Shukurani nyingine ziwaendee walimu wangu walionisome...
SHUKURANI Awali ya yote, ninamshukuru Mungu wangu mwenyezi kwa kunipa nguvu na kuniwezesha kukamilisha tasnifu hii. Hakika, Mungu ni mwema sana maishani mwangu. Pili, ninawashukuru wasimamizi na walimu wangu, Dkt. Rafiki Y. Sebonde na Prof. John G. Kiango, kwa mwongozo, jitihada na ushauri wao makini vilivyoniwezesha kukamilisha tasnifu hii. Hakuna awezaye kuwalipa ila Mungu pekee. Tatu, ninamshukuru sana mwalimu wangu, Prof. Hermas J.M. Mwansoko, kwa kunijengea msingi imara katika stadi za ...
SHUKRANI Kwanza kabisa ninatoa shukrani zangu za dhati kwa Mwenyezi Mungu ambaye amenijalia uhai, afya ya roho na mwili na ufahamu wa kuniwezesha kufanya kazi hii. Kuna michango na miongozo ya watu mbalimbali walioniwezesha kukamilisha tasnifu hii. Ninawashukuru wote walionisaidia mpaka kufikia hapa. Ningependa niwataje wote, lakini nitawataja baadhi tu ambao michango na miongozo yao imejitokeza zaidi. Dokta Elias M. Songoyi anastahili kupewa kipaumbele miongoni mwa watu walioniwezesha kufan...
SHUKRANI Nianze kwa kumshukuru mwenyezi Mungu mwingi wa rehema na utukufu aliyenipa nguvu, uhai, afya na uvumilivu hata nikaweza kuifanya kazi hii kwa kiwango kinachostahili. Pili, nimshukuru kwa nafasi ya pekee Profesa. Frowin Paul Nyoni, huyu ndiye msimamizi wangu wa utafiti huu. Natambua majukumu mengi na mazito ya kikazi na ya kifamilia aliyonayo lakini alichukua na alitumia muda wake mwingi pia katika kuisoma na kutoa mchango wake ili kuleta ufanisi wa kazi hii, tangia tulipoianza katik...
SHUKRANI Kwanza kabisa, napenda kumshukuru Mwenyezi Mungu kwa kunijaalia nguvu, uzima, afya njema na kuniwezesha kuifikisha kazi hii katika hatua hii. Pili, shukrani zangu za pekee zimwendee msimamizi wangu, Dkt. Muhammed Seif Khatib, ambaye amekuwa nami bega kwa bega katika kunishauri, kunikosoa, kutoa mwongozo na mapendekezo ili kuhakikisha kazi hii inafanyika na kukamilika. Asante sana na Mungu akubariki. Aidha, nawashukuru wahadhiri wangu Dkt. Athuman Ponera, Dkt. Rafiki Sebonde na Dkt. ...
Abstract Oshiwambo, a Bantu language spoken in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola, like other languages in contact, has adapted foreign words from other languages to meet the needs of its daily life vocabularies and activities. This thesis is based on the hypothesis that words borrowed from other languages, especially European languages, into Oshiwambo, are phonologically and morphologically modified to fit the Oshiwambo speech system. The data were collected from school textbooks, daily c...