What are place names? From where do they originate? How are they structured? What do
they signify? How important are they in our life? This groundbreaking book explores these …

Over the past 2 decades, the critical toponymy literature reached a certain level, both
qualitatively and quantitatively, that it is now both possible and necessary to subject the field …

Abstract Like Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa, Zimbabwe was one of the countries that the
imperial mission had targeted to establish as a settler economy. The objective of creating a …

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been
shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and …

This article examines the layered co-existence and simultaneous use of a complex range of
toponyms in the town of Bindura in Zimbabwe. It proposes that the concurrent use of different …

ABSTRACT Street naming in Windhoek, Namibia, traces its political origins to the German
colonial period. While the role of toponymy as a tool for political construction in the …

This qualitative study presents an onomastic perspective on the changing linguistic
landscape of Zimbabwe which resulted from the post-2000 land reforms (also known as the …

In this thesis I use the post-structuralist textual theory of Roland Barthes that is known as 'the
death of the author'in order to explain the politics of street names. Barthes argued that in the …

Naming is a noteworthy cultural practice, not only because of its ability to create a sense of
continuity over time, but also through its capacity for changing and challenging lines of …

Globally urban spaces have historically been centres of struggles and transformation. With
particular reference to selected urban informal settlements in the capital, Harare, the chapter …