Regime changes and power transfers usually engender an extensive reordering of the
cultural geography. Incoming political regimes usually reconfigure commemorative …

This article explores the contest over the naming of urban landscapes in Zimbabwe. The
analysis unfolds from the realization that urban landscapes are significant in naturalizing …

This research develops a new framework through which to understand vernacular de-
commemoration, as one aspect of bottom-up reckoning with the past through material …

In the recent past, the world, with particular mention of the African continent, has witnessed a
mass of protests, mostly by student movements. Among other things, they demanded the …

This chapter examines the entanglement of colonial toponymy and power in colonial
Zimbabwe's capital city. It appreciates that there was an interconnectedness of place …

This thesis analyses the symbolic changes in the expression of white Rhodesian identity
from the arrival of the settlers in 1890 and subsequent establishment of the Colony until the …

Globally, many scholars in toponymic studies are looking at naming and renaming from a
critical point of view. Subsequently, there are many studies that interrogate place-naming …

Names are very significant in people's lives for they reveal historical, social and cultural
ideologies of a people. Place names can be said to be an under-utilized resource in …