This chapter starts with the social media dissidence of the Twitter account@ ProfJNMoyo
(830,000 followers) because this example captures most of the salient features of social …

This paper critically explores the use of satire and humour by fast-foods outlets in South
Africa and Zimbabwe to advertise and market their menu through digital media platforms …

Post-2000, Zimbabwe has witnessed a gradual shrinking of communicative space. In its
efforts to control the narrative about the causes of the country's multi-dimensional crisis, the …

The humour of political cartoons is studied in multiple disciplines, and African political
cartoons are no exception to academic scrutiny. Their satire, however, is prone to Western …

This article is the first to reconstruct the contemporary legend that Charles Stewart Parnell
staged his own death in 1891, pending his messianic return. Although the British press …

South Africa remains a dual economy with one of the highest persistent inequality rates in
the world, with a consumption expenditure Gini coefficient of 0.63 (The World Bank, 2021) …

Zimbabwe has since the turn of the millennium continued to face a multifaceted crisis
(Mhiripiri and Ureke, 2019; Chiumbu and Musemwa, 2012) spanning from the Mugabe era …

This chapter attempts to establish and trace some of dissidence's antecedents and
genealogies—culturally, socially and historically—before closing in the present born-digital …