This book is concerned with the role that communication-understood as including both the
factual and fictional mass media as well as the performative and visual arts-can play in post …

This article offers a new conceptual and theoretical model for researching music-based
peacebuilding, an emerging interdisciplinary field that is characterised by heterogeneity of …

This book is on the re-imagination of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and practices in
21st century Africa. Framed from an anti-colonial perspective, the book critically interrogates …

This chapter focuses on the transformative capacity of communication. It argues that the
achievement of civil and peaceful cooperation with former enemies as co-citizens relies (in …

Despite the fact that young people are critical actors in, and significantly impacted by conflict,
often times their expertise and insight is overlooked and undervalued on the basis on their …

Abstract On 14 November 2019, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation 'banned'and
suppressed the playing of Dembo's song 'Dambudzo Wandinetsa'(2006). The question …

The chapter defers to the general principles of the Kenyan Government's National Policy on
Culture and Heritage (2010), this study foregrounds the important but often overlooked …

The chapter focuses on a traditional community development practice in Zimbabwe known
as nhimbe or ilima among the Shona and Ndebele people respective. The main theme of …

This book was written in the most unusual of times. My deepest gratitude goes to my 'no
matter what'family and friends, near and far, who—I hope—know how much they matter to …