The trope of violence, in its diverse iterations, is recurrent in colonial and postcolonial
African literatures written in French. This chapter is interested in analysing two forms of …

This chapter examines the mediation of the post-Mugabe Zimbabwean crisis through
satirical parody videos circulated on Magamba TV, a YouTube-based platform. This chapter …

This chapter is interested in how there has been a lack of transitional justice in Zimbabwe in
the aftermath of the political disturbances and genocide of the early 1980s. The overarching …

Following the unceremonious removal of the late Robert Gabriel Mugabe in November 2017
from power, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa took over as interim president. During his …

This article applies Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope, in conjunction with a rights-reading
approach, to John Eppel's fiction, with particular reference to Eppel's depiction of middle …

This book investigates the many ways in which contemporary African fiction has reflected on
themes of responsibility and complicity during the postcolonial period. Covering the authors …

Valerie Tagwira's debut novel The Uncertainty of Hope, set in Harare in 2005, depicts the
city on the brink of collapse, characterized by the effects of economic crisis and political …

The present study proposes two distinct yet bidirectionally related forms of legitimation of
state violence: those enacted by the government and those enacted by its citizens. We …

In this study, I reread George Orwell's remarkable text Animal Farm together with Noviolet
Bulawayo's second novel, titled Glory. Orwell's allegoric novel remains astute in its account …

Different political projects and ideological positions are founded upon distinct accounts of
the past, each with their own emphases, silences, and omissions. The case of Zimbabwe …