Reconstituting the cultural geography in Zimbabwe: place renaming in Zimbabwe's 'new dispensation'

Z Mamvura - Geopolitics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Regime changes and power transfers usually engender an extensive reordering of the
cultural geography. Incoming political regimes usually reconfigure commemorative …

The Interaction of Language and Politics: Polysemanticism in the Aphorism 'We Died for This Country, so We Will Rule Zimbabwe Forever'

E Mavengano - Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe, Volume I: The 2023 …, 2023 - Springer
The end of the British colonial rule in Zimbabwe was expected to overcome regimes of
domination and bring about socio-economic justice, public freedoms and democratic …

Patriot, revolutionary and liberator? Representations of Emmerson Mnangagwa in the post-2017 Chief Shumba Hwenje song

T Gwekwerere, J Mambambo… - Journal of Asian …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
While the advent of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 with Robert Mugabe as founding
prime minister was largely received as the best outcome of the liberation struggle of the …

Praising the Croc, Despising Nero: The politics of hero-worshipping leaders through music and speech in Zimbabwe

M Kenneth Takudzwa - Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Music and speech have been utilized to enrich this study phenomenon to unveil the hero-
worshipping in Zimbabwean leadership. The research examined that the post …

Scale, street renaming and the continued visibility of colonial street names in Harare

Z Mamvura, C Pfukwa, DE Mutasa - Nomina Africana: Journal of …, 2020 - journals.co.za
Political transitions usually trigger changes in the cultural landscape because place names
are largely political discourses and indispensable constituent elements of a political …

Tarih, coğrafya ve eğitim araştırmalarında toplumsal bellek konulu makalelerin bibliyometrik analizi

A Karaca, B Akbaba - International Journal of New Approaches in …, 2022 - dergipark.org.tr
Bu araştırmanın amacı toplumsal bellek konusuyla ilgili yayımlanan makalelerin
bibliyometrik analizini ortaya koymaktır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda Web of Science veri …

“By what authority?” The contested politics of urban toponymic inscription in Zimbabwe

Z Mamvura - Urban Geography, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

The toponymic undoing of Grace Mugabe and the G40 narrative in the New Dispensation: A political semiotics exegesis

Z Mamvura, M Mazuruse… - The Zimbabwean Crisis …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Prior to her expulsion from the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF),
a faction allegedly backing Grace Mugabe to succeed Robert Mugabe steered an …

'Who does the Mugabe regime say that I am?'Dissecting the toponymic commemoration of Joshua Nkomo in Zimbabwe's cultural geography

Z Mamvura - African Identities, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Political power is negotiated in the cultural geography when state actors exclude some
names in toponymic commemoration or assign them to less visible places. Places that are …

Politics and the legacy of street renaming in postcolonial Zimbabwe

AR Matamanda, I Chirisa, TN Kanonhuhwa… - Journal of cultural …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The announcement by the government of Zimbabwe on 21 November 2019 that a good
number of streets were to be renamed motivated this study. We argue that the postcolonial …