National Healing, Integration and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe
This book brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on national healing, integration, and reconciliation in Zimbabwe.
Taking into account the complex nature of healing across moral, political, economic, cultural, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of communities and the nation, the chapters discuss approaches, disparities, tensions, and solutions to healing and reconciliation within a multidisciplinary framework. Arguing that Zimbabwes development agenda is severely compromised by the dominance of violence and militancy, the contributors analyse the challenges, possibilities and opportunities for national healing.
This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, conflict and reconciliation, and development studies.
Ezra Chitando serves as a professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Classics, and Philosophy at the University of Zimbabwe and a theology consultant on HIV and AIDS for the World Council of Churches. He has published extensively on religion and HIV, gender, masculinity, politics, and methodology.
Kelvin Chikonzo is a senior lecturer who has researched intensively on protest theatre in Zimbabwe. He is interested in studying various aspects of democracy protest theatre as a way of ensuring that protest theatre does not replicate the oppression that it purports to fight against in terms of multi-vocalism, mediation of agency and liberating the spectator.
Nehemiah Chivandikwa is an Associate Professor at the University of Zimbabwe. He teaches theatre and development communication and applied media technologies. His research interests are in performance and body politics, gender, disability, applied theatre performances and media. He has published several articles in both regional and international journals in these areas. Prof Chivandikwa has been involved in several projects in applied theatre on gender, political violence, disability and rural and urban development. His latest 2017 publications are: Subverting Ableist Discourse as an Exercise in Precarity in the Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 35(3):pp.6175 and Political- Ethical Approach to Disability in Theatre for Development Context in Applied Theatre Research, 5(2):8397.
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National Healing, Integration and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe
Edited by Ezra Chitando, Kelvin Chikonzo and Nehemiah Chivandikwa
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Contents
Ezra Chitando, Kelvin Chikonzo, and Nehemiah Chivandikwa
Teddy Mungwari and Ephraim Vhutuza
David Kaulemu
Mediel Hove and Darlington Mutanda
Tobias Marevesa
Everisto Benyera
Joram Tarusarira
Francis Matambirofa
Liveson Tatira
Ruth Makumbirofa, Kelvin Chikonzo, and Nehemiah Chivandikwa
Nehemiah Chivandikwa, KeLvin Chikonzo, and Tafadzwa Mlenga
Diana Jeater
Stanley Tsarwe and Wellington Gadzikwa
Josephine Muganiwa
Ruby Magosvongwe
Mediel Hove and Enock Ndawana
Kudzai Biri
Ezra Chitando and Nisbert T. Taringa
SAMSON MHIZHA, TINASHE MUROMO, AND PATRICK CHIRORO
Nisbert Taisekwa Taringa
Everisto Benyera is an Associate professor of African Politics in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in African Politics from the same university. He is a decolonial scholar and researches on transitional justice focusing on traditional and non-state reconciliation, peacebuilding and healing process. He is the author of 21 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His two edited books are: Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Namibia and Zimbabwe (Rowman and Littlefield: New York) and Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths (Springer: Cham).
Kudzai Biri is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy at the University of Zimbabwe. She has published widely in the areas of Pentecostalism, African Traditional Religions, gender, politics and disability. In 2018 she was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, University of Bamberg, Germany.
Kelvin Chikonzo is a senior lecturer who has researched intensively on protest theatre in Zimbabwe. He is interested in studying various aspects of democracy protest theatre as a way of ensuring that protest theatre does not replicate the oppression that it purports to fight against in terms of multi-vocalism, mediation of agency and liberating the spectator.
