Papers by REGGEMORE MARONGEDZE
Journal of Asian and African Studies
While the advent of Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980 with Robert Mugabe as founding prime minister... more 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 1970s and as the foundation upon which a prosperous nation could be built, the euphoria did not last long. Over the years, Mugabe’s rule became increasingly authoritarian to the extent that his ouster by Emmerson Mnangagwa through the coup of November 2017 would momentarily occasion a new sense of hope which the latter’s regime quickly appropriated to configure itself as Zimbabwe’s ‘Second Republic’/‘New Dispensation’. These identities are pervasive in multiple state-centric spaces that are burdened with the responsibility to frame both Mugabe’s removal from office and his replacement by Mnangagwa’s as inexorable. However, it is in the post-2017 Chief Shumba Hwenje song that ‘Second Republic’/‘New Dispensation’ identities have more traction as tropes of eventual political transition in Zimbabwe. This article util...
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The Life and Music of Oliver Mtukudzi
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The contemporary Zimbabwean society has created a paradox in which the man is trapped between cul... more The contemporary Zimbabwean society has created a paradox in which the man is trapped between cultural expectations and the policy impositions inspired by Western feministic discourses. The gendering dichotomies between cultural expectations and policy stipulations are that the earlier identifies a status by duties and responsibilities as defined by kinship while the latter is recognised by the biological setup and as prescribed by 'rights'. The impact of the contradictions has constricted the men's place in various circles, further burdening him with inescapable duties and responsibilities while subtracting a woman's obligations in line with prescriptions of Western defined rights. This paper argues that the current situation obtaining in Zimbabwe has made masculinity a crime and decriminalises women whilst promoting their empowerment through Western lenses. This creates an imbalance in gender relations at the end, rather than developing them for the larger good. It is necessary to interrogate why, in the current gender matrix of equality, women are given 'special preference' compared to men. While the Western empowerment drive elevates the woman to a position of being equal to men, it ignores the old-aged complementary African cultural conception of male and female relations. The paper shows the contradiction of expectations between the two sexes as informed by conflicting positions between culture and policy in Zimbabwe. It foregrounds the African conceptualisation of gender before the adulteration by colonialism among other forces. The article brings to the spotlight that theories can either be beneficial or destructive depending on how they are applied. Feminism is being applied out of context in Africa as it erases the men and women's relationships which were reflective of mutual and complementary responsibility. Therefore, the paper analyses the deep-seated contradictions between cultural expectations and policy stipulations on gender relations at marriage, family and societal levels.
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ZAMBEZIA: The Journal of Humanities , 2019
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UZP, 2018
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UZP, 2018
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West African Journal of Musical Arts Education (WAJMAE), 2016
It is envisaged that music influences emotions, but little attention has been given to understand... more It is envisaged that music influences emotions, but little attention has been given to understanding how it affects emotion regulation in driving accidents. To the music therapist, an understanding of this phenomenon has therapeutic implications for a variety of clinical populations that find it a challenge to regulate and manage their emotional experiences. Music instructive therapy provides avenues for communication that help those who find it difficult to express themselves in deeds. This paper provides an analysis of the instructive music therapy which Charles Charamba, a musician, offers to Zimbabwean drivers to combat the menace of driving accidents. It analyses the psycho-therapeutic-remedial implications inherent in the musician’s lyrics with the view to offer instructive insights to drivers. A driving accident is an accident which is caused by human errors. Thus, this paper advances the contention that the musician through his music offers an instructive therapy which is psychologically rehabilitating in alleviating the rate of driving accidents in Zimbabwe. This discursive discourse emerges against the realization that there is a high rate of driving accidents in Zimbabwe that have become a cause of concern to human security.
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The entitled Singing Nation and Politics: Music and the 'Decade of Crisis' in Zimbabwe 2000-2010 Edited by Itai Muwati, Tyanai Charamba and Charles Tembo , Gweru: Midlands State University Press, 2018
The major problem that has endangered Zimbabwe’s socio-economic advancement, to a larger extent, ... more The major problem that has endangered Zimbabwe’s socio-economic advancement, to a larger extent, is political corruption. This has existed at high levels of the political structure in which the political decision makers utilise their political muscle to maintain power, dominion and control. Corruption, also known as dishonesty or illegal behaviour has been the major hindrance to the development of Zimbabwe. In essence, corruption is not only confined to the leaders but even to the general populace. However, this chapter focuses on corruption inherent among the leaders as brought out in selected songs. The study unfolds in the context of development politics and argues that the Zimbabwean musician has a duty to interrogate various forms of impediments to Zimbabwe’s development. In order to achieve its goals, the chapter analyses the selected lyrics of Thomas Mapfumo and Hosiah Chipanga, who are among Zimbabwe’s prominent musicians singing in Shona. Their songs are examined as a mode of art that constitutes critical interrogation of political corruption in Zimbabwe. This is done against the realisation that music has the ability to caution, query and correct social, political and economic ills (Chinouriri, 2013). Music’s attributes to humanity and its roles of interrogating and controlling corruption motivates the writing of this chapter.
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The contemporary African situation engenders impressions of shame, chagrin and vexation owing to ... more The contemporary African situation engenders impressions of shame, chagrin and vexation owing to the mystery of the so-called global mutual dealings, which privilege the 'us and them' hegemonic dichotomies. This African condition is at once a mortifying enigma and an invitation to concretise a winning praxis. Decades after the attainment of their independencies, African countries once again find themselves at the crossroads of a continued obsessive dependence on the West or East. In this, whether Africa decides to look east or west, preference for the benefactor, is on 'us' than 'them'. In fact, before the benefactor decides to assume the monumental task of assisting Africa, she starts by scheming a conduct that pivots on advancing her stake, she considers first the 'us', that is, her interest. This us requires crafting a concealed ideological design. The ideology that governs global dealings is that in interacting with other states, a country should not disclose its secret strategies and options to its competitor(s). For this reason, this article is concerned with the need for Africa to have a victorious line of argument that rationalises the course of action of its governments when interacting with foreign countries. This arises from the realisation that the contemporary world has become competitive, striving on shrewdness in diplomatic dealings. In this age, the weakness of African governments is open disclosure of their clandestine strategies and alternatives to the world, a response that creates opportunity to be manipulated by either enemies or friends. It is aggravated by the remissness to accept everything foreign as beneficial to Africa. This causes Africa's defeat and frustration on global politics and economics. These realistic enigma summon for pragmatic mindset that can afford African governments the capacity to assess foreign dealings astutely, enabling the drawing of clear-thoughtful and clear sighted insights, which can be realised by embracing Hutsuro philosophy which finds inspiration from African peoples classical folklore.
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