In African cultures, the names given to children play an important role because they are often laden with meanings. We conclude that names make it possible to understand the effects of colonialism and ...

Two books by Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga are some of the latest novels to be translated into Shona. The two titles are part of the trilogy by Dangarembga which ...

University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. When she submitted the manuscript to publishing houses in Zimbabwe in the early 1980s, they all turned it down. Dangarembga ...

In African cultures, the names given to children are important because they are often laden with meanings. As a team of professors of literature, linguistics and onomastics (the scientific study of ...

Tendai Mangena received funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the project on Names in Zimbabwe and the diaspora on which this work is based. We conclude that names make it possible to ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) In African cultures, the names given to children play an important role because they are often laden with meanings. As a team of professors of literature, linguistics and ...