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    This article draws from my current research on the challenges that the concept ‘citizenship’ brings to postcolonial Africa. The article takes Zimbabwe as a case study with the view to interrogate how the decade-long crisis has been obfuscated by the elites' manipulation of the education system which has left it redundant for envisioning both postcolonial and world citizenship. First, this article seeks to outline the challenge of enunciating the crisis. Second, it outlines and discusses how the …Read more
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    This article draws from my current research on the challenges that the concept ‘citizenship’ brings to postcolonial Africa. The article takes Zimbabwe as a case study with the view to interrogate how the decade‐long crisis has been obfuscated by the elites' manipulation of the education system which has left it redundant for envisioning both postcolonial and world citizenship. First, this article seeks to outline the challenge of enunciating the crisis. Second, it outlines and discusses how the …Read more
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    Rethinking receptivity in a postcolonial context: recasting Sembène’s Moolaade
    Ethics and Global Politics 5 (3): 153-170. 2012.
    The main challenge confronting African postcolonial societies is the failure of political, social, and cultural transformation to confront and transcend the limitations imposed by historical and contemporary contingencies. Hence the task of postcolonial theorists is to develop conceptual resources for a more sustained evaluation and analysis of the challenge. In this article, I recast Sembe`ne’s film, Moolaade, in a new relief to foreground the core issue of the postcolonial condition. I proceed…Read more
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    Rape, sexual politics and the construction of manhood among the Shona of Zimbabwe: Some philosophical reflections
    Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 2 (1): 1-19. 2010.
    This paper interrogates the language that mediates sex and sexuality among the Shona of Zimbabwe. It draws from the method of ordinary language philosophy to argue that culture, and specifically language, can constitute an effective incubator for the emotions that result in rape. Further, the paper shows how the constructions of masculinity among the Shona render the female body a subject of male dominance. The paper contends that culture, through the stories that it tells about sex and the lang…Read more
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    In this article, we take the postcolonial state as a complex metaphysical and social landscape characterised by the interplay of forces generated from the cultural ripples of the encounter of the postcolonial world with Western modernity. This is done by employing the Diesel N'anga story from Zimbabwe to locate the place of the occult in the whole postcolonial social and political unfolding in Africa. We argue that embedded within African multiple modernities is a unique worldview – a cognitive,…Read more
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    This paper urges readers to rethink the notions “mobility” and “travel” with an eye to how they may help us craft a more supple discourse of cosmopolitanism. The majority of cosmopolitanism discourses privilege mobility and travel experiences of subjects in the metropolis and sideline and downplay those of the postcolonial (and especially rural) subjects. The paper attempts to broaden the discourses of cosmopolitanism by a critical interrogation of Kant’s cosmopolitan ideal and its implications …Read more