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  • Decolonising the Zimbabwean Secondary Education Curriculum
    Annah Moyo / Costain Tandi / Munyaradzi Mawere
    Focusing on Zimbabwe’s secondary education system as the country introduces the Heritage-Based Curriculum (HBC), this book significantly contributes to the discourse on education transformation and decolonisation in Africa. It not only excels in dealing with the remnants of colonialism and excavating the decolonial overtures encapsulated in the HBC, but also attempts to shape f...
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    48,80 €

  • Seeing the World through the Onomastic Lens
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    Originating from discussions at the 2018 Names Society of Southern Africa (NSSA) Conference, the scholarly work Seeing the World through the Onomastic Lens: Xitsonga Anthroponyms and Toponyms meticulously explores the onomastics of the understudied Xitsonga language. The book compiles chapters that significantly advance the understanding of personal names (anthroponyms), place ...
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    56,00 €

  • Development Economics for Developing Economies
    Dube / Ephraim Matanda / Munyaradzi Mawere
    This book offers a fresh perspective on development economics, specifically tailored to the unique challenges and opportunities facing developing economies. Drawing on the historical experiences of now-developed nations, it explores how emerging economies, particularly in Africa, can finance their development, reduce reliance on external aid, modernise infrastructure, and allev...
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    44,99 €

  • Mastering The Craft
    Costain Tandi / Martin Mukwazhe / Munyaradzi Mawere
    This is a cutting-edge textbook intended to equip college students in Zimbabwe and abroad with the requisite knowledge as well as skills for a successful and fulfilling career in teacher education. This comprehensive resource goes beyond traditional pedagogical approaches, offering a dynamic blend of theory and practical strategies to address the evolving landscape of 21st cent...
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    49,16 €

  • The Russia-Ukraine War from an African Perspective
    Aaron Rwodzi / Artwell Nhemachena / Munyaradzi Mawere
    In the Russia-Ukraine war, attention has been focused on the 'Special Military Operation' This book argues that there are many other special operations, in various other arenas in the world, that deserve equal and urgent attention. Connecting special military operations to what it calls special economic operations, special cultural operations, special technological operations, ...
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    66,96 €

  • Media and Technology in 21st Century Higher and Tertiary Education in Africa
    Costain Tandi / Martin Mukwazhe / Munyaradzi Mawere
    This book interrogates media and technology in the 21st century higher and tertiary education in Africa. Using Zimbabwe as its case study, thebook highlights the immense changes that the digital revolution has brought to higher institutions of learning in Africa, including changes in teaching and learning. Framed from an anti-colonial perspective, the book argues that digital c...
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    39,19 €

  • Research Methods and Statistics for Cross-Cutting Research
    Ephraim Matanda / Munyaradzi Mawere
    This book is on research methods and statistics for cross-cutting research. Framed from a multi-disciplinary perspective, the book presents and grapples with research methods and approaches used in research across disciplines. It magnifies the different contexts where research methods intersect and complement each other for effective data collection and analysis. Noting that mo...
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    56,83 €

  • COVID-19 Manifestation, Ramifications and Future Prospects for Zimbabwe
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    The advent of Coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) pandemic has caused much distress, despondence, fear and pandemonium across all nations of the world. In Zimbabwe, the emergence of the virus sent a chilling message of insecurity and need for conscientiousness and diligence, as the virus decimated humankind amid untold suffering. The pandemic came as a litmus test for the inte...
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    81,80 €

  • Nhakanomics
    Daud Taranhike / Munyaradzi Mawere / Ronnie Lessem
    Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation is a radical departure from the commonly held belief that neo-liberal economics from the US and the West is universal, and is the only solution to underdevelopment and poverty throughout the world. Instead, the book teases out and theorises the intellectually rutted terrain of development st...
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    95,47 €

  • Development Naivety and Emergent Insecurities in a Monopolised World
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    It is common knowledge that development without security is like a runaway horse. Yet, development in Africa has been plagued by insecurities since the extractive periods of slave trade and colonialism. In spite of political independence and the euphoria of sovereignty as states, Africa has failed to address insecurity, which continues to loom large and to threaten aspirations ...
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    62,15 €

  • People-Centred Public Works Programmes
    Costain Tandi / Munyaradzi Mawere
    Poverty has long been a developmental challenge in the Global South in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular. With a fifth, mainly from the rural areas of the world, living below the poverty datum line, the world has a huge challenge to reduce poverty, worse still to eradicate it from the face of the earth. A target was set through the 2000-2015 United Nations (UN) Mi...
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    37,95 €

  • Jostling Between 'Mere Talk' & Blame Game?
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    One of the fundamental challenges in rethinking and remaking development in Africa from a Pan African perspective is that too much “mere talk” and “blame game” have played out at the expense of “real action”. The blame game and mere talk on Africa’s poverty and underdevelopment jam have remained printed in bold on the face of the continent, yet Africa’s dire situation warrants ...
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    62,03 €

  • The Political Economy of Poverty, Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Management
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development. Scholars in the Global North have since the Second World War sought to research poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, postulating what they think are the major causes of insipid and abject poverty in the continent, but with little or no success on how to solve...
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    62,06 €

  • Death of a Discipline?
    Artwell Nhemachena / Munyaradzi Mawere
    This is a book on the state of social anthropology as an academic discipline in contemporary Zimbabwe. The authors are frustrated and disheartened by a problematic visibility and sluggish growth of the discipline in the country. The book makes an important claim that the future and vibrancy of anthropology in Zimbabwe, lies in how well anthropologists in the country and in the ...
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    38,14 €

  • Africa at the Crossroads
    Artwell Nhemachena / Munyaradzi Mawere
    This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people. The book valiantly rethinks and unpacks these forms of fundamentalisms and fetishisms, offering in the process critical vistas for students, scholars and activists on matters of decoloniality and transformation. By meticulously and painstakingly un...
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    58,64 €

  • Underdevelopment, Development and the Future of Africa
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    In view of the resilience of Africa’s underdevelopment, what do Africans make of their determined aspirations for development? The continent of Africa has constantly drawn global attention, most especially for both human and natural evils. Underdevelopment, it appears, is one of the most eminent threatening evils. It has plunged and promises to maintain the majority of Africa i...
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    73,25 €

  • Theorising Development in Africa
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    How come Africa is so underdeveloped when it is one of the richest continents on earth? The present volume is an attempt to theorise Africa’s [under-]development with a view to providing a sustainable, enduring framework of operations that will arrest the predicament of the continent while taking it forward from its current passivity. The volume rethinks and re-imagines a numbe...
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    45,70 €

  • Development Perspectives from the South
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    Not so long ago, The Economist described Africa as a hopeless continent. This damning description specifically referred to the development status of Africa. While the debate on the political and socio-economic [under-]development of Africa had been raging on prior to the Economist’s daring but controversial pronouncements, it intensified from thereon. Many concerned people from...
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    81,84 €

  • Heritage Practices for Sustainability
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    Zimbabwean history is rooted in ethnic and cultural identities, inequalities, and injustices which the post-colonial government has sought to address since national independence in 1980. Marginalisation of some ethnic groups has been one of the persistent problems in contemporary Zimbabwe. Of particular significance to this book is the marginalisation of the BaTonga people of n...
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    44,82 €

  • Negotiating Law, Policing and Morality in African. A Handbook for Policing in Zimbabwe
    Misheck P. Chingozha / Misheck PChingozha / Munyaradzi Mawere
    The relationship between police and the public in formerly colonised countries of Africa has never been smooth. It is plagued with clichés of suspicion, mistrust, and brutality which are all a result of the legacy of draconian policing in colonial Africa. This colonial hangover has chiefly been an upshot of sluggish switching from the mantra of colonial policing to community pr...
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    48,60 €

  • Divining the Future of Africa. Healing the Wounds, Restoring Dignity and Fostering Development
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    This book explores the relationship between Africa, the West and China. It notes that while Africa is a continent of diverse cultures, raw materials, human resource, indigenous knowledges, and above all the biggest recipient of foreign aid globally, it continues to lag behind all regions of the world in terms of socio-economic development. The book grapples with the important q...
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    45,79 €

  • The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories
    Christopher M. Mabeza / Christopher MMabeza / Munyaradzi Mawere
    The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories is a sundry, marvellous collection of short stories that reflect and capture diverse life experiences. Mabeza and Mawere offer with great dexterousness a snapshot, richness, and practical potentialities of childhood to adulthood experiences in shaping, inspiring and influencing moral rectitude, industriousness and determination. T...
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    26,68 €

  • Culture, Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Africa. Reviving Interconnections for Sustainable Development
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    The continent of Africa is richly endowed with diverse cultures, a body of indigenous knowledge and technologies. These bodies of knowledge and technologies that are indeed embodied in the diverse African cultures are as old as humankind. From time immemorial, they have been used to solve socio-economic, political, health, and environmental problems, and to respond to the devel...
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    45,92 €

  • Kids
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    Kids: Africa in Childhood Poetry powerfully conveys the wishful thinking, imaginations, experiences and critical reflections of children as they grow up. The volume grapples with a wide range of topics, sensations, encounters, emotions, imaginations and vistas commonplace in the psyche of many children across different geographical and cultural spaces. While the audacity of Maw...
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    33,92 €

  • Lyrics of Reason and Experience
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    The poems in this collection dissect and cut across psychological and cultural spaces as the poet reflects on the profundity of his experiences and encounters. The thoughtful reflections provide a snapshot of what it means to live in a world of where difference and sameness are never to be taken for granted. Though written from Africa, the poems transcend the geographical, cult...
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    38,22 €

  • Revelations
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    This is a penetrating, refreshing, diverse and impeccable collection of insightful poetry on the realities of everyday life in Africa. The collection reflects on a gamut of issues, desirable and undesirable alike. Themes covered range from dissipation, corruption, war, love, bad governance, greediness, anxiety, religion, weather, time, politics, morality, economics, justice, na...
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    38,08 €

  • Memoirs of an Unsung Legend, Nemeso
    Cosmas M. Mukombe / Cosmas MMukombe / Munyaradzi Mawere
    Nemeso - a four eyed man-lived in southeastern Zimbabwe in the mid-17th century. Stories about him are widely known by the Duma in southeastern Zimbabwe as he left a legacy, a delicious dish - of edible stinkbugs locally named harurwa. These insects, believed to be a gift to Nemeso by the ancestors, thrive in a grove (jiri) where no one has been allowed to meddle since the time...
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    36,34 €

  • Rain Petitioning and Step Child
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    In Nzarayapera’s village, famine and hunger strike as rain could not fall. The sky remains blue with scorching heat that leaves no creature desiring to move on with life. Chief Nzarayapera and his councillors believe this scourge is a curse from the ancestors. They think of holding a ceremony to mollify the ancestors and petition rain. The ceremony is held, but nothing happens ...
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    37,87 €

  • Environment and Natural Resource Conservation and Management in Mozambique
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    This is an eloquent, engaged and extremely well informed narrative of the environmental and natural resource conservation and management issues in Mozambique. While the topics in this volume are diverse, they are all explicitly designed to move beyond the routinized blame of natural resource mismanagement and environmental degradation on local communities, and to rethink ecosys...
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    57,57 €

  • Companion of Life. Poems from Zimbabwe
    Munyaradzi Mawere / Vakai Machinga
    This is a dense, erudite collection of finely crafted poems that powerfully reflect on vices such as war, bad governance, deforestation, dissipation, greed, oppression and cruelty. The poems also tackle other important phenomena of life such as love, anxiety, weather, time, politics, morality, economics, justice, culture and the environment. The virtue of these finely tuned poe...
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    38,00 €


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