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Sub-Saharan Political Cultures of Deceit in Language, Literature, and the Media, Volume II

Across National Contexts

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Editors:
  1. Esther Mavengano

    1. English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, Zimbabwe

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  2. Isaac Mhute

    1. Department of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

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  • Interdisciplinary in nature and relevant for scholars of Political Science, Linguistics, Literature, and Philosophy
  • Includes contributors from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, & Zimbabwe
  • Lays groundwork for future research on political deceit and postcolonial politics

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. The Sub-Saharan African Postcolonial Politics: A Daunting Present

    • Esther Mavengano, Isaac Mhute
    Pages 1-17

  3. (2–5) Cultures of Deceit in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Literary Imaginings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Memorialising Gender and Childhood Under the Throes of von Trotha’s Extermination Order: Trauma, Agency and Survival in Serebov’s Mama Namibia

      • Nelson Mlambo, Collen Sabao, Coletta Kandemiri
      Pages 21-40

    3. Speaking from Below: Reflections on the Postcolonial Subaltern Practices of Resisting Deceit and Penury in Valerie Tagwira’s Novel, Trapped

      • Esther Mavengano
      Pages 41-62

    4. Towards Using Literature to Deal with Fear of Ethno-Religious and Linguistic Differences in African Post-colonial Politics

      • Ogonna Nchekwube Nkereuwem
      Pages 63-78

    5. The Postcoloniality and Decoloniality of Namibian Literature in Kubuitsile’s The Scattering and Utley’s The Lie of the Land

      • Collen Sabao, Nelson Mlambo
      Pages 79-98

  4. Language/Media and Postcolonial Deceit in Sub-Saharan Africa (6–10)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Postcolonial Gender Dichotomies: Integrating Digital Technologies, Local Content, and Local Languages in Empowering Rural-Black Women in Southern Africa

      • Gift Masengwe, Wadzanai Chihombori-Ndlovu
      Pages 101-123

    3. Hate Speech, a Source of Linguistic, Religious and Ethnic Intolerance Among the Sub-Saharan African Peoples: The Case of Nigeria

      • Odey Simon Robert, Goodluck Chigbo Nwode, Bibian Ugoala
      Pages 125-140

    4. “We’ll Fish Out MP Mole and Punish the Person”: Language, Politics, and Culture of Deceit in Ghana’s Politics

      • Charles Prempeh
      Pages 141-167

    5. Mass Media in Deceitful Pragmatic Misrepresentation of, and the Heightened Intergroup Conflicts Among Sub-Saharan African Ethno-Religious and Linguistic Groups

      • Caroline Nonye Osuchukwu, Bibian Ugoala, Odey Simon Robert
      Pages 169-188

    6. Post-colonial Political, Economic and Ethnic Discourse: A case of Mozambique and Rwanda

      • Donald Peter Chimanikire, Valerie Rumbidzai Jeche, Jane Tsitsi Mudzamiri
      Pages 189-207

  5. The Media and Political Deceit in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa (11–14)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Survival of the Private Media Under Zimbabwe’s Politico-Economic Crises

      • Pedzisai Ruhanya, Bekezela Gumbo
      Pages 211-227

    3. Digital Authoritarianism in Postcolonial Nigeria: Internet Control Techniques and Censorship

      • Desmond Onyemechi Okocha, Maureen Chigbo, Melchizedec J. Onobe
      Pages 229-249

    4. Tragic Labels, Catastrophic Consequences: Colonial Treachery and the Cameroonian Calamity

      • Jacob Mapara
      Pages 251-268

    5. Populism as a New Political Tactic of Postcolonial Deceit in Nigerian Contemporary Digital Era

      • Desmond Onyemechi Okocha, Jesse Ishaku
      Pages 269-289

  6. (15–18) Postcolonial Political Dialectics in Religion and Human Rights Discourses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291
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    2. The Impact of Legacies of the Past on the Emergence of Conflict and Deceit in Sub-Saharan African Politics

      • Fabian Maugnganidze
      Pages 293-308
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About this book

This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics. In an attempt to produce a nuanced and multifaceted academic dialoguing platform, the two volumes have a particular focus on the aspects of treachery, fear of difference (oppositional politics), and discourses/semiotics of mis/self-representation. The major aim of the proposed volumes is to contribute toward the often problematised conversations about the unfolding (post)colonial Sub-Saharan world which is topical in decolonial and Pan-African studies.The volumes seek to place political thinking and postcolonial political systems under the scholarly gaze with the view to highlight and enhance the participation of African cross-disciplinary scholarship in the postcolonial political processes of the continent. Most significantly, it is through such probing of the limitations of our own disciplinary perspectives which can help us appreciate the complexity of the postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics. The first volume uses Zimbabwe as a case study, while the second volume examines postcolonial politics in Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly.The first volume uses Zimbabwe as a case study, while the second volume examines postcolonial politics in Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly.The first volume uses Zimbabwe as a case study, while the second volume examines postcolonial politics in Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly.

Editors and Affiliations

  • English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, Zimbabwe

    Esther Mavengano

  • Department of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

    Isaac Mhute

About the editors

Esther Mavengano is Lecturer in English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe. She is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology, and Religion, College of Human Sciences, UNISA, South Africa and a von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English, Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, Technology University Dresden, Germany.

Isaac Mhute is Associate Professor of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.

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