This qualitative study analyses gendered metaphors in selected Zimbabwean Shona songs. The study explores how musicians deploy gendered metaphors to propagate, reinforce or challenge gender views and positions held in the ...

The interconnection between language and culture makes language inherently linked to the society in which it is taught and learnt. In response to this affinity, learners are allowed to use a language that is relevant and ...

China’s economic expansion in recent years is one of the most important geopolitical developments of the 21st century (Mockli, 2007). More interestingly, Africa relations with China continue to be of keen concern to many, ...

The aim of this study was to uncover how hegemonic masculinity is discursively produced within the text of Men’s Health South Africa, and how discourses of competition, conflict and the use of role models function in ...

The investigation contributes to a broader understanding of the hegemonic role of teacher organisations and their relation to the dominant structures in society. It also contributes to educational theory since it extends ...

In an era when adversarial politics is condemned for either being archaic or right-wing extremism, proposing that incivility can be used to counter existing hegemonies, despite its potential to incite violence, is proposing ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the presentation of masculinity in selected popular works. The novels under discussion include: Henry ole Kulet’s To Become a Man (1972), Yusuf Dawood’s One Life Too Many (1991), ...

This study examines the mediation of multilingualism, localism and the nation in the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, henceforth, ZBC as the local content and multilingual broadcasting policies subsumed in the Broadcasting ...

Kenya as a heterogeneous society has always faced the problem of ethnicity. Religio-ethnic political competition and mobilization of sources have become the defining aspects of electoral politics in Africa. In Kenya, ...