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Region #
NA - North America 1149
AS - Asia, other 784
AF - Africa 386
EU - Europe 324
OC - Oceania 109
SA - South America 53
Unknown 8
Total 2813
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Country #
US - United States of America 1105
SG - Singapore 490
ZW - Zimbabwe 283
AU - Australia 106
IN - India 91
DE - Germany 74
CN - China 73
FR - France 67
HK - Hong Kong 67
ZA - South Africa 44
other - Other Country 413
Total 2813
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City #
Singapore 311
Harare 189
Hanover 114
Boardman 102
Central 55
Santa Clara 46
Marondera 43
Shanghai 37
Melbourne 35
Mumbai 32
other 1713
Total 2677
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ID: fa7b2936-c72a-409e-8e3e-b22716bca389 - Violence and the postcolonial state: an analysis of Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with mother, They are coming and Noviolet Bulawayo’s We need new names 90
ID: 7a7d05cd-dad9-4d13-8d64-43605463cfc9 - Facebook as an alternative public sphere: online discussions of bond notes in Zimbabwe 84
ID: a8dfacbf-5271-4266-9baa-24c3e98cb004 - A content analysis of literary evidence of slave trade in Zimbabwe focusing on Zimbabwean women’s trafficking to Kuwait. 84
ID: ac299a1b-d094-40ec-8a93-96759d71a9c8 - Shifting gender roles: A critical analysis of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) and Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly (2009). 82
ID: 4994d498-6441-40d9-8404-71987c9c74bb - Drama and the struggle for social change Zimbabwe: the case of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s She Nolonger Weeps, George Mujajati’s The Wretched Ones and Raisedon Baya and Leonard Matsa’s Super Patriots and Morons, 81
ID: 7821f8cb-6d17-4c24-bb55-88390dcaefa9 - An exploration of the metaphor of a lost home in the post 2000 Zimbabwe. A case of Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006), NoViolet Bulawayo We need New name, (2013) and Pettina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly (2009). 80
ID: a740e967-1fd8-4c17-882b-261eb1230fc0 - The feminization of poverty: A critical analysis of Bones (1988) and The Uncertainty of Hope (2006). 80
ID: 466354b5-0f95-4d44-8a82-16a0e3c15272 - Return migration, space and identity in Daniel Mandishona’s White gods black demons (2009) 76
ID: 6e6249a0-0c3a-4eff-9a1f-b51c28191f4f - Communicating loss through #bringbackourgirls images on twitter 74
ID: 8b3ab274-89a2-48ef-bde0-ce6adb93f575 - Zimdancehall: a rising platform in addressing socio-political injustices through lyrics. 72
ID: f1e7b143-1487-4bf2-ab18-943a42ff8edb - The liberating role of stand up comedy in exposing socio-political concerns: an analysis of Kate William’s Katepakalypse and Trevor Noah’s That’s racist 71
ID: 99017207-585a-4643-a9e8-8da2f51a84ad - Contesting the feminist paradigm in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s texts: an africana womanist reading of She no longer weeps, nervous conditions and the book of not 69
ID: 32e282ca-1071-4b89-b7b0-298706ee441c - The vulnerability of both genders in HIV and AIDS narratives: a study of Lutanga Shaba’s Secrets of a Woman’s Soul (2006), The Haunted Trail by Philip Chidavaenzi (2012) and Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) 68
ID: 777c5e8e-c9e2-47e5-8b50-25720622bee1 - What's up with Whatsapp profile pictures and statuses ? a multimodal approach 68
ID: c89d6e61-d113-4068-8789-cef471f7e38f - ‘Remaining a man…’ representations of the constructions of men and masculinities in contemporary Zimbabwean literature: an analysis of Tagwira’s The uncertainty of hope (2006); Chikwava’s Harare north (2009) and Nyota et al’s Hunting in foreign lands (2010). 68
ID: 664ac9ae-3880-45e8-99db-5dfef1fcf40f - The search for utopia in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013). 66
ID: 67bf5472-ea86-4685-b51d-0193fc9a36ce - A critical analysis of prisons as discourse communities: an examination of Whawha prison complex. 66
ID: 4ea62021-cf0e-4e4d-869f-965a5b979404 - The rise of ‘the Joshua generation?’: perspectives and attitudes on Facebook activism in Zimbabwe. 65
ID: 515ddfd9-c3af-469c-a0ea-7bafdfc29e71 - Exploring the digital space as a site of literary creation 62
ID: d500f933-aa16-4746-9358-daba1998f125 - Monsters or victims: an analysis of the African child soldier as depicted in Chris Abani’s song for Night, Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny mad dog and Ieweala Uzodinma’s beasts of no nation. 62
ID: 5f576830-1a9c-46bd-9b1f-f777bb106f94 - Engaging the regime of comedy: An analysis of the representation of “blackness” and “whiteness” in Leon Schuster’s: There is Zulu on My Stoep (1993) and Mr. Bones 1 (2001). 61
ID: fba230e9-fbfa-4cd4-8f23-cb631ab15d0f - Conceptualizing Ndebele particularism in the context of the Zimbabwean crisis. 60
ID: 980f1a4a-8937-4fde-a8ee-5e04673e7fc5 - A critical interrogation of the themes of politics and governance in the creative works of Mlalazi and Baya’s Crocodile of Zambezi (2008), Matsa and Baya’s Super Patriots and Morons (2003), and Chifunyise’s Waiting for the Constitution (2010) 58
ID: 160eff09-7201-4403-ac8a-5e8c3e2ba62e - An exploration of the destructive impact of the construct of physical beauty on the African American woman. An analysis of Toni Morrison: The bluest eye (1970) and Zora Neale Hurston: Their eyes were watching God (1937) 56
ID: 1deada70-48e2-43c2-8fbf-ccac2b767204 - In search of elusive identities: a critical examination of Negro identities in James Weldon Johnson’s Ex Colored Man, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Zora Nearle Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. 56
ID: 96c49919-6494-403c-ae4b-783580174071 - Ideology and the representation of black male characters in selected african american literary texts: Bontemps’s Black thunder; Wright’s Black boy; Walker’s The third life of Grange Copeland and Morrison’s Song of Solomon 56
ID: 7af092ef-d308-40be-aeac-e0cf0d0a5722 - Cultural interfaces and collisions: the influence of western cinema on Zimbabwean youth culture. 55
ID: e4da6dc4-4874-4fcd-b23b-f71056b98901 - Representation of the Community Share Ownership Trust programme in print media analysing power relations between public and private newspapers: A study of The Herald and the Zimbabwe Independent, from 23 January to 18 October 2014. 54
ID: c2007cc8-6f69-472a-8dc7-dbd85839b23c - (Re)construction of valentine’s day on social media platforms: a study of messages circulating on whatsapp around valentine’s day. 51
ID: 33bfbbf5-dcdb-4a9f-837c-653f61a6273e - Comparing vowel hiatus resolution strategies in ChiHwesa and ChiManyika: an optimality theoretic account 49
ID: 3c2be8c7-ee5a-4acf-a083-44555aaa9375 - The dialogic relationship between mass media and society: an assessment of triadic reciprocal determinism of Zimbabwean mass media websites 49
ID: dd5b0aa7-86e0-4ee6-9e51-58a84cde591b - Selves in the making: a critical analysis of Barack Obama's ascendancy to power 49
ID: 6f3de0c1-3c17-4faa-bdac-b36b01f9e625 - White female experiences of the Zimbabwean liberation war: Patricia Charter’s Crossing the boundary fence, Sylivia Bond Smith’s Ginette, Partridge’s To breathe and wait. 48
ID: 38b04687-a7ff-458e-8c69-b51e8c644a00 - Exploring the nexus between the Zimbabwean crisis, migration and identity in Brian Chikwava Harare North (2009), Daniel Mandishona’s white gods black demons (2009) and NoViolet Bulawayo’s we need new names (2013). 47
ID: 8eabdb2f-1d0f-4eb3-a350-2e52672e34d9 - Masks and the question of identity: an examination of multiple identities in Smith’s Ginette (1980) ,Charter’s Crossing the boundary fence(1988), Partridge’s To breathe and wait(1986). 47
ID: a883f736-be77-44aa-9f4c-940f2797a0ac - An appraisal of the three political principals' speeches on the occasion of the signing of the Global Political Agreement of 15 September 2008 47
ID: b6439566-4d21-4b66-bc4d-fac4705649c5 - Adulthood in Zimbabwean literature for children: an analysis of the representation of adult characters in Takadini (1997) by Hanson B, A visit to the Gods (1987) by N.S Sigogo and Tapiwa and the Kidnappers(1997) by G. Hozo 46
ID: 26c3e2b4-e18c-4157-95ab-f438b41d1d4b - Lifting the veil: white zimbabwean writing and the treatment of double consciousness in Doris Lessing’s The grass is singing (1950), John Eppel’s Absent: The english teacher (2009) and Andreas Eames’ The cry of the go- away bird (2011) 45
ID: eea902a5-1483-4ccc-b9a6-1f1bc3c0eaf2 - Narrating selves: Alterity and Simultaneity In Lutanga Shaba’s Secret of a Woman’s Soul, Peter Godwin’s Mukiwa: A White Boy In Africa, Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk To Freedom And Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father 45
ID: 16e08c2b-838e-4bd5-8398-3f68829d4d73 - The Portrayal of Homosexuality in Selected American Soap Operas: A Case of Filmic Cultural Hegemony? 44
ID: 66734934-914c-4348-9a87-1beb84cd23a7 - Discourse communication strategies used by the deaf community: a case study of Nzeve deaf children’s centre, zimbabwe. 43
ID: 478c622f-e6b0-487d-92a5-32a17184b6b1 - The woman is subject to man on account of the weakness of her nature . . . Man is the beginning of woman…”, St Thomas of Aquinas (1225-1274), an analysis of biblical related literary works as perpetrators of women discrimination and subjugation by man: a case of John Milton ‘Paradise Lost’ (1961), ‘Samson Agonists’ (1967) and Wim Boswinkel (2003) Erina. By 42
ID: 38c36bf2-5a3c-4662-b244-8081dba4fdd2 - An ethnographic study of tertiary students greeting 40
ID: 43080760-a949-471f-9738-7997e58010d9 - Children’s texts prescribed in Zimbabwean high schools as historical narratives: a close study of Hanson’s Takadini, Gascoigne’s Tunzi the Faithful shadow and Chater’s Crossing the boundary fence. 39
ID: 788640d3-6733-46d9-808c-48bb139fc242 - A representation of Zimbabwe’s socio-political and economic situation in P.O Box TV.: a case study of Anotenga here, Chaunoda chii and Hatiuye ikoko 37
ID: b507b573-e292-4455-8889-164aba5b9b14 - An appraisal on participation and decision making at community development meetings at Caledonia Housing Cooperatives (February 2014) 33
ID: c962ef24-5920-42d3-8b79-252f56a62f7e - The impact of cultural diversity in a polarised society: a study Bessie Head's maru, Phaswane Mpe's welcome to our hilbrow and Paul Freeman's rumours of ophir 31
ID: d77dee9e-ea67-427a-91f8-1fac9d11211a - An investigation of the relationship between ethnography and implicature : a case study of shona funeral gatherings 31
ID: 1410aa39-2065-4a65-b471-013a77723f1e - An intertextual reading of contemporary Zimbabwean poetry with particular attention to the anthology, State of the Nation 26
Total 2813
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Ever 2813