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

Esther Mavengano is lecturer in English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe.Isaac Mhute is Associate Professor of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.

• 1. Introduction: Contextualising the notion of deceit in the postcolonial Zimbabwe’s political landscape. Isaac Mhute and Esther Mavengano.- Part I : Language/discourse and a culture of deceit in Zimbabwe’s politics.- 2. Polit(r)icking and massaging the ballot in Zimbabwe’s Transitions. Liberty Muchativugwa Hove.- 3. The Paradox of POST- Colonial Politics: A Critical Appraisal of Zimbabwe’s False . Tawanda Shura & Isaac Mhute.- 4. Vachingovukura (whilst they are barking ineffectually); The Mango idiom and postcolonial deceit in Zimbabwe’s political discourse. Edmore Dube.- 5. Counting Cost, Ignoring the Value: Can the gap between Political and Linguistic Autonomy in Zimbabwe be Reconciled?. Beatrice Taringa.- 6. Judas Iscariotism and Zimbabwe Opposition Politics: Deceit, Fear of Difference and Language of Misrepresentation. Wilson Zivave.- 7. The political landscape and a culture of deceit in postcolonial Zimbabwe: Scholarly discourse under siege. Temba T. Rugwiji.- Part 2:  The poetic and sonic narratives of political deceit in postcolonial times.- 8. The polemics of  nationalism in Zimbabwean fictional and political discourses ‘Nyika inovakwa (kana kuputswa) nevene vayo’ (A nation is built (or destroyed) by its owners). Esther Mavengano.- 9. Through the lenses of betrayal: Ambivalence and other markers of deception in Aaron Chiundura Moyo’s Kuridza Ngoma Nedemo (1985). Angeline Mavis Madongonda & Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga.- 10. The Post-Independent Zimbabwean Leadership and literary imaginings of betrayal in Ignatius .Mabasa`s Novel Mapenzi (1999). Wellington Wasosa.- 11. Judas culture in Post-colonial Zimbabwe: Gendered and Land Redistribution in Raymond’s Choto’s Vavariro (1990). Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga & Angeline Mavis Madongonda.- 12. Metaphorisation and erotisisation of the female body in David Mungoshi’s The Fading Sun: A symbolic representation of the post-colonial Zimbabwean society. Andrew Mutingwende & Esther Mavengano.- 13. Politics of deceit: The Dynamics of political jingles in postcolonial Zimbabwe. Vimbai Moreblessing Matiza.- Part 3: The media, conflict and a culture of deceit in postcolonial Zimbabwean politics.- 14. The Media, Conflict and Culture of Deceit in Postcolonial Zimbabwean Politics. Takavafira Masarira Zhou.- 15. An analysis of the nexus between media and political polarisation in Zimbabwe. Gift Gwindingwe.- 16. Citizen or alien? Politics of urban control and the dis(ex)tortion of Democracy in Zimbabwe. Andrew Mutingwende.- 17. Power, Politics and Public Media Deceit in Zimbabwe, 2000-2023. Pedzisai Ruhanya & Bekezela Gumbo.- 18. Modeling Electoral Integrity on Political Campaigns in Zimbabwe: The Problems of Deception and Lying During General Elections. Gift Masengwe.- 19. Sanctions are the source of our suffering”: of ZANU PF’s exhausted rhetoric and blame-gaming tactics as hegemonic preservation. Collen Sabao.