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- Date:
- Thursday, 08 Nov 2018
- Time:
- 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Location:
- Rm 201 International Center
- Department:
- African Studies Center
About the Speaker:
Shingi Mavima is a Ph.D candidate in the African American and African program at MSU, and his dissertation is titled Popular Expressions of Pan-Africanism and Southern African Nationalism(s): Transformations, Tensions, and Reconciliations in South Africa and Zimbabwe. His peer-reviewed publications include "Bigger by the Dozens: The Prevalence of Afro-Based Tradition in. Battle Rap" (Journal of Hip Hop Studies), and "A Historiographical Interrogation of Literature and Discourse on the Gukurahundi Massacres (1982- 1987)" as well as "Stories of Struggle: The Intractability of Early African Fiction from Nascent African Nationalism in Rhodesia" both published in the Journal of Pan-African Studies.
About the Talk:
For four decades, Robert Mugabe reigned over Zimbabwe with a tight-fisted and definitive set of principles and government machinery that we now know as "Mugabeism." This presentation discusses how the 'new' government- and the society at large- are negotiating the legacy of this polarizing ideology one year since he was deposed from power.
