Munyaradzi Mawere is a Professor in the Simon Muzenda School of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies at Great Zimbabwe University. He holds a Ph D in Social Anthropology; a Master’s Degree in Social Anthropology; a second Master’s Degree in Philosophy; a third Master’s Degree in Development Studies; BA (Hons) Degree in Philosophy; Certificate in Tertiary and Higher Learning; Certificate in Information Technology; and a Certificate in Diplomacy, Negotiation and Bargaining. He is an author of more than 50 books and over 200 academic publications straddling the following areas: poverty and development studies, African philosophy, cultural philosophy, democracy, politics of food production, humanitarianism and civil society organisations, urban anthropology, existential anthropology, environmental anthropology, society and politics, religion, decoloniality and African studies.
60 Ebooks by Munyaradzi Mawere
Munyaradzi Mawere & Patrick Mawere: Uwiruwiru Hwazuro, Nhasi Namangwana
Uwiruwiru hwazuro nhasi namangwana muunganidzwa wemanyukopfungwa atinopakurirwa nananyanduri vane unyanzvi hwekudzamisa ndangariro nekuumba zviumbwapfungwa zvinotekenyedza. Mashoko ari munhetembo …
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Artwell Nhemachena & Munyaradzi Mawere: Necroclimatism in a Spectral World (Dis)order?
Highlighting the problematiques of working with a narrow version of greenhouse effects or global warming, this book posits the theory of necroclimatism that encompasses broader versions of greenhouse …
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Costain Tandi & Munyaradzi Mawere: People-Centred Public Works Programmes
Poverty has long been a developmental challenge in the Global South in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular. With a fifth, mainly from the rural areas of the world, living below the …
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Ngonidzashe Marongwe & Fideli Thomas: Violence, Peace and Everyday Modes of Justice and Healing in Post-Colonial Africa
Violence in its various proportions, genres and manifestations has had an enduring historical legacy the world over. However, works speaking to approaches aimed at mitigating violence characteristic …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Development Naivety and Emergent Insecurities in a Monopolised World
It is common knowledge that development without security is like a runaway horse. Yet, development in Africa has been plagued by insecurities since the extractive periods of slave trade and …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: African Belief and Knowledge Systems
The debate on the existence of African philosophy has taken central stage in academic circles, and academics and researchers have tussled with various aspects of this subject. This book notes that …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Moral Degeneration in Contemporary Zimbabwean Business Practices
This is an engaged and extremely well-informed book on business and business ethics in a society with political and social-economic crises. As an engaging and engaged effort to bring a nexus between …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Africa Focus Debates on Contemporary Contentious Biomedical Issues
This is a vivid, thought-provoking and fascinating text on some contentious issues in contemporary medical ethics. The book acknowledges the contribution of �African tradition� and Western …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: The Struggle of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an Age of Globalization
This is a comprehensive study and erudite description of the struggle of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an Age of Globalization, using in particular eighty-four children�s traditional games …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Vakai Machinga: Companion of Life
This is a dense, erudite collection of finely crafted poems that powerfully reflect on vices such as war, bad governance, deforestation, dissipation, greed, oppression and cruelty. The poems also …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye: Harnessing Cultural Capital for Sustainability
This book argues that the basic component of any society�s social security and sustainability is cultural capital and its ability to fully recognise diversity in knowledge production and advancement. …
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Artwell Nhemachena & Munyaradzi Mawere: Africa at the Crossroads
This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people. The book valiantly rethinks and unpacks these forms of …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & R. Mubaya: The African Conundrum
The African conundrum… is rooted out of the historical, philosophical and cultural bastardisation, imbalances and inequalities which many post-colonial African governments have always sought to …
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P. Chingozha & Munyaradzi Mawere: Negotiating Law, Policing and Morality in African
The relationship between police and the public in formerly colonised countries of Africa has never been smooth. It is plagued with clich�s of suspicion, mistrust, and brutality which are all a result …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & R. Mwanaka: Democracy, Good Governance and Development in Africa
Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & R. Mubaya: African Philosophy and Thought Systems
The once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture of belonging is more demanding now than ever before in many African societies. …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Artwell Nhemachena: GMOs, Consumerism and the Global Politics of Biotechnology
Despite sustained continental and national struggles for autonomy, sovereignty and independence in postcolonial Africa, the continent is increasingly embattled by the forces of globalisation which …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & R. Mubaya: Colonial Heritage, Memory and Sustainability in Africa
This book serves as a drive and medium for constructive analysis, critical thinking, and informed change in the broad area of cultural heritage studies. In Africa, how to overturn the gory effects …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & R. Mubaya: African Studies in the Academy
For a long time, African Studies as a discipline has been spearheaded by academics and institutions in the Global North. This puts African Studies on the continent at a crossroads of making choices …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Artwell Nhemachena: Death of a Discipline? Reflections on the History, State, and Future of Social Anthropology in Zimbabwe
This is a book on the state of social anthropology as an academic discipline in contemporary Zimbabwe. The authors are frustrated and disheartened by a problematic visibility and sluggish growth of …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Heritage Practices for Sustainability
Zimbabwean history is rooted in ethnic and cultural identities, inequalities, and injustices which the post-colonial government has sought to address since national independence in 1980. …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Development Perspectives from the South
Not so long ago, the Economist Newspaper described Africa as a hopeless continent. This damning description specifically referred to the development status of Africa. While the debate on the …
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Mirjam van Reisen & Munyaradzi Mawere: Human Trafficking and Trauma in the Digital Era
Eritrean refugees crisscross between countries in the Horn of Africa and North Africa in search of a safe place. Along their journeys, they are looted, threatened, intimidated, violated, and held for …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: The Political Economy of Poverty, Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Management
Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development. Scholars in the Global North have since the Second World War sought to research …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Jostling Between �Mere Talk� and Blame Game?
One of the fundamental challenges in rethinking and remaking development in Africa from a Pan African perspective is that too much �mere talk� and �blame game� have played out at the expense of �real …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Ngonidzashe Marongwe: Violence, Politics and Conflict Management in Africa
This volume critically interrogates, from different angles and dimensions, the resilience of conflict and violence into 21st century Africa. The demise of European colonial administration in Africa …
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Mirjam van Reisen & Munyaradzi Mawere: Human Trafficking and Trauma in the Digital Era
Eritrean refugees crisscross between countries in the Horn of Africa and North Africa in search of a safe place. Along their journeys, they are looted, threatened, intimidated, violated, and held for …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Ngonidzashe Marongwe: Myths of Peace and Democracy? Towards Building Pillars of Hope, Unity and Transformation in Africa
The myths of peace and democracy in Africa are at the heart of this volume. Democracy and peace have become buzz words across postcolonial Africa. The gospel of democracy and peace is preached by …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Theorising Development in Africa
How come Africa is so underdeveloped when it is one of the richest continents on earth? Indeed, Africa is a paradox: it is poor and rich at the same time! Resource-wise, Africa is among the top …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Artwell Nhemachena: Rethinking Securities in an Emergent Technoscientific New World Order
The emergent technoscientific New World Order is being legitimised through discourses on openness and inclusivity. The paradox is that openness implies vulnerability and insecurities, particularly …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Underdevelopment, Development and the Future of Africa
In view of the resilience of Africa�s underdevelopment, what do Africans make of their determined aspirations for development? The continent of Africa has constantly drawn global attention, most …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Environment and Natural Resource Conservation and Management in Mozambique
This is an eloquent, engaged and extremely well informed narrative of the environmental and natural resource conservation and management issues in Mozambique. While the topics in this volume are …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Patient Rambe: Leveraging Educational Quality in Southern African Educational Systems
In the last two decades, erosion in the quality and effectiveness of education systems especially in sub-Saharan Africa has been compounded by factors �such as exogenous pressures precipitated by …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Rain Petitioning and Step Child: Plays
In Nzarayapera�s village, famine and hunger strike as rain could not fall. The sky remains blue with scorching heat that leaves no creature desiring to move on with life. Chief Nzarayapera and his …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Environmental Conservation through Ubuntu and Other Emerging Perspectives
In spite of its surging popularity with scholars and environment conservation and management aid experts, scientific environmental epistemology does not seem to be the answer to the forestry and …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & M. Mukombe: Memoirs of an Unsung Legend, Nemeso
Nemeso � a four eyed man�lived in southeastern Zimbabwe in the mid-17th century. Stories about him are widely known by the Duma in southeastern Zimbabwe as he left a legacy, a delicious dish � of …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Kids: Africa in Childhood Poetry
Kids: Africa in Childhood Poetry powerfully conveys the wishful thinking, imaginations, experiences and critical reflections of children as they grow up. The volume grapples with a wide range of …
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M. Mabeza & Munyaradzi Mawere: The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories
The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories is a sundry, marvellous collection of short stories that reflect and capture diverse life experiences. Mabeza and Mawere offer with great dexterousness …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & R. Mubaya: African Cultures, Memory and Space
African Cultures, Memory and Space is an impeccable volume that powerfully grapples with a gamut of cultural heritage issues, challenges and problems from a vista of inter- and multi-disciplinary …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Henry Chiwaura: African Museums in the Making
One of the central theoretical and practical issues in post-colonial Africa is the relevance, nature, and politics at play in the management of museum institutions on the continent. Most African …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye: Between Rhetoric and Reality
Since time immemorial, indigenous peoples around the world have developed knowledge systems to ensure their continued survival in their respective territories. These knowledge systems have always …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Divining the Future of Africa
This book explores the relationship between Africa, the West and China. It notes that while Africa is a continent of diverse cultures, raw materials, human resource, indigenous knowledges, and above …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Humans, Other Beings and the Environment
Humans, Other Beings and the Environment is an ethnographic study of the possibilities for the mutual, symbiotic co-existence of human beings, a unique species of forest insects and natural forests. …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Rain Petitioning and Step Child
In Nzarayaperais village, famine and hunger strike as rain could not fall. The sky remains blue with scorching heat that leaves no creature desiring to move on with life. Chief Nzarayapera and his …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Leveraging Educational Quality in Southern African Educational Systems
In the last two decades, erosion in the quality and effectiveness of education systems especially in sub-Saharan Africa has been compounded by factors nsuch as exogenous pressures precipitated by …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Memoirs of an Unsung Legend, Nemeso
Nemeso n a four eyed mannlived in southeastern Zimbabwe in the mid-17th century. Stories about him are widely known by the Duma in southeastern Zimbabwe as he left a legacy, a delicious dish n of …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Revelations
This is a penetrating, refreshing, diverse and impeccable collection of insightful poetry on the realities of everyday life in Africa. The collection reflects on a gamut of issues, desirable and …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Culture, Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Africa
The continent of Africa is richly endowed with diverse cultures, a body of indigenous knowledge and technologies. These bodies of knowledge and technologies that are indeed embodied in the diverse …
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Munyaradzi Mawere: Lyrics of Reason and Experience
The poems in this collection dissect and cut across psychological and cultural spaces as the poet reflects on the profundity of his experiences and encounters. The thoughtful reflections provide a …
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Thomas Duri & Ngonidzashe Marongwe: Mugabeism after Mugabe?
Arguably, one of the long waited political handover of power, globally, happened in November 2017 in Zimbabwe when the former and now late 37- year long serving and divisive President, Robert Gabriel …
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Mirjam van Reisen & Munyaradzi Mawere: Roaming Africa
What happens when digital innovation meets migration? Roaming Africa considers how we understand modern-day mobility in Africa, where age-old routes strengthen the resilience of people roaming the …
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Mirjam Van Reisen & Munyaradzi Mawere: Mobile Africa: Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide
What happens at the nexus of the digital divide and human trafficking? This book examines the impact of the introduction of new digital information and communication technology (ICT) � as well as …
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Artwell Nhemachena & Munyaradzi Mawere: Securitising Monstrous Bottoms in the Age of Posthuman Carnivalesque?
Placing security studies in the context of contemporary discourses about the �colonial comeback� and posthumanism, this book postulates the notion of staticide which avers that the effacement of …
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Ronnie Lessem & Munyaradzi Mawere: Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation
Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation is a radical departure from the commonly held belief that neo-liberal economics from the US and the West is …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & Bernard Chazovachii: Covid-19 and the Dialectics of Global Pandemics in Africa
The prevalence of global pandemics has been timeless and universal. In 1918, the Spanish Flue grounded Spain and her neighbours. In 1997, 2014 and 2020, the Ebola virus wreaked havoc in West Africa …
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Artwell Nhemachena & Munyaradzi Mawere: Sovereignty Becoming Pulvereignty
This book delves into the topical issue of the future of humanity and of being African in a world increasingly subjected to the power of technology and the dominance of a mercilessly self-absolved …
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Munyaradzi Mawere & James Duri: Africa, Human Rights and the Covid-19 Pandemic. Mitigation Dynamics and their Implications for Human Rights, Freedoms and Civ
This book makes a significant contribution by initiating debate on the state of human rights, freedoms and civil liberties in the context of emergencies such as pandemics in general and Covid-19 in …
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Emmanuel Doh & Munyaradzi Mawere: Les Seuils de l’intolérable
Dans Les seuils de l’intolérable, Musang, originaires des Grassfields, tombe amoureux d’Etonde du littoral. Bien qu’ils soient conscients des tensions existantes et de la méfiance injustifiée entre …
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Costain Tandi: Media and Technology in 21st Century Higher and Tertiary Education in Africa
This book interrogates media and technology in the 21st century higher and tertiary education in Africa. Using Zimbabwe as its case study, the book highlights the immense changes that the digital …
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Tenson M. Muyambo & Anniegrace M. Hlatywayo: Re-imagining Indigenous Knowledge and Practices in 21st Century Africa
This book is on the re-imagination of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and practices in 21st century Africa. Framed from an anti-colonial perspective, the book critically interrogates …
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