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From "Nehanda Nyakasikana" to the national anthem: Poetic aesthetics and the articulation of local and national sensibilities in Solomon Mutswairo's poetry.
No full textPreprint of a Book Chapter.This chapter employs text analysis to explore the stylistics of the poems of Solomon Mutswairo ranging from his earliest poems in Madetembedzo Akare Namatsva (1958, 1988), to the lyrics of the national anthem, “Ngaikomborerwe Nyika yeZimbabwe”, his last offering. Through the use of text analysis it is feasible to analyse linguistic features pertinent in the poet’s works. In this chapter, we note that the accomplished Zimbabwean author mainly employs simple and straight forward language to navigate sophisticated local and national issues ranging from philosophical, religious, economic to topical political concerns. Though our primary focus is on stylistic analysis, inevitably we also address some key thematic concerns that permeate Mutswairo’s poetry. This is so because form and content are intricately related, the former facilitated the revelation of the latter. Throughout his career as a poet, novelist, literary critic and academic, Solomon Mutswairo passionately addresses a repertoire of thematic concerns namely, the Chiweshe chieftancy, land politics, exploitation, African religion, the liberation struggle, sovereignty, governance, love, respect, death and nature. All these thematic concerns are closely linked to the poet’s life experiences characterized by his childhood socialization in Chiweshe communal lands, missionary education, colonial exploitation and subjugation, overseas university education, high school and university teaching. Mutswairo’s poems analysed in this chapter are found in the anthologies, Nduri DzeZimbabwe (1983) and Madetembedzo Akare Namatsva (1988), the poem “Nehanda Nyakasikana” in the epic novel Feso, and the lyrics of the national anthem, “Ngaikomborerwe Nyika YeZimbabwe”. It is the preoccupation of the chapter that repetition, personal address forms, the apostrophe technique, the Mhiramudzimu incantation register, metaphoric and imagistic language and rhetorical questions are the key poetic devices that characterize the poet’s stylistics
Statement of Mr. Fabian Byomuhangi, UNFPA Country Representative, at the Unsafe Abortion and Family Planning Awareness Event, NUST, on Wednesday 8 September 2010.
No full textFamily Planning & Unsafe Abortions Awareness Day (2010 Sep. 8 : NUST
Statement by Hon. Tjekero Tweya, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry at the Namibia Business Innovation Centre Business Idea Competition, NUST, 19 May 2010.
No full textNamibia Business Innovation Centre Business Idea Competition (2010 May 19 : NUST
The concept of progress in different cultures - culture and progress in Namibia: Contradiction or concurrence?
No full textThe main title beckons a number of questions, for instance: What is “progress”? What is culture? And eventually, How does culture relate to “progress”? The terms “progress” and “cultures” denote abstract notions – if not concepts – and require a measure of interpretation with respect to each culture’s context and progress.
The theme links to such a large number of conceptual challenges, like history, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, economics, and many more, that it is difficult to limit the scope of discussion. There are thousands of cultures and sub-cultures, and progress means many things to many people and at different times. What is progress in one culture may be perceived as totally irrelevant or taboo in others. What is considered as great progress at one time in history may be perceived or ridiculed as insignificant in another timeframe.
It is arguable that Namibian cultures are well studied, documented and understood, for much of a Namibian culture is vested in oral history. For the purpose of this paper, I confine my contribution to the challenges and progress of cultural development in Namibia. This is, however, not a discussion of Namibia cultures in isolation and a global contextualization is considered
Seller concentration in the grain milling industry.
No full textThe main purpose of the study was to explore the levels of concentration in Zimbabwe’s grain-milling industry during period 1985-2005. The study could not be extended to periods after 2005 because the situation in the country had become economically chaotic.
Approach: The methodology adopted involved the calculation of the concentration indices such as the Herfindall-Hirschman index, Hannah and Kay index, the Entropy index and the Four-Firm Concentration ratio. Results: The study revealed that liberalisation of the industry reduced seller concentration levels. The response to deregulation in this particular sector confirms the theoretical
expectation that liberalisation promotes competition and reduces market power of existing firms, which is also consistent with the world-wide trends. Conclusion: The policies adopted at the inception of Economic Structural Adjustment Programmed (ESAP) should be pursued more vigorously to create a manufacturing base which is open to competition and which is insulated from adverse effects of possible manipulation by a few large firms. Policy should be aimed at maintaining affordability of the basic commodities to the consumers as well as ensuring viability to the manufacturers. With high levels of industrial concentration, producers are able to operate at a higher-cost system without losing
market share, but this is to the detriment of the consumers
Iago: "Motiveless malignity" or diabolic intellectual
No full text“Evil has nowhere else been portrayed with such mastery as in the character of Iago” (Bradley, 1951, p. 206). Even a casual reading, or viewing, of Shakespeare’s plays will show that Iago is indeed Shakespeare’s most evil character. How realistic is such a portrayal? Can such a being exist in the “real” world
Welcome statement by Dr. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, at the inauguration of the Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business, 11:00, 14 July 2010, Windhoek.
No full textInauguration of the Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business (2010 July 14 : Windhoek, Namibia
Welcome statement by Dr. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, at the Second International APEDIA Conference on Sustainable Land Use in Africa, 14:00, 30 August 2010, NUST, Windhoek.
No full textInternational APEDIA Conference on Sustainable Land Use in Africa (2nd : 2010 Aug. 3 : NUST, Windhoe
Risk management strategies of cattle farmers in Namibia - Case study from Omaheke and Otjozondjupa region.
No full textA sample survey of 269 questionnaires was administered to commercial and communal cattle farmers in the two regions of Namibia, (Omaheke and Otjozondjupa) to identify factors which affect the adoption
of livestock insurance. About 205 questionnaires were collected and the 64 questionnaires were regarded as irregular responses or not returned. A computer software programme was used to generate
a logit model. This model was used to test the alternative risk management strategies used by farmers in the two regions. In addition, this research took into account the off-farm investment and farm enterprise diversification. The logit model produced results that are statistically significant and negative estimated coefficient of the household characteristics. This implies that the Namibian livestock industry growth can be achieved with improved education, experience and support from other income as way of diversifying risk strategy. However, the positive relationship of variables FTHEFT and PROD implies the sector is suffering from continuous risk of theft and requires quality production to get market access. This necessitates the need for policy makers and insurers to design programme to educate farmers so that they can adopt proper risk management tools and thereby increase their participation in insurance. The low level of education of many farmers in the study area may have
negatively influenced the decision to purchase livestock insurance in addition to other factors
A collocation multistep methods for integrating ordinary differential equations on manifolds.
No full textThis paper concerns a family of generalized collocation multistep methods that evolves the numerical
solution of ordinary differential equations on configuration spaces formulated as homogeneous
manifolds. Collocating the general linear method at x x for k s n k = = 0,1,... + , we obtain the discrete
scheme which can be adapted to homogeneous spaces. Varying the values of k in the collocation
process, the standard Munthe-Kass (k = 1) and the linear multistep methods (k = s) are recovered. Any
classical multistep methods may be employed as an invariant method and the order of the invariant
method is as high as in the classical setting. In this paper an implicit algorithm was formulated and two
approaches presented for its implementation