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African Masculinities, Sexual and Reproductive Health : The Case of AICs in Zimbabwe
No full textThroughout the world, there are still strong social and cultural norms that perpetuate power imbalances between men and women. While men usually have more agency than the women in their lives, men’s decisions and behaviours are also profoundly shaped by rigid social and cultural expectations related to masculinity. For this reason, there is an increasing amount of research output recognizing the impact of religion and culture on sexual and reproductive health-care utilization in Africa. Connell (1998), MenEngage (2016), Ezra Chitando & Susan Mbula Kilonzo (2018), Desi Dwi Prianti (2019) Mbah (2019), Chitando & Chirongoma (2012), Sokfa (2013) and many more highlighted that there is a growing realisation that masculinities are not uniform and that they are expressed in diverse and sometimes conflicting ways. It is hypothesized in this chapter that some religious beliefs and cultural practices in Africa can influence the gender disparities that can affect sexual and reproductive health care of a people. Considering this backdrop this chapter examines the influence of African masculinities in sexual and reproductive health care using the belief systems and practices in African Indigenous Churches in Zimbabwe. The paper pays particular attention to two dominant issues in traditional African sexuality such as marriage and family planning. Extensive published literature and interview discussions were used to gather data for this paper
ECUMENICAL INGENUITIES AS INSTRUMENTAL POLICITCAL TOOL OF CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN ZIMBABWES’S NEW DISPENSATION
Full text linkFollowing the political developments that took place inZimbabwe from the 13th to the 24th of November 2017 that markedthe end of Mugabe regime (1980-2017) and the inauguration ofa new government, one can ponder whether this was a coup ornot a coup? But it was very apparent that the people of Zimbabwewere happy and in support of the military operation that wasunderway. The churches through the Zimbabwe Head of ChristianDenominations (ZHOCD) also added their voice in support of theevents that were taking place. All these resulted to the swearing in ofMnangagwa as a new President of Zimbabwe. The new governmentunder Mnangagwa has popularised itself as a “new dispensation”to signal a different approach to governance from that of Mugabe.However, the huge task confronting Mnangagwa’s government wasto prove its political legitimacy. This paper explored the politicalrole played by ecumenical movements in the ‘new dispensation’ inZimbabwe. Published documents, pastoral letters, internet sourcesand fieldnotes were purposively selected and used to glean data forthis paper. Through discourse analysis, the paper discovered thatthe Christian churches operating under the ecumenical body knownas Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) is openlyaccusing the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front(ZANU-PF) government for the socio-political ills currently affectingthe people. By closely analyzing its pastoral letters, one can observethat ZHOCD’s demands on political reforms to the government areno different to those pushed by the opposition party Movement forDemocratic Change (MDC). For this reason, this paper concludedthat the ecumenical initiatives are not the best political tools inresolving political conflicts in Zimbabwe since they seem to bepartisan as we shall see as the paper unfolds
Mutendi, Samuel (B)
No full text[According to section nine of the booklet entitled “Rungano rweZion Christian
Church in Rhodesia,” Samuel Mutendi was born to Makuwa, son of
Mudengezerwa who was the son of Chirume Mushavi who lived at Great
Zimbabwe. Chirume Mushavi was born to Dlembeu, the first son of Chief
Chirisamhuru of Matopos. This means that Samuel Mutendi was of the “Moyo
wavaRozvi” or heart totem. His father Makuwa was one of King Chikore’s vice
regents and a traditionalist who later was converted to the Dutch Reformed
Church (DRC). This history shows that Mutendi was a member of the Rozvi
royal family and grew up in the Dutch Reformed Church.
Ethics and Crisis in Africa: A Critique of the Rights-Based Approach to Homosexuality in Zimbabwe.
Full text linkIssues relating to homosexuality are one of the primary topics of moral debates in Africa. This is necessitated by the different perceptions that Africans have towards homosexuality. Some African societies condemn it while others embrace it with open hands. In Zimbabwe, gays and lesbians have been seen as chaos being unleashed by the profane Western society which is endeavouring to unseat governments and replace them with fiefdoms in the name of human rights. So, the challenges presented by homosexuality in different cultures of the world assume various degrees but in Africa, the phenomenon has raised issues that have proved to be a thorn in the flesh. The view of this paper is that there is moral danger if we base our moral values on the rights-based approach to homosexuality in Zimbabwe. To achieve this, the authors of this article used the qualitative approach which included interviews, published documents and internet sources to glean data. The paper argues that homosexuality is un-African and unnatural sexual perversions that are not only alien, but perceived as outlawed in traditional Zimbabwean societies. The paper discovered that the issue of homosexuality in Zimbabwe and beyond is dividing people through what Oliver Phillips (2010) refers to as ‘Blackmail.’ The paper argues that the best way forward in dealing with issues of homosexuality in Zimbabwe is to use hunhu or ubuntu as the spring board of morality not human rights
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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