Mawere: African Cultures, Memory and Space

Living the Past Presence in Zimbabwean Heritage

Munyaradzi Mawere, R. Mubaya, Munyaradzi Mawere, R. Mubaya

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9789956792979
• eBook ISBN: 9789956792153
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

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 approach. The book, which is designed as a foundational text to the study of culture in ever-changing environments, makes an important argument that the dynamism of culture in highly globalised societies such as that of Zimbabwe can be studied from any perspective, but most importantly through careful examination of cultural elements such as memory, oral history and space, among others. While the book makes special reference to Zimbabwe, it profoundly and audaciously dissect and cut across different geographical and cultural spaces through its penetrating interrogation and scrutiny of different issues commonplace in many African contexts and even beyond. The book, written by scholars from different backgrounds and orientations, should appeal to scholars, researchers and students from various disciplines which include but not limited to Cultural Heritage Studies, Policy Studies, Social-Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies and African Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgement
• Preface
• Chapter 1 - The Post-colony Writes Back
• Chapter 2 - Camfranglais: The Making of a New Language in Cameroon
• Chapter 3 - The Signifying Monkey: Le Camfranglais, quelle parlure?
• Chapter 4 - Literary Camfranglais in Mercédès Fouda’s Je Parle camerounais: pour un renouveau francofaune
• Chapter 5 - Fictionalizing Camfranglais in Fonkou’s Moi taximan
• Chapter 6 - Streetwise French in Nganang’s Temps de chien
• Chapter 7 - Camfranglais and the Question of Orality in Cameroonian Literature
• Chapter 8 - Conclusion
• Works cited
• Glossary/Glossaire
• Index
• Back cover