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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Dreams in the Shona Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Gelfand
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book The Spiritual Beliefs of the Shona written by Michael Gelfand and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Batsirai Madzonga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781446776520
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Ariana Learns Shona written by Batsirai Madzonga and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ariana embarks on a journey of discovery with Nashe, a captivating fairy from her dream. Together, they explore a land made of candy, an underwater paradise, and a forest filled with talking animals, learning Shona on the way.
Author : Hubert Bucher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Spirits and Power written by Hubert Bucher and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Shona cosmology. The author suggests that for the full impact of Christianity to be enjoyed by African peoples, there must be a confrontation between Christianity and the fundamental features of traditional cosmologies. The first five chapters of the book undertake to expose power as the root concept of the traditional religion of the Shona in Zimbabwe. The various spirits, upon whose actions the Shona believe that their life and well-being depend, are seen as symbolic representations, or conceptualizations, of those manifestations of 'power' which are looming large in their daily lives. In the rest of the book the author shows that this traditional conceptualization of spirits plays a central role also in the Shona 'Churches of the Spirit', which form an important branch among Independent Churches in Zimbabwe.
Author : Peter Palmer Ekeh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Dreams and Society written by Peter Palmer Ekeh and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kavevangua Kahengua
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dreams written by Kavevangua Kahengua and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cosmas A. R. Ncube
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Dreams and African Spirituality written by Cosmas A. R. Ncube and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hayashida
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004670165
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Dreams in the African Church written by Hayashida and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consideration of the place of dreams in daily life, and their significance as interpreted by a representative body of African Christians.
Author : Edison Mhaka
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517657925
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Mermaids and Mermen-Njuzu Myths Among the Shona of Zimbabwe written by Edison Mhaka and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chose the subject of mermaids (njuzu) because there is something interesting in the njuzu mystery. As the reader will discover, Shona myths about njuzu make very interesting reading as they seem to answer some questions related to the mysterious nature of njuzu. The word myth has been given different meanings. In common use, the word has been used to refer to untrue or fictitious stories. In this sense, myths are defined as stories not based on reality but the people's imaginations. In this book, however, the term is used with a specialised meaning which it has in religious studies. In religious studies, myths have been viewed as sacred narratives that reveal ultimate truth and realities (Eiade,1959:14).The special sense of the word myth was also noted by Aschwanden(1989) who observed that to the Karanga, mythology is experienced reality. Aschwanden's observation about the Karanga view on mythology equally applies to the Shona in general. To the Shona therefore, myths are an aspect of reality. The basis of njuzu myths are the lived experiences of the Shona people. To the Shona, njuzu myths are understood in a specialised religious sense which associates myths and reality. Thus, njuzu myths are taken seriously by the Shona. Some of the njuzu myths in this book are based on dreams. The Shona take their dreams seriously. Njuzu related dreams are therefore regarded by the Shona as part of lived reality. Hence, we find some Shona who give testimonies about njuzu based on their dreams. Available literature indicates that myths about mermaids are a culturally universal phenomenon going back to time immemorial. Myths about this legendary creature are found in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, America, the Far East and Africa.Different cultural groups have different names for this largely aquatic creature .It is called merrow by the Irish, Mami Wata by the West Africans, rusakals by the Russians and naiads by the Greeks. In Southern Africa' mermaids are referred to as Abantubomlambo by the Xhosa of South Africa (Elliot, 1970) and njuzu or nzuzu by the Shona of Zimbabwe (Gelfand, 1979). The word njuzu or nzuzu is used in singular or plural form. Thus, the Shona, like other cultural groups the world over, have myths related to mermaids and mermen.....
Author : Greg Mogenson
Publisher : Spring Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780882145532
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Village of Water Spirits written by Greg Mogenson and published by Spring Publications. This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In researching the patterns black people's dreams about white people, Ortiz Hill dug into the literature of the African worlds that black Americans came out of and found that those worlds were intact in their nightly dreams. Weaving scholarship and interviews with the Shona medicine man Mandaza Augustine Kandemwa, Ortiz Hill offers the recognition that, at the most intimate level, Africa has kept faith with the African-American soul.
Author : Sarvananda Bluestone
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892819027
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The World Dream Book written by Sarvananda Bluestone and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique self-help guide to dream interpretation using techniques and icons from cultures around the world. • Challenges the assumption that all symbols universally signify the same thing to all dreamers. • Includes numerous stories, games, and exercises for inducing, recalling, interpreting, and utilizing dreams. • Extends beyond Jung and Freud to include dream theory from numerous world cultures, including the Temiar of Malaya, the African Ibans, the Lepchka of the Himalayas, and the Ute of North America. Dreaming can be used as a tool for understanding our own consciousness, enhancing creativity, receiving visions, conquering fears, interpreting recent events, healing the body, and evolving the soul. Tapping into the vast dreaming experiences and lore of the world's cultures--from the Siwa people of the Libyan desert to the Naskapi Indians of Labrador--Sarvananda Bluestone challenges the assumption that all symbols universally signify the same thing to all dreamers. The World Dream Book encourages readers to develop their own, personalized symbols for understanding their consciousness and provides a series of stories, multicultural techniques, and games to help them do so. Playful explorations, such as the aboriginal "Sipping the Water of the Moon," teach how to induce, recall, interpret, and utilize the power of dreams. Readers will discover how a stone under a pillow can help us remember a dream and will explore their own dormant artist and writer as they reclaim the power of their sleeping consciousness. Sarvananda Bluestone applies his uniquely engaging style to demonstrate that, with a few simple tools, everybody has the capacity to unleash their full dreaming potential.
Author : Anitra Nettleton
Publisher : Wits University Press
ISBN 13 : 1868144585
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)
Download or read book African Dream Machines written by Anitra Nettleton and published by Wits University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African headrests are treated as art objects in this historical study African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of "art" objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of Western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single formal style model as exclusive to a single ethnic group. This book has been in the making for fifteen years, starting with research on the traditional woodcarving of the Shona-and Venda-speaking peoples of Zimbabwe and South Africa. Among the artifacts made by South African peoples, headrests were the best known and during a year spent in Europe in 1975 and 1976, Anitra Nettleton discovered museum stores full of unacknowledged masterpieces made by speakers of numerous Southern African languages. A Council Fellowship from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1990 enabled the writer to develop an archive in the form of notes, photographs, and sketches of each and every headrest she encountered. Many examples from South African collections were added from the early 1990s onwards, expanding the field vastly. Nettelton executed drawings of each and every headrest encountered, and they became a major part of the project in their own right. African Dream Machines questions the assumed one-to-one relationship between formal styles and ethnic identities or classifications. Historical factors are used to demonstrate that "authenticity," in the form sought by collectors of antique African art, is largely a construct.
Author : Tawanda Chingombe
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1543741150
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Dreams of the Son written by Tawanda Chingombe and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story focuses on the protagonist, Mwana Mutota, who is a descendant of an ancient bloodline of kings of the Great Stone Empire. The son is in constant conflict with his conscious and subconscious mind since, in his dreams, he finds solace and peace, and this is embodied in the f irst scene, The Castle in the Sky. This is unlike when he awakens and finds life futile and existential, as evidenced by the second scene, Return to the Earth Realm. Dreams therefore present the highest form of existence as one is in their truest form and bound by no rules, sin, or flesh and present the only peace in the protagonists life. Life therefore revolves around the conflict of the internal (the soul that is only free in dreams) and the external (the body that is trapped on earth) that drives the protagonist to the brink of insanity as the plot unfolds. The Great Stone Empire presents an empire that, through colonialism and corruption, is economically and socially depleted to the point of widespread unemployment and poverty. Mwana Mutotaor rather The Son, as he prefers to call himselfon the request of Chaminuka (the guardian spirit of Nubian empires), is crowned king under the wings of the premiere of the empire (the last defiant Nubian leader against the west). The underlying battle of the story is of the sons of light versus the sons of darkness, a story that began from the dawn of time and is still ongoing. This is embodied in Mwana Mutota (the son of light) and his battle with Adam (the son of darkness), the deadly assassin hell-bent on ending Mwanas life. Gladys is Mwana Mutotas love,and yet they have not seen in each other in years. The platonic relationship presents the struggle of pure love in a corrupted world, and the desire to once more be together is Mwanas ultimate hope in life. Gladys is the descendant of the Mojaji queen who, in a past life, was married to the Mutota king; and they were separated through conspiracy and treachery. Gladys Mojaji and Mwana Mutota, therefore, represent mediums of the greatest spirit of the empire, which is Chaminuka, and form part of his trinity and their reuniting in the Earth realm represents a return to a lost virtue in the universe of the highest form, which is love. The last scene is called Return to Eden, as it captures a pure and lost Nubian love as the bodies and souls of the Mutota and Mojaji king and queen once more reunite. A perfect harmony is restored in the universe, and the two souls reunite in the spirit world. They walk hand in hand in the full allure of a spiritual garden full of the beauty of nature, and the two embrace in the earth realm. And the story reaches an end (for now).
Author : Shizha, Edward
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0798304073
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Restoring the Educational Dream. Rethinking Educational Transformation in Zimbabwe written by Shizha, Edward and published by Africa Institute of South Africa. This book was released on 2013-12-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of education in human well being and social development cannot be overestimated. After a number of highly commendable policies on education in the first decade of independence, the education system in Zimbabwe has taken a tumble that needs both examining and rectifying. This volume analyses the challenges facing the education system in Zimbabwe and explores and scrutinises theoretical and practical possibilities for restoring the educational dream that was initiated at independence in 1980. The book is targeted at academics, scholars, college and university students, policy makers and other stakeholders and advocates a multi-pronged approach that must involve all stakeholders if educational retransformation, reconstruction and restoration are to be achieved. The authors provide a range of recommendations for a project that would restore the educational dream in Zimbabwe.
Author : M.C. Jedrej
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004665846
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa written by M.C. Jedrej and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this investigation of dreaming in a diversity of African cultures and settings have each approached the matter with a respect for an indigenous discourse which does not necessarily subscribe to Western evaluations of the objective and subjective. The matter of dreaming is not so much a psychological constant as ultimately sociological and historical. Dream discourse as a strategy deploys contingencies in the elaboration of social relationships and the defence, restoration and promotion of identities. Dreaming is therefore prominent in such critical settings as sickness and healing, artistic inspiration and craftwork, election to religious office, conversion to Islam or Christianity.
Author : Lawrence D Moyo
Publisher : novum pro Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3991313170
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Pursuit of the Elusive Dream written by Lawrence D Moyo and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone interested in the history of Zimbabwe will love this memoir by Lawrence D. Moyo. It traces the tumultuous events of the First Chimurenga of 1896 through independence from Great Britain in 1980 until the present day. He vividly describes his childhood struggles as the son of a father who abuses his children as 'slave labourers'. Lawrence progressively climbs the educational ladder until he emigrates to the UK with his family. Harping on the theme of 'hidden racism', among others, Lawrence then endures horrific racist treatment from criminally disobedient white and black students in schools he works at as an English teacher. Having become a highly respected educational specialist, he is now retired in the UK, retaining his connections with his family members and friends in Zimbabwe.
Author : Solomon M. Mutswairo
Publisher : Juta Zimbabwe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Introduction to Shona Culture written by Solomon M. Mutswairo and published by Juta Zimbabwe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
