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Department of Culture and Heritage Studies

Department Chairperson

Name

Departmental Lecturers

  • Prof. C. Chirimuuta
    Prof. C. Chirimuuta
  • Dr. H. Marufu
    Dr. H. Marufu
  • Dr. L. W. Mandizvidza
    Dr. L. W. Mandizvidza
Prof. C. Chirimuuta

Chairperson – Prof. Chipo Chirimuuta

 

Academic Qualifications

1994    B. A General                                                               (University of Zimbabwe)

1995    B.A Special Honours                                                  (University of Zimbabwe)

1997    MA. African Languages and Literature                     (University of Zimbabwe)

2017    Doctor of Literature and Philosophy                          (University of South Africa)

 

Professional Qualifications

1999    Post Graduate Certificate in Education                                 (University of Zimbabwe)

2007    Post Graduate Certificate in Media and Society Studies (Midlands State   University)

2015    Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Zimbabwe Open University

2020    Blended Learning Practice, Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University

Selected Journal Articles

 

Chirimuuta, C. (2006). “Empowerment or Perpetuation of Gender Imbalances? Gender and the Zimbabwe Education Policy”. Quiet Mountains.

Chirimuuta, C. and Madongonda M. A. (2007). “Traditional cultural practices: Arresting the spread of the AIDS pandemic”. Research Council of Zimbabwe. Volume VIII (b).Eighth Symposium of Science and Technology, “Knowledge based development for Zimbabwe”.

Chirimuuta, C., Bhukuvhani, C. and Gudhlanga, E.S. (2012) “Indigenous Knowledge Systems a Panacea in Education for Development? The Place and Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Curriculum Innovations in Zimbabwe.” International Journal of Social Science Tomorrow. Volume 1. (5): 1-4.

  1. Chirimuuta, C. and Mapolisa, T. (2012). “Centring the peripherised systems: Zimbabwe Indigenous knowledge systems for food security” Zimbabwe international Journal of Open and Distance learning: International Research Conference Edition:52-56.
  2. Chirimuuta, C. and Mapolisa, T. (2012). “Indigenous languages: The missing link between Zimbabwean Secondary Education System and Computer Assisted Instructional Learning as Advanced Forms of Information Technologies (ICTs)”. Prime Research on Education (PRE).2 (4) Pp226-236. ISSN 2251-1253.
  3. Gudhlanga, E.S., Chirimuuta,C. and Bhukuvhani, C. (2012). “Towards a gender inclusive curriculum in Zimbabwe’s Education Curriculum System: Opportunities and Challenges”. Gender and Behaviour Journal Vol 1 (1).
  4. Chirimuuta, C. and Chirimuuta. A (2012). “Peace education in the Zimbabwean education system. A critical analysis of selected ‘O’ and ‘A’ level subject syllabi”. In the SIPD Southern Peace Review Journal. 1 (1).  
  5. Chirimuuta, C. and Mapolisa, T. (2012). “Luring them back home: Strategies to attract and retain lectures from the Diaspora. A focus on the Zimbabwe Open University. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education (IJSSE) Vol: 2. Issue: 2:445-453.
  6. Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga & Chipo Chirimuuta: Are we not beneficiaries also? Portrayal of gender and land reform in some selected post-independence Shona fiction. Gender and Behaviour Journal. 10 (2)
  7. Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga & Chipo Chirimuuta “Advocacy as a Tool of Community Development: Zimbabwe Women Writers breaking the silence on HIV and AIDS in the anthology Totanga Patsva (We Start Afresh)”.
  8. Jongore Magret, Chipo Chirimuuta, Crispen Bhukuvhani and Dorcas Zuvalinyenga, (2013). The Zimbabwean First Languages seem to be slowly dying a Natural Death: A Case of University Student’s Academic Writing. Greener Journal of Educational Research. 3 (7): 318-325.
  9. Jongore Magret, Chipo Chirimuuta, Joyce Zivanai and Isreal Muvindi, (2013). Teaching “Reading” for Specific Purposes in Academic Areas of Specialisation to University Students: A Case of University Teaching of Foreign Language Reading. Greener Journal of Educational Research.  3 (10): 444-453, ISSN: 2276-7789
  10. Gudhlanga , E.S. & Chirimuuta, C. “Oral folklore as a model for contemporary gender studies: The case of Zimbabwe”. Journal of African Indigenous Languages and Literature, Vol 1, No 2, 2016.
  11. Chirimuuta, C & Gudhlanga, E.S “Inculcating good governance and leadership skills through the use of Folktales: The case of Shona and Ndebele folktales”. African Journal of Children’s Literature, Vol 1, No 1, 2016.
  12. Runzonza, M. and Chirimuuta, C. (2019). An Exploration of social media as Forms of Social Control and Political Othering: A Critical Discourse Approach. International Journal of E-Politics, 10 (1):35-48.

 

  1. SELECTED BOOK CHAPTER (S)
  2. Chirimuuta, C. and E.S. 2013. African Indigenous Conflict resolution for community development: Perspectives from Zimbabwe. In E.G. Ontita, E.M. Mwenzwa and J.A Misati (Eds.), Contemporary Community Development in Africa: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective. Paris: Delzon Publishers, pp. 242-255, ISBN: 978-2-36523-070-4.

 

  1. Bhukuvhani, C.; Gudhlanga, E.S and Chirimuuta, C. Science education for sustainable livelihoods: Community development through society-responsive curriculum reforms. In S. Maruta (ed.), Sustainable Peace and Development at Community Level: Beneficiaries are Actors Too. Pp. 81-97, Harare: Southern Institute of Peace Building and Development, ISBN 978-0-7974-4932-9.

 

  1. Gudhlanga, E.S & Chirimuuta, C. Harnessing Indigenous Agricultural Farming Methods to Mitigate Climate Change in Zimbabwe. In M.J. Akuma, E.S. Gudhlanga & E. Mwenzwa (eds.) Policy Public Policy Transformations in Africa: Trends, Challenges and the Future. Rome: European Centre for Science Education and Research (EUSER) in collaboration with Mediterranean Centre for Science & Educational Research (MCSER), pp. 14-33, ISBN: 978-88-909162-0-5.

 

  1. Chirimuuta, C & Gudhlanga, E.S. 2016. Towards an Indigenous Food and Nutrition Security Policy in Zimbabwe. InJ. Akuma, E.S. Gudhlanga & E. Mwenzwa (eds.) Policy Public Policy Transformations in Africa: Trends, Challenges and the Future. Rome: European Centre for Science Education and Research (EUSER) in collaboration with Mediterranean Centre for Science & Educational Research (MCSER), pp. 34-48, ISBN: 978-88-909162-0-5.

 

  1. Gudhlanga, E.S & Chirimuuta, C. 2016. Incorporating Oral Literature’s Concept of Gender Relations as an Alternative Solution to the Gender Equality Debate. InJ. Akuma, E.S. Gudhlanga & E. Mwenzwa (eds.) Policy Public Policy Transformations in Africa: Trends, Challenges and the Future. Rome: European Centre for Science Education and Research (EUSER) in collaboration with Mediterranean Centre for Science & Educational Research (MCSER), pp.49-68, ISBN: 978-88-909162-0-5.

 

  1. Gudhlanga, E.S & Chirimuuta, C. 2016. Learning from the Seedbed: Tapping Traditional Wildlife and Forestry Conservation Practices in Chipinge District, Zimbabwe. In J. Akuma, E.S. Gudhlanga & E. Mwenzwa (eds.) Policy Public Policy Transformations in Africa: Trends, Challenges and the Future. Rome: European Centre for Science Education and Research (EUSER) in collaboration with Mediterranean Centre for Science & Educational Research (MCSER), pp. 115-133, ISBN: 978-88-909162-0-5.

 

  1. Chirimuuta, C & Chirimuuta, A. (2021). Chapter Two: The Preparedness of Africans for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and for COVID-19. In R. Makamani, A. Nhemachena & O. Mtapuri (eds). Global Capital’s 21st Century Repositioning: Between COVID-19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Africa. Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group.

 

  1. Chirimuuta, C & Jongore, M.. (2021). The Land Question and the Legacy of Robert Mugabe: Thinking Zimbabwe’s Agrarian Reform Beyond Mugabe. In the book Zimbabwe in the Post-Mugabe Era. LAN Publication

 

  1. Chirimuuta, C (2021) Obert Mpofu and Autobiographic Construction of the Nation. Memory and the National Question in Zimbabwe:28-32.
Dr. H. Marufu

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in Archaeology (UDSM) – 2012

Master of Arts in Archaeology (UDSM) – 2008

Bachelor of Arts Special Honors in Archaeology (UZ) – 2005

Bachelor of Arts General in Archaeology and Shona (UZ) – 2004

 

Lecturer’s Profile

Happinos Marufu (PhD) is a lecturer in the Department of Culture and Heritage at Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). Prior to his engagement with ZOU, he worked for National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) as Senior Curator and Head of Archaeology Department. His research interests include cultural heritage management, museum practices, community engagement, Stone Age and Rock Art studies. Some of his major achievements include participating in the crafting of draft heritage legislation to repeal National Museums and Monuments Act (Chap 25/11), preparing dossier for the promotion of Mavhuradonha Wilderness for national cultural significance, carrying out cultural awareness campaigns and exhibiting Zimbabwe’s cultural heritage at national and international platforms. He is a beneficiary of African Archaeology Network (2006 to 2012), The Carnegie/ACLS African Humanities Programme (2012 and 2016), and IFAS – Research Grant (2015).

Journal Articles

  1. Julio Mercader, Robert Patalano, Julien Favreaua, Makarius Itambu, Joshua Kumbani & Happinos Marufu Acheulean Prepared Core Technologies from the Eastern Zimbabwe Escarpment, Maunganidze (Manicaland), Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 8: 47–62
  2. Marufu, H. and Saanane, C. B. (2014) Burial Pottery versus Domestic Pottery: An Archaeological Study of Decoration and Style, in Chami, F.A., Mabulla, A. and Bushozi, P. (eds), Journal of African Archaeology Network, Volume 11, pp. 139-158. [ISSN 1821-7745] Dar es Salaam: E & D Vision Publishing Limited

 

  1. Marufu, H (2010), ‘Archaeological Investigation of Shinje Settlement Site, Northern Zimbabwe’, In Chami, F. A. and Radimilahy, C. (eds), Journal of African Archaeology Network, Volume 8, pp.111-147

 

Book Chapters

  1. Chipangura N. and H. Marufu. 2019. Museums as Public Forums for 21st Century Societies: A Perspective of the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe. In Museums and Activism, Robert Janes and Richard Sandell (eds) London: Routledge, pp 164-173
  2. Happinos Marufu, 2017. The Stone Age Sequence of the Murewa–Mutoko Area, Northern Zimbabwe, Archives, Objects, Places and Landscapes: Multidisciplinary approaches to Decolonised Zimbabwean Pasts, Manyanga, M. & Chirikure, S. (eds), Langaa RPCIG [ISBN9956764191, 9789956764198]

 

 

Books

  1. Ichumbaki, E. B. and Marufu, H. 2013. A Bibliography of Tanzania’s Prehistory (Volume 1). Tanzania: University of Dar es Salaam Press. (ISBN No. 978997605600)
  2. Nhamo, A., Marufu & D. Coulson. 2017. The Rock Art of Zimbabwe. Trust for African Rock Art (TARA). Kenya: Nairobi. ISBN 9966-7453-9-

 

Contact Details

Cell Number : 0779653975

Email: marufuha@zou.ac.zw

Telephone:

+263 242 795991/795990/796464/770743/770744/794731/795518/7997730/793002/7/8 extn 401

 

Physical Address: Zimbabwe Open University, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies, Department of Languages and Literature, Corner House, 5th Floor, Corner Samora Machel Avenue and Leopold Takawira Street, Harare, Zimbabwe.

 

Dr. L. W. Mandizvidza

Academic Qualifications

                         

Research Interests

Dr. Lisborn Webster Mandizvidza’s research interests include, Media and Development, Propaganda, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Gender issues.

 

Selected Publications

The Zimbabwe’s Seamless Public Media: How Their Political Coverage Coincides With ZANU PF’s Politics and Behaviour in Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s Fall.

 

Contact details

Email Address: mandizvidzalw@zou.ac.zw,     lisburnw@gmail.com

Mobile: +263 773 943 613

+263 774 634 127

 Telephone: +263 242 250159

Physical Address: Harare /Chitungwiza Region

Harare Main Post Office. Nelson Mandela Street, Harare, Zimbabwe.