Department of Languages and Literature

DEPARTMENT CHAIRPERSON

Academic Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in English (University of Free State, 2022)

MA in English (University of Zimbabwe)

BA Honours in English (University of Zimbabwe)

Research Interests

Dr Sarah Yeukai Matanga’s research interests include intersections of literature, gender and religion,  representations of cultural and social aspects in music, mobilities in the context of Zimbabwe. She is currently Vice Chairperson of the Circle for Concerned Women Theologians, Zimbabwean Chapter.

Selected Publications

• Matanga, S.Y. & Mancuveni, M. 2022. Zimbabwean Mother and Mother Earth: An Anaylysis of Selected Shona Songs ’ In ES Gudhlanga, J Muganiwa, MW Dube (eds.). African Literature, Mother Earth and Religion, Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, pp. 105-122. ISBN 1-64889-128-4
• Masaka, D and Mukungurutse Sarah Y, 2017, Confronting the Exclusive Dominance of Christianity in Zimbabwe’s Advanced Level Divinity Syllabus through Africanisation, Alternation Journal of Religion and Social Responsibility. Special Edition No.19, (ISSN 1023-1757).
• Nyenya T and Mukungurutse S.Y 2016. Wait for Time to Heal a severely Battered Image; Positing Perception Management in Higher and Tertiary Institutions in Zimbabwe. IJHSSE, Vol 3, issue 2, pp107-114. ISSSN 2349-0389.
• Mugari A and Mukungurutse S.Y 2015, An analysis of Language as a Catalyst to Sport Violence. A Case of Ten Secondary Schools in Marondera Urban, IJRHSS, Volume 2, Issues7, pp75-78, ISSN 2394-6288.
• Chiridza, P Chirambaguwa, W and Mukungurutse S.Y 2015, Zimbabwe’s Politics of Violence as Shown in Music from the Liberation Struggle to the PostIndependent State. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies,Volume 03 – Issue 04, (ISSN: 2321 – 2799).

Email Address: matangas@zou.ac.za    or sarahyeukai@gmail.com

Mobile: +263 774 047 172

Telephone: +263 06523 22267

Physical Address: Zimbabwe Open University, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies, Department of Languages and Literature, Mashonaland East Regional Campus, 21-5^th Street, Marondera,  Zimbabwe.

Academic Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy degree in English (University of Venda, South Africa)
• Master of Arts degree in English (University of Zimbabwe)
• Master of Science degree in Peace, Leadership and Conflict Resolution (Zimbabwe Open University)
• BA Honours in English (University of Zimbabwe)
• Diploma in Education (Hillside Teachers College/UZ)
• Diploma in Ministry (Africa for Christ Bible College, Zimbabwe).

Research Interests

Dr Sibanda’s research interests are: Short story genre, World Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Genre Fiction, Global Crises, Language, Literacy Issues, Communication, and Peace & Conflict Resolution Issues in Literature.

Selected Publications:

• Nhlanhla Sibanda and Bhekinkosi Ndlovu (2021). An exploration of the Performance Lag Address Programme (PLAP) in addressing Literacy in primary schools: the case of Tsholotsho District in Zimbabwe. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, V(XI), 579-585.
• Sibanda, N. and Dube, S. 2018. (Re) collecting the memory of Bulawayo through Naming in Short Writings from Bulawayo. European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, 6(1): 43-52.
• Sibanda, N., Hadebe, L. and Maposa, A. 2017. Writing violence into perspective: a 21^st century Zimbabwean short story genre approach. European Journal of English Language Teaching, 2 (4): 195-211.
• Sibanda, N. 2015. An analysis of the significance of myths and proverbs as African philosophies of peace and justice: a case of the Ndebele, Shona and Tonga tribes from Zimbabwe and the Igbo from Nigeria” in IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 20 (4): 01-06.
• Sibandan, N. 2013. The Role of Tonga Language and Culture Committee (TOLACCO), Roman Catholic and Community Leadership in the Promotion of Literacy in Binga Community in Zimbabwe. International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2 (8) 343-351.
• Sibanda, N. 2013. The socio-economic impact of vocational education skills training centres among the Bulawayo youths during the period 2008 to 2012: a case study of Lobengula and Sizinda Training Centres. JM International Journal of Management Research, 3 (3):105-120.
• Sibanda, N. 2012. Language Loyalty and Empowerment, the case of Zimbabwe. Tsebo Journal of Humanities, 2 (4): 131-145.Contact DetailsEmail Address: matangas@zou.ac.za    or sarahyeukai@gmail.com

  Mobile: +263 774 047 172

  Telephone: +263 06523 22267

  Physical Address: Zimbabwe Open University, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies, Department of Languages and Literature, Mashonaland East Regional Campus, 21-5^th Street, Marondera,  Zimbabwe.

Academic Qualifications

• Master of Arts Degree in Applied Linguistics (University of Zimbabwe, 2019)
• Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in Linguistics (University of Zimbabwe, 2017)
• Certificate in Strategic Public Relations and Business Promotion (University of Zimbabwe, 2022)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Miss Mukaro’s research interests include; sociolinguistics, language and gender; Critical Discourse Analysis, and Phonetics and Phonology

Contact details

Email Address: mukaroj@zou.ac.zw

Mobile: +263779211175

Telephone: +263 2021 2068153

Physical Address: Zimbabwe Open University, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies, Department of Languages and Literature, Manicaland Regional Campus, 992 C avenue, Mutare, Zimbabwe

Academic Qualifications

• Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (University of Zimbabwe, 2010)
• Bachelor of  Arts Honours in Linguistics (University of Zimbabwe, 2010)

Research interests

Mr Shumba’s research interests are; Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Bilingualism and Language contact issues.

Contact details

Email Address: shumbam@zou.ac.zw

Mobile: +263 773 978330

Telephone: +263 242 702703/25015728

Physical Address: Zimbabwe Open University, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies, Department of Languages and Literature, Harare Chitungwiza Regional Campus, 836R+GH5 Alpes Road, Hatcliffe, Harare, Zimbabwe

Academic Qualifications

• Doctor of Literature and Philosophy (English) (University of South Africa)
• Master of Arts in English (University of Zimbabwe)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Zimbabwe Open University)
• Bachelor of Arts Special Honours in English (University of Zimbabwe)
• Bachelor of Arts General (University of Zimbabwe)

Professional Qualifications

• Technology Enabled Learning, Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University (2020)
• Blended Learning Practice, Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University (2020)
• The Role of the Bible in Peacebuilding, Zimbabwe Open University (2019)
• Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Zimbabwe Open University (2015)
• Research Methodology in Social Sciences for University Lecturers and Supervisors (Master’s/PhD), OSSREA (2014)

Research Interests:

• Children’s Literature
• African Literature
• Gender Studies

Selected Publications

• Chitando A., E. Chitando. 2023. Zimbabwean Women’s Writings and Women’s Theology: Supporting Women’s Struggles for Full Rights and Dignity.’  In E. Chitando, S. Chirongoma and M. Manyonganise (Eds.), Gendered Spaces, Religion and Migration in Zimbabwe: Implications for Economic Development, New York: Routledge, pages 51 – 64.
• Chitando, A. 2022. Reconceptualising Peacebuilding: Insights from Young Women in Zimbabwe.  In T.K. Tieku, A. Coffie, M. B. Setrana and A. Taiwo (Eds.).  The Politics of Peacebuilding in Africa, New York: Routledge, pages 67 – 80.
• Chitando, A. 2021. “Women and Peacebuilding in Africa.” In A. Chitando (Ed.), Women and Peacebuilding in Africa. New York: Routledge, pages 1-20.
• Chitando, A. 2021. ‘Pray the Devil Back to Hellas a Resource for Appreciating African Women’s Contribution to Peacebuilding.  In A. Chitando (Ed.), Women and Peacebuilding in Africa. New York: Routledge, pages 213 – 225.
• Chitando, A. (2020). Writing Mother Africa: African Women Creative Writers and the Environment, Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies, Vol1, No 2, Aug 2020, p. 61-85, DOI. https://doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2020/1n2a4.
• Chitando, A. (2019).  From Victims to the Vaunted: Young Women and Peace Building in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, African Security Review, DOI: 10.1080/10246029.2019.1662462.Contact details Email Address: chitandoa@zou.ac.zw

   

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  Physical Address: Zimbabwe Open University, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies, Department of Languages and Literature, Corner House, 8^th Floor, Corner Samora Machel Avenue and Leopold Takawira Street, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Dr Angeline M Madongonda

Senior Lecturer 

Academic Qualifications

DPhil in Literature Zimbabwe Open University, 2025

Master of Arts in English University of Zimbabwe, 2005

Bachelor of Arts Honours in English University of Zimbabwe, 1994

Post-Graduate Diploma in Media Studies – Midlands State University (2007)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Education – Zimbabwe Open University (2006)

Professional Qualifications

Certificate in Computer Literacy – University of Zimbabwe (2004)

Certificate in Technology Enabled Learning – Commonwealth of Learning & Athabasca University (2020)

Certificate in Blended Learning Practice – Commonwealth of Learning & Athabasca University (2020)

Certificate in Critical Media Literacies – Open Educational Resource University (2020)

Certificate in Copyright and Creative Commons Licensing – Open Educational Resource University (2020)

Certificate in Writing and Editing Specialization – University of Michigan via Coursera (2021)

Certificate in Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) | Zimbabwe Open University (2015)

Certificate in Module Writing – Zimbabwe Open University (2011)

Research Interests

African Literature, Subaltern voices, Gender Issues, Geocriticism, Corpus Linguistics, Postcolonial Studies

Selected Publications

• Madongonda A M & Chitando, A. 2025. Liminal Crises: Gendered Space, Culture, and Colonial Dystopia in Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950). Cultural Intertext. Year XII, Volume 15.
• Chitando, A. & Madongonda, A. M. 2025. Negotiating Exclusion: Female heterotopic spaces and survival in Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope” in the journal, IMBIZO, Volume 2, 2025.
•     Madongonda A.M. & Gudhlanga E.S. (2025). Freedom and Redefining the Self: Fracturing Tradition in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy in R. S Montes & A. Kumar Margins Speaking to Margins Multinational Perspectives on AfricanAmerican Literature Wilmington: Vernon Press.
• Madongonda A.M. & Gudhlanga E.S. (2025). Forced and Early Marriages. In Manyonganise, M., Gunda, M.R. & Naicker, L. (Eds). Religion, Gender and Masculinities in Africa: Essays in honour of Ezra Chitando. Bamburg: University of Bamburg Press, pp. 267-285. ISBN: 978-3-98989-042-8.

• Madongonda A M and Gudhlanga E S (2024) Generational Search for Home: History, Race and Gendered Perspectives in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative WritersCham: Springer International Publishing, pp 155–166.
• Madongonda, A.M. & Gudhlanga, E.S. 2023. Through the lenses of betrayal: Ambivalence and other markers of deception in Aaron Chiundura Moyo’s Kuridza Ngoma nedemo. In Mavengano, E & Mhute, I. (eds.) Sub-Sahara Political Cultures of Deceit in Language, Literature and the Media, Volume 1, Zimbabwe as a case study (pp. 127-147). Palgrave MacMillan Chan. https://doi.org/10/1007/978-3-031-35323-9_9
• Madongonda, A.M & Gudhlanga, 2023. E.S Grief Across Cultures: An Analysis of paralinguistic features in two selected songs from Mocambique and Zimbabwe.
• Gudhlanga, E.S., Madongonda, M. and Manyonganise, M. 2023. Realist Literature, Gender and Gullibility in African Pentecostalism: The case of Chiundura Moyo’s Kereke Inofa. HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, Volume 79, Number 3, aB258.https//doi.org//10.4102/hts.v79i3.8258.
• Gudhlanga, E. S. and Madongonda, A. M. 2021. Reclaiming their socio-economic space in African culture: Shona Women Cross Border Traders of Zimbabwe, Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies, pp. 61-78. DOI: //doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n1a3.
• Madongonda A M and Gudhlanga E S (2016) “ Knock Knock Knock” The paradox of the Music genre and Serious Discourse in HIV/AIDS Communication African Journal of Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Language of Decolonisation in Africa Vol II, pp151-171

BA Hons English (UZ),

MAEnglish (UZ)

Research Interests

1.Literatures of the World in English

2.Applied Linguistics

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D. (African Languages, Literature, Linguistics) University of South Africa

MA (African Languages and Literature) University of Zimbabwe

Postgraduate Diploma in Education Catholic University of Zimbabwe

BA Honors (Shona and Geography) Catholic University of Zimbabwe

Research interests

African Languages

African Literature

Language policy and planning in Africa

Language Revitalization

Selected Publications

Mubonderi B and Gwekwerere T. (2025) Language hierarchization in marketing and advertising: an analysis of e-advertisements by Zimbabwe’s mobile network operators In Marketing Communication in African Languages 53-64: Taylor and Francis https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003517382

Mubonderi, B., Gwekwerere, T., Mutasa, D., Mupondi, D. (2019) Patriotic narratives on national leadership in Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) song texts, ca 2000-2017. South African Journal of African Languages 2019, 39(1) https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2019.1572323

Mubonderi, B. and Hamadziripi, N. (2018) Speaking the Unspeakable: A socio-cultural analysis of Taboo language in Shona Culture. The Fountain Journal of Inter- Disciplinary Studies, Vol II.

Mubonderi, B. and Rwodzi, A. (2015). Implications of the Colonial economic legacy on the future of entrepreneurship in Zimbabwe. Annals of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol 1 number 1 (Special Issue)

Academic Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy degree in Journalism (University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 2022)
• Master of Arts degree in Communications and Media Studies (University of Zimbabwe)
• BA Honours in English (University of Zimbabwe)
• Diploma in Media and Communications (University of Zimbabwe).

Research Interests

Dr. Peter Chiridza research interests are; social media studies, political communication, digital journalism and multimedia communication.

Selected Publications:

• Chiridza, P, Chirambaguwa,W & Mukungurutse, S.Y. (2015) Zimbabwe’s Politics of Violence as shown in Music from the Liberation Struggle to the Post Independent State, Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies (ISSN: 2321 – 2799) Volume 03 – Issue 04.
• Sigauke,E.; Katsaruware,D.; Chiridza, P.; Saidi,T. (2015), African Traditional Cultural Values and Beliefs: A Driving Force to Natural Resource Management: A Study of Makonde
• Chiridza, P, Yorodani, J, Sigauke, E, Katsaruware, R.D. (2016) Social media and the society: A case study of WhatsApp in Zimbabwe. New Media and Mass Communication                                                                                                                                              www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3267 (Paper) ISSN 2224-3275 (Online).
• Peter Chiridza, Elliot Muchena, & Washington Chirambaguwa. (2016), Examining The Potential For Violence In Zimbabwe’s Politics In The Post 2014 ZANU PF Congress Era, Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Vol.4, No.3, pp.39-45.
• Katsaruware, R. D; Sigauke, E and Chiridza, P. (2016), the role of Central Business District (CBD) Vendors in livelihood development, Southern Peace Review Journal.
• Chirambaguwa, W & Chiridza, P. (2017) A Fine Stalemate: Cultural Decolonisation and Imperialism’s Deadlock in Gomo’s: A Fine Madness, Greener Journal of Language and Literature Research, ISSN: 2384-6402, Vol. 3 (1), pp. 001-012
• Yorodani, J, Chiridza, P & Muchena, E. (2017) Community Radio Stations: The Missing Link in Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (ZimAsset), Greener Journal of Internet, Information and Communication Systems,  ISSN: 2354-2373        Vol. 3 (1), pp. 001-008.
• Chiridza, P & Chitsamatanga, J. (2017) Examining the Place and Scope of Social Media in Contemporary Zimbabwe Politics, Greener Journal of Internet, Information and Communication Systems, ISSN: 2354-2373, Vol. 3 (2), pp. 014-019.
• Chiridza, P, Linde, K, & Muchena, E. (2017), Exploring Perceptions of Online Readers of Newsday And The Herald on Media Representations of War Veterans In Zimbabwe’s Politics In The Year 2016. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 22, Issue 5, Ver. 4, PP 57-62 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.orgContact detailsEmail Address: chiridzap@zou.ac.zwMobile: +263773 533 382

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  Physical Address: Zimbabwe Open University, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies, Department of Languages and Literature, Mashonaland West Regional Campus, 5425 Glassglow Industrial Site, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe.