Titlebook: Chihera in Zimbabwe; A Radical African Fe Ezra Chitando,Sophia Chirongoma,Munyaradzi Nyakudy Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th

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VaChihera: A Profile of Ndakazivale whose variant totemic names are Mhofu or Mpofu have their origins. They use the Eland as their totemic animal. The name Shava has various meanings attached to it, which include the fairness of the skin (resembling the colors of an eland), and the nice venison from its meat. Shava people are also

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Chihera: Renegotiating the Status of Women in Shona Indigenous Culture in Zimbabwehera is visible and assertive. The chapter concludes by positing that although her critics accuse her of upsetting the “order of nature,” Chihera is the epitome of confidence and the prototypical liberated Zimbabwean woman.

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Chiheras’ Twenty-First-Century Profiling: Re-converging from Past Divisions in Monolithic Defying ofrs of narratives of women who are liberated and do not seem to succumb to the patriarchal characteristic of African societies. This chapter examines how the alleged VaHera women’s assertiveness and the narratives connected to it are received and reinterpreted in the twenty-first century where gender

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(I Am Chihera): An African Womanist Perspective on the Chihera Identity in Zimbabwes to provide an insider perspective on the Chihera identity. It envisages to give a nuanced analysis of both the cultural identity as well as the social media portrayal of the Chihera woman. The chapter utilises narrative analysis. It further deploys the African Womanist approach as it allows women’

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“Please Understand Me, I Am Chihera”: Issues of Character and Traits Among the Indigenous Zimbabwean Chihera woman, two Chihera women’s husbands, sister-in-law, son, daughter, friend, and brother of a Chihera woman. They each offered their views regarding how they have experienced the character of a Chihera woman. Generally, the description from the interviewees showed that Chihera women are mostl

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Chihera’s Story: Keeping Ubuntu Alive Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic’ But, such local personal stories of women like Chihera who deflate patriarchy have not been captured in academic discourse. The Chihera concept is most often lost in oral tradition and on social media. This chapter argues that by telling Chihera’s story, the participant/co-author, the researcher a

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Revisiting Totemic Praise Names: Chihera as Metaphor of Addressing Gender-Based and Sexual Violence d sexual violence. Hence, adopting an African womanist perspective, the chapter argues that Chihera can be effectively used as a drawing board to tap into discourses that can empower not only women but also all people to fight gender-based and sexual violence in the family and society.

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Chihera in Film: The Subversion of Patriarchal and Customary Laws of Inheritance as Depicted in the ldren from the male relatives of her deceased husband. The critical hermeneutics is utilized in this chapter to discriminate between a liberating and incarcerating use of film images: the images that democratize Zimbabwe’s traditional practice of inheritance and those that mystify it; those that com