Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces

Khanyile Mlotshwa is a Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Global Scholarly Dialogue Programme research fellow.Mphathisi Ndlovu is research fellow of journalism at Stellenbosch University.

“Mlotshwa and Ndlovu have successfully assembled a stellar cohort of young and brilliant intellectuals to engage the important and often ignored question of Matebeleland in Zimbabwe from the vantage point of media studies. The result is a treasure trove—indeed a rich, enriching, and eye-opening study—of the multifaceted aspects of the Matebeleland question and idea ranging from memory, nationalism, identity, search for peace, cyberspace activism, performances, to photography. Just like they have Yoruba studies in Nigeria, here we have a good start in Matebeleland studies.”

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionKhanyile Mlotshwa and Mphathisi Ndlovu PART I: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues1. Marginal Societies Online: A Critical Appreciation of Genocide and its Politics in CyberspaceShepherd Mpofu2. Counter-Memory, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Discursive Constructions of Matabeleland in Digital SpacesMphathisi Ndlovu3: The Pitfalls of Matabeleland as a (Digital) Work of MemoryKhanyile Mlotshwa4: Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict MatabelelandNtombizakhe Moyo-NyoniPART II: Minorities of Minorities5: Hidden in Public: The Symbolic Annihilation of the Khoisan People in Zimbabwe’s Public SphereChristina Ncube and Khanyile Mlotshwa6: The Batonga Representations in Matabeleland ImaginationsMike Mutale7: Kalanga Activism and the Imaginations of Matabeleland in Digital SpacesNkosini Aubrey Khupe8: Theorizing Online Female Journalism as Border Practices in the Case of Amakhosikazi Media, Bulawayo, ZimbabweKhanyile Mlotshwa and B