Traditional oral literature and the socialisation of the Shona (Zimbabwe) girl child: an agenda for disempowerment

This article looks at the role played by Shona oral art forms in conditioning the girl child for a life of docility and extreme passiveness. It is argued and maintained that certain oral art forms were deliberately crafted to socialize females in a way that would disempower them so as to make them s...

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Main Authors: Chigidi, Willie L., Tembo, Charles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Africa Institute for Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Tolerance Studies 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11408/830
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