Building Societies and the surburbanisation of Zimbabwe: A history

The essay traces the development of Zimbabwean housing finance and it's impact from the 1950s up to the present day. The essay argues that, consistent with the political landscape up to 1980 building societies largely benefitted the white minority and in the post independence period the emerging African bourgeois class were the immediate beneficiaries. The colonial and post-colonial trend contradicts the traditional mandate of building societies: providing housing to the small man. The essay also explores the responses of the small man as he sought inclusion in the urban housing landscape. To this end housing co-operatives are posited as the small man's response to a financial system marked by exclusion of the low income earners.

Zimbabwean musical discourses and the HIV/AIDS pandemic

The essay explores the various images that are projected in Zimbabwe popular music with regard to the AIDS pandemic. Sustained use of compositions by Oliver Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo, Charles Charamba, and Leornard Zhakata interalia is made.

Social Networking and the creation of identities a Foucauldian analysis

The definition of self in a context of competing gazes on social networks forms the core of this forthcoming essay. The individual is caught up in a web of gazes that create contradictions in one's identity and self as he juggles around the various audiences that he interacts with on different social networks.