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.