‘Gukurahundi - a moment of madness’: memory rhetorics and remembering in the postcolony

Maedza, Pedzisai

doi:10.1080/14725843.2019.1657000

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“…The power sharing reflects a set of structures instated to make material amends. Maedza (2019) argues that Unity Day, a joint project of the parties in conflict, is in effect a theatrical performance to reshape the meaning of Gukurahundi. The Zimbabwean government does not refute the atrocities; they just do provide an explanatory account indicating their role in it.…”

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“…The Zimbabwean government does not refute the atrocities; they just do provide an explanatory account indicating their role in it. Years after Gukurahundi, in a eulogy for Joshua Nkomo, the leader of ZAPU, the then President, Robert Mugabe offered a defence and an excuse, explaining it away as a 'moment of madness', then later blamed it on renegade soldiers (Maedza, 2019). Gukurahundi remains unreconciled with tension remaining between many Shona and Ndebele people.…”

Section: How Ubuntu Is Activatedmentioning

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A meta-theory of ubuntu: Implications for responsible leadership in Africa

Sachikonye,

Ramlogan

2024

South African Journal of Business Management

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Purpose: This study provides an outline of a meta-theory of ubuntu to illuminate how responsible leadership might be understood and enacted in African settings.Design/methodology/approach: This study presents an initial theory on ubuntu and appeals to realist philosophical principles to provide an approach to understand the structures that make ubuntu possible. The study tests and refines that initial theory using evidence about reconciliation in Africa where ubuntu has been revealed. It then discusses the key concepts of responsible leadership using ubuntu as a lens.Findings/results: Ubuntu is an important basis for responsible leadership in many African communities. It can manifest, to varying extents, when individuals engage with their environments and are exposed to an apology. Apology reveals the rights, privileges, obligations and responsibilities of individuals. It provides an environment for transformative conversations that improve understanding and promote harmony.Practical implications: Theories of responsible leadership based on ubuntu will prioritise engagement with African cultures and issues in a holistic manner. Leaders who activate ubuntu will be less interested in stakeholder management and more in citizenship. This approach decentres organisations and foregrounds humanity.Originality/value: This study contributes to the theory of ubuntu and proposes that it can support the conceptualisation and implementation of responsible leadership in African settings. It clarifies the nature of responsibility and indicates to whom that responsibility is owed. It helps bridge African and Western ideas to reverse the marginalisation of African systems of thought by positioning ubuntu as an important socio-philosophical idea.

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Section: How Ubuntu Is Activatedmentioning

confidence: 99%

A meta-theory of ubuntu: Implications for responsible leadership in Africa

Sachikonye,

Ramlogan

2024

South African Journal of Business Management

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“…The show was immediately closed down. 63 Novelists used the truth-telling of Breaking the Silence as a jumping-off point to raise new, difficult questions. 64 Christopher Mlalazi explained that the challenge was no longer to establish the truth but to use fiction to 'treat nightmares': 'the intention is to lance a boil that is suppurating in the national psyche'.…”

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The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging

Alexander

2021

Journal of Southern African Studies

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A period of terrible state repression known as 'Gukurahundi' indelibly marked the foundational years of the Zimbabwean nation. The perpetrators of that period still hold power. It has never been subject to an official truth-telling process, nor have the responsible actors been held accountable. Instead, irreconcilable narratives about this past have interacted and, for those subjected to violence, proliferated, producing what I call a 'noisy silence' at the edges of the nation. This noise rumbles on because of a perpetual failure of public recognition of the violent past, but it does so in highly varied ways and to distinct purposes. I seek to trace the history of this noisy silence from its start in the irreconcilable narratives of the 1980s, themselves powerfully rooted in earlier liberation struggle ideas and relationships, through subsequent decades. Noisy silence sat in between an official, justificatory account of Gukurahundi on the one hand and the fearful, silenced memories of individuals on the other. It occupied a productive middle ground where collective, creative efforts delineated and demanded new political possibilities and terms of belonging through truth-telling, re-imagined and mourned nations and cross-generational attempts to heal and hold perpetrators to account.

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Ethnic Politics and Aesthetic Criticism: An Analysis of Social Media Discourses About Skhosana Buhlungu’s Music

Ndlovu

Maseko

2022

Critical Arts

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‘Gukurahundi - a moment of madness’: memory rhetorics and remembering in the postcolony

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

A meta-theory of ubuntu: Implications for responsible leadership in Africa

A meta-theory of ubuntu: Implications for responsible leadership in Africa

The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging

Ethnic Politics and Aesthetic Criticism: An Analysis of Social Media Discourses About Skhosana Buhlungu’s Music

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