Department of English Studies

Prof M Vambe

College of Human Sciences
School of Arts
Department: English Studies
Professor
Tel: 012 429 8529
E-mail: vambemt@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • PhD (Zimbabwe) 

NRF Rating

C3

Books

Book chapters:

  • 2009. Perspectives on Africanisation of curriculum in Africa. In Mitchell, J.E. & le Roux, A. (Eds). Curriculum issues in higher education: conference proceedings. Pretoria: Unisa Press: 4 

Journal articles

  • 2010. African women in male writing: representations of women in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Devil on the cross. Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies 1(1): 99-113.
  • 2010. Contributions of African literature to the African Renaissance. Imbizo: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 5(2): 259-273.
  • 2010. Elements of the abject and the romantic in the novel: Inyenzi: a story of love and genocide. African Identities 8(4): 351-364.
  • 2010. Zimbabwe’s creative literatures in the interregnum, 1980-2009. African Identities 8(2): 93-116.
  • 2010. Ambiguities of the oral song narrative in Charles Samupindi’s novel, Pawns. Muziki 7(2): 140-147.
  • 2009. Contesting the myth of ‘A people’s war’ in Bruce Moore-King’s White man black war. Journal of Developing Societies 25(1): 107-120.
  • 2009. Vambe, M. T & Rwafa, U. Textualising the visual, visualising the text: Hotel Rwanda and An Ordinary Man: the true story behind ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ scrutiny2 14(1): 5-20.
  • 2009. The function of songs in the Shona ritual-myth of Kurova Guva. Muziki 6(1): 112-119.
  • 2009. Fictions of autobiographical representations: Joshua Nkomo’s The story of my life. Journal of Literary Studies: 80-97.
  • 2009. Vambe, M. T. & Chennells, A. The power of autobiography in Southern Africa. Journal of Literary Studies 25(1): 118.
  • 2009. Vambe, M. T. & Chennells, A. Introduction: The power of autobiography in Southern Africa. Journal of Literary Studies 25(1): 1-7.
  • 2009. Vambe, M. T. & Khan, K. Myths of popular culture. The Open Area Journal 2: 52-58.
  • 2009. South African youth: artistic creativity and development. Commonwealth: Youth and Development 7(2): 73-81.