Prof. Dr. Tendai Mangena

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
KeywordsSocial justice, Gender, Zimbabwe, Literature, Postcolony
Honours and awards

2018: Alexander von Humboldt Return Fellowship Award

2016: Alexander von Humboldt Georg Forster Postdoctoral Research Award

Current contact address

CountryZimbabwe
CityMasvingo
InstitutionGreat Zimbabwe University (GZU)
InstituteDepartment of English and Media Studies

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Kerstin KnopfFachbereich 10 - Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Universität Bremen, Bremen
Prof. Dr. Alice MitchellDepartment of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, Bristol
Prof. Dr. Tendai MangenaDepartment of English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University (GZU), Masvingo
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2016

Programme(s)

2015Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026Tendai Mangena: Kubereka: singleness, childlessness and non-biological mothering in Shona culture. In: Journal of Gender Studies, 2026,
2026Tendai Mangena: Narratives of Shona divorcees: Decolonial challenges to African feminist thought. In: Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2026,
2026Tendai Mangena, Aaron Chando: Reimagining ecological justice: intersections of Unhu and African eco-feminism in Doris Lessing's The Grass is Singing and Tsitsi Mapepa's Ndima Ndima. In: Critical African Studies, 18, 2026, 131-146
2025Tendai Mangena: 'It [vagina] does not survive on porridge': The sexual lives of Shona single women in Zimbabwe. In: Journal of British Academy, 13, 2025,
2024Tendai Mangena: Precarity of the (Employed and Unemployed) Educated in Zimbabwe in Valerie Tagwira's Trapped (2020). In: Scrutiny 2, 28, 2024, 20-32
2023Oliver Nyambi and Tendai Mangena: "Reading the Fear of (Not) Returning to Zimbabwe: The Politics of (In) security in the Novel Harare North." . In: Nordic Journal of African Studies, 32, 2023, 8-27
2023Tendai Mangena: Gendering roles, masculinities and spaces: negotiating transgression in Charles Mungoshi's and other writings. In: African Identities, 21, 2023, 410-424
2023Tendai Mangena and Alice Mitchell: Hauntings of the metaphysical empire? Anthroponomic patterns in contemporary Zimbabwe. In: Critical African Studies, 2023, 1-17
2023Tendai Mangena: Housemaid-Madam Relations in Black Households: Imagining Woman-to-Woman Exploitation in Two Zimbabwean Short Stories.. In: Gender Questions, 11, 2023,
2023Tendai Mangena: Personal names and naming theoretical concepts in selected texts of Yvonne Vera and Petina Gappah. In: South African Journal of African Languages, 43, 2023, 171-176
2023Mangena Tendai: Theorising multiple place names in Southern Africa. In: O’Reilly, G., Place Naming, Identities and Geography. Key Challenges in Geography.. Springer, 2023. 259-275
2022Tendai Mangena: Narratives of women in politics in Zimbabwe’s recent past: the case of Joice Mujuru and Grace Mugabe. . In: Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines, 56, 2022, 407-425
2022Tendai Mangena: Personal Names, Naming and Identity (Re)negotiation among Zimbabweans in the Diaspora. In: Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2022,
2022Tendai Mangena and Oliver Nyambi: Such a Thing Does Not Have a Name in his Country’: Entanglements of Diaspora and ‘Home’ Homes in the Zimbabwean Short Story of Crisis. In: African Studies, 81, 2022, 70-86
2021Tendai Mangena, Oliver Nyambi, Gibson Ncube: Cultures of change in contemporary Zimbabwe: Socio-political transition from Mugabe to Mnangagwa. Routledge, 2021
2021Tendai Mangena: Female bodies, agency, real and symbolic violence during the coronavirus pandemic: The experiences of women politicians and activists in Zimbabwe. In: Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity, 36, 2021, 86-98
2021Tendai Mangena, Oliver Nyambi, Gibson Ncube: The Zimbabwean Crisis After Mugabe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge, 2021
2020Oliver Nyambi Tendai Mangena: Food, Gender and the Crisis in Zimbabwe: An Approach to Virginia Phiri’s Highway Queen and Valerie Tagwira’s the Uncertainty of Hope. In: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2020,
2019Solomon Waliaula Tendai Mangena: Naming and Renaming as Sociocultural Signification in Bukusu and Shona Cultures.. In: Oliviu Felecan, Onomastics Between Sacred and Profane, . Vernon Press, 2019. 293-302
2019Sambulo Ndlovu, Tendai Mangena: Secularization of Sacred Anthroponyms in Modern Ndebele and Shona Communities. In: Oliviu Felecan, Onomastics Between Sacred and Profane. Vernon Press, 2019. 253-264
2018Tendai Mangena: Contested Criminalities in Zimbabwean Fiction. Routledge, 2018
2018Tendai Mangena: Cultural appropriation and (mis)translation in Gappah's 'Washington's wife decides enough is enough'.. In: African Identities, 2018, 290-302
2018Tendai Mangena: Rhodes, Mugabe and the Politics of Commemorative Toponyms in Post-Independence Zimbabwe. In: Geopolitics, 2018, 1-23
2017Tendai Mangena: An Attempt at Inclusion: Reading the War Theme in Selected Black Zimbabwean Women Texts. In: Pauline Ada Uwakweh, African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict. Lexington Books, 2017. 43-56
2017Tendai Mangena: Creating a Parallel Universe: Literary Writing and Zimbabwe’s Crisis. In: Zambezia: Journal of Humanities, 2017, 21-35
2017Tendai Mangena: Name-Crime Association in Mlalazi in Running with Mother and Tsano.. In: Nomina Africana: African Journal of Onomastics, 2017, 91-99
2017Tendai Mangena: The Woman Victim in a Country in a Crisis: A Reading of Tagwira's The Uncertainty of Hope. In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies-Multi-, Inter-and Transdisciplinarity , 2017, 56-67
2016Tendai Mangena: 'Symbolic Geographies': Place Names in Selected Zimbabwean Fiction.. In: Oliver Nyambi, Tendai Mangena and Charles Pfukwa, The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. 191-202
2016Oliver Nyambi and Tendai Mangena: 'The Way We Name Now': Postcolonial Perspectives from Southern Africa. . In: Oliver Nyambi, Tendai Mangena and Charles Pfukwa, The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. 1-20
2016Tendai Mangena and Prosper Muzambi: A Reflection on Catholic Toponyms in the Masvingo Diocese of Zimbabwe. In: Nomina Africana, 2016, 62-75
2016Tendai Mangena and Sambulo Ndlovu: Figurative and Symbolic Function of Animal Imagery in Packaging Human Behavior in Ndebele and Shona Cultures. In: South African Journal of African Languages, 2016, 251-256
2016Oliver Nyambi, Tendai Mangena and Charles Pfukwa (editors): The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016