Category: English and Communication

Prof Charles Tembo

Prof Charles Tembo

Qualifications:

  • DLitt et Phil-UNISA,
  • M.A- UZ,
  • B.A Hons- MSU
  • PDTE-MSU

Research Interests:

  • Africology with particular focus on African literary studies,
  • Afrocentricity
  • African cultural and music studies

Publications:

  1. Tembo, C–An embodied Culture of optimism and struggle: The Tongai   Moyo example-JPAS Vol 6 No 5, 2013
  2. Tembo, C, and Mutasa, DE– In pursuit of endogeneity: An analysis of selected Post-independence Shona Poetry, SAFOS Vol. 27 No. 1, 2017
  3. Tembo, C and Gijimah, T–Autochthony in the midst of Afro-pessimism in Chirikure Chirikure’s poetry- African Journal of Language and Culture, Vol 1 no 2, 2013
  4.  Maganga, A and Tembo, C– Expounding Selected Shona Novelists’ Perspectives on Ritual Murder in Dyke Vol 9 (1) 2015
  5. Maganga, A, Tembo, C and Dewah, P– Singing the Second Chimurenga: An Afrocentric elucidation of Simon Chimbetu’s selected songs- South African Journal of Oral History vol 3 No1 2015
  6. Mpofu, P and Tembo, C-Militarising music and demilitarising the military: Making sense of Musoja in Zimdancehall music in Muziki Vol 12 no 1, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1080/18125980.2015.1031453 
  7. Muwati, I, Tembo, C and Mutasa, DE– Children’s songs and human factor development-SAJAL Vol 35 No1 2016 https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2016.1186897 
  8. Tembo, C, and Maganga, A-Propagating self-hatred and dis-membering Africans through song- Jibilika-Journal of Performing arts
  9. Tembo, C and Mutasa, D-Shona Proverbial lore, agency and optimism- South African Journal of Folklore Studies, Vol 22 (2) 2012
  10. Tembo, C, Muwati, I and Chigidi, W– Music, nation and politics: An analysis of Tongai Moyo’s music in the decade of crisis in Singing nation and Politics in the decade of crisis- 2000-2010, MSU Press, 2017.
  11. Typification of democracy in Ancient hona society: a paremiological perspective. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2395942 
  12. Chigidi, W and Tembo, C– Traditional oral literature and the socialisation of the Shona (Zimbabwe) girl child- African Journal of Language and Culture Vol 1 no 2 2013
  13.  Viriri, A and Tembo, C– Language, Voice and Literature: expression of African spiritual experience in Zimbabwe’s Chimurenga war narratives- Imbizo vol 1(1) 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1085 
  14. Muwati, I, Tembo C and Mutasa DE Woman with voice: An analysis of female agency in Dino Mudondo’s song, ‘Jatirofa’ and Josphat Somanje’s ‘Handibvume’, in South African Journal of African Languages Vol 38 Issue 2, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2018.1463713 
  15. Breaking the chains: An afrocentric exploration of ageism in selected
  16. Zimbabwean musicians’ Songs in Educational Gerontology https://doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2025.2538202
  17. Charles Tembo– Humanising and harmonising Africans through Poetry- The Chirikure Chirikure Example International Journal of Contemporary Research Vol 1 No 1 2014 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1293 
  18. Tembo Charles & Mutasa. DE -Life-affirmation in Greater Mhondera’s ‘Usatye Kani Africa & Chirikure’s ‘Europe Vakomana’ in South African Journal of African Languages Vol 39 No 2 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2019.1618000 
  19. Allan Maganga & Charles Tembo Visualisation of female characters in Huturu Hwemavanga, Chakwesha and Nguva Yakaoma. 2022. African Identities. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2022.2159787
  20. Explicating selected Shona novelists’ perspectives on business 
  21. management in African Identities.  https://doi.org/10.1080/1472843.2024.2440087 
  22. Tembo, C, Maganga, A & Dewah, P- Utilising IKS or Crime against Humanity? A critical engagement with Discourses on Alick Macheso’s Use of Manhood to treat Nhova- South African Journal of Oral History Vol 7 No 1, 2019
  23. Tembo, C & Mutasa DE. Existential nihilism in Ignatius Mabasa’s Poetry: Implications for the Development of the Human Factor. Southern African Journal of Folklore Studies Vol 27 No.1. 2019 ://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/5065 
  24. Tembo, C, Gijimah, T & Maganga, A-Honouring And Praising Mothers through song: analysing selected songs of Zimdancehall artist, Tocky Vibes. African Identities https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2365655 
  25. Tembo, C & Maganga, A. Guilty at Law: analysing Simon Chimbetu’s and Paul Matavire’s Memoirs Prison. 2023. Imbizo. https://doi.org/10.25159/2663- 6565/11219 
  26. Gijimah, T & Tembo, C. The politics of colonial residential place names in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe: unmasking European hegemony. African Identities.2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2023.2207768 
  27. Tembo, C & Maganga, A & Nenduva, A- Forging strong and purposeful male-female relations: An African womanist study of Love in Kireni Zulu’s songs, Zveimba & Ndichakuvaraidza https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/11190 
  28. Tembo, C & Gijimah, A- An analysis of Pre-recorded audio adverts in Zimbabwe: a Dari perspective: South African Journal of African Languages Vol. 45 Issue https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117-2024.2362778 
  29. Tembo, C, Gijimah, T and Maganga, A-The intersections of comedy and politics in Zimbabwe:analysing Baba Tencen’s ‘Borderphobia’ and Prosper Ngomashi’s ‘Pastor and his wives’in South African Theatre Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2022.2121748  Maganga, A & Tembo, C Typification of democracy in ancient Shona society: a paremiological   perspective  in African Identities https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2024.2395942

BOOK CHAPTERS

    1. Tembo, C, Muwati, I and Chabata, E– Politicians and political parties in the music of Chipanga- in Muwati, I, Charamba. T & Tembo. C- in Singing Nation and Politics: Music and the decade of crisis in Zimbabwe – 2000- 2010, Midlands State University Press (2018)
    2.  Tembo, C and Mpofu, P.– ‘More than just Nicknames’: Manifestations of Nommo in Honour and Celebration of the Lives of Heroes and Heroines in post-independence Zimbabwe in Mashiri, P. et al Zimbabwe Naming Practices, and Patterns. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications.
    3. Tembo, C, Muwati, I & Chigidi, W– Music, Nation, and Politics: A Critical Engagement with Tongai Moyo’s Music on the Crisis- in Singing Nation and Politics: Music and the decade of crisis in Zimbabwe – 2000- 2010, MSU Press (2018) 
    4. Maganga, AT. Tembo, C & Chikara, T.O. 2022.  Oliver Mtukudzi as a Cultural Activist: Exploring Africanity in Tuku Music. In Chitando, E. et al. ‘The Life and Music of Oliver Mtukudzi: Reconstruction and Identity. Oliver Mtukudzi: New York: Springer.
    5. Mpofu, P & Tembo, C. 2023. Rethinking the framing of women in the nation through self-naming and self-definition of female nationalists in Zimbabwe in Meyiwa, T & Cekiso, M Names fashioned by Gender: Stitched Perceptions. UNISA Press

EDITED BOOKS

  1. Singing nation and Politics: Music and the Decade of Crisis in Zimbabwe 2018 with Itai Muwati and Tyanai Charamba, 2018, Midlands State University Press. 
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