Voicing African Voices

Author

Manase Chiweshe

Dr. Manase Chiweshe is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Lifelong Learning at Chinhoyi University of Technology and winner of the 2015 Gerti Hessling Award for the best paper in African studies. He is an African scholar with interest in African football, gender and youth studies. His other interests include agrarian studies, sport studies, urban and rural sociology. He is widely published and has presented at numerous international conferences. Dr Chiweshe's work revolves around the sociology of everyday life in African spaces with special focus on promoting African ways of knowing.

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