Acknowledgements
Introduction
Khanyile Mlotshwa and Mphathisi Ndlovu
PART I: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues
1. Marginal Societies Online: A Critical Appreciation of Genocide and its Politics in Cyberspace
Shepherd Mpofu
2. Counter-Memory, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Discursive Constructions of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces
Mphathisi Ndlovu
3: The Pitfalls of Matabeleland as a (Digital) Work of Memory
Khanyile Mlotshwa
4: Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Matabeleland
Ntombizakhe Moyo-Nyoni
PART II: Minorities of Minorities
5: Hidden in Public: The Symbolic Annihilation of the Khoisan People in Zimbabwe’s Public Sphere
Christina Ncube and Khanyile Mlotshwa
6: The Batonga Representations in Matabeleland Imaginations
Mike Mutale
7: Kalanga Activism and the Imaginations of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces
Nkosini Aubrey Khupe
8: Theorizing Online Female Journalism as Border Practices in the Case of Amakhosikazi Media, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Khanyile Mlotshwa and Busi Bhebhe
PART III: Performing Subalternity in Digital Space
9: Performing Subalternity Online: A Critical Study of the Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE)
Samkeliso Ncube and Mphathisi Ndlovu
10: Interrogating Cyber-Cultures and Critical Consciousness Development in Matabeleland
Pretty Nxumalo
11: The Communicative Construction of Ndebele Identity in Radio Mthwakazi
Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
PART IV: Ndebele Nationalism in Digital Spaces
12: Beyond Provincialising a Nation Without a State: Representations of Matabeleland in Umthwakazi Review Digital Space
Thembelani Moyo
13: ‘The Colonized Mean Little to the Colonizer’: The Digital Lives of Colonial Diplomacy
Blondie Beatrice Ndebele
14: The (Digital) Return of the Ndebele Monarchy?
Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga
15: Photographing the ‘Nation’ in the Digital Age: A Case of Matabeleland Discourses on Social Media Platforms
Lungile Augustine Tshuma and Lorraine Phiri
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