PhD candidate (UNISA), MA African languages and literarure (UZ), BA Hons Shona (UZ)
Research interests: Onomastics, Socio – linguistics, language planning and policy and cultural studies
1.Mberi, N. E., Z. Mamvura and A. Masowa 2011. Sociolinguistic Aspects of Linguistic Innovation in the Chihwindi Linguistic Code, Occasional paper No. 68, CASAS: Cape Town.
2.Mamvura, Z. and P. Kufakunesu 2011 Functional Linguistic Choices in Informal Cross Border Trade in Johannesburg, South Africa: An Africana Womanist Exegesis’ (pp85-96) in Re-discoursing African Womanhood in the search for sustainable Renaissance: African Womanhood in Multi-disciplinary Approaches, edited by Muwati, I. et. al, Harare: College Press (pp85-96)
3.Mamvura, Z. and P. Mashiri: 2009 ‘Fishers of Men: Persuasive Strategies inCommuter Omnibus Discourse in Harare’ in Zambezia, vol.36, nos.i/ii (pp114- 130)
4.Masowa, A. and Z. Mamvura 2012 The African Philosophy of Development as expressed in Shona Proverbs, The Zimbabwe International Journal of Languages and Culture (ZIJLC), vol. 2 (3).
5.Mamvura, Z., Masowa, A., and. Gopo, T.L. Children’s Rights not a New Phenomenon in Africa: A comparative Analysis of Children’s Rights as Depicted in Selected Shona/Ndebele Folktales and the Children’s Rights in the United Nations Conventions, Chapter 18 in Javangwe, G and Chirisa, I (eds) 2013. Navigating the Contours of African Childhood Experiences: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge, Academica Press LLC. Cambridge, 399-425.
6.Mamvura, Z. 2013. Nhoroondo yemanyorerwo eChiShona. In Mamvura, Z., Gondo, K. T.,Zirobwa, C. and Mufore, P. ChiShona Chidzidzodzamu, Diploma in Education (Primary) Open and Distance Learning: Department of Teacher Education, University of Zimbabwe: 22-68.
7.Mamvura, Z. 2013. Nhurikidzwa yezvizita. In Mamvura, Z., Gondo, K. T., Zirobwa, C. and Mufore, P. ChiShona Chidzidzodzamu, Diploma in Education (Primary) Open and Distance Learning: Department of Teacher Education, University of Zimbabwe:
69-105.
8.Mamvura, Z. 2013. Nhurikidzwa yezviito. In Mamvura, Z., Gondo, K. T., Zirobwa, C. and Mufore, P. ChiShona Chidzidzodzamu, Diploma in Education (Primary) Open and Distance Learning: Department of Teacher Education, University of Zimbabwe: 107-135.
9.Mamvura, Z. 2013. Nhurikidzwa yenyaudzosingwi, Mazitaumbiridzwa nezviitogama. In Mamvura, Z., Gondo, K. T., Zirobwa, C. and Mufore, P. ChiShona Chidzidzodzamu, Diploma in Education (Primary) Open and Distance Learning: Department of Teacher Education, University of Zimbabwe: 136-161.
10.Mamvura, Z. 2013. Tsika nemagariro evaShona. In Mamvura, Z., Gondo, K. T., Zirobwa, C. and Mufore, P. ChiShona Chidzidzodzamu, Diploma in Education (Primary) Open and Distance Learning: Department of Teacher Education, University of Zimbabwe: 163-191.