Office and Information Manager
Mrs Elizabeth Samakande
Qualifications: Master in English Degree – UZ 2019; Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Degree English in Literature - UZ 2017; LCCI Executive Secretarial Diploma CCOSA College Harare; International Computer Driver’s License, BEB Technical Harare; Audio Typing Certificate, RECO College Harare; Dataease
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Academia member: www.academia.edu
Blog: dakwaelizabeth.wordpress.com
Work Experience
2011 to date : Office & Information Manager Electrical and Electronic Department UZ
2000-2003 : Merchandiser, National Foods, Zimbabwe
2004-2007 : Receptionist, Dr J.L Mavurudza Dental Surgery, Harare
2008-2010 : Secretary, Pest Hunters, Harare
Skills: Computer, Internet, Communication skills, Conference organisation, Event organising, editing, English Literature research, script writing, novel writing and film directing.
Research Interests: African literature, African Mythology, Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, Post- Colonial Literature, Culture Studies, Film & cinema studies
Research Work
Samakande, E. 2019. An Afrofuturistic Reading of African Mythology and Heroism in Black Panther, Waiting for the Rain and Sundiata an Epic of Old Mali. (Academia)
Dakwa, E. 2017. Exploring the Depiction of Family Support in the wake of Disease in the Novels by the Mungoshi Brothers: The Fading Sun and Branching Streams Flow in the Dark (Academia)
Dakwa, E. 2016. ‘Branching Streams Flow in the Dark by Charles Mungoshi chases various branches in one story’
https://www.academia.edu/31425175/Branching_Streams_Flow_in_the_Dark_Academia
Dakwa,E.2016. ‘Forms of the novel: The meaning and function of the anti-novel, detective novel and psychological novel using examples from known novels in any language’https://www.academia.edu/43105033/Forms_of_the_novel_The_meaning_and_function_of_the_anti_novel_detective_novel_and_psychological_novel_using_examples_from_known_novels_in_any_language
Samakande-Dakwa, E. ‘The Transanational Griot of Afro- Caribbean Culture: Discussing the search of identity in Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s The Arrivants: A New Worlds Trilogy’https://www.academia.edu/38133033/BRATHWAITE_PRESENTATION_.pdf
Samakande- Dakwa, E. ‘A Pyschoanalyis reading of David Mungoshi’s 2009 Fiction- The Fading Sun’ .https://uz-ac.academia.edu/ElizabethSamakande
Dakwa , E. 2016. https://www.herald.co.zw/unpacking-mungoshis-branching-streams/
Dakwa, E. 2016. https://www.academia.edu/43105033/Forms_of_the_novel_the meaning and function of the anti novel detective and psychological novel using examples from known novels in any language
Dakwa, E. 2017. ‘Essay on Musaemura B. Zimunya’s Contribution to Zimbabwean Poetry’
Samakande, E, 2021. ‘A Transnational Narrative :A Book Review of the Novel The Eternal Audience of One by Remy Ngamije’ https://www.academia.edu/s/a0f417f8c0