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🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
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2019 1st Semester / 2022 1st Semester
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Queer bodies in African films - STIAS Public Lecture by Gibson Ncube

This will be a hybrid event with limited spaces for in-person attendance, register here by 19 April 2021 Gibson Ncube, Lecturer in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University and Iso Lomso fellow will present a public lecture with the title: Queer bodies in African film Abstract This paper presents work on a book project which I have undertaken over the last three years at STIAS within the framework of the Iso Lomso Fellowship.

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STIAS launches Iso Lomso Fellowships for early career researchers

Iso Lomso, the Eye of Tomorrow in isiXhosa, is a new fellowship programme that will boost the careers of some of the brightest minds in African academia.
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Second Iso Lomso cohort selected

STIAS is pleased to announce its second cohort for the Iso Lomso Fellowships for Early Career African Researchers.
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Are we bound to violence? Looking at depictions of toxic queer masculinities in South African films - Fellows’ seminar by Gibson Ncube

Two South African films Skoonheid and Inxeba, in spite of their diametrically opposed socio-racial contexts, broach violent and toxic queer masculinities.
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Queer bodies in African film - STIAS public lecture by Gibson Ncube

I set out to make two interventions – a focus on the body as a site of knowledge-making in understanding queerness where gender and sexual identity are not just performed but also constituted and embodied; as well as looking at the differences in how queer bodies are represented between North and sub-Saharan Africa, said Gibson Ncube of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University.

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Self-Imposed Exile, Marginality, and Homosexuality in the Novels of Abdellah Taïa, Rachid O., and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri

Ncube, Gibson. 2019. Self-Imposed Exile, Marginality, and Homosexuality in the Novels of Abdellah Taïa, Rachid O., and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri. Journal of Homo...

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Women and North African Literatures

Ncube, Gibson. 2019. Women and North African Literatures. In The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies (pp. 1–17). Cham: Springer International Publ...

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Gender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queen

Ncube, Gibson. 2019. Gender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queen. Nomina African...

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“Human Beings Have a Hard Time Relating to That Which Does Not Resemble Them”: Queering Normativity in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon

Ncube, Gibson. 2020. “Human Beings Have a Hard Time Relating to That Which Does Not Resemble Them”: Queering Normativity in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon. Scruti...

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Eternal mothers, whores or witches: The oddities of being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe

Ncube, Gibson. 2020. Eternal mothers, whores or witches: The oddities of being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe. Agenda, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/101309...

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Discrimination Against Female Politicians on Social Media: An Analysis of Tweets in the Run-Up to the July 2018 Harmonised Elections in Zimbabwe

Ncube, Gibson and Gwatisira Yemurai. 2020. Discrimination Against Female Politicians on Social Media: An Analysis of Tweets in the Run-Up to the July 2018 ...

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Skin and Silence in Selected Maghrebian Queer Films

Ncube, Gibson. 2021. Skin and Silence in Selected Maghrebian Queer Films. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 33(1), 51–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/136968...

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Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (Keguro Macharia)

Ncube, Gibson. 2021. Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (Keguro Macharia). Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 58(1), 172–174. https://doi.org...

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The Role Ubuntu Could Have Played in Restorative Justice in Zimbabwe

Ncube, Gibson. 2021. The Role Ubuntu Could Have Played in Restorative Justice in Zimbabwe. In J. Mukuni & J. Tlou (Eds.), Understanding Ubuntu for Enha...

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Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Nyambi, Oliver, Tendai Mangena and Gibson Ncube. (Eds.). 2021. Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Cultures-o...

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Political Satire and the Mediation of the Zimbabwean Crisis in the Era of the “New Dispensation”: The Case of MAGAMBA TV

Msimanga, Mbongeni Jonny, Gibson Ncube and Promise Mkwananzi. 2021. Political Satire and the Mediation of the Zimbabwean Crisis in the Era of the “New Disp...

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Queer Bodies in African Films

Ncube, Gibson. 2022. Queer Bodies in African Films. NISC Press/African Humanities Association. https://www.nisc.co.za/products/111/books/queer-bodies-in-af...

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(Im)possible Monuments? Gukurahundi and the Politics of Memorialisation in Zimbabwe

Ncube, Gibson. 2024. (Im)possible Monuments? Gukurahundi and the Politics of Memorialisation in Zimbabwe. In J. S. Sanni & M. Z. Phiri (Eds.), Monument...

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Queer Africa

Ncube, G., & Carolin, A. 2025. Queer Africa. The Thinker, 102(1), 8–11. https://doi.org/10.36615/9j1g2881