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Editorial Note5
Ruby Magosvongwe

The Trumpet of Armageddon: South Africa-Zimbabwe Special Permits and the Fear of Going back Home9
Josia Nyanda and Luck Makuyana

Epistemic disobedience in Mabasa’s Imbwa Yemunhu, (2013)27
Shereck Andrew Mbwera

When fiction replaces fact: Perceptions on fake news in Zimbabwe47
Wellington Gadzikwa

Writing Mother Africa: African women creative writers and the environment61
Anna Chitando

Possibilities of Creating Language for Elementary Primary School Mathematics in Shona in Masvingo urban and peri-urban schools: A Systematic Functional Linguistics Approach87
Kutsirayi Timothy Gondo and Gondo Thembelihle

Conversation with “other”: Style and Pathology in Selected African Novels117
Andrew Nyongesa, Justus Kizito Makokha, and Joseph Gaita Murimi

Language and Gender on WhatsApp in Zimbabwe: A Sociolinguistic View 139
Ruth Gora and Francis Muchenje

The Zimbabwean War of Liberation as a Humanitarian and Environmental Tragedy: An Ecocritical Interrogation of Shimmer Chinodya’s Harvest of Thorns 155
Tendai Njanji

Deconstructing Colonial Influence on Black South African Youth in the Post-apartheid Era: an exploration of Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut167
Malesela Edward Montle & MphotoJohanness Mogoboya