- Title
- The Public Intellectualism of Stephen Chifunyise: Crafting an African-Inspired Theatre Praxis
- Creator
- Sibanda, Nkululeko
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469645
- Identifier
- vital:77275
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2024.2428589
- Description
- This paper deploys Brouwer and Squires’ (2003) [Public intellectuals, public life, and the university. Argumentation and Advocacy, 39 (3), 201–213] concepts of ‘breadth’, ‘site/ location’ and ‘legitimacy’ as conceptual categories to frame and examine Stephen Chifunyise’s artistic and cultural practice of public intellectualism. Stephen Chifunyise’s artistic and cultural work spanned decades, working in Zimbabwe and Zambia, the academy and industry, and taking up consultancy and administration positions in government. This paper explores how this work by Chifunyise positions him as a public intellectual who shaped policy, ideological, epistemological and ontological foundations for cultural work, artistic training and development at the tertiary level, and policy formulation at a regional and continental level. This paper draws from several plays and theatre scripts, published research papers and policy documents to highlight the breadth, location and legitimacy of Chifunyise’s public intellectualism in Zimbabwe and Africa. This paper further submits that Chifunyise’s public intellectualism is located in how he uses his experiences in telling stories that speak to his environment and that of his publics’ lived existence, ways of experiencing and seeing and locatedness in the ‘village’.
- Format
- 15 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Theatre Journal, Sibanda, N., 2024. The Public Intellectualism of Stephen Chifunyise: Crafting an African-Inspired Theatre Praxis. South African Theatre Journal, pp.1-14, South African Theatre Journal volume number 1 14 2024 2163-7660
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