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Hate Speech as a Politico-Religious Tool in Contemporary Zimbabwe
The dawn of the new second Republic of Zimbabwe raised the hopes of the people of Zimbabwe for a moment. Zimbabwe has experienced diverse challenges, including socioeconomic meltdowns, a decline in the rule of law, and human rights abuse. To address these challenges politicians and religious leaders use ‘hate speech’ to express their ideologies and criticise their opponents’ struggle to win people. The availability of social media has made it easy for these attacking statements to reach a wider audience. Through documentary analysis, this article explores how politicians and religious leaders use hate speech as electioneering and a response to the problems bedeviling Zimbabwe. This study concludes that hate speech from politicians and religious leaders is socialising some Zimbabweans into violent, angry individuals, murderers, and vandals. The problem of hate speech is that it creates violence, causes psychological effects, dehumanises people, and conditions a negative national trait.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Religion in Africa was founded in 1967 by Andrew Walls. In 1985 the editorship was taken over by Adrian Hastings, who retired in 1999. His successor, David Maxwell, acted as Executive Editor until the end of 2005. The Journal of Religion in Africa is interested in all religious traditions and all their forms, in every part of Africa, and it is open to every methodology. Its contributors include scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology, political science, missiology, literature and related disciplines. It occasionally publishes religious texts in their original African language.