Learning Abun-dance Through Mutupo

A Script for Intercultural Mutualising
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-83668-155-7
Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 107 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 95 g

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

Somewhere between our survival instinct and the persuasions of luxury and excess is a notion that ‘more people means less’ – less space, food, time or learning capacity. What happens when the proverb ‘kuwanda huuya’ dares us to consider that ‘more people does not mean less’? It means we learn abun-dance, the choreography of conviviality…

imagine a relaxed atmosphere outdoors, night-time. storyteller wears a t-shirt saying 'i want to fill this town with artists', and is gently playing an ancient instrument. academic, dressed in a shirt and tie, is frowning as he fiddles with a gadget (phone or laptop). poet arrives. storyteller immediately stops playing and puts the guitar down, standing up. he urgently ushers poet to a seat, then addresses them both with a curious sparkle they recognise:

‘What happens when learning from the Global South and the Global North breathe the same air?’

‘What happens when that air carries the intercultural vibrations of an acoustic music played, spoken, or sung?’

‘What happens when that music-filled air flow into and through spaces of formal learning?’

This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

sitholé, tawona ganyamatopé

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Player Profiles

Chapters

Stage Directions

Key Words

Mutupo the poem name – Exercise

ACT 1: A Conversation about Mutupo

ACT 2: Dariro rekutambirwa/ Round of Intimacy

ACT 3 Dariro rekutambanuka/Round of Intricacy

ACT 4 Dariro rekutambidzana/ Round of Legitimacy

ACT 5 Dariro rekutambarara/ Round of

Kupeta: Rounding up Madariro Exercise

Vana vanotamba: Epilogue Poetic Gifts from Children

Beginning of the Next Adventure

Appendices

References

Manja: Acknowledging

Über Autor(innen)

sitholé, tawona ganyamatopé
tawona sitholé is a poet and Lecturer in Creative Practice Education at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Better known as ganyamatope dzapasi, tawona sitholé’s spirit name inspires him to connect with other people through creativity and the anticipation to learn. His work is inherited from ancestors and modified through his professional education practice. He is lecturer in creative practice education at University of Glasgow, within the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and the Arts (UNESCO RIELA). He is co-founder of Seeds of Thought, a non-funded arts group, and continues working in the creative sector as poet, playwright, mbira musician, and facilitator. As he continues to write, teach and perform, mostly he appreciates this work for the many inspiring people it allows him to meet.