Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa

1. Introduction: New Methods and New Meanings 2. The Interface of Intertextuality and Cognitive Linguistics in Reading Literary Discourse: Interdisciplinary Sensibilities in Contemporary Zimbabwean Novel 3. Rupturing the Traditional Thought in Search of Novel Heuristic Voyages in New Testament Studies: New Reflections on Narratological Methodology 4. Postcolonial African Feminist Research Agenda: African Women Theologians' Search for Liberating Paradigms in Oral and Written Religious and Cultural Texts 5. Discipline, Decolonisation and Agency 6. (Re)thinking and (Re)theorising 'Multi' and Its Futures in Academic Discourse Studiesx Contents7. 'Collective Intelligence' a Precursor for Multidisciplinary Research in Africa: An Appreciative Inquiry Perspective 8. Shifting Methodological Pathways in New Testament Studies and Linguistics: A Stylistic Paradigm 9. Decentring Research in Universities in Africa 10. What Has Jerusalem to Do with Athens? Deflecting Traditional Disciplinary Boundaries in Biblical Studies 11. Critiquing the Shona Novel in an Interdisciplinary Manner Through the Social Historical Approach 12. Breaking Boundaries: Current Research Trends in Zimbabwean Linguistics-A Case of the University of Zimbabwe 13. Evolution of Multi-disciplinary Philosophies of Method: Colonial Antecedents and Post-colonialParadigm Shifts 14. New Directions in Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production  

Tobias Marevesa is Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, UNISA, South Africa.


Ernest Jakaza is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication, Film and Theatre Arts at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe and Research Fellow at the University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa. . 

Esther Mavengano is a lecturer who teaches Linguistics and Literature in the Department of English and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. She is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, College of Human Sciences, UNISA, South Africa, and also a von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at TU (Techische Universistat Dresden) Institute of English and American Studies, Department of English, Germany.