Lovemore Togarasei

Death Rituals among the Karanga of Zimbabwe

World Religions

“Chitakure’s book provides the much-needed ethnographic study of Karanga death rituals. Employing postcolonial theory in the study and therefore underlining the need for respect of certain traditional rituals, the book promotes Karanga . . . identity by providing a manual for death rituals that ‘eternalizes’ these rituals that were otherwise fast disappearing because of the stranglehold of Christianity and general modernity.”

Friendship in the Book of Job

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This book provides a fresh reading of the book of Job and covers a huge gap in African scholarship on friendship. Its application of African understandings of friendship onto the book of Job, which has been predominantly interpreted around the theme of suffering, breaks new ground in the study of both friendship in Africa and the book of Job.”