Mrs. A. M. Madongonda

Dr Angeline M Madongonda

Senior Lecturer 

Academic Qualifications

DPhil in Literature Zimbabwe Open University, 2025

Master of Arts in English University of Zimbabwe, 2005

Bachelor of Arts Honours in English University of Zimbabwe, 1994

Post-Graduate Diploma in Media Studies – Midlands State University (2007)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Education – Zimbabwe Open University (2006)

Professional Qualifications

Certificate in Computer Literacy – University of Zimbabwe (2004)

Certificate in Technology Enabled Learning – Commonwealth of Learning & Athabasca University (2020)

Certificate in Blended Learning Practice – Commonwealth of Learning & Athabasca University (2020)

Certificate in Critical Media Literacies – Open Educational Resource University (2020)

Certificate in Copyright and Creative Commons Licensing – Open Educational Resource University (2020)

Certificate in Writing and Editing Specialization – University of Michigan via Coursera (2021)

Certificate in Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) | Zimbabwe Open University (2015)

Certificate in Module Writing – Zimbabwe Open University (2011)

Research Interests

African Literature, Subaltern voices, Gender Issues, Geocriticism, Corpus Linguistics, Postcolonial Studies

Selected Publications

• Madongonda A M & Chitando, A. 2025. Liminal Crises: Gendered Space, Culture, and Colonial Dystopia in Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950). Cultural Intertext. Year XII, Volume 15.
• Chitando, A. & Madongonda, A. M. 2025. Negotiating Exclusion: Female heterotopic spaces and survival in Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope” in the journal, IMBIZO, Volume 2, 2025.
•     Madongonda A.M. & Gudhlanga E.S. (2025). Freedom and Redefining the Self: Fracturing Tradition in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy in R. S Montes & A. Kumar Margins Speaking to Margins Multinational Perspectives on AfricanAmerican Literature Wilmington: Vernon Press.
• Madongonda A.M. & Gudhlanga E.S. (2025). Forced and Early Marriages. In Manyonganise, M., Gunda, M.R. & Naicker, L. (Eds). Religion, Gender and Masculinities in Africa: Essays in honour of Ezra Chitando. Bamburg: University of Bamburg Press, pp. 267-285. ISBN: 978-3-98989-042-8.

• Madongonda A M and Gudhlanga E S (2024) Generational Search for Home: History, Race and Gendered Perspectives in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative WritersCham: Springer International Publishing, pp 155–166.
• Madongonda, A.M. & Gudhlanga, E.S. 2023. Through the lenses of betrayal: Ambivalence and other markers of deception in Aaron Chiundura Moyo’s Kuridza Ngoma nedemo. In Mavengano, E & Mhute, I. (eds.) Sub-Sahara Political Cultures of Deceit in Language, Literature and the Media, Volume 1, Zimbabwe as a case study (pp. 127-147). Palgrave MacMillan Chan. https://doi.org/10/1007/978-3-031-35323-9_9
• Madongonda, A.M & Gudhlanga, 2023. E.S Grief Across Cultures: An Analysis of paralinguistic features in two selected songs from Mocambique and Zimbabwe.
• Gudhlanga, E.S., Madongonda, M. and Manyonganise, M. 2023. Realist Literature, Gender and Gullibility in African Pentecostalism: The case of Chiundura Moyo’s Kereke Inofa. HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, Volume 79, Number 3, aB258.https//doi.org//10.4102/hts.v79i3.8258.
• Gudhlanga, E. S. and Madongonda, A. M. 2021. Reclaiming their socio-economic space in African culture: Shona Women Cross Border Traders of Zimbabwe, Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies, pp. 61-78. DOI: //doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2021/v2n1a3.
• Madongonda A M and Gudhlanga E S (2016) “ Knock Knock Knock” The paradox of the Music genre and Serious Discourse in HIV/AIDS Communication African Journal of Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Language of Decolonisation in Africa Vol II, pp151-171