The relevance of 'gata' among the Shona of Zimbabwe in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.: An article from: Journal of Pan African Studies
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Author(s)Dennis Masaka, Agrippa Chingombe
PublisherJournal of Pan African Studies
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ISBN-13978B00A31MC88
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From the author: The paper attempts to explain the continued relevance of 'gata' (consultation of a traditional healer to account for the death or life threatening illness of a person) in the context of HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zimbabwe. It is a truism that HIV/AIDS is one among a plethora of causes of death in Shona society. Relatives of the diseased are more often aware of the fact that their departed ones succumbed to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, but are always inclined to find out why such life-limiting disease affected their family member. It is in the context of these HIV/AIDS related illnesses and deaths that this paper probes into the continued relevance and practice of gata in the Shona worldview, even when the cause of one's death is known.
Citation Details
Title: The relevance of 'gata' among the Shona of Zimbabwe in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Author: Dennis Masaka
Publication:Journal of Pan African Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2009
Publisher: Journal of Pan African Studies
Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Page: 189(11)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
From the author: The paper attempts to explain the continued relevance of 'gata' (consultation of a traditional healer to account for the death or life threatening illness of a person) in the context of HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zimbabwe. It is a truism that HIV/AIDS is one among a plethora of causes of death in Shona society. Relatives of the diseased are more often aware of the fact that their departed ones succumbed to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, but are always inclined to find out why such life-limiting disease affected their family member. It is in the context of these HIV/AIDS related illnesses and deaths that this paper probes into the continued relevance and practice of gata in the Shona worldview, even when the cause of one's death is known.
Citation Details
Title: The relevance of 'gata' among the Shona of Zimbabwe in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Author: Dennis Masaka
Publication:Journal of Pan African Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2009
Publisher: Journal of Pan African Studies
Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Page: 189(11)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
