Browsing by Author "Leshota, P. L."

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    Healing, Counselling and Anti-Retroviral Therapy
    (In the Name of Jesus: Healing in the Age of HIV, 2013) Leshota, P. L.
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    Postcolonial Reading of Nineteenth Century Missionaries Musical Texts: The Case of Lifela tsa Sione and Lifela tsa Bakriste
    (International Journal of Black Theology, 2014) Leshota, P. L.
    Using the refining optics of postcolonial hermeneutics, this paper is an attempt to show how missionary legacies, in the form of musical texts, have been and remain a talisman of imperialistic endeavors. They reflect, as it were, the superiority of the colonizing culture and religion while at the same time demonizing and promoting negative stereotypes about Africans (Mosotho) and their world. Specifically, this paper represents a reconstruction of the image of a colonial African (Mosotho) savage as depicted by the missionaries in their musical texts as contained in the Lifela tsa Sione and Lifela tsa Bakriste, in order to justify the necessity of Christianity as a superior form of life. The flipside of this reconstructive endeavor is the creation of space for the emergence of a voice that had been drowned out by Eurocentricideological hegemony. The release of this voice provides an opportunity to re-label and re-define a Mosotho Christian�s identity through word and song.
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    Reading the Draft National Disability & Rehabilitation Policy in the light of Foucault�s notion of Governmentality
    (African Journal of Disability, 2013) Leshota, P. L.
    In the area of disability studies, models have been at the centre of debates, influencing social policies, practices and legal frameworks. The former Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in the Kingdom of Lesotho was not an exception. In its efforts to tackle issues of disability, it produced The National Disability and Rehabilitation Policy: Mainstreaming persons with disabilities into society in 2011. This policy document is rooted in the social model and seeks to address long-standing problems and challenges of people with disabilities in the Kingdom. Using ideas from Foucault, particularly the technologies and regimes of power, which work through language and practice, this article examined ways in which people with disabilities are constituted through state knowledge and government policies, and concluded that these constructions form the basis for alienation and marginalisation in society.