Abstract This research examines the representation of multiple identities in literary texts through an analysis of Crossing the Boundary Fence by Patricia Charter (1988), To Breathe and Wait by Nancy Partridge (1986) and Ginette by Sylvia S Bond (1980). Multiple identities manifest themselves in everyday life as we know it. The question of how identity changes, at what point and with what effect, have long been overlooked. In prose writing, the author is oftentimes unaware of the voice or voi...
ABSTRACT The study seeks to analyze the human rights advocacy for prisoners by human rights organizations in the context of Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission .It majors on the impact of human rights organizations in line with ZHRC’s decision to engage in such advocacy. It analyzes the strategic tools and plans implored by humanitarian organizations to fight for human rights particularly related to prisoners .The research address the gap in the literature by assessing the existence of human r...
ABSTRACT This study amplifies the argument of the thesis that the practice of dehumanizing, alienating and disconnecting man in the course of marketing communication can be addressed through the adoption of Gabriel Marcel's philosophy of intersubjectivity. Man's dehumanization, alienation and disconnection throw up fundamental obstructions and misconceptions in the present-day understanding and practice of marketing communication, making it imperative for philosophy to clear the impediments a...
ABSTRACT This dissertation seeks to show that leadership disputes are an ongoing phenomenon in the Zion Apostolic Faith Mission Church in Zimbabwe since its inception in 1923 to date. The founder Bishop faced some leadership disputes, his son and the second bishop Dorious (1985-2012) faced some leadership disputes. Dictatorship and general church maladministration during Dorious‟ reign created leadership disputes which spilled into today‟s leadership wrangle pitting Jameson the eldest sur...
ABSTRACT There is ample evidence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research indicating that appropriately programmed machines are capable of performing functions that require intelligence when performed by humans. However, there is no available correlative record that any such machine has been able to pass the Turing Test; an intelligence test purposefully designed by Alan Turing to actualise his objective of justifying machine intelligence. This work attempts to resolve this paradox. Conseque...
ABSTRACT This study aims to evaluate the extent to which civil society communicative platforms can be regarded as public sphere. This study seeks to establish how civil society communicative spaces, particularly public meetings, have been used to create a public sphere in the Habermasian sense. In other words, the study sought to establish the kind of public sphere that is consummated when citizens meet and engage on issues that affect them at public meetings. The research used Bulawayo Agend...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page - - - - - - - - - i Certification - - - - - - - - - ii Dedication - - - - - - - - - iii Acknowledgement - - - - - - - - iv Table of Content - - - - - - - - v Abstract - - - - - - - - - vi CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study - - - - - - 1 1.2 Scope and Limitation - - - - - - - 5 1.3 Significant of the Study - - - - - - 6 1.4 Statement of Research Problem - - - - - 6 1.5 Aim and Objectives - - - - - - - 7 1.6 Methodology - - - - - - - - 7 1.7 Stru...
ABSTRACT This study is an analysis of auto-biographical narratives reinterpreted as auto-heterobiography to open space to an exploration and interrogation of alterity. Analysis of these narratives operated via postmodernist, postcolonial and philosophical discourses.The problem of narrating traumatized, political and hybrid or cosmopolitan selves was sited as resident in the primordial polytropos of the human experience which exposes narratives as aporetic and incomplete once postured as clos...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the image of the military in Nigerian literature using selected novels of some notable Nigerian writers. It appraises the military in Politics, war and nation-building which are prominent areas where their activities have impacted significantly on the country's development. Though studies on them have been done in political science and sociology. none have addressed their exploration in literature to explicate their depth of character that the Nigerian novel p...
Abstract The history of the Shangwe of Gokwe South District has been discovered by many scholars. Though, my study unloaded the history of the Shangwe people of Gokwe South District mainly on the indigenous knowledge systems and how colonialism and imperialism have affected the Shangwe communities and their IKS. The investigation has shown the effects of the Shangwe displacements by the Rhodesian government and also the effects caused by the immigrants (Madheruka) who came from other regions ...
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction ….………………………………………..……………………... 1 1.1 Background of the study ………………………………….…………………… 1 1.2 Statement of the research problem ……………………….……………………… 2 1.3 Aim and Objectives ……………………………………….……………………. 2 1.4 Scope and Limitation ……………………………………….…………………… 2 1...
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TABLE OF CONTENT Title page ............................i Approval page .........................ii Dedication ...............................iii Acknowledgment ..........................iv-v Table of content ........................vi-viii Chapter One 1.0 Introduction ..................1 1.1 Background of Study ................4 1.2 Scope and Limitation .....................5 1.3 Significance of Study ......................6 1.4 Statement of the Research Problem ...................6 1.5 Aim...
Abstract In this era of Internet of Things (IoT), new technology innovations are constantly introduced globally however with less developed countries adopting these innovations and ways of doing things at a later stage. This research focuses on one of these innovations which is the use of social media by businesses as an advertising platform for products and services. Various types of businesses in Zimbabwe are embracing this concept of social media advertising but lacking the knowledge on th...
Abstract The loud bangs emitted by Oscar Pistorius’ gun in his apartment on the night of 13 February 2014, set ablaze a social media adoption by nu merous South Africans. This unfortunate incident in which Reeva Steenkamp was murdered set a research in motion. Thousands of South Africans and those beyond flocked on Facebook and Twitter to monitor the progress of the hand of justice, as well as to disc uss their thoughts on what they thought would be a just outcome. It was a repetition of th...