ABSTRACT The National Sanitation Day (NSD) Campaign was launched by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) to resolve poor sanitation issues in Ghana. The campaign included a communication objective to encourage behaviour change towards good sanitation practice. The study was designed to gauge public attitude and response to the NSD campaign by surveying residents of Madina, a demographically heterogeneous community in Accra. The Multistage cluster sampling procedure ...
ABSTRACT Tourist hotel investments and employment opportunities is the trend which is discussed by almost every person with expectation that it has capacity to reduce unemployment rate and provide economic benefits to ordinary people and the government at large. This study was designed to examine relationship existing between tourist hotel investments and employment opportunities. The study wants to understand if people have benefited in terms of employment opportunities from those hotel inv...
ABSTRACT This study looks at the gender role stereotypes in African children‘s literature. It is conducted through a content analysis of the written works of several African writers of children‘s literature in addition to selected oral children‘s literature such as lullabies and folk tales. Looking at oral and written literature enables a better examination of gender stereotypes in children‘s literature as a whole, instead of looking only at written literature which past studies on t...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of vocabulary teaching and learning towards the improvement of learners’ English language skills in Urban West Zanzibar. The study was guided by three objectives. The first objective was to identify the various VLS that the English language teachers use in teaching vocabulary in the English language classroom. The second objective was to assess the extent to which vocabulary teaching and learning helps in improving the En...
ABSTRACT I have argued that since Plato, the main task of political philosophy is to prescribe how the ideal state ought to be attained. Several postcolonial thinkers, activists and theoreticians, notably, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti attempted a prescription of the ideal state suitable for Africa. Thus Fela’s political philosophy could be summed up as follows: the realisation of Africa’s cultural independence, the unification of continental Africa under democratic governance and Africa’s retur...
ABSTRACT Residential real estate, in recent times, has attracted a lot of attention due to its strong economic performance which is mainly as a result of increasing demand for housing and additional diversification benefits offered to investors in the region; making real estate investment extremely lucrative. Nonetheless many investors have doubts about the prudence of investing in emerging markets. In particular it may be felt that the expected returns offered in the countries of the Africa...
ABSTRACT For a decade now, the Boko Haram terrorist organization has continuously caused insecurity within the northeastern part of Nigeria where it emerged and other areas around the Lake Chad Basin. The motivations for the group’s uprising and persistence continuous to be a source of academic debate. Religion, politics and economics have become the main factors which many have used to explain the complex phenomenon of Boko Haram terrorism. This research specifically interrogates the econ...
ABSTRACT Human trafficking is happening in every corner of the globe. Since it is a hidden crime, the full scale of the menace of human trafficking cannot be definitely detected and tackled by any country on its own. Ghana is not exempted from the universal challenge of trafficking in persons, as Ghana endures as a destination, source and transit country for trafficking in persons. In a quest to control this phenomenon globally, IOM as an intergovernmental organisation concerned with migrati...
ABSTRACT This study assessed Tanzania‘s Foreign Policy and the factors that prompted the reorientation of Tanzania‘s relations with Israel. The study draws from the historically unstable relations between the two countries especially from 1967 to 1995 and stagnant relations between 1995 to 2014. However, as of May 2018, Tanzania established her embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, signifying a shift in the relations between the two countries. From this setting, the study had three specific object...
IKISIRI Utafiti huu umejikita katika mada ya Uchanganuzi na Uhakiki wa Athari za Unukuzi-hati kutoka Kiarabu kwenda Kiswahili – Mifano kutoka Utenzi wa Al-Inkishafi (Na Sayyid Abdallah bin Nasir – Tafsiri ya William Hichens 1939). Kwa asili ya Utenzi wa Al-Inkishafi uliandikwa kwa Hati ya Kiarabu katika lugha ya Kiswahili. Utenzi huo umekuwa ni ufunguo wa utafiti huu kutokana na kuwa na sifa ya historia ndefu iliyobeba istilahi zilizosheheni mitazamo ya kitafiti kati ya Hati ya Kiarabu na...
IKISIRI Tasinifu hii ilijikita katika kujadili mdhihiriko wa utanzia katika ushairi wa Kiswahili. Diwani zilizochunguzwa ni Kichomi na Dhifa. Dhana ya utanzia katika tasinifu hii imetumika kama mbinu bunilizi inayotumia vipengele mbalimbali vizuavyo huzuni, masikitiko, machungu, majonzi pamoja na maumivu ya mwili, roho na akili kwa hadhira. Utafiti umeongozwa na malengo mahususi matatu ambayo ni: kubainisha matukio ya utanzia yaliyodhihirika katika diwani teule, kufafanua dhima za matumizi ya...
IKISIRI Tasnifu hii inahusu Ontolojia ya Kiafrika katika Mbolezi za Wanyasa. Utafiti huu ulifanywa uwandani na maktabani ambapo uwandani, data zilikusanywa kwa kutumia mbinu za mahojiano, ushuhudiaji na mjadala wa vikundi. Kwa upande wa maktabani mtafiti alitumia mbinu ya udurusu maktaba.Utafiti uliongozwa na lengo kuu ambalo ni kubaini vipengele vya ontolojia ya Kiafrika katika mbolezi za Wanyasa. Malengo mahususi ambayo ni; kubainisha aina ya mbolezi zinazopatikana katika jamii ya Wanyasa, ...
ABSTRACT The disaster of language endangerment is understood by many to be among the most significant concerns confronting humankind today, presenting ethical and logical issues of tremendous extents. A risked language is that in danger of phasing out, or one anticipated stopping to be the methods for human correspondence for a particular society or social gathering. At the point when speakers of a language move to other languages and surrender their own, incredible learning of their way of l...
ABSTRACT The study focused on voters‘ perception on participation of international election observers in Tanzania‘s 2015 presidential election, a case of Ilala constituency in Dar es salaam region. The general objective of this study was to assess voters‘ perception on participation of international election observers in Tanzania‘s 2015 Presidential elections. Descriptive cross-sectional survey technique was used and systematic random sampling was employed to select respondent for the...
ABSTRACT This study aimed to examine the sound alterations in Kirinchari /ʧ/ and Kisimbiti /ʃ/ as the dialects of Kurya language; the study had three objectives which are: To identify the lexical items (words) with /ʧ/ and /ʃ/ sounds in Kirinchari and Kisimbiti dialects respectively, to investigate the causes of the sound variations in Kirinchari and Kisimbiti dialects as long as the sound variations of /ʧ/ and /ʃ/ are present, to examine the semantic variations resulting from the prese...