ABSTRACT In Ghana like in other countries, Business Development Services has been acknowledged as a pro- poor development intervention because of its special program models in meeting the required needs of the rural poor especially women. This study analysed how dawadawa processors’ access to Business Development Service under Business Advisory Centre can economically empower them in the Chereponi District. The study was guided by Ester Boserup’s WID theory combined with Schultz’s Huma...
ABSTRACT The simplest and most basic census item age, mostly present difficulties with regard to its accuracy in statistically underdeveloped countries where civil registration coverage is limited in terms of its accessibility. The study aimed at evaluating and adjusting age data of the population and housing census of Ghana. Several evaluation tools were used to examine the errors. These include visual inspection of the data and at the same time graphing the single age data which revealed h...
ABSTRACT This study examines the headdress of Ga women as it is worn now in 2012. It investigates why the wearing of traditional headdress is no longer common and seeks to understand the choices Ga women are currently making in what headdress to wear. It further inquires into whether the headdress of Ga women reflects their status, role and beliefs as much of the literature on African headdress describes. The study finds that traditional headdress is now viewed mainly as the preserve of thos...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the complications raised in teaching a confessional Religious education
ABSTRACT This thesis generally is an investigation of the nature of health conditions and disease control in Northern Ghana during the colonial period, 1897-1956. In particular, the study examines the Protectorates disease environment and how the local people and subsequently the colonial authorities handled the disease problems. The study also investigates the extent to which measures designed to combat diseases were efficient. The conclusions reached in this study are that, the environmen...
ABSTRACT This thesis is about Community Audio Towers (CATs). CATs are small media platforms that use horn speakers hoisted on a long dry pole, an amplifier and a microphone to communicate daily village events. This study shows that individuals depend more on CATs than other available mainstream channels. The thesis interrogates the level of individual (i.e. villager) dependency on CATs in Ugandan rural and semi-urban communities alongside the other three available platforms in Uganda: radio,...
SUMMARY The thesis, Indigenous language programming and citizen participation in Ugandan broadcasting: an exploratory study constitutes an analysis of the significance of policy on indigenous language programming in Uganda’s broadcast media. The thesis is conceived broadly within a critical studies’ framework. It emphasises the role of the broadcast media in the public sphere, as well as policy on linguistic diversity in making the public sphere more accessible to the majority of Ugandan...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of Information Literacy (IL) competencies towards effective utilization of information resources among Aga Khan University (AKU) Second Year Nursing Students. The study addressed the following objectives: review how IL programmes are managed at AKU, establish which IL competencies AKU Nursing Students acquire from the library staff, examine the contribution of IL competencies in the effective utilization of information resources ...
ABSTRACT The United Nations (UN), when established in 1945, was envisaged to provide a bulwark against threats to international peace and security. Thus the unilateral use of force, which undermined the effectiveness of the defunct League of Nations, the precursor to the UN, was proscribed. From the Cold War era and its aftermath, however, a number of states have pursued parochial interests under the umbrella of the UN, some permanent members of the United Nations Security The council (UNSC...
ABSTRACT It is the general view that homosexuality is an issue that both society and the media find controversial. In Uganda, press reports mostly echo the negative attitudes towards homosexuality as demonstrated by the studies about the 2009 anti-homosexuality bill. This thesis addressed itself to the framing of homosexuality in the two Ugandan newspapers of New Vision and Daily Monitor during the period 2007-2011. The purpose of the thesis was to investigate the frames that the two media h...
ABSTRACT Background: Adolescent substance use is the largest preventable and most costly public health problem facing mankind today. There is evidence that students start using psychoactive substances at earlier ages than in the past. This study sought to explore substances commonly used by students of Holy Trinity Cathedral Senior High School in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study that employed both qualitative and quantitative approache...
ABSTRACT Academic libraries, like any other organizations, are likely to encounter conflicts. This survey identified common, causes and types of conflicts encountered by Sam Jonah, Osagyefo and John Kofi Borsah Libraries and examined the conflicts management techniques employed in managing them. The sample for this study was made of two hundred and sixteen respondents selected from three academic libraries through the census sampling method. The study was a descriptive survey. A validated qu...
Abstract The study is about discipleship in Mark 10:35-52: a model for leadership development of clergy in the Church of Uganda (Anglican). In this thesis I engage with three contextual models that have impacted on the leadership development of clergy in the Church of Uganda (Anglican) namely: the Ganda model of kingship, the Church Missionary Society (CMS) model and the East African Revival (EAR). Kingship models reflect oppressive codes of patronage and authoritarianism which have influenc...
ABSTRACT In Ghana and other sub-Saharan African countries, the family is the primary caregiver for elderly persons and provides other forms of support to them. Urbanisation and its associated consequences have weakened traditional family ties and obligation, and subsequently impaired care for the elderly, particularly in urban poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Against this backdrop, this study explored the experiences of family caregivers and their elderly care recipients in two urban c...
ABSTRACT This thesis informs the Socio-Economic and Political Role of Prison Institution in Zanzibar from 1890 to 1963. It, specifically, informs how prison was operated. It then informs the socio-economic, as well as the political role of colonial prison in Zanzibar. The Marxist theory of state supplemented with Foucault Disciplinary Approach guided in generating and analysing data from primary and secondary sources. It is argued that operation of colonial prison was not accidental but it m...