ABSTRACT There are many studies in Europe, Asia and America on how technology has impacted the media. These studies look at a wide range of new approaches adopted by newspapers, radio and television production and transmission across the world. This study examined how technology has affected newsgathering, production and delivery at Ghana’s state television, GTV. Everett Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory was used to assess the rate of diffusion of new technologies in the GTV newsro...
ABSTRACT The study’s main objective was to determine the challenges of northern migrant women in la Nkwantanang-Madina and how this affects the wellbeing of their children. It also looks at the strategies these women use to cope with their challenges as migrant workers in a new destination. Using a mixed method approach, qualitative and quantitative data were obtained from the women in their new environment in La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipality of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The stu...
ABSTRACT This research exercise is on the challenges of journalism practice in Nigeria (A study of Nigerian Television Authority, Enugu). The research study adopted the systems theory and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory as the theoretical framework for this study. The research population comprised 89 staff workers and the research study adopted the number as the sample size for the study. The questionnaire served as instrument of data collection. The data collected was analyzed using sim...
ABSTRACT This study is a comparative analysis of Brecht's theory of presentational theatrical production with the Tiv Kwagh-hir theatre showing both the similarities and differences. Broadly speaking, both the Brechtian Epic theatre and the Kwagh-hir theatre share the same approach to production. The Kwagh-hir as paradigm for the African traditional theatre shows that from time immemorial productions follow the Brechtian presentational style of production because it is essentially a story tel...
ABSTRACT The research was motivated by the need to review traditional beliefs of the Tiv currently undermined by the significant impact of technological change. The Tiv now put more emphasis on technology and its benefits, resulting in an erosion of traditional values within family and clan structures. The work is based on primary sources, including oral interviews with Tiv in positions of leadership, retired elders and chiefs, as well as average citizens. Secondary sources include materials ...
ABSTRACT The study focuses on the activities of trans-national nomadic herdsmen, principally, how these activities affect settled communities. The study employs interviews and identifies the trends and movement patterns of transnational nomads. These movements usually occur in the months of December and January, that is the period of the arrival of the herder, and during June and July, which mark the return movements of the herder. These movements occasion some relationships with settled com...
ABSTRACT This thesis examined the experience of the ECOWAS Monitoring Group, ECOMOG, in conflict management in the intra-state conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone between 1990 and 2000, when ECOMOG’s operation lasted. The specific objective of the study was the evaluation of the experience of ECOMOG, as a mechanism of subregional security cooperation, and how it conducted peace operations in Liberia and Sierra Leone under Chapter VII of the UN charter. It appraised the conceptual and theo...
ABSTRACT This study x-rayed the relationship between social media and family relationship. Social media are communication platforms evolved by the technological revolutions of the 21st century where users of the channels log on to the Internet to chat and send pictures. These platforms included but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Telegram and Instagram. There is a grmving impression that physical interactions and communications which helped to bond the ties of families members are fa...
ABSTRACT The Jos Plateau environment in general and Beromland in particular has witnessed severe decimation and change due to a number of agents of change. These agents of change have created a great ecological imbalance on the land, even as tin mining activities have left behind human-made ponds, dumps, bare vegetation, and have precipitated an avalanche of gully erosion and other activities of denudation that are now a common phenomenon on the Jos Plateau landscape. Many researchers ha...
Tourism industry has been applauded for being the sunrise industry for its continuous growth and potential to alleviate poverty. India is a country with diverse untapped tourism resources and also, a country that has suffered from persistent poverty. Henceforth, the tourism sector can act as a panacea to the problem of poverty especially in a developing country like India. In the last two decades, a good number of tourism initiatives with a ‘Pro-poor approach’ are launched in India but th...
Abstract The research study was aimed at radio broadcast programmes and rural development in Nigeria; A study of residents of Awgu local government area. The study addressed four research questions. The study adopted the survey research design method using the questionnaire as the research instrument. The findings revealed among others that there are factors that hinder development of rural areas and its dwellers through the broadcast media (radio). The study recommended amongst others th...
Abstract leaders and social groups (age grades) individually and collectively engaged in the practice of public relations. For instance, the communal pe2ce and harmony enjoyed by our forebears was occasioned by effective communication through good public relations. The honour and respect accorded traditional rulers and institutions in African societies are attributes of public relations practice. The town crier mode of communication is akin to today's mass media of communication. Traditional ...
ABSTRACT The study, examine public perception of social media contribution in the fight against corruption, the Idealistic theory, was used in this research study, as different philosophies of scholars review ,is noted to make this research concrete , observed to examine , the public perception ,in Corruption, as news information is being neglected . the magic bullet theory, creates a strong effect in the media influence .The social media, has played an effective role ,in disseminati...
Abstract Presidential elections were held in Gambia on 1 December, 2016. The incumbent, Yahya Jammeh, appeared confident of securing a fifth term in office. An army Lieutenant who became President of the Gambia after ceasing power in a bloodless coup d’état on 22 July 1994, President Jammeh was a quintessential African President-for-life. Behind a façade of regular presidential and parliamentary elections, President Jammeh maintained control of Gambia through the tried-and-tested techniqu...
ABSTRACT The Nigerian home video industry which formally began in 1992 with the production of Kenneth Nnebue's Living in Bondage has become very vibrant, producing hundreds of films per annum. The films are very popular with audiences and dominate television screens on the African continent and in the African Diaspora in Europe and America. The industry employs a large number of Nigerians as actors, scriptwriters, directors, camera men and costumiers while many others are involved with distri...