ABSTRACT This thesis investigates career choice from an industrial-psychological perspective in Namibia. The research question aimed to investigate whether Namibian youth are aware of the need to make career choice and whether they do make conscious career decisions. To assess career development and choice of students, Super’s Career Development Theory was employed as the theoretical framework for this study. Only students in Grade 12 from two previous disadvantaged schools in Windhoek were...
ABSTRACT This study was motivated by the pervasive difficulties which Namibian learners and students experience in reading and understanding English texts, and which impact negatively on the academic progress of these learners and students. The research was aimed at identifying specific language-related properties of English texts which might impede the English reading comprehension of students in Namibia entering university, as well as possible elements in the language background of these st...
ABSTRACT This thesis looks at the relationship between Nawuri and the Gonja from 1913 to 1994.
ABSTRACT This thesis was a stylistics analysis of healthcare communication discourses on billboards and posters in Windhoek. The main aim of the study was to examine how the language used in healthcare communication messages on posters and billboards, is packaged to persuade readers/consumers to adopt good health practices. The study also concentrated on how the AIDA (attention, interest, desire and action) principle of advertisement and foregrounding features used in healthcare communication...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study is to examine the growth patterns of Ghanaian towns in terms of population size and to investigate the plausible reasons for an increase or decrease in the number of people living in the towns at a particular point in time. For a meaningful study, selection is made of all towns in the country with population of 10,000 or more by the 2000 Population and Housing Census Reports of Ghana. The study found out that, internal migration in Ghana flows in all...
Abstract This research was primarily designed as survey to find out what motivations informed listeners' patronage of selected FM radio stations within the Koforidua municipality. The quantitative and qualitative approaches were used in this study, which was conducted from March 11 to 20, 2004. Five (5) suburbs, within the Koforidua Municipality, namely, Betom, Srodae, Adweso Estates, Old Estates and Effiduase, were purposively selected. A structured questionnaire, consisting of 26 closed-en...
The global processes that were unleashed due to the maritime exploration and commercial expansion of Europe made an impact on indigenous cultures of the Atlantic world. Between the late fifteenth and the nineteenth century the Atlantic Slave Trade, which existed due to the European contact, and basically involved trade in Africa's human cargoes, affected traditional institutions and local life. On the Gold Coast, the Royal Danish Government established agricultural plantations in the foothill...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to research into how rural communities in Ghana are covered and represented by a Public broadcasting television station, Ghana Television (GTV). The study also sought to establish whether there exist a fair balance between the volume of news coverage given to elitist/urban news as opposed to news of, and about, rural communities in the year 2004. The researcher mainly used content analysis as the method of data collection and systematic random sampling was ...
ABSTRACT This study is an exploration of the literary representation of survival and coping strategies during times of socio-political and economic crisis as presented in selected contemporary Zimbabwean fiction in English. The main purpose of the study was to investigate how fiction, particularly the short story, manages to capture the various innovative and resilient ways used by the people inhabiting the city during tempestuous and trying times, and how they manage to live with hope and po...
ABSTRACT Reading Morrison’s fiction at the hand of Bakhtin and Levinas, as well as considering her own non-fiction, led to the conclusion that sufficient evidence exists to argue Morrison’s novels present identity as ethical responsibility that can advocate for a manifesto for positive social change. Analysis focused on the investigation of identity construction in Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), Tar Baby (1981), Paradise (1997), and A Mercy (2008). Through her fiction Morrison can be...
ABSTRACT CANDIDATE’S DISSERTATION AN ANALYSIS OF POLICIES, PRACTICES AND TRENDS IN NAMIBIAN THEATRE IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY, WITH SPECIFIC EMPHASIS ON THE WORK OF BRICKS, FREDERICK PHILANDER AND ALDO BEHRENS The study was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Christo Botha (Main Supervisor, UNAM) and Dr. Meredith Palumbo (Co-Supervisor, UNAM). The study aimed to demonstrate the ways that theatre in Namibia was conceptualized, managed and performed from the mid-1980s to the turn of the...
ABSTRACT The Namibian economic development aspirations place a high premium on energy security in general and electricity supply in particular. At the same time, Namibia Power Corporation (NamPower) is highly engaged in the regional electricity market both bilaterally and multilaterally. However, there seems to be a dearth of knowledge on the nexus between the two situations, specifically how the various bilateral and multilateral agreements shape the corporation’s actual operations and str...
ABSTRACT This study focusses on the current retention rate of girls in rural secondary schools that were part of the piloted schools in the then Kavango Educational Region but now fall in the Kavango West Educational Region after the split of Kavango into two regions (East and West) by the forth Delimitation Commission in 2013. The aim of the study is to identify what the current retention rate of the girls is, the type of barriers they are faced with and how to overcome them. The key researc...
ABSTRACT The main focus of the study was to explore the literary presentation of transnational identities and interracial marriage encounters as presented by two Namibian autobiographical texts, Taming my Elephant by Amulungu (2017) and Undisciplined Heart by Katjavivi (2010). It evaluated the strategies employed by the authors to explore the sense of ‘belonging’ as well as the joys and challenges experienced in interracial marriages. Guided and informed by the autobiography theory and th...
ABSTRACT Loss of identity and racial melancholy are essential in a postcolonial Namibia; the feeling of not belonging is brought to the fore in this study. This thesis is an exploration of racial melancholy and loss of identity in Zakes Mda’s, The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) and Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter (1979). The main aim of the research is to examine, discuss and explore how the two concepts are presented in the two novels under investigation. The study is a desktop study,...