ABSTRACT The study was designed to find out the constraints to electronic books utilisation in private university libraries in Kenya.
ABSTRACT Dreams according to Morton T Kesley are any content that comes in sleep and is remebered.
ABSTRACT There is a weakness in the way university libraries manage various moment of truth.
ABSTRACT The research investigated some mechanical properties of aluminium waste concrete to harness its structural properties in the construction industry. Aluminium waste which was obtained from Aluminum Extrusion Industry (ALEX) Inyishi in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State was investigated. The mathematical models for the optimization of the compressive and flexural strengths of a five-component concrete mix was obtained. A computer program for the optimization of the compressive...
Interfaith dialogue is becoming a household name in our global society within the context of religious pluralism. Christians and Muslims are widely spread across the globe commanding almost a half of global population. Some Christians, particularly among some Pentecostals view Muslims with distrust, apprehension and rivalry. In Nairobi, Kenya, features of mistrust, disharmony, and intolerance among Pentecostal churches toward Muslims have been witnessed and vice versa. The study explored Chri...
ABSTRACT The thesis proposes God's intention for Kenyan society, especially the Evangelical Christians, to the transformation of the poor economic state of Kenya and the gains that may be derived from it.
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken in Kainuk, Kenya and was aimed at evaluating the impact of the ethnic violence among christian youth.
Abstract This study investigated how African women in cohabitative relationships, defined as married and/or unmarried couples who live together and have sexual relationships, cope, as portrayed in the selected ten short stories by black African women writers. The short stories were selected because of recurring themes about women’s empowerment and disempowerment. The study used a qualitative approach by looking at views related to black African women in cohabitative relationships as portra...
ABSTRACT This paper presents an empirical exploration and analysis of the economic and policy impact of development aid to Namibia since independence 1990. Namibia has been receiving a large amount of economic and humanitarian aid, in the form of financial, technical and material support from both bilateral and multilateral development cooperation partners with a common objective to promote good governance, economic growth and reducing poverty. International aid did not came as a surprise, t...
ABSTRACT Over the years Institutions have contributed in diverse ways in the management of natural resources. Little is known about the roles of traditional institutions in the management of natural resources. Because of the little knowledge about the roles traditional authorities play, management and sustainability of natural resources becomes a problem in West Gonja traditional area. The research is to find out how the roles and issues of traditional institutions could be mainstreamed in th...
ABSTRACT Decentralization is globally recognized as the way of ensuring community participation and local development. Many countries including Ghana have adopted decentralization and implemented the concept in different ways. In the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region, though the Sub-Municipal structures in the decentralization process have been confronted with much challenges, there has been some remarkable performances. Therefore, the study sought to assess the performance of the Sub...
ABSTRACT Background: Transmission of HIV from pregnant mothers to their children is a key route of HIV transmission in Nigeria. Nigeria contributes up to 30% of the global PMTCT gap and coverage of PMTCT services has however remained low at less than 19% - falling short of both the universal access and National Strategic Plan targets. The current study intends to identify factors underlying the low uptake of PMTCT interventions in Abia state. Method: The study was conducted in ten out of the...
ABSTRACT In developing countries, various agricultural credit schemes have been implemented by both government and civil society organizations as a way of overcoming the challenges of access to credit by the actors in agricultural value chains, particularly farmers. This study used the cross sectional research design to examine how effective and efficient the Masara N‟Arziki and the NRGP Agricultural Credit schemes are in meeting the credit needs of farmers in the Wa West District of the U...
ABSTRACT ‘Starving the Dead’ is a critical theoretical revelation of indigenous people’s experiences, realities, rationality and interpretation of ‘food’ as a socio-spiritual construct that transcends the materialist meaning of food as ‘nutrition’. It has been necessitated by the criticisim rather than critique of indigenous (food) knowledge by modern science as primitive, superstitious, irrational and therefore ‘unscientific’. This power-based criticism has disrupted th...
ABSTRACT The activities of small scale mining (SSM) companies have come under great scrutiny in Ghana due to bad public image and perception, threatening the sustainability of the sector. The study therefore assessed the extent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability adherence by SSM companies operating in the East Akim Municipality. The study further investigated the extent of CSR existence in the organizational policies of SSM companies, analyzed the pattern of CSR prac...