ABSTRACT The peacekeeping partnership between the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU), which started in 2002, occurred at three levels: strategic, institutional and operational. The strategic partnership involves the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC); the institutional partnership comprises the UN Secretariat and the AU Commission, while joint peacekeeping operations have been carried out in Sudan, Somalia and Mali. Existing studies on how to i...
ABSTRACT Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have been called to action in instances where the state has either been deficient or ineffective in managing affairs. Undoubtedly, the process of democratization in Africa has produced mixed results due to several factors among which include poorly organized elections and its associated violence. Electoral violence prevention has become an integral part of international electoral assistance programs without the needed understanding of what works and...
ABSTRACT Linguistic tagging, the labelling of people and their actions with particular sociopolitically-grounded values, is an ideological denominator that plays a significant role in media framing of conflict. Despite this significance, existing studies on the Nigeria-Cameroon Bakassi Peninsula border conflict, which had concentrated on the historical, political, legal and sociolinguistic dimensions, largely neglected an exploration of the dynamics of linguistic tagging. Therefore, this stu...
ABSTRACT Divine Healing, which is healing without orthodox medicine, has over the years played a dominant role in the growth of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in Southwestern Nigeria. Despite this role, previous studies have focused on its theological significance and changing trends, with little emphasis on its impact on the growth of CAC Therefore, this study examined the healing ministry in CAC Southwestern Nigeria (1943-2000), with a view to assessing its large contributions to the numeri...
ABSTRACT One of the fundamental factors that determine the success or failure of a behavioural change campaign is the nature of communication strategies adopted by the change agent. Nigeria has been declared a polio free nation, but scholarly attention has not been given to the role played by communication strategies in the success of polio immunisation and eradication projects in Northern Nigeria. This study, therefore, investigated the communication strategies used in polio immunisation ca...
This essay was written as practice for the IB diploma Language and Literature program Nov 2020. It discusses how literary works explore moral and ethical issues in the following books as it evaluates the effect of these themes in books 1. The Bloody Chamber by (Angela Carter) 2. A Doll's house (Henrik Ibsen) Please enjoy ! You can contact me at [email protected] i
ABSTRACT Food labels provide information from manufacturer to consumer about a particular prepackaged food. This study was conducted in the Accra Metropolis, specifically Dansoman community to explore the awareness of food labelling information among consumers and its use in purchasing pre-packaged food products. The objectives of the study were to determine the awareness level of consumers, evaluate the usefulness of food labelling information, explore the kind of information consumers pref...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the challenges training officers in the training department face in organizing In-Service Education and Training programmes in the Atwima Mponua District. A qualitative research design, specifically the case study design was employed for the study. Interview guide and observation were used to gather data from training officers in the District. A total of 14 training officers were used for the study using census sampling technique. Data collec...
ABSTRACT The major purpose of the study was to investigate financial public relations practices in some selected commercial banks in Ghana. The study used both qualitative and quantitative method and adopted the descriptive survey design. The study employed the Excellence Theory as its theoretical framework. Questionnaires and interview guide were used to gather data from one hundred and fifty six (156) participants. The population was made up of all workers and clients of the Agricultural D...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the nature, access and use of instructional materials in kindergartens in the Atwima Nwabiagya District in the Ashanti Region. Specifically, the study sought to identify the nature of instructional materials that are available and accessible in kindergartens in the district, determine the extent of use of instructional materials by the kindergarten teachers in the district, find out the challenges in the availability and accessibility of instructional materia...
ABSTRACT This thesis is a report on a comparative study of diagrams and models used as teaching aids in teaching atomic orbitals in senior secondary schools (SSS). An orbital represents a three-dimensional ,volume of space around an atomic nucleus, where electrons arc found. Diagrams of orbitals in textbooks and on teachers' chalkboards appear in two dimensions, making visualization difficult for students. Three second-year elective chemistry classes in different schools in the Cape Coast Mun...
ABSTRACT This work sought to use Contextual Bible Reading, where the text (1 Cor. 14: 34- 40) was read with ordinary readers (women’s groups) to find out what meaning they derive from the text. In preparation for the Contextual Bible Reading, a textual analysis of 1 Cor. 14:34-40 was done. The research went on to establish the implications of the text on the churches with regard to their doctrinal standpoint including the decisions of church councils or General Assemblies of the churches co...
ABSTRACT The farmer and nomad conflict in the Agogo area seems to be more and more severe which has led to loss of lives and destruction of properties. The severity of the farmernomad conflict has precipitated a number of conflict management methods in controlling this protracted conflict in the Agogo area, but to no avail. Therefore, this study sought to examine why the various conflict management methods adopted to control the conflict have not worked and explore the community perspective...
ABSTRACT Pedagogy of the Oppressed was written decades ago to expose unequal power relationships which result in oppression among humanity. It further introduces critical pedagogy as the antidote to deconstructing oppression. Using the qualitative approach to inquiry, the study employed the phenomenological design to solicit the views and ideas of the 2018 Postgraduate Sandwich Students of the Communication and Media Studies Department and investigated how their behaviours have been transform...
ABSTRACT This thesis examines question formation in Sɩsaalɩ, a member of the Grusi sub-group of the Gur languages (Naden 1988) spoken in the Upper West Region of Ghana and some parts of Burkina Faso. I discuss the syntax of polar, alternative and content questions. Two strategies for the formation of polar questions are identified which are the phonological and syntactic strategies. While the former involves the phonological strategy of falling intonation, the latter uses the question p...