ABSTRACT How to protect and balance their National interests and sovereignty in theface of Neo-colonialist tendencies and activities from Developed American, European and Asian Nations, has right from the period of decolonization in the early 1960s, been a problem to Africa and Her leaders. As these Nations, tend to continuously encroach on the sovereignty and domestic policies of African Nations. Therefore, to take a foreign policy posture in the current global political scape that wi...
The study was conducted to investigate the effect of family socio-economic status on sexual behaviour among adolescent girls in Fiapre Community in the Sunyani West District. The study focuses on, the extent of sexual activities among female adolescents and influence of parental education on female adolescent sexual behaviour. The study employed a survey design to achieve the objectives of the study. Stratified and simple random was used with a sample size of 100 respondents. Structured que...
We live in a part of the world where a mere mention of mental health puts people to flight. The phrase “mental health” has so much been negativized to the extent that most people do not want to hear it any more. One stands to wonder why this hypocritical attitude towards mental health. Paradoxically, almost everybody cherishes health and desires health and longevity but when the adjective “mental” is added, the story changes. Is mental health not a part of the “health package”...
Corporal punishment in schools in Ghana has been recently criticized and subsequently banned in schools in Ghana by the Ghana Education Service. This was received with mixed feelings by Ghanaians. Some think corporal punishment is good for instilling discipline among students. Others also think corporal punishment is barbaric and should be avoided in schools in Ghana. The study was conducted to look at the psychosocial effects of corporal punishment on students in schools in Ghana. In doing t...
Emotional and Behavioral disturbances create problems in everyday life activities and affect both intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. Such disturbances could manifest cognitively as in forgetfulness, short attention span and negative thoughts and also impact negatively on work output of workers. The study was conducted to assess the impact of emotional and behavioural disturbances on the work output of health workers at Father Thomas Alan Rooney Memorial Hospital, Asankrangwa in th...
ABSTRACT This research topic – Marxism in Festus Iyayi’s Violence and Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Devil on the Cross – explores the representation of Marxism in African fictions. Almost all African nations have slipped the noose of colonialism; this has influenced African leaders who continually perpetrate the principles and system of self interest of their former colonial masters. In this case, African literature/fiction has been reflecting this neo colonial issue with the aim of proffer...
Abstract Identity construction is an aspect of language formation and or representation. Extant literatures abound on identity construction in advertisements, political and computer mediated discourses, which have variously identified forms and nature of identity creations of groups. These studies however have not adequately accounted for identity creation of women in Nigerian music videos. Hence, this study investigates the way women are represented and constructed in selected Nigerian pop m...
Abstract That pop music is one of the popular genres of music with much rhythm and harmony and its emphasis on romantic love songs is not news. What needs clarification is the level of interface in terms of meaning making between the verbal and visual aspects of pop music videos. This study thus investigates visual-verbal interface in select Nigerian pop music videos in order to determine the extent to which both visual and verbal modes encode and enhance meanings in the music. Three popular...
Abstract Public sphere discourses of government ministers-citizen interactions are common political discourse events in Nigeria. There is seemingly nothing unfamiliar about political discourses, but what needs clarification is the place of context and contextualization in encoding and decoding intentions/meanings, especially in public sphere discourses of government ministers-citizen interactions in Nigeria. Aspects of Presupposition in Jacob Mey’s Pragmatics that deal with context was adop...
ABSTRACT Several issues have shaped political discourse in Nigeria since her independence. Speeches read from scripts and other texts as well as various media forums have been major sources of data. Political interactions, dealing with spontaneous discourse/speech events have hardly been subject of discourse. Recently one of the platforms that transverse the Nigerian political sphere is the National Good Governance Tour (NGGT) of Nigeria; this study therefore, explores language use in the tou...
ABSTRACT The importance of information to man cannot be under - estimated. It serves as the oxygen that breathes life into governance. But laws are hardly fascinating to man; it makes least leisure reading. Nigerian public office- holders have been taken advantage of ambiguous nature of law to deprive journalists and by implication, the citizenry of their rights to know what operates in our adminstrative rooms. Then came the Freedom Of Information Act 2011, af...
ABSTRACT Official interactions between government ministers and the public are common political discourse events in democratic Nigeria. Previous studies on political discourse have examined language forms such as metaphor, which function as persuasive devices in ceremonial speeches, campaigns, manifestos and parliamentary debates, without adequate attention paid to the persuasiveness of discourse strategies in government minister-public interactions. This study, therefore, examined discursiv...
Abstract This paper attempted a comparative and contrastive study of the Feminist Ethos of Buchi Emecheta in Double Yoke and Lola Shoneyin in The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives. Although both writers are feminists of Nigerian origin, their ideological leanings, as this paper argued, were largely influenced by their region of residence rather than their place of origin. Although Emecheta had, on several occasions, denied the fact of her being a rad...
This paper deploys the postulations of African womanism/feminism to examine gender complementarity in three of Ngugi wa Thiong'O’s novels: The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, and Petals of Blood. While the prominent role Ngugi accords his female characters has been acknowledged and explored critically, how he deploys the African feminist/womanist ideology in his writings, and uses his writings to advocate for gender complementarity within the African socio-cultural real...
Seeking for and provision of healthcare service has been an important phenomenon in the history of man. Thus belief: religious and cultural, play important roles in shaping the way and nature people seek for and provide medical care. Since the period of Islamic resurgence in the Kano Metropolis in the 1980s, religion has been playing pivotal role in the way and nature the price of Kano patronised medical services. Thus modern Islamic health centers were founded. These health centers provided ...