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Analysis Of Inclusive Education In Harare Northern Central District: Policy Versus Implementation

ABSTRACT This study sought to analyze inclusive education in Harare Northern Central District: Policy versus Implementation. The main research question sought the knowledge gaps between inclusive education policies and their implementation. Sub-questions drawn from the main question were asked to solicit data from school heads. Phenomenological research design was employed while a Purposive Criterion Sampling was used to come up with three school heads and nine teachers. An interview guide an...

Religion And Child Marriages In The Johane Marange Apostolic Sect: The Case Study Of Chihota Communal Areas,1917-2015.

ABSTRACT The study focuses on religion and child marriages from 1917-2015. Case of Johane Marange Apostolic Sect of Chihota communal areas. The study reveals the background to the history of child marriages in Zimbabwe from the pre-colonial period which reveals that child marriages has got an African traditional-cultural origin. There are a lot of consequences of the Johane Marange Sect‟s marriage practices which includes illiteracy, abuse of women and poor health outcomes as a result of th...

Nationalistic Historiography Or Patriotic History? A Look At The Discourses Of Chronicles From The Second Chimurenga: A Sunday Mail Column.

Abstract The study set out to explore the discourses in the column Chronicles from the Second Chimurenga in The Sunday Mail .The intention was to find out if it is nationalistic historiography or patriotic history or both histories being propagated on the Column Chronicles from the Second Chimurenga .The theoretical framework of the study is informed by the framing theory and concepts of nationalistic historiography and patriotic history .Methodologically the study is grounded in the qualitat...

The Legality Of Internet Shutdowns In Zimbabwe

ABSTRACT In an ever-increasingly global age, the world has become dependent on the internet for communication purposes and transacting, the internet has become a conduit through which people exercise realise their rights. The internet provides enhanced connectivity of persons and offers a platform for free expression. The internet has further become a conduit through which individuals can realise the right to freedom of expression. Autocratic governments that feel threatened by the difficulty...

Appraising Performance Management Processes: A Case Of The Directorate Of Customs And Excise, Ministry Of Finance, Namibia

ABSTRACT This study explores ways of enhancing performance management processes at the Directorate of Customs and Excise (DCE) within the Ministry of Finance (MoF) of the government of the Republic of Namibia. It investigates critical factors that accelerate employee performance and exposes some of the challenges that hinder the effective implementation of performance management processes in DCE. It is important to explore performance measurements and strategies that could be employed by DCE ...

Children’s Texts Prescribed In Zimbabwean High Schools As Historical Narratives. A Close Study Of Hanson’s Takadini, Gascoigne’s Tunzi The Faithful Shadow And Chater’s Crossing The Boundary F

ABSTRACT This research is an examination of the use of Children’s texts prescribed for Zimbabwean Junior high schools as historical narratives. This is an angle which has not been adequately explored as most of the texts in the Zimbabwean junior High curriculum are often valued for their didactic contribution while ignoring their historical value altogether. The research will also attempt to establish what kind of history is being narrated in the texts and whose history it is by examining w...

The Role Of Political And Social Satire In South Africa Through Stand Up Comedy Case Study Of Trevor Noah‟S Comedies,That‟S Racist (2012),Crazy Normal (2011) And Day Walker(2009).

ABSTRACT This thesis seeks to address the role of satire in stand-up comedy in exposing socio-political issues and injustices. The study used the semiotics theory which primarily studies on the significance of signs and symbols in conveying meaning, the semiotic theory worked hand in hand in complementing one another with the audience receptive theory which explores how individuals interpret the same text conveyed within a performance. Through humour comedians can say anything political sarca...

Taswira Katika Ngano Za Kiswahili Kutoka Wilaya Ya Kusini Unguja-Zanzibar

SHUKRANI Shukrani za awali ziende kwa Mwenyezi Mungu, muumba wa viumbe vyote, kwa kunisaidia kwa uwezo wake mkubwa kunilinda na kunipa afya katika kipindi chote cha kufanya utafiti huu mpaka ukakamilika. Shukrani nyingine ni kwa msimamizi wangu wa utafiti huu Dkt. Muhammed Seif Khatib kwa kuniongoza, kunishauri na kunipa changamoto mbalimbali za kutafuta taarifa zaidi na zaidi. Mungu mzidishie baraka na kumlinda na mabaya yote ya dunia. Wahadhiri wangu wote kwa kuwa nao pamoja tangu mwanzo w...

Power Sharing And Conflict Manageivent In Africa: Nigeria, Sudan And Rwanda

ABSTRACT Most of the conflicts on the African continent centre on disagreement over the sharing of power among the ethnic groups of the constituent states. While the civil war in Sudan has claimed thousands of lives since it started, the ethnic cleansing in Rwanda has attracted world-wide condemnation. In Nigeria, the fear of northern domination was heightened by tile annulment of the presidential election of June 12, 1993, won by a southern politician. The reaction of the international commu...

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Common Characteristics In Sukuma-Nyamwezi Transitional Dialects

ABSTRACT This study examined common characteristics in Sukuma-Nyamwezi transitional dialects with a goal to examine similarities and differences in lexical and phonetic systems of Ndala and Isikisya dialects of Sukuma and Nyamwezi languages and to assess the level of relatedness between Ndala and Isikisya dialects of Sukuma and Nyamwezi languages respectively. The study employed a descriptive case study design. This design was considered relevant and suitable in trying to understand in detai...

The Role Of The United Nations Development Program In Promoting Good Governance: A Case Study Of Zanzibar

ABSTRACT This study assessed the role of the United Nations Development Program in promoting good governance in Zanzibar. It examined the status of good governance in Zanzibar, found out the link between the United Nations Development Program on good governance programs to government and nongovernmental organisations, and evaluated the UNDP strategies used in achieving the goals of promoting good governance within Zanzibar. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze information by frequenci...

Examination Of The Impact Of Immigration Services On Foreing Direct Investment (Fdi) A Case Of Zanzibar

ABSTRACT The study examined the Impact of Immigration Services on Foreign Direct Investment in Zanzibar. In its insight, the study was enriched with the following objectives: To examine the enforcement of Laws, Regulations, Policies and Duties that govern towards issuing passes and permits to Foreign Direct Investors, to understand the processes and procedures through which Foreign Direct Investors are obliged to follow, to investigate the strategies and find out challenges that face Immigra...

Impact Of Code- Switching Used In Modern Taarab Music To Swahili Language In Tanzania

ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of code-switching used in modern taarab to Swahili language in Tanzania.Specifically the study aimed to asses the transformation of language use in taarad since 1990 up to 2015, to investigate the ways code-switching happens in modern taarab and to find out the impacts of code-switching as it is used in modern taarab to Swahili language. The study used a qualitative research approach in data collection and data analysis.The sample si...

Notions Of Power In Selected Plays Of Wole Soyinka And Femi Osofisan

ABSTRACT This study explores power in selected plays of Wole Soyinka and Femi Osofisan, focusing on its social manifestations, use, effects and characters‘ responses to its exercise in Soyinka‘s Kongi’s Harvest, Madmen and Specialists, From Zia with Love and The Trials of Brother Jero, as well as in Osofisan‘s Morountodun, Another Raft, Once upon Four Robbers and Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels. The study reveals that in spite of ideological differences, Soyinka and Osofisan have remar...

Nigerian Educational System: Problems And Prospects

ABSTRACT Our enthusiasm for education seems to be paralelled by our ignorance of what education is . Education for what ? For whom? And how? Is there no relationship between a society and the type of educution it imbibes? the s e questions border on educational value and .goal. It is in an attempt to proffer answers to these questions, examine and evaluate the principles and the validity of thought that underline issues in Nigerian educational system that this paper is being written. Periodic...


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