ABSTRACT Water resources have become scarce in most tropical areas of Tanzania due to climate change. Any changes to the hydrological cycle may have significant effects on the water resources in the river basins of Tanzania. The impact of climate change on water resources in Tanzania have been studied using General Circulation Models (GCM) which run at low spatial resolutions of 100-300 km. The resolution is too coarse to provide useful information about climate change impact in small catchme...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at analyzing the transformation of agricultural innovation approaches in Tanzania, from a ‘linear’ to ‘system’ mode of innovation, responding to reform measures and new heterogeneous demands from the agricultural sector. The Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) approach allows multiple actors to participate in agricultural chains and also accommodate the institutional and organizational innovation. Using the perceptions of researchers and their experienc...
INTRODUCTION When I grow up I’d like to be a dog... (A little girl in a Warsaw Ghetto) The muse as endangered specie In their book, Extreme Situations. ■.. David Craig and Michael Egan write, detailing the behavior of literature in the interwar years: “In the ghetto in Warsaw in 1914, Ludwik Hirszfeld asked a little girl, ‘What would you like to be.’ She answered, ‘A dog, because the sentries like dogs’.” Literature continues to recount and transform experiences, such as has...
ABSTRACT This research discussesviolence as it manifests in postcolonial Zimbabwe, with particular reference to Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother (2012), They are Coming (2012) and Noviolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013).Drawing insights from Fanon and Zizek, it considers the several ways through which violence enters and disrupts the lives of individuals and communities. It notes the forms which violence takes, direct, structural and symbolic, for instance, and demonstrates ...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out in Itigi thicket in Manyoni District to assess land cover dynamics and estimate biomass and volume of thicket and tree (associate trees) species. The assessment of land cover dynamics was based on data extracted from remote sensing using the 1991, 2000 and 2011 satellite images and key informants interviews. The estimation of biomass and volume of thicket and tree species, data from destructive and non-destructive sampling was used. Sixty thicket clumps and ...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out in Itigi thicket in Manyoni District to assess land cover dynamics and estimate biomass and volume of thicket and tree (associate trees) species. The assessment of land cover dynamics was based on data extracted from remote sensing using the 1991, 2000 and 2011 satellite images and key informants interviews. The estimation of biomass and volume of thicket and tree species, data from destructive and non-destructive sampling was used. Sixty thicket clumps and ...
ABSTRACT Using a social history approach informed by the subaltern, the study explores colonialism in colonial Harare and the African experience using the lens of beer. This is achieved through employing archival sources, oral interviews, oral histories approach as well as theoretical innovations of the citizen and subject, subaltern to capture the voices of Africans. It argues that the colonial state’s attitude towards African beer wavered, vacillated and oscillated between confrontation a...
ABSTRACT With music being part of our everyday lives, audiences easily get attached to the musicians and have certain expectations from their favourite musicians. This study set out to investigate the perspectives of the audiences on Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave’s mutating music identity. To achieve this objective, the researcher focused on Facebook and WhatsApp comments on Fungisai’s switch of genres. Qualitative research approach was employed in this study as the researcher was seekin...
ABSTRACT The Assemblies of God (AG) observes Christian festivals, like most other churches, but the economic and religious implications of these festivals for AG‟s pastors differ from these other churches. Existing literature on AG‟s activities during these festivals have focused on their mode of conduct without adequate attention paid to their economic and religious effects on AG‟s clergy. This study, therefore, assessed Christian festivals observed by AG, with a view to determinin...
ABSTRACT Computer graphics and animation has emerged as a strong competitor in the film making arena with the advent technical world Zimbabwe has also had a taste of the fast digitalised satellite television that is DSTV. Film making and television programming in Zimbabwe has also experienced an evolution with the introduction of satellite television in that most people are now accustomed to trendy genres to view. This study is mainly focusing on finding out whether or not computer graphics a...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate why public relations copy has been freely finding its way into media content with the end result being the fourth estate, journalism, losing its watchdog role to has now come to be known as the ‘fifth estate’, which happens to be public relations departments of various organisations. The researcher subjected to empirical study the phenomenon that led to media under study, The Herald Business to be a channel through which public relations copy reapp...
ABSTRACT History is a core subjects studied in Zimbabwean secondary schools from form one to form four. History is also studied at Advanced level as an Art subject. Students who proceed to tertiary education especially technical and teachers colleges are obliged to study National Strategies Studies which takes its components from the History subject. Hence the study of History at secondary level provides a concrete foundation for these students. Thus the subject need to be taught and lea...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to investigate factors affecting the adoption of open access in research activities within Tanzanian public universities in order to device mechanisms of enhancing the use of this mode of scholarly communication. The study adopted the UTAUT model to formulate an open access research model comprising of six constructs and five moderators for guidance of this investigation. A triangulation approach for data gathering was adopted. In the first instance, a semi-...
ABSTRACT The study critically explores the representation of Zanu-PF political disputes in The Herald and Daily News. The mentioned newspapers selectively employ the discourse of ‘weevils’ and ‘Gamatox’ in ascribing political identities to those who were regarded as locking horns in the battle to succeed the president. The study also looks at how ownership, funding and control patterns of The Herald and Daily News influenced their framing of the disputes. Data for this research was ob...
ABSTRACT The consequences of early sexual debut such as sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and unintended pregnancies have brought the study of adolescent sexual behaviour to the fore of sexuality research. Attempts have been made at understanding why adolescents engage in sexual activity at an early age. However, studies on the enhancement of sexual abstinence have been under-reported in Nigeria. This study, therefore, applied Psycho-educational Group Therapy (PGT) and Self-Compo...