ABSTRACT The research focuses on Facebook users’ perceptions and attitudes of social media activism in Zimbabwe. Following a rise in social media campaigns in Zimbabwe, particularly in 2016, political participation has shifted to social media with a number of people demonstrating awareness and interest in the national issues. Drawing insights from Critical Discourse Analysis, this research discusses how the Facebook community responds to this new dispensation of social media activism. By fo...
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 rema...
ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary approaches to criticism contribute much to the understanding of library tests. The principle of psychoanalysis, for instance, can reveal that many opinions often expressed about African and African American literary works can be interrogated. Within the context of psychoanalytic principles, it can be argued that biology and culture work together to shape the lives of individuals, and works of literature which portray human actions should highlight the influences of ...
ABSTRACT this paper evaluates the relevance of the culture industry thesis in understanding the econimic and aesthetic production processes of zim, dancehall music in zambabwe.
abstract the issue of poverty attracted international policy attention around the time when the UN system named it number one and the bedrock of its eight millennium development goal (MDGs).
ABSTRACT The end of the cold war ushered in an era of anticipation and hope in africa, a continent that still suffers the adverse effect of slavery
ABSTRACT The title of the thesis is: “Written Igbo Drama: A Critical Analysis”. The study examines the origin of written Igbo drama; traces the factors that facilitated its growth and examines the prevalent motifs that helped to sustain its development to a matured form of art. It further seeks to identify the various events and situations that have informed the themes of written Igbo drama at three specific periods and proves that to some extent, written Igbo drama has influenced people�...
ABSTRACT Community media ought to be vehicle for development yet community newspaper in the midlands provinces of Zimbabwe seem to be logging behind in terms of environmental reportage
ABSTRACT this study examined zimbabwean sdolescent belief on perceived predictive and protectve factor for substance
Abstract This study examined corruption, university governance and development with focus on the University of Nigeria. This is because governance plays a critical role in the success of any organization, especially higher education which is the bedrock of national development. The study is a descriptive qualitative analysis, while data was collected through secondary sources. Systems theory served as the theoretical framework. The findings show that there have been systematic decline and col...