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'China: a thousand feet tall tree knows its roots'
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The Impact of Language Policy on Teacher-Training Programs: Cases of Selected Teacher-Training Colleges in Zambia and Malawi
(Kyoto University Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, 2013-03-01)The study highlights the glaring mismatch between language policy and planning, especially in education, and the actual practices on the ground. It seems Zambia and Malawi are lost somewhere between policy formulation and ... -
Nsenga proverbs in Zambia: linguistic, ethnographic and logical analyses
(Center for African Studies,Kyoto University, 2015)As African societies are rich in, and dependent on, orature to transmit societal information, proverbs play a central role in reflecting people's culture and traditions and they are hence entrusted with one of the most ... -
Predictors of Divorce among women of Reproductive Age in Zambia:Evidence from the 2013 to 2014 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
(The University of Zambia, 2014)Divorce is a major cause of family dissolutions.It wreaks emotional and physical havoc upon families in which it occurs. In Zambia, media and court reports seem to suggest that divorce is soaring too (lusakatimes.com, ... -
Policy options on Zambia's economic problems
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Predictors of Divorce among women of Reproductive age in Zambia: Evidence from 2013-14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
(UNZA Press, 2018-06)Divorce is a major cause of family dissolutions. It wreaks emotional and physical havoc upon families in which it occurs. In Zambia, media and court reports seem to suggest that divorce is soaring too (lusakatimes.com, ... -
Instructional leadership and its effect on the teaching and learning process: the case of basic school head teachers in central province - Zambia
(THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA, 2015)The Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education (MOESVTEE) in Zambia’s National Policy Document on education “Educating our Future” of 1996 identifies the vital role that the school head must ... -
Predictors of Divorce among women of Reproductive age in Zambia: Evidence from the 2013-14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
(The University of Zambia Press, 2015)Divorce is a major cause of family dissolutions. It wreaks emotional and physical havoc upon families in which it occurs. In Zambia, media and court reports seem to suggest that divorce is soaring too (lusakatimes.com, ... -
The Politics of the Corpse : President Levy Mwanawasa's Death,Funeral and Political Contestation in Post-Colonial Zambia
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)Informed by recent scholarship that underscores the centrality of death ,corpse and funerals in contemporary African politics,this article explores the ways in which the actors in the ruling movement for multi-party Democracy ... -
Language,Medical Auxilliaries,and the Re-interpretation of Missionary Medicine in Colonial Mwinilunga,Zambia,1922-51
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2007)Through an examination of the concepts used by lunda speaking auxiliaries to translate mission medicine at the hospital run by the Christian Missions to many Lands in Mwinilunga from 1922-1951,this article argues that ... -
Missionaries,African Patients,and Negotiating Missionary medicine at Kalene Hospital,Zambia,1906-1935
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)This article insists that scholarship informed by the dominance-resistance debate obfuscates how missionary healers and their Africa interlocutors minimized their ontological differences on healing so that each party ... -
Strange bedfellows:David Livingstone,Sekeletu,imported goods,and the 1853-1856 trans-African expedition
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2015)This article explores the conflicting meanings of the trans-African expedition undertaken between 1853 and 1856 by colonial explorer David Livingstone ,with the support of the African monarch Sekeletu,the young king -
From an Agency of Cultural Destruction to an Agency of public Health
(Kininklijke Brill NV, 2014)Most medical histories maintain that missionary doctors in imperial Africa were agents of western cultural imperialism .This paper ,informed by the writings of Michel Foucault,projects mission based healers as agents of ... -
Media as defender of the Girl Child in Zambia
(The University of Zambia, 2018)Defilement and Adolescent pregnancy is considered as an emerging epidemic which requires urgent Solutions.this paper looks at the capacity of the media vis a vis in Zambia how it has been involved in this fight -
Data Collection Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation
(RIDDERPRINT BV, THE NETHERLANDS, 2018)Data collection is a critical component in the implementation of monitoring and evaluation strategies. It can be used to understand different trends, track progress of a project and demonstrate results for monitoring and ... -
Emerging Patterns of Stress in Zambian English: Deviation or Nationalization ? An Exploratory Study
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Esquisse sur espace filmique et espace mental de la chambre dans Les enfants terribles de Cocteau et Melville
(The University of Zambia Press, 2010)Abstract This article looks at the film `£e£ E#/o#/s rerrJ.6/es' by Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville. The movie is a fiction drama about a brother and his elder sister who create an unrealistic romance. The scene ... -
Young People and The Digital Age: An Investigation of The ‘Sociability’ of Teenagers In Lusaka.
(The International Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Research, 2018)Young People's online media consumption in Lusaka, Zambia has grown with the establishment of ICT clubs in schools and the integration of ICTs into the education curriculum. The Zambia Information and Communication Technology ... -
Determinants of Household credit demand in Zambia
(2013-11-15)There is a serious lack of empirical evidence on household credit demand in Zambia. This has led to an information gap in terms of evidence-based policy that would aid policy makers in the formulation of possible policy ...
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