ABSTRACT Community-Based Ecotourism (CBE) has been popularised as an effective tool for integrating economic development and conservation. Many developing countries including Ghana have adopted this tool to aid in their developmental efforts. This thesis sets out to evaluate the Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary, a CBE project in the Hohoe Municipality in Ghana, within the context of the social exchange process model. The study adopted a cross sectional study design. Data was obtained from 317 resi...
ABSTRACT The health issues of pregnant women cannot be effectively addressed without due consideration to communication. The way in which health providers communicate with pregnant women can have significant effects on health outcomes. Effective communication can help bridge information, knowledge and awareness gaps to enable pregnant women play active roles in their health issues and motivate them to patronize maternal services. The purpose of this study was to find out the perceptions of p...
ABSTRACT This study gave primary attention to the provision of additional support to Ghanaian English as a legitimate and viable variety of English through the use of progressive aspect, especially in comparison with British English. The study was guided by three objectives which were to explore the use of the progressive aspect in Ghanaian English, ascertain the validity and variability of Ghanaian English through the use of the progressive aspect as well as to determine the similarities and...
ABSTRACT Dependency is a term that refers to one of the strands of the imbalances in international news flow between the West and less developed countries (LDC). Western news agencies, it has been observed, have cornered the whole process of global newsgathering so totally that LDC media depend on them to get almost any news about the West and other LDC. Since these agencies carry mostly negative news about LDC, dependency, it has been alleged, promotes the dissemination of negative news abo...
ABSTRACT Over the last two decades, linguistic studies on texting have largely focused on person-to-person practices such that the use of text messages in other language domains, for instance the electronic media, is largely under-researched. To fill the gap, the present study examined the discourse of SMS messages posted during radio panel discussions in Ghana in order to determine whether the messages could be labelled as a special discourse type. The study was based on a corpus of approxim...
ABSTRACT Female masculinity is an expression of male gender traits in females. These masculine traits in female characters have received little attention from scholars of Western and Nigerian literary writings when compared to their focus on the socio cultural constructs of females as weak, soft and inferior. This study, therefore, examined different ways by which some female protagonists in selected Shakespearean and Nigerian plays express related masculine attributes with a view to determi...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of occupational stress on the performance of academic professionals at the Cape Coast Technical University within the Central Region of Ghana. Based on the conservation of resource (COR) theory, the study also assessed the sources of occupational stress and determinants of academic professional’s performance. The study adopted the quantitative approach and explanatory research design. Using the Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sample size determination table,...
ABSTRACT Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are one of the key ingredients in poverty reduction in Africa. Nevertheless, for the achievement of poverty reduction goal, profitability is crucial. Several factors such as outreach, institutional environment, age, size and type of MFI affect the profitability of MFIs, but labour efficiency role and credit risk effect on profitability of MFIs have seen little attention. This study therefore, sets out to investigate the potential determinants of MFIs ...
ABSTRACT This research analysed the oral discourse of final year students of the Department of French of the University of Cape Coast. The students used for the study were those who studied French as a single major course for the first degree. These students were seventeen in all out of the total number of final year French students. The analysis is intended to study how coherence is achieved in the oral discourse of the students by the use of transitional markers. To undertake this research,...
ABSTRACT The Ga West Municipality was formally serving as a food basket of Accra but now, has become a net importer of all kinds of food. This issue has surfaced due to the high rate of sand winning and estate development activities. The study assessed the effects of the Action Aid Ghana land reclamation programme on food security and the livelihood of the people in the Ga West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Interview schedule was used for collecting data from a sample of on...
ABSTRACT There is an increase in provision of electronic resources in Nigerian university libraries, but there is low use of the resources by undergraduates. Some of the students lack information retrieval skills while some do not perceive the e-resources as easy to use. Demographic variables are also known to affect students‟ use of e-resources but the extent of the effect is yet to be determined. The study, therefore, investigated the extent to which information retrieval skills, perceiv...
ABSTRACT Since Plato, political philosophy has been regarded as man's attempt to prescribe the ideal solution to the problems of governance, in order to bring the ideal state into being. In post-colonial Africa, several post-independence African leaders, prominent among them, Kwame Nkrumah, attempted theoretical constructions of this ideal state. Nkrumah particularly thought that the three factors that could bring about the ideal state in colonial Africa were: the realisation of political ind...
ABSTRACT Customers’ perceptions and expectations are continually evolving, making it difficult for the service providers to measure and manage the services effectively. It was against this background that the study was conducted to assess the service quality delivery and its impact on customer satisfaction in Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in Takoradi. This study was a formal one adopting both qualitative and quantitative designs (Mixed method design) with a population comprising custom...
ABSTRACT The study was designed and carried out to find out the criteria that govern the selection of news at the Daily Graphic. The study focused particularly on the front page news. The study was also intended to assess what informs the choice of certain news items over others and why some news items are presented prominently on the front page over others. Three methods were used in this study: a survey, content analysis and in-depth interviews. Seventy-two editions of the Daily Graphic a...
SUMMARY Several Plasmodium spp. antigens have been found to be associated with protection against malaria and a few have been tested in the field in human volunteers. However, these efforts have achieved limited success, and as a result the search for additional more potent malaria vaccine components continues. The work reported in this thesis was executed with the objective of determining the suitability of three peptides obtained from the merozoite surface antigen, MSA-2, as putative sub-u...