ABSTRACT The major theme of this thesis is the growth and development of the ethnic group and the ethnic awareness of the Chuka people of ~1t. Kenya region. The thesis begins with the earliest recorded traditions which have been dated c. 1400. It traces the origins and migrations of the three cultural. and linguistic groups - Cushites, Paranilotes and Bantu - which interacted and went into the Chuka amalgam. It demonstrates that Chuka ethnicity which developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth...
ABSTRACT A majority of the people living in the arid and semi-arid parts of the world are pastoralists whose livelihoods are dictated by the upkeep and size of their herds. During the dry season, the harsh environmental condition forces them to migrate in search of pasture and water. With limited access to water and competing rights to pasture, inter-community conflicts often arise particularly when one community crosses over to others‟ territory to share these valuable resources. This case...
ABSTRACT Migration is a spatial phenomenon involving movement of people between distinct places, locations imbued with meaning and power. It explicitly refers to people changing their places of residence, where they live on a habitual basis, embracing not only their actual physical structures, but also in some sense the wider community in which they live. The study focused on the Abagusii migration patterns from their ancestral land specifically to the South Rift (SR), Kericho County. It ackn...
ABSTRACT Recently, corporal punishment has been legally abolished in Zimbabwean schools as well as in other various countries surrounding the world. This is in keeping with the international inclinations of being on familiar terms with the rights of the child specified in the Convention of the Rights of the Child and the Zimbabwean constitution at large. There are laws and regulations in Zimbabwean schools that forbid teachers from administering corporal punishment to learners. However, desp...
ABSTRACT This study examines the history of wives of military personnel in Nigerian barracks from 1905-1999. It focuses specifically on the origins, political, economic, and social organisation of wives of military personnel in the barracks during the colonial and post-colonial periods. The work also highlights the burden of civil war and peacekeeping missions on wives of military personnel in Nigeria. Over the years women‘s participation in military camps did not only promote the social s...
ABSTRACT Armed robbery and murder are two of the social problems that bedevil the city of Lagos. Although these phenomena have their roots in the pre-independence era, they grew worse in the post-colonial period, particularly after the Nigerian Civil War. To curb this menace, the government responded with the imposition of the death penalty as the highest punishment for the offence of armed robbery in 1970. Mob lynching or what is locally referred to as the necklace treatment also emerged in ...
ABSTRACT Urban centers were already in existence before the advent of colonialism in Africa. Such centers included Jenne-Jeno, Yoruba towns, Cairo, Meroe and Kilwa that could be found in different parts of the continent. Some of the factors that led to the establishment of these centers were war, transport, strategic placement, local and international trade, mining, agriculture as well as cultural developments, unlike Maseno urban centre which sprung up as a result of missionary factor with t...
ABSTRACT This thesis was an investigation into the conflicts at Njelele sacred place. There had been intense conflicts between various stakeholders over the control and management of the shrine from at least the 1960s to the present. This thesis therefore argue that even though there are many causes of conflicts at Njelele like quest for political control over the shrine, attempts by the post –colonial government to politicize the shrine, ethnicisation or tribalisation of the shrine, cultu...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out in selected secondary schools in Zvishavane both in rural and urban areas. Collection of data was done with the use of primary sources and secondary sources through purpose sampling and conversation to provide richer details. The purpose for the study was to find the changes that have been taking place in the secondary school history curriculum and the rationale behind the change, what are the response from the critics in regard to the changes and the imple...
Abstract This study is aimed at exploring the plight of farm workers in Marondera district in Zimbabwe (2000-2013). The study will focus on the how the fast track land reform programme intensified problems which farm workers have been experiencing, which dates back to the colonial period. The study will focus on how the working conditions and living conditions of farm workers after the fast track land reform programme, looking at the poor wages their given, lack of job security, poor and ove...
ABSTRACT Nigeria became an independent state in 1960. The political system that Nigeria operated at independence was given to her by the British colonial authority. It was the imperfections in the political system that led to the outbreak of the Nigerian civil war in 1967. The end of the civil war in 1970 gave Nigeria the opportunity for a national rebirth. This is because the civil war destroyed the political system that was inherited from the British. From 1970 onward, Nigeria then had the...
ABSTRACT The formation and operation of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce is the Nigerian private sector's expression of bilateralism in the Nigerian economy. Bilateralism like multilateralism is a global phenomenon. They are manifested in different dimensions: economic cultural and political at public and private sectors' levels. In its economic dimension, bilateralism at government level involves trade and investment relations between two sovereign nations with the objective of stim...
ABSTRACT Armed conflicts, which are protracted and intractable have continued to disrupt developmental efforts in Africa. Although there are several measures that have been introduced to manage and resolve conflicts, armed conflicts have been on the increase. In particular, there is an increase in the occurrence of internal conflicts which are cross-border in dimension. Unlike inter-state conflicts which have provisions for intervention through the mechanisms provided by the international and...
ABSTRACT The study explores the plight of mujibas and chimbwidos who were guerrilla aides in the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe. That is to say the horrific experiences they encountered during the war and bringing out their untold stories. It contributes to the historiography of the Zimbabwean liberation struggle by focusing on the effects of violence on the mujibas and chimbwidos. The war which took place between ZANU and ZAPU against the Rhodesian Security Forces from the period of 1960 ...
ABSTRACT The marginalization of rural areas in Zimbabwe in the post-colonial era facilitated the researcher to evaluate on the programs launched by the state and non- state actors in their effort to promote and improve the standards of primary and secondary education from 1980 to 2008 basing in Gokwe rural area. In the first chapter the thesis discuss the efforts done by the state in promoting primary and secondary education, the chapter also covers the constrains or obstacles which hinders ...