Abstract Local authorities in Zimbabwe have been facing a plethora of challenges due to the mushrooming of informal settlements. About 90% and above of the Zimbabwean population is moving to towns posing a bigger challenge to the management of towns and cities. 2005 operation Murambatsvina cleaned all the illegal activities and people residing near Harare found solace and cheap shelter in Epworth. Operation Garikai which superseded Murambatsvina failed to deliver as it was promised hence it ...
ABSTRACT Teaching process is a two – way communication between the teacher and pupils, and among the pupils themselves. Instructional media mediate and support such interactions. Utilization of instructional media in public primary school is crucial in teaching of Kiswahili. Therefore the study sought to investigate utilization of instructional media in teaching of Kiswahili in public primary schools of Nyandarua county, Kenya. The objectives were: To establish instructional media used in t...
ABSTRACT Research has shown that role conflict and role ambiguity are associated with burnout among head teachers of public schools and general educators. However, there is scanty literature from previous studies examining the relationship between role Stressors and burnout among head teachers of public primary schools in Kakamega County, Kenya. Role conflict refers to incompatibility of expectations and demands associated with the role while Role ambiguity refers to a lack of clear informati...
Abstract This paper shows the relationship between regime and dependency theories. Its central argument is that international regimes primarily serve the accumulation interests of metropolitan capitalism, and hence perpetuate dependency. Using the case of the apparel industry in sub-Saharan Africa, it brings to the fore both the dependency and struggle in international regimes that mainstream regime theory masks. The paper concludes that, in its struggle to embed industry, Africa will need to...
ABSTRACT Climate variability which is a reality in Kenya is manifested by fluctuations in climatic parameters, low agricultural production, land fragmentation, soil degradation, and loss of biodiversity. Addressing climate variability requires the use of ecologically based traditional climate smart agriculture systems such as agro forestry. In the past decade human lives, crops and livestock worth millions of shillings have been destroyed by increased intensity of extreme weather events in Ke...
ABSTRACT Communication is the engine that drives all the social systems we know of.Without proper communication,systems may crumble.The study focuses on how credibility of information can be affected by use of social media.The type of communication in our study is top-down communication.Social media is a new phenomenon in the country and there has not been effective training of how to handle it as a tool.In organizations,improper use of social media will cause an effect to credibility on the ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate into the nexus between terrorism and organized crime a case study of the Al-Shabaab in East Africa. The rationale was of that there is no nexus between terrorism and organized crime and there is the nexus between the two. The significance of the study was to enable the selected organizations in Zimbabwe and East Africa to have an insight into the relationship between terrorism and organized crime. There are no studies to the researcher’...
ABSTRACT Management of healthcare sector is very critical to the healing process. Receptionists are the first point of contact when patients visit health facilities. These receptionists who work in public facilities are employed by the ministry of health and managed by County governments while their counterparts who work in private health facilities fall under the hospital management, the human resource department. Private facilities in Kenya are represented by the Kenya healthcare federation...
ABSTRACT In this paper it is argued that literacy is critical for socio-economic development. A literate nation makes positive contributions to the general development of a country. This paper also seek to establish the strategies that public libraries have employed to promote and sustain high literacy rates in the country. It was investigated the innovative strategies like story telling sessions and explain how they have helped Kenya achieve Africa’s highest literacy level despite the soci...
Abstract This study explores the relationship between return migration, space and identity in Zimbabwean Literature as exemplified by Daniel Mandishona‟s White Gods Black Demons (2009). It employs postcolonial theory in its exploration of the relationship between return migration, space and identity in Mandishona‟s text. Return migration is largely depicted as a metaphor of failure in most of the selected stories were some of the characters return to their homeland either sickly or mad ...
Abstract The transformation of society towards modernity and the attendant socio-economic challenges it has imposed on African societies have compelled insensitive traditional structures of governance to hijack traditional customs and practices to serve their ulterior motives. Thanksgiving to chiefs (kubika chiutsi, in Shona language), is one such traditional practice that has been manipulated to serve the self-aggrandizement of Zimbabwean traditional chiefs in rural areas under the guise of ...
Abstract Though physicians strike provides an opportunity to generate more knowledge about the process in which legitimacy of an organization can be restored, it meets with a great deal of resistance not only by the public but from within the medical profession. This paper critically examines the legitimacy of strike by medical doctors heretofore referred to as physicians. Though critically reflecting on strikes of physicians in general, the paper makes more emphasis on Africa where physician...
ABSTRACT This paper examines the customary marriage practice of kuzvarira among the Ndau people of Mozambique. It investigates the perception of the Ndau people towards the customary practice of kuzvarira. Kuzvarira is a traditional customary practice of marrying off, without her consent, an underage girl (sometimes as young as eight or even before birth) to a rich man who already has another wife or wives in exchange for money, food and other material possessions that guarantee the girl’s ...
ABSTRACT The study seeks to provide a solution on how media organizations can employ marketing strategies to survive the economy. With the advent of new trends in the global marketing world, this study explored the implementation of the holistic marketing concept and its effectiveness in a crisis-ridden Zimbabwean economy by Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd. It addresses the gap on how print media organizations can best utilize marketing to stay viable in an unstable economic environment. The ...
Abstract While global corporations and western governments have subtly and systematically peddled the utopia and hype about the capacity of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to radically transform learning and pedagogy and African governments have unquestionably acquiesced with heft investments in ICTs the education sector, few academics and policy makers have ever questioned and taken stock of the contribution of technology to online learning. More importantly, the heavy inve...