ABSTRACT The study has concentrated in investigation of challenges of speaking English to Zanzibar secondary school students in Wete district in Pemba Island, with the following specific objectives: To identify and describe the kind of challenges facing students on speaking English language, to identify and explain causes facing students towards poor English speaking, finally, to assess the strategies which would be employed for helping students to speak English language fluently. The study h...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the lexical features of Masoud Kipanya‟s cartoons in meaning presentation. Specifically the study aimed at; analyzing the nature of lexical features used in Masoud Kipanya‟s cartoons; explaining the semantic features of those lexical features; and examining how those lexical features in Masoud Kipanya‟s cartoons facilitated in presenting meaning. The study adopted a qualitative research approach. The sample size of this study was one hundred and...
Abstract Marama bean [Tylosema esculentum (Burchell) Schreiber] belongs to the family Fabaceae and is a candidate for domestication in arid zones. It is indigenous to the Kalahari regions of Southern Africa thriving in low nutrient and low moisture soils. Marama bean seeds exhibit high oil (up to 48%) and protein (up to 42%) content comparable to peanut and soybean respectively. The main purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness of previously developed microsatellite markers in di...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted at the Tanzania Police Force Headquarters in Dar es Salaam. The objective of the study was to examine the role of the Police Force in combating threats of terrorism in Tanzania. Primary and secondary data were collected using quantitative and qualitative techniques. Specific objectives included providing an overview of the state of terrorism in Tanzania, Examining existing international collaboration with TPF in combating threats of terrorism and finally to d...
ABSTRACT This study has focused on examining the role of International Organizations in promoting access to primary education in Tanzania using World Food Programme in Monduli-Arusha. The study has been undertaken in Monduli District, Arusha region. The sample involved a total of 100 respondents who filled in the questionnaires. This sample has been derived through the application of purposive and random sampling methods. All of the aforementioned methods have been used to collect information...
ABSTRACT Network management of real time applications demands a new approach for an effective service quality provision. The traditional approach of network management based on Quality of Service (QoS) parameters like jitter, throughput, delay and loss cannot give enough details of how user quality demands. Therefore network management approach must start from user’s point of view to the network side. This kind of approach is called a user-centric network management approach which ensures t...
IKISIRI Utafiti huu ulijadili kuhusu Taswira ya mwanamke katika Muziki wa Nyimbo za Dansi teule za Mbaraka Mwinshehe. Tatizo lililojenga utafiti huu ni kutokana na hali ya kila siku iliyopo kwa wasanii wa muziki wa nyimbo za dansi, wakiwemo wanaume, kumkweza mwanaume kinafasi na kimajukumu na kumtweza mwanamke. Utafiti ulitumia mbinu ya maktabani kwa kuchunguza kazi mbalimbali zilizoandikwa kuhusu usawiri wa mwanamke na mgawanyo wa majukumu kijinsia. Pia, nyimbo teule za Mbaraka Mwinshehe zim...
ABSTRACT The thesis explored the dynamics of the rhetoric of the language of science on climate change publications. The arguments presented in this study were drawn from a theoretical framework that saw rhetorical arguments, texts and general discourse as instruments of communication of science publications on climate change in Namibia. Thus, Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) was used in this study. The theoretical framework of the study was extended to incorporate the Aristotelian rhetorica...
IKISIRI Tasnifu hii inahusu suala la malezi ya mtoto wa kike katika riwaya ya Kiswahili ambayo ni miongoni mwa kazi za Fasihi Andishi zilizomakinikia jambo hili. Tumepata kariha ya kufanya utafiti huu baada ya kuona kwamba kipengele cha malezi ya mtoto wa kike, licha ya kusawiriwa katika riwaya ya Kiswahili, hakijachunguzwa vya kutosha, huku mtoto wa kike akikabiliwa na changamoto mbalimbali za kimalezi na kimazingira hasa katika zama hizi za utandawazi. Pia, wazazi na walezi wanaonekana kuka...
ABSTRACT The past three decades from the 80‘s have witnessed a steadily increasing awareness of the need to empower women through measures that increase social, economic and political equity. In recognition of the importance of establishing gender equality around the world the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNW)) was established in 1984. Thus, this study aimed to examine the contribution of the UN Women in women economic empowerment. The contribution...
Table of contents Acknowledgements v Declaration vi Dedication vii List of Acronyms viii List of Tables ix List of Figures x Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 Understanding Political Participation and Digital Media: A Global North Perspective 3 1.3 The Global South: Young People, Politics, and Digital Media 4 1.4 Why Study Young People’s Mobile Political Participation? 5 1.5 African Perspectives on Political Participation and Digital Citizenship 7 1.6 Research Questions 9 1.7 ...
ABSTRACT This study provides a rhetorical analysis of four inaugural addresses delivered by Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, Sam Nujoma and Nelson Mandela during their inauguration ceremony as the first presidents in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, respectively. The aim of the study was to examine how the four speakers employed the three canons of rhetoric, namely invention, arrangement and style to persuade the audience. The study is the first of its kind in the countries mentio...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at investigating the causes of the increase of gun crimes in Katutura from 2006 to 2010. It is also investigating ways how guns are increasingly misused, factors such as availability of guns, common categories of gun crimes, age, sex and what influences gun crime. There are perceptions that violent crime is rife in the Katutura in Khomas Region in particular hence some of the people have acquired licensed firearms intended for self-defense. The research reviewed a nu...
ABSTRACT This work is concerned with the divergent opinions on church government in the Anglican and Methodist Churches. At the 1999 Methodist Church Conference, at which there was a resolution to adopt the episcopal system of church government, the ‘laity’ admitted that they lacked adequate understanding about the systems of church government. Also, a claim that was made by the Methodist Church Ghana during and after the discussions to adopt episcopacy was that her episcopacy is more bi...
ABSTRACT This largely qualitative and partly quantitative study is a critical analysis of the representation of San people of Namibia in selected stories published in The Namibian, New Era, Informanté, The Southern Times, The Villager, The Windhoek Observer and Namibian Sun newspapers over two years from January 2012 to December 2013. The aim was to evaluate the economic, socio-cultural and political situation of the San people as reported by the seven newspapers. A purposive sampling techni...