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Ephemisms as communication vehicle in the Tiv language and literature 委婉语在英语语言文学中的交际媒介作用

African Social Science and Humanities Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-21 DOI: 10.57040/asshj.v3i2.168

Terfa Aor, Moses Tsevenda

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引用次数: 1

Women’s contribution in african economies: It is time for a rethink 妇女对非洲经济的贡献：是重新思考的时候了

African Social Science and Humanities Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-21 DOI: 10.57040/asshj.v3i2.117

Omukule Emojong', Geofrey Korir

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引用次数: 2

Public administration and public safety in Anambra State of Nigeria 尼日利亚阿南布拉州的公共行政和公共安全

African Social Science and Humanities Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-21 DOI: 10.57040/asshj.v3i2.142

Ngozi Benedette Osy-Agbata

{"title":"Public administration and public safety in Anambra State of Nigeria","authors":"Ngozi Benedette Osy-Agbata","doi":"10.57040/asshj.v3i2.142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/asshj.v3i2.142","url":null,"abstract":"The study is on public administration and public safety in Anambra State. The essence is to examine how public safety is influenced by public administration. The study was necessitated by the poor nature of public safety in the study area. A quantitative research design was used for the study. Three basic objectives guided the study and accordingly three research questions were raised. The population consised of citizens residing in Awka town the capital of Anambra state. A sample of 150 respondents was drawn using a print questionnaire titled Public Administration and Public Safety Questionnaire (PAPUSQ). The questionnaire Cronbach-Alpha reliability index was 0.82 which is indicative of high reliability and simple percentage was used to analyse the three research questions that guide the study with 50% as bench mark. Results indicated that nature of public safety in the state is rather poor. Many citizens do not enjoy the dividends of good governance. In the same manner, the study discovered that one of ways to improve public administration in order to forestall public safety is by eradication of corruption, prosecution of corrupt public administrators among others. It was suggested that the masses should elect only credible persons to hold public offices. Also, there is need to put systems and structures in place to checkmate the excesses of public administrators. The study therefore concluded that public administration has a critical role to play in ensuring public safety.","PeriodicalId":311378,"journal":{"name":"African Social Science and Humanities Journal","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124423413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Important pillars in delivery of mass campaign messages to a target audience through earned media 通过免费媒体向目标受众传递大规模竞选信息的重要支柱

African Social Science and Humanities Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-18 DOI: 10.57040/asshj.v3i1.113

Omukule Emojong', Geoffrey Korir

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引用次数: 1

Climate change and agriculture: Analysis and implication on South Africa 气候变化与农业:对南非的分析及其启示

African Social Science and Humanities Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-18 DOI: 10.57040/asshj.v3i2.141

Frank Odimegwu

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引用次数: 1

Community Radio for cohesion and integration during Kenya’s 2017 post-election violence: A study of Migori County 社区广播在肯尼亚2017年选举后暴力事件中的凝聚力和融合:对米戈里县的研究

African Social Science and Humanities Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI: 10.57040/asshj.v3i1.112

Nicholas Anyuor, R. Achieng

{"title":"Community Radio for cohesion and integration during Kenya’s 2017 post-election violence: A study of Migori County","authors":"Nicholas Anyuor, R. Achieng","doi":"10.57040/asshj.v3i1.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/asshj.v3i1.112","url":null,"abstract":"Kenya’s elections are mostly marred with violence, especially after announcements of presidential results. Peace and media experts on the other hand have blamed Kenyan media for fueling cases of post-poll conflicts. It is in this understanding that this study assessed the contents of community radios in Migori County to investigate the role they played in promoting cohesion and integration during the 2017 Kenya’s post-election violence. The research, which was conducted in Migori town, studied five radio stations namely; Milambo, Onagi, Anyuola, Rameny and Tarumbeta which are located within Migori County. The specific objectives were: to assess the extent to which the 2017 post-election violence affected residents of Migori town; to establish if the five stations developed contents that promoted cohesion and integration during the violence and to assess the extent to which the contents aired on the radio stations promoted cohesion and integration among residents of Migori town. Study was a survey that utlilised mixed research approach where qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection were used. Systematic random sampling was employed to administer 399 questionnaires. For qualitative data, 21 key informants were purposeively selected and interviewed. The quantitative data collected was analysed using SPSS while qualitative data was analyzed using content analysis. From the study it was found and concluded that Community Radio, if professionally used, promotes cohesion and integration during post-poll conflicts. The study has recommended that in order to reduce incessant post-poll violence in Kenya, the relevant stakeholders should work together to air contents that enhance cohesion and integration in order to curb violence recurrence. Policies should be developed and funding availed to help facilitate matters media and peace.","PeriodicalId":311378,"journal":{"name":"African Social Science and Humanities Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124664862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Social security as a panacea to kidnapping in South-West Nigeria: A theoretical review 社会保障作为解决尼日利亚西南部绑架问题的灵丹妙药:一个理论回顾

African Social Science and Humanities Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.57040/asshj.v3i1.52

Fasoranti Olayiwola Oluwajenyo, Abrifor Chiedu Akporaro, H. Abdullahi

{"title":"Social security as a panacea to kidnapping in South-West Nigeria: A theoretical review","authors":"Fasoranti Olayiwola Oluwajenyo, Abrifor Chiedu Akporaro, H. Abdullahi","doi":"10.57040/asshj.v3i1.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/asshj.v3i1.52","url":null,"abstract":"There are various security challenges facing societies around the world. Kidnapping is one challenge that undermines peace and stability in the globe. Kidnapping leads to death of victims, bodily harm, loss of properties and worsening economic conditions. To tackle kidnapping, social security is one valuable measure put in place. However, social security is bedeviled with challenges like corruption, mismanagement, lack of political will, ethnicity, bad policy and programmes. Therefore, this paper addresses the challenges of social security and kidnapping in South-West, Nigeria. The study intends to fill the gap created by shortage of scholarly materials to explore challenges of social security and kidnapping in South-West Nigeria. The data were obtained secondarily through the content analysis of peer reviewed journals, edited textbooks, and credible online resources. It anchors on social control theory by Travis Hirsch. Findings revealed that corruption, lack of political will, ethnicity, religiosity and other challenges are working against social security drives to combat kidnapping in Nigeria. The paper recommends effective youth empowerment schemes to bring to the shore the potentials among the youths. This paper will be useful by improving knowledge on the social security and kidnapping, improve the extant literature on social security and kidnapping, the policy-makers, employment of labour, organized private sectors and researchers in the field of social and management sciences will find it beneficial.","PeriodicalId":311378,"journal":{"name":"African Social Science and Humanities Journal","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114025706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Production subcontracting and the distribution of industrial activities in Onitsha metropolis Anambra State, Nigeria 尼日利亚阿南布拉州奥尼沙市的生产分包和工业活动分布

African Social Science and Humanities Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-03 DOI: 10.57040/asshj.v3i1.77

V. Nwokocha, P. O. Okonta

{"title":"Production subcontracting and the distribution of industrial activities in Onitsha metropolis Anambra State, Nigeria","authors":"V. Nwokocha, P. O. Okonta","doi":"10.57040/asshj.v3i1.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/asshj.v3i1.77","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Subcontracting is becoming increasingly significant and important in today's economic world. It emphasizes the importance of improved collaboration, coordination, and adaptability among production entities such as industries, businesses, and institutions. Although production subcontracting has sparked a lot of debate on a broad level, there has been relatively little research done on it in terms of industrial activity. This paper analysed the role of production subcontracting in the distribution of industrial activities in Onitsha Metropolis, Anambra State, Nigeria. While the study adopted a survey research design and a questionnaire survey of 115 industries, charts, percentages and tables were used to show results. The result of the study showed that 49.9% of the industries subcontracted manufacturing activities, while 26.7%, 5% and 1.7% of the surveyed industries subcontracted maintenance, technical development and distribution/marketing industrial activities respectively. The paper recommended that production subcontracting be made a deliberate government policy so as to propel the growth of service industries/subcontracting industries in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":311378,"journal":{"name":"African Social Science and Humanities Journal","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117171481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Ethnicity, identity and the search for a new social order: A study of Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things 种族、身份与对新社会秩序的探索:扎克斯·姆达的《追求的圣母》与阿兰达蒂·罗伊的《小事之神》研究

African Social Science and Humanities Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.57040/asshj.v3i1.94

Tse Valery Anye

{"title":"Ethnicity, identity and the search for a new social order: A study of Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things","authors":"Tse Valery Anye","doi":"10.57040/asshj.v3i1.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/asshj.v3i1.94","url":null,"abstract":"This research paper examines ethnicity and identity as represented in Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. In the reading of these novels one realises that the South African and Indian societies still face ethnic rivalry which has been a perennial problem from time immemorial. The bone of contention underlying this research is the fact that Zakes Mda and Arundhati Roy in their texts present societies fragmented by ethnic rivalry and identity crises which have hindered the effective evolution of these societies. This paper thus, seeks to answer the following questions: How is the fragmented nature of South Africa and India presented by Mda and Roy and what strategies are adopted by characters in these novels to remedy this situation? As a follow-up to these questions, this paper hypothesised that Zakes Mda and Arundhati Roy in similar ways highlight the predicaments of their societies and propose reconciliatory strategies through which these societies can evolve. To proceed with this study, we have chosen the postcolonial theory which aims at scrutinising the inter-human relationships in these societies as presented in these novels. Throughout the analysis, we realised that in societies with many ethnic groups, relationships are developed based on colour or tribal lines, or upon the binaries of the Manichean Allegory, which have a great impact on the relationship between characters. This led to the conclusion that a future space of peace, harmony and fraternity can only be achieved if characters express tolerance, respect each other, and above all reconcile their differences.","PeriodicalId":311378,"journal":{"name":"African Social Science and Humanities Journal","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121207992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Globalization of pandemic and its impact on African political economy: Evidence from COVID-19 流行病全球化及其对非洲政治经济的影响:来自COVID-19的证据

African Social Science and Humanities Journal Pub Date : 2021-11-03 DOI: 10.57040/asshj.v2i4.85

M. Yusuf, Babayo Sule, A. Lawan, Ramatu Boyi, J. Ali

{"title":"Globalization of pandemic and its impact on African political economy: Evidence from COVID-19","authors":"M. Yusuf, Babayo Sule, A. Lawan, Ramatu Boyi, J. Ali","doi":"10.57040/asshj.v2i4.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/asshj.v2i4.85","url":null,"abstract":"Pandemic remains a universal problem because it usually comes with a noxious virus that affects the world and it tends to even more pronounce due to globalization that is directly affecting economy and politics through several ways. Although, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has less effect on African part in terms of death and casualties in comparison with other parts of the world, but the African political economy has been unswervingly affected, since Africa depends on Western and other developed economies, which are considered as the epicentres of the pandemic. This calls for urgent policy making related to economy within an international system. This study examined the spread of deadly virus across Africa and its implications on African political economy and governance. To accomplish its objectives, this study employed and applied descriptive method where secondary sources of data including books, journals, reports, internet sources and newspapers related to the virus cases and its economic and political impacts were used. Again, theoretical interpretative technique complemented the statistical analysis, where relevant sub-themes are identified and analysed accordingly. Admittedly, the study discovered that COVID-19 pandemic spread speedily in African continent, thanks to globalization, and the pandemic acutely affects the African economy and politics in many ways. Specifically, the study recommends among many that African countries should look inward and identify policies that they can initiate to break the cycle of dependency thereby reducing the level of imports and promoting export.","PeriodicalId":311378,"journal":{"name":"African Social Science and Humanities Journal","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122673679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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