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The research aimed at investigating factors associated with modern contraceptive use in Zambia. Data from the 2007 Zambia Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS) was utilized in order to investigate the above topic. Only data on women aged 15-49 was used in this study. Statistical tests, specifically...

Teenage pregnancy is a global problem especially in developing countries. Teenage pregnancy is associated with several social issues: poverty, low education levels, and the lack of awareness about sex and pregnancy prevention. Zambia is not an exception; about three in ten young women aged 15-19...

A cross sectional study was conducted in Lusaka`s Libala Township. The aims of the study were to assess the level of husbands` involvement in household chores, to identify and examine factors that influence husbands` involvement in household chores, to examine the attitudes of husbands` toward...

Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of men is something that doesn't get talked about very much. What's worse, when it does get talked about, discussion is almost always limited to the abuse that men do to women. A lot of people are very emotionally and politically invested in believing that...

Many ethnic groups of Africa, the Tonga people inclusive, predominantly prefer culture-bound and meaningful personal names. African, names define who one is, where one comes from, make reference to events surrounding one‘s birth and identify that which the namer(s) and bearer(s) hates or...

This study explores the life and career of Beston Muluka Kabanya Mulota, more popularly known as Senior Chief Mukumbi Ibaloli XV of Zambia’s Solwezi district. The study investigates his upbringing, education and career. It demonstrates that Senior Chief Mukumbi’s upbringing in the Kaonde society...

The aim of this study was to investigate the causal relationship among financial development, trade openness, and economic growth in Zambia from 1965 to 2011. To fully understand this relationship, two measures of financial development were used: broad money and domestic credit to the private...

Parenting has long been acknowledged to be a process that fosters and initiates socialization in the child. This relationship has been explored extensively but very little is known in the African setting. Parenting studies in this part of the world are limited even though very necessary in...

Many studies on missionary medicine ignore the functions that African medical auxiliaries performed in colonial mission hospitals and clinics. These studies do not also examine the conditions of service under which auxiliaries lived and worked. This is because studies on missionary medicine in...

The field of Mass Communication has seen a growing use of new technologies that include news websites, weblogs, mobile news alerts and applications among others, mostly over the internet. Collectively, these technologies are part of the emerging area of ‘new media’, of which the internet is...