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Zambia, as a country, has many cultures which are celebrated at different times, in diverse styles, and for various reasons (Kapwepwe, 2007). Among the Tonga people of the Southern Province of Zambia, one way culture is cerebrated is through the Lwiindi Gonde Ceremony. According to Kapwepwe...

The home based care programme has been set up throughout the country. This was one of the responses to the ever-increasing prevalence rate of the Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV). While indeed many studies have documented the devastating effect of HIV and Acquired Immune Deficiency Virus...

The purpose of the study was to explore the role Home Based Education plays in the development of children with severe and multiple disabilities. A survey design was used in conducting this research. Data was collected through questionnaires, semi-structured interview schedules, document...

This study was carried out to evaluate the role of intermittent self-dilatation (ISD) in patients with recurrent urethral stricture disease at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka. The study was carried out over a period of 18 months starting in January 2002. The details of the technique...

The role of teachers in the evolution of educational policies in Zambia was investigated in selected schools of Lusaka and Central Provinces. Stratified random sampling was used to select four high and three basic schools of Lusaka and Kabwe towns respectively. Questionnaires, semi-structured...

There is no doubt that gender matters if properly communicated can lead to national development. Clearly, the role of media in communicating messages on gender cannot be over emphasised. ZANIS claims to be closer to the people but the question is how effective have they been in communicating...

The media industry in Zambia has been growing significantly since 1991 with the re-introduction of multi-party system. After the demise of the one party state, government liberalised the economy but instead of privatising state media, government liberalised the airwaves, allowing new entrants...

Tuberculosis remains an important but neglected cause of adult and childhood morbidity and mortality in the African region and yet, since its discovery, TB has continued to kill millions of people. Efforts have been made to address this scourge; however, it could be argued that these efforts need...

The purpose of the study was to determine how satisfied the client were with high cost services at Mansa General Hospital. The reason for doing the study was that despite the revision of the high cost fees from K80.000 to K120.000 the number of clients accessing the services continued to...

This was a qualitative research. The research was mostly desk based, examining the primary texts The Color Purple and Meridian, as well as secondary sources of information such as critical articles in books, journals as well as the electronic sources on the internet.The research mostly used the...