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This study aimed at investigating the influence of birthweight on under–five children’s nutritional status in Zambia. The study also investigated maternal health, child, household and mother’s characteristics as they indirectly influence birthweight and nutritional status of children. Knowledge...

Names and naming are an important aspect of literature as well as society. They act as tags and or referents to specific entities, both animate and inanimate. H uman beings as the centre of communication are not spared from the value of having names by which they are referred to. Personal names...

This study examines the socio-economic impact of the Mushala rebellion in North Western Province of Zambia from 1976 to 1990. The study argues that there were several reasons which compelled Adamson Mushala to take up arms against the United National Independence Party (UNIP) government. Mushala...

This study focuses on the relationship between the state and peasant farming impact of state in Katete district in Zambia’s post-independence period from 1964 to1996. The study begins with an examination of the status of peasant farming in the district on the eve of political independence from...

Mambwe language is spoken in Mbala and Senga districts of Northern Province in Zambia. The language has approximately 500,000 native speakers (CSO, 2010). Therefore, the study was conducted to identify, describe, analyse and write a comprehensive grammar of Mambwe language which is less...

This study was an attempt to investigate the meanings and sociocultural implications of selected Tumbuka anthroponyms. It sought to identify and analyse meanings of selected Tumbuka personal names; establish the kind of naming system that the Tumbuka of Lundazi district have in place; and to find...

The study is an interpretative analysis of the French to English translation of selected stories from “Les Contes d’Amadou Koumba” to “Tales of Amadou Koumba”. It seeks to analyse the translation in the light of the steps outlined by the interpretative theory of translation and also aims at...

Zambia is a multi-party democracy with many political parties in existence with a population that is predominantly young, but the youth are generally hindered from holding leadership positions at national level of these political parties. Opportunities for the youth to take up national leadership...

This study is a linguistic analysis of University of Zambia (UNZA) students’ sociolect. The aim of the study is to analyse the linguistic characteristics of UNZA students’ sociolect and how in turn with this sociolect, students construct various social identities as they express group solidarity....

Significant efforts have been made to fight HIV/AIDS epidemic using multimodal semiotic modes of communication such as billboards, posters and brochures carrying HIV/AIDS and other health related education messages. However, it is unclear as to how the packagings of these HIV/AIDS prevention...