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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 aimed at empirically investigating and ethically assessing the treatment of juvenile offenders in the Zambian Juvenile Justice System (ZJJS). The Juveniles Act of the laws of Zambia and international legal instruments provide for the treatment of juvenile offenders with special care as...

This study attempts to look at comparative literary analysis of the cattle praise poetry between the people of Bweengwa and those of Chivuna. It utilizes four literary theories to arrive at findings and these include: social constructionism, ethnopoetics, literary onomastics and the main approach...

Influenced by studies that focus on social, economic and industrial life of urban areas in Africa and beyond, this study seeks to illuminate how the creation of the Chilanga Cement Factory in the late 1940s impacted on the development of Chilanga Township and the surrounding environment. The...

This study attempts to reconstruct the history of Mayukwayukwa Refugee Settlement. It examines the role and function that was played by the settlement between 1966 and 2013. By 2013, the refugee settlement was the oldest in Zambia. It is illustrated in the study how most of the changes that...

This study reconstructs the history of the National Agricultural Marketing Board (Namboard) in promoting food security during its operation years from 1969 to 1989. It does this by analysing why it was important and necessary to have a good marketing system in attaining food security. The study...

By exploring the morphology, meanings, significance and sources of names, one would be struck by the wealth of information which certain nicknames provide about the name bearers, society that gives them and the social environment they live in. Ng’umbo people have nicknames as part of their naming...

The current study examined the socio-pragmatic aspect of linguistic avoidance strategies in relation to Silozi taboo language.A socio-pragmatic study deals with communication in its sociocultural context. Linguistic avoidance strategies refer to goal- oriented communicative behaviour where...

The objective of this study was to assess the anti-corruption communications to the University of Zambia (UNZA) main campus full-time undergraduate students. The specific objectives included: To assess the nature of collaboration between the University of Zambia and the Anti-Corruption Commission...

This study aimed at assessing the communication strategies used by the Government of the Republic of Zambia in stakeholder mobilisation for Infrastructure Development and Maintenance of classrooms in schools of Chinsali District of Zambia. Areas of interest included: the key messages used and in...