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This study examined first language interference lexical and grammatical errors in English as a Second Language (ESL) written discourse with particular focus on some Zambian Grade Twelve learners’ written narrative English pieces of composition. The aim of the study was to provide a description of...

This study examines the history of the legislature in Zambia from 1948 to 1991. The study traces the origin of the Legislature to 1924 when a Legislative Council (Legco) was instituted in order to protect the interests of white settlers. A qualitative method of study was used. However, the study...

This dissertation is a Socio-Pragmatic exploration of the research that was conducted in Mpika District of Zambia. It focuses on how social factors such as age, gender, wealth, education level, relationships as well as cultural norms affect the use of idiomatic expressions. The study goes further...

The study was designed to explore and understand the lived experiences of the Non- Commissioned officers in the Army in relation to accessing tertiary education in Ndola Based Army Units from a Gender perspective. The motivation behind this study was that despite measures put in place to promote...

ABSTRACT This study focuses on examining the long run relationship and granger causality between economic growth, carbon emissions, energy consumption, in Zambia from 1980 to 2017. The study employs Johansen cointegration technique, Vector error correction model (VECM), error correction-based...

This study, “An Investigation into the Inter-relatedness among Ila, Kaonde, Lenje, Nyanja, Sala, Soli, and Tonga” involved a lexicostatistical survey on the inter-relatedness of the languages mentioned above. According to Doke (1954), Bantu Botatwe refers to the language group comprising the...

This paper analyses the factors affecting bilateral trade flows between Zambia and other Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states. Empirically, this looks at whether or not Zambia has become more integrated in the COMESA region. Two analytical approaches were used to...

Zambia is in its second stage of demographic transition with high fertility rate. This aspect prompted this study aimed at investigating the factors that are significant in birth spacing among women contraceptive users in the reproductive age (15-49) owing to Zambian’s youthful population. The...

Bullying is defined as a negative action, physical, verbal, indirect or direct (Farrington, 1993). Literature has shown that bullying often occurs within a social context governed by peer group norms (Phiri, 2002). The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which bullying is related...

This study empirically investigated the impact of currency depreciation on economic growth in Zambia using the Johansen cointegration technique in a bivariate specification. The study used annual time-series data over the period 1985-2016. Gross domestic product (GDP) was used as a proxy for...