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Participation of women in supervisory decision-making positions is a global agenda. Zambia strives towards attaining 50% women representation in decision-making positions by 2020 (SADC, 2005). The implementation of the Police Reform Programme in 1995, and the establishment of the Zambia Police...

This study sought to carry out a pragmatic analysis of speech acts and politeness strategies used in traditional ceremony speeches with reference to the Nc’wala of the Ngoni. The traditional ceremony speeches referred to were those written in English that were delivered on behalf of Paramount...

Reducing poverty levels and creating an enabling environment for socio-economic development in rural areas has been on the development agenda of successive governments in Zambia. Literature shows that in Zambia, rural areas have for a long time lagged behind in terms of development. Standard of...

Adolescents in Zambia face complex and significant challenges in addressing their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs and this is evident in the rise in adolescent pregnancies. According to the Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education bulletins of 2012, 2012...

This study is an investigation into ‘The Adaptation of English Words in Tonga’. The study is carried out from within the optimality theoretical framework, a linguistics model developed as a direct response to a “conceptual crisis at the centre of phonological thought” concerning the role of...

This study is a historical investigation of the British policy of indirect rule among the Acephalous society of Monze district from 1890 -1964. The research was prompted by the fact that there is gap in literature regarding how indirect rule was implemented among the Tonga of Monze district and...

The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of defence expenditure on economic growth as measured by real gross domestic product (GDP) in the presence of investment proxied by gross fixed capital investment, unemployment, lending rate, inflation proxied by consumer price index and...

This study analyzed the effect of job stress on employee performance at Zambia Police Paramilitary Battalion in Lusaka. The study utilized a causal research design imbedded in a mixed methods approach and employed Taro Yamane’s formula (Yamane, 1967) to calculate 319 sample size. The results...

This study analyzed the effect of job stress on employee performance at Zambia Police Paramilitary Battalion in Lusaka. The study utilized a causal research design imbedded in a mixed methods approach and employed Taro Yamane’s formula (Yamane, 1967) to calculate 319 sample size. The results...

Farmer access to credit is one of the financial solutions for addressing malnutrition, having been extensively researched in several countries with multiple studies concluding that access to credit has the potential to improve a smallholder household’s dietary diversity and ultimately reduce...