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This study investigated some linguistic variations among three Bemba dialects, namely: Standard Bemba, Luunda and Ŋumbo. Standard Bemba is classified by Guthrie (1948) as M42. It should be made clear that the dialect known as Luunda is different from Lunda, one of the languages spoken in...

This research aimed at exploring the relationship between space and characters in selected African dramatic works which include: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Dilemma of a Ghost, Ngugi and Ngugi’s I Will Marry When I Want, Masiye’s The Lands of Kazembe, and Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead. The research was based...

Background: In view of all the recorded devastation it is causing to society and human life, HIV/AIDS appears to be in possession of all the characteristics of a contemporary social problem facing the world today, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. Voluntary Medical Male circumcision (VMMC) in...

Agriculture is Zambia’s mainstay and farmers have for long practiced monoculture crop farming in which maize is the most widely grown. Other alternative and more adverse weather tolerant food crops such as sweet potatoes, cassava, sorghum and millet have not been grown much. There is very little...

The study sought to identify attitudes inherent in rural communities towards the practice of midwifery by males in Mpongwe district. The objectives of the study were; to establish the views that men and women have towards male midwives, to determine factors that promotes or hinders acceptability...

The aim of this study was to investigate the causal relationship among financial development, trade openness, and economic growth in Zambia from 1965 to 2011. To fully understand this relationship, two measures of financial development were used: broad money and domestic credit to the private...

This study focuses on the administrative and legislative changes that the colonial government made in response to the impact of the Great Depression in Northern Rhodesia. It reveals that the government mainly responded to the decline in government revenues, the widespread poverty and destitution...

Developing countries among others have come increasingly to see the important role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in economic development, growth and employment. Thus, most of these countries have undertaken various policy incentives to attract FDI. Zambia has not been left out in this...

The general objective of this study was to explain the ways by which cultural practices and norms adhered to by the Bemba people heighten their fertility. The study used a case-study research design to collect data using a stratified random sampling technique. This inquiry specifically assessed...

This study investigated the empirical evidence on the effect of exchange volatility on private capital inflows in Zambia. The investigation used monthly time series data for the period 1992-2012 relating to exchange rate, gross domestic product, foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio...