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While Unga is known to be a dialect of Bemba, some of its linguistic features tend to diverge from Standard Bemba. The extent of this divergence had not been investigated on. There had been no study undertaken to corroborate the proposition of linguistic divergence at phonological, morphological,...

This study is an attempt to reconstruct a history of the Church of Christ in the Southern province of Zambia from 1910 to 2015. In doing so, it examines key aspects of the church’s activities including its contribution to the development of education, health and orphan care provision in Southern...

This work provides a linguistic analysis of Mbunda language as spoken by native speakers in Kalabo District of Western Province, Zambia. It describes three levels of linguistic analysis namely Phonology, Morphology and Syntax. Mbunda ya Mathzi dialect is used for this study as it is considered...

This work provides a linguistic analysis of Mbunda language as spoken by native speakers in Kalabo District of Western Province, Zambia. It describes three levels of linguistic analysis namely Phonology, Morphology and Syntax. Mbunda ya Mathzi dialect is used for this study as it is considered...

Weeding of print collections is an important component of collection development and management, yet it receives less attention than the selection of new materials in most libraries. As print collections continue to grow, many library collections are drowning in obsolete, unused, and unwanted...

In Zambia, the language in Education policy is that from Pre- school to grade four, the medium of classroom instruction is the Zonal language spoken in that region (source: National Literacy Framework,2013). The move towards this policy was necessitated by the issue of low literacy levels...

The scope of this study revolves around Africans on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt and their colonial cinema experiences from 1928 to 1964. Using archival sources and oral interviews (qualitative methods), it describes how Africans on the Copperbelt engaged with colonial cinema in a segregated...

The Language Policy for Schools in Namibia states that, the language of instruction for initial literacy is the mother tongue or the predominant local language for multilingual schools, in the early phase of schooling. Silozi is the sole language of initial literacy instruction in multilingual...

Literature in English is a beneficial subject to learners who take it. However, learner performance in national examinations has remained poor country-wide in general, and Western Province in particular as evidenced by successive Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ) reports of 2013 to 2016. The...

This study aimed at assessing final year student teachers’ preparedness to use the communicative approach to teach English as a second language at Kwame Nkrumah University. Three objectives guided this study, i.e. to establish final year student teachers’ use of the characteristics of CLT to...