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This study was focused on teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in Literature in English curriculum in Zambezi district using a qualitative case study approach. Guided by an interpretivist research paradigm, the study involved 49 participants, including Literature in English teachers, who...

Several studies have established inmates chronicle their lived experiences in the works of art they produce such as poetry. Studying artworks produced by inmates therefore provides critical information that can help inform policies, programmes, and activities for rehabilitation. The Zambia...

Names in African societies are not only mere identifiers of entities, but do carry connotative meanings in most cases. Coming from an oral tradition, significant events such as droughts, death, and famine are documented and preserved through naming. The art of naming has become prominent in...

This study sought to investigate conflict between the individual and the community in African fiction, namely No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, and Bitterness as primary texts. The main objectives were to investigate the nature and causes of conflict between the individual and the community. Focus...

The aim of this study is to make a comparative analysis of child and adult narrative perspectives in We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo from Zimbabwe, Patchwork by Ellen Banda-Aaku from Zambia and ‘A Hug from Uncle Peter’ by Cheela Chilala from Zambia. The study is informed by the theory of...

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...

The study investigated the feminist voice in African female fiction. It was a feminist appraisal of Nwapa’s One is Enough, Dangaregmba’s Nervous Conditions and Beyala’s The SunHath Looked Upon Me. It cross-examines how the authors project the feminist voice(s) in their writing. The research...

Oral literature refers to folk-tales, songs, proverbs, sayings, tongue twisters and others which are passed down orally from generation to generation. Oral Literature is not only entertaining, it is also educative and promotes social and moral values. Since children enjoy listening to oral...

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...

The study was a comparative analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Ellen Banda-Aaku’s Patchwork (2011). The aim of the study was to identify the similarities and differences in the two works. In order to achieve the overall aim of the study in line with the objectives,...