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Objective: To determine the various clinical and epidemiological factors associated with peptic ulcer perforation in adults at UTH.A pilot study for an impending broader controlled study. Design: A hospital-based cross-sectional study Participants: 35 adult patients all of whom were diagnosed at...

Justification of the Study: Road traffic accidents are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Zambia. Objective: The objective of this study was to identify major risk factors in road traffic accidents in Lusaka in the last three months of 1996. Study Design. The study was conducted in two...

The effect of microbial resistance to antibiotics is growing at a very fast rate all over the world. One of the main reasons for this is the frequency of use of drugs for the treatment of common ailments, some of which may not even require antibiotics. Therefore, there is selective pressure...

The aim of this study has been to present an investigation into the nature and character of the verbal extensions in Bemba and to postulate a model for the analysis, parsing and description of Bemba verbal grammar that is based on morphemes. Extensions are morphemes that are suffixed to the...

This dissertation reconstructs a history of the Kawambwa Tea Company. It covers the period between 1970 and 1996. Its first chapter describes the beginning of rural development schemes in British Colonial Africa and accounts for their establishment. The chapter has shown that the first attempt...

The main purpose of the study was to present the care of orphans in pre-colonial and colonial Zambia as one of the most important welfare services besides education and health which have been the main focus in the historiography of welfare services in Zambia. The study also examined the causes...

Like every other kind of historical research, the subject matter of this study cannot be considered exhausted. Both for the limitations to historical research and writing in general, and more so for the period involved (pre-colonial), it could not have been possible for everything pertaining to...

This dissertation is a study of the history of malende among the Tonga of Southern Province of Zambia, covering the I period from 189O to 19860 The study focuses on CJhief Hanjalika's area in Mazabuka Districts Malende are community shrines believed to be dwelling places of spirits called basangu...

This study, A Logical Analysis of Selected Texts in Nyanja, applies logic to Nyanja as an African language. This is because most studies have concentrated on Western languages and only a few Asian languages. There is hardly any evidence of such studies on African languages, let alone Zambian...

This project study is written in seven chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter consisting of the introduction, methodology and summary of the project findings. The introduction gives a rationale behind the project. The methodology explains briefly what methods have been used to...