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Aug 30, 2016Open Access
In recent times, scholars have engaged themselves with these two words “poverty”
and “corruption” most especially in relation to what Africans experience on
their way to economic emancipation e.g. Nigeria and Kenya. There had been a
struggle between poverty and corruption. The bible also is not left out in this
struggle. Poverty and corruption as we know the two today are not only African
problems. They are universal phenomena. It ...
Aug 24, 2016Open Access
Land issues have the potential to, and actually do generate a lot of
conflicts and controversies in rural communities. In Northern Ghana, certain
dilemmas, animated controversies, and conflicts about land rights, the
resolution of which sometimes leads relatively innocuous compromise later
manifest in several negative ramifications. For women in particular, the above
negativities associated with land are even more pronounce and mo ...
Jul 13, 2016Open Access
The question of representations of the forest world, trees and plants in
the Caribbean literature is important in the understanding of the relationship
between man and nature. This work deals with the study of literary texts which
highlight this human-nature interaction serving as the writer’s base to
establish the legitimacy of the literary discourse. It anchors this dialogue in
reality and knowledge of the world which translates ...
Jun 20, 2016Open Access
The aim of this study is to investigate whether there are structural
differences between psychological spaces of men and women under the simplest
possible model of analysis of these differences, i.e. based on comparing configurations of vectors of cognitive and
conative functions. On a sample of 2664 participants (1332 males and 1332
females) aged 18 years who w ...
Apr 28, 2016Open Access
For many years in the history of humans, there had been conflicting views
of the relationship between religion and secularity. Some adherents decry the
fact that religion should have any relation with the secular because religion
is entirely metaphysical while secularity relates to mundane things. In modern
scholarship, this issue has continued to engage the attention of scholars, practioners
of religion, individuals and the general public. Religion has both negative and
positive dimensions. It ...
Apr 25, 2016Open Access
This paper presents a case study about the implementation of a service of
independent living using a participatory approach. The service promoted living
experiences in apartments with innovative activities, characterized by means
for the development of personal autonomy addressed to persons with disabilities
and older persons. The paper shows the methodology applied, the experimentation
process and the lessons learnt from the experience. Realized in the framework
of the doctoral thesis titled “...
Mar 29, 2016Open Access
The study examined organisational and psychological factors as correlates
of job performance of personnel in private university libraries. Descriptive
research design was adopted in the study. The total population of the study comprised
of 83 respondents in the 8 private universities in South-South Nigeria. Since
the population was small, total enumeration sampling technique was employed.
The instrument adopted for the collection of data was the questionnaire. The
questionnaire was structured ba...
Mar 23, 2016Open Access
Xenophobia is historically and in modern times a very systemic political,
social and economic manifestation of imperialism. Although successful gains have
been achieved, a Pan-Africanist effort to work collectively faces several challenges
in the Southern African region. This chapter attempts to pry apart the shell of
xenophobia in Southern Africa by examining 1) the Pan-Africanist role of the Southern
African Development Community (SADC), 2) understanding the economic, social, and
political con...
Mar 17, 2016Open Access
This article was based on a larger study examining
emotional stress in social service workers at the intersection of professional
expectations and the “emotional labour” that accompanies day-to- day
work. Social service workers are defined for this study as individuals who are
employed in a position where they provide support for individual clients’ mental, emotional and social
welfare over an extended period of time (this definition intentionally excluded
occupations such that offer primarily m...
Feb 04, 2016Open Access
The phenomenon of the brain drain is a form of contemporary emigration
consisting of the best section of the human capital of the country. The loss of
productive dynamism at the highest level stymies the future prospects of the
country. The National Health System is damaged immediately by the phenomenon as
the country is deprived of talented young physicians, the very staff who
comprises the “cadets” of the public health system. Motivation theories and empirical researches and motivation incenti...
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