Despite the fact that most multicultural education models have been developed in Western socio-political contexts, such models are increasingly being diffused around the world. Many scholars advocate the widespread use of such models for recognizing diversity and fostering inter…
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This dissertation explores health and nutrition in the developing world as both a determinant of economic outcomes and the result of economic realities. Health and nutrition are critical components of economic and social well being and are therefore important factors of developm…
Highway traffic safety is an issue that confronts developing countries as well as those of industrialized nations. A lot of people are injured and/or killed all over the world each day on highway traffic related crashes. Nigeria, as a developing country, has been experiencing un…
What determines the extent to which communities in the Niger Delta experience violence? The dissertation addresses this question by focusing on the role of multinational oil companies in local governance, where state institutions are weak. The available literature often overlook…
Yorùbá culture of present-day Southwest Nigeria and Southeast Republic of Benin, has received much attention from academics over time. In part, this is due to the culturally ingrained female power that has existed and persisted over time in Yorùbáland. However, some scholars hav…
This dissertation, Postcards from the Edge-City: Mass-Media and Photographic Images in Contemporary Novels of the Black Diaspora , examines the use of photographic and mass-media images in literary representations of Black urban slums or "edge-cities." I explore four contemporar…
This dissertation contributes to social interactions returns to schooling and the determinants of women empowerment with the use of careful econometric methodologies. Two chapters investigate the effect of education on freedom of choice and women's empowerment. One chapter looks…
Isoprene emissions affect human health, air quality, and the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere. Globally anthropogenic non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) emissions are lower than that of isoprene, but local hotspots are hazardous to human health and air quality. I…
In recent years, many Nigerian banks have recorded negative financial performance. Guided by organizational theory, this quantitative correlational and comparative study examined the extent to which internal control effectiveness (ICE) is related to financial performance in the …
Consistent with its mission and commitment to spread its values and cultures, the Catholic Church worldwide increasingly has asserted itself in public life with an emphasis on promotion of common good principles through education. In Nigeria, the Church engaged both public offic…
There is a need for epilepsy-based health education programs to enlighten Nigerian communities and reduce the stigma associated with epilepsy. Epilepsy in Nigeria is viewed by some as a contagious and an infectious disease or a condition imposed from the gods, possessed by demon…
The purpose of this research was to identify children used as weapons of war and terrorism through acts by Nigerian radical Muslim group Boko Haram. The matter of child weapons posed significance in the fight against terrorism. Historically, child weapons faced warfare but in di…
This dissertation states that the behavior of banks and investors varies according to the rules of the game and demonstrates that the level of institutional development may have an important role on the effectiveness of monetary policies. The level of institutional development i…
In this thesis, I explore the ways by which new-wave black African immigrants confront and negotiate American tropes of blackness for individual and collective identity formations. Specifically, I focus on the memory of slavery as it is used for black collectivity in the United …
What determines economic growth after civil wars? States emerging from civil war face a host of political, social, and economic challenges to recovery. But, extant research demonstrates that states with greater economic growth after civil war are more likely to sustain the peace…
This qualitative ethnographic collective case-study of two Nigerian Early Childhood Education (ECE) practitioners focused upon the practitioners' reflections over a three-day period in February 2014 (and then a 3-month period from February through April 2014) of their first 18-m…
Why and how did Indonesia successfully implement its family planning program while Nigeria has failed to do so? This thesis examines the implementation of population control in Indonesia and Nigeria from 1965-1995. Specifically, it analyzes how societal control, administrative d…
Focusing on a selection of Nigerian video films--Living in Bondage (1992), Osuofia in London (2003), Saworoide (1999), Arugba (2010), Sitanda (2006), and Slave Warrior (2006)--and informed by in-depth interviews with four producer-directors, this dissertation establishes a model…
The enhanced discursive opportunity structures that the Internet enables has inspired a momentous revolution in the Nigerian media landscape. This dissertation chronicles the emergence and flowering of the citizen and alternative online journalism of the Nigerian diasporic publi…