A multitude of scholars have visited Tonga communities. They have come from different countries, worked at different times, had different disciplinary interests and theoretical agenda and published in different places. Many of these scholars have been the products of Zambian and…
"The proliferation of 'new wars' since the end of the Cold War has forced scholars to re-open the debate about 'what is war?' For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of infection must be contained.…
This dissertation is an analysis of the nature of so-called ‘polygamy’ in Africa. By identifying the specific markers of it evident in selected African novels, and comparing these findings with the socio-historical record, this study attempts to map the attitudes, as expressed b…
This dissertation examines representations of Englishness in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928), Between the Acts (1941), Doris Lessing's The Grass Is Singing (1950), and Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1969), and argues that ideas of home/land are central to Englis…
This study examines the textual production and narration of “multiple identities” in third world and US third world feminist writings of the last three decades. These feminist writers suggest a tactical articulation of their identities between, across, and through a transnationa…
Decolonial scholars insist that the work of decolonization must, at its core, involve understanding and dismantling the Western epistemologies that shape knowledge production in the academy. Historian Mhoze Chikowero identifies a particular scarcity narrative that is rooted in c…
The first Indian migrants to what was then known as Southern Rhodesia arrived at the turn of the nineteenth century, in the shadows of the white settler Pioneer Column that came from the south. As the British South Africa Company consolidated its hold over the territory, these m…
This dissertation explores household risk and savings behavior in Zimbabwe, and agricultural technology adoption, and the impact of public investments on the economy and community health in Ethiopia. The first paper analyzes changes in per capita consumption and savings behavior…
Although the origins of the traditional Bildungsroman , or novel of development highlighting the personal formation of a male protagonist, have been pinpointed in late-eighteenth century German literary studies with Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795) cite…
This dissertation explores the relationship between sanctions and regime policy changes, integrating the economic and political effects of sanctions. The type of investigation employed is the case study approach. The cases selected for investigation are those of South Africa, Rh…
This dissertation examines the experiences of four southern African missionary art programs. The four, Grace Dieu and Rorke's Drift in South Africa, and Cyrene and Serima in Rhodesia (as well as their offshoots) pioneered art education for Africans in the region. Art emerging fr…
My dissertation analyzes a range of British and African works in order to bring to light the social and political motives which influence and distort descriptions of the African landscape. Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak have analyzed some of the difficulties and barriers involve…
Problem. Decision making is a practical day-to-day phenomenon. It manifests itself in various ways, such as choosing what to do or not to do, in evaluating and fulfilling what is now and what is expected. Decision making is a cycle covering the time from when a decision is conce…