Abstract
This study formed part of a broader PhD research which investigated how access
to, and use of, information enhances farmers’ adaptation to climate change and
variability in the agricultural sector in semi-arid Central Tanzania. The research
was carried out in two villages using Rogers’ (2003) Diffusion of Innovations
This article reports on a study that assessed the organisational learning activities
for the purposes of retaining critical knowledge in three Southern African
Development Community (SADC) public broadcasting organisations. The
article reports the partial findings of a doctoral study that focused on analysing
ABSTRACT
Despite recent developments in technology and globalisation, the broadcast
and print media in many countries still run on separate tracks. This article, which
is based on qualitative research carried out between 2012 and 2014, examines
the governance and development of media in ‘Museveni’s Uganda’ (1986- ),
Religion, magic and witchcraft are conceptual, socially constructed
categories, the boundaries of which have been contested under diverse
religious, cultural and intellectual conditions in the west. This paper focuses
firstly on the polemical relationship between religion and magic in the
This article analyses six anthologies of Namibian poetry dating from 1982 until 2005.
It first discusses the role of poetry as a means of raising the political consciousness
of participants in the Namibian war of liberation, and the tension between partypolitical
propaganda and aesthetic merit. Due cognizance is taken of Swap o’s
The Ubuntu spirit of the African people can greatly impact on the care of children living with
HIV and AIDS within the society as the network of relationships within the environment
provides a therapeutic milieu for the sick and impoverished. The study aimed at ascertaining the