This article examines Nigeria's need for improved agricultural production and underscores the strategic importance of the country's rural economy. It profiles the Nigerian non-literate farmer, critically re-examines the concept of …

Socio-economic factors affecting journalistic expression in Africa

MSU: Michigan State University · 1988

This study uses qualitative and quantitative methods to content-analyse a sample of mass media, and solicit information (through focus group discussions FGDs) from media personnel in Ghana in an attempt …

Rural growth points in Zimbabwe--prospects for the future

MSU: Michigan State University · 1988

This paper briefly examines the context of rural growth points in Zimbabwe since Independence (1980). It examines prospects for rural industrial and commercial growth in the light of a highly …

Social security in Zimbabwe

MSU: Michigan State University · 1988

This paper attempts to trace the historical development of social security in Zimbabwe and to explore the possible options for developing a comprehensive social security system. The paper postulates that …

Rastafari as Pan Africanism in the Caribbean and Africa

MSU: Michigan State University · 1988

Approaches to rehabilitation of people with disabilities

MSU: Michigan State University · 1988

Traditional approaches to rehabilitation of disabled people have emphasised segregated institutional care, and have largely neglected the need both to integrate people with disabilities into their wider community, and for …

Responsibility and ethical reasoning in the Nigerian press

MSU: Michigan State University · 1988

This analysis of the responsibility and ethics of six Nigerian daily newspapers addresses two major questions. First, what is the dominant ethical philosophy of the Nigerian press as indicated in …

Viewer preference for TV stations and programmes

MSU: Michigan State University · 1988

This articles examines viewer preference for two TV stations in Nigeria, ABS/TV and N.T.A., with the aim of determining the more preferred of the two stations, determining their programmes ratings, …

Domestic financing of communication in developing countries

MSU: Michigan State University · 1988

This a case study of the Nigerian communication situation which examined the efforts by this developing country towards the mobilisation of domestic resources to finance communication industry. The study revealed …

Integration and policy constraints to industry and trade in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland

MSU: Michigan State University · 1988

The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is comprised of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland (BUS) and South Africa and until 1975 when Botswana withdrew to establish her own central bank, all the …