November 2021

Assessing the effects of sports gambling among the youths in Blantyre City of Southern Malawi

The study aimed at assessing the effects of sports gambling among the youths of Blantyre City in Southern Malawi. In this study, the sample size was made up of 30 youths compromising 19 males and 11 females. They were randomly selected by the researcher through probability sampling. Questionnaires were used to collect data for the study. The study achieved a 100% response rate.  The study revealed that 84.2% of the...

Author(s): Nelson Nanteleza Ndala

November 2021

Promoting migration communication in Nigeria: Re-strategizing campus radio for discourse inclusiveness

This paper focuses on campus radio’s contributions to strengthen the discourse on migration, to regulate irregular migration in Nigeria, and on the needed strategies by which these contributions could be achieved. This consideration is made within the conceptual framework of the coordinated management of meaning theory. Five campus radios were studied. Using oral interviews and documentary study, findings show...

Author(s): Patrick Edem Okon, Okon Effiong Udoyo and Patrick Ene Okon

November 2021

The (Capitalist) making of an addict: A Marxian and Durkheimian perspective on modern manifestations of addiction

The manifestation of addiction in modern day American society is novel in its materialization. Marxist concepts of self-estrangement and alienation provides a frame for viewing the way market capitalism and the way labor distribution negatively impact individuals because it supplies humans with false needs and a sense of disillusionment. The utilization of labor as identity and emphasis on profit creates a divide...

Author(s): Samantha McIntyre

November 2021

Spectates from the frontline: Humanitarian assistance, aid coordination, and challenges in the Tigray Crisis

To ascertain the coordination platform of the humanitarian assistance and aid efforts undertaken seven months after the crisis occurred, this study was conducted in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. Specific purposes of the study were to describe the coordination platform of the humanitarian assistance, assess the humanitarian needs and responses, and identify the major challenges encountered to deliver...

Author(s): Bereket Godifay Kahsay