September 2015

Comparative analyses of linguistic sexism in Afan Oromo, Amharic, and Gamo

This study tried to examine how linguistic sexism manifests through the lexicons of Afan Oromo, Amharic and Gamo in the light of the social and cultural lives of the speakers. The data for this study were collected from native speakers through elicitation. These data were analyzed based on Critical Discourse Analysis approach. As the study showed, among the three languages, semantically asymmetric terms, metaphors of...

Author(s): Amanuel Raga

September 2015

Art as communication of rural identity: Some photographs by Mario Giacomelli

The Aesthetic Idealism of Friedrich Schelling gave artworks a role of mental representation of the world. In the present paper, we try to integrate this gnoseological value of Art with the contemporary sociological approach of System Theory. Nowadays, we are witnessing a rapid change in the methods of communication, thanks, first of all, to globalization and digitalization. In spite of this, our thesis is that Art...

Author(s): Laura Appignanesi

September 2015

Assessment of the implementation of the national policy on orphans and vulnerable children in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria

Nigeria has one of the largest burdens of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in the world. In response to these challenges, the Federal Government in Nigeria initiated and adopted the Child Rights Act (CRA) and the National Guideline and Standard of Practice (NGSP) for OVC. However, there is very limited rigorous research evidence and data on the implementation of these intervention policies. It is important for the...

Author(s): OLAGBUJI Yetunde Winifred and Obehi Hilda OKOJIE