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Can Foreign Trade Propel Economic Growth in Nigeria? Evidence from Causality Analysis

Ogbokor, Cyril A. (JEL, 2017)

Documented studies in the existing literature pertaining to causality relationships between foreign trade and economic growth indicators are quite enormous. This study investigates the dynamic causal relationship between ...

Can IK be communicated through foreign languages without losing its authenticity?

Muyingi, Hippolyte N. (IKTC2011, 2011)

In this paper, we present an open issue for panel discussion on the relation between the language of knowledge transfer and the contextual and peculiar nature of indigenous, traditional or local Knowledge itself. We ...

Can mouse and keyboard chase out chalk and blackboard in engineering education?

Oyedokun, Zacchaeus; Oyedokun, Comfort (Namibia Open Learning Network Trust (NOLNET), 2005)

The face-to-face method of instruction has dominated the teaching arena from time immemorial. However the rapid advances in information, computer and communication technology is rapidly changing the mode of knowledge ...

Can Namibia become a regional gateway by developing a logistics hub around Walvis Bay's Port?

Savage, Christopher J.; Fransman, L. (NUST, Department of Communication, 2014)

Many developing countries wish to become the 'gateway' to a region or part of a continent. One strategy involves encouraging logistics cluster development. These support global supply chains and enable the growth of the ...

The Case for Adequate Housing for Teachers in Windhoek

Guillermo, Delgado; Lühl, Phillip (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2016-07)

The initiative to investigate the housing situation of teachers in Namibia was triggered by teacher Gertrude Mujoro, who discussed the matter with her fellow colleagues who brought the matter to the attention of the ...

Case study of adaptive rangeland management by an innovative Kalahari farmer.

Zimmermann, Ibo; Joubert, David F.; Smit, G.N. (2008)

Scientists can learn a great deal from innovative farmers who apply adaptive management principles based on experience gained over decades. This paper records 31 observations that a farmer, Jan Labuschagne, made on his ...

The causal relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth in Namibia

Sunde, Tafirenyika (Namibia University of Science and Technology, 2022-11-08)

Most developing countries lack the resources needed for investment to improve their economic situations, create jobs, and achieve long term economic growth and development. Foreign direct investment (FDI) can easily transfer ...

Cause and effect: A stylistic analysis of the story in Ngugi's "A Grain of Wheat".

Krishnamurthy, Sarala (2010)

Analysis of story in narrative fiction poses a major challenge to stylisticians. There are several studies of style in fiction, which are mainly micro-linguistic in nature and focus on certain sections of the novel that ...

Causes of the underachievement of Grade 12 learners of English: A case study of a rural school in the Oshikoto region, Namibia

Kamati, N.; Woldemariam, Haileleul Zeleke (Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2016-12)

This study assessed the causes of the underachievement of Grade 12 learners of English focusing on rural school in the Oshikoto region, Namibia. In January 2016, the Namibian (National) Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary ...

Celebrating black American women's lives: An analysis of Alice Walker's selected texts.

Pasi, Juliet Sylvia (NUST, Department of Communication, 2013)

From the American Revolution to the present, African American female writers have not only articulated the physical horrors of the female slave, but have also celebrated the black American women’s lives through their ...

Change management strategies for an effective enterprise resource planning implementation: A case study of Government Institutions Pension Fund

Sitler, Bridgette L. (2014)

This study is about information system research. It is an information systems research case study on GIPF ERP Implementation. The management replaced the Accountmate system with Oracle E-Business suite in 2009, as the best ...

The chutnification of English: An examination of the lexis of Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children".

Krishnamurthy, Sarala (2010)

Midnight’s Children has been variously described as a Postmodern novel, Post colonial novel, and a novel which uses techniques of magic realism, metafiction and historiography. Having won the Booker Prize, the novel has ...

A cognitive linguistic study of trauma in Andrew Niikondo's Are You a Person or a Ghost and Tshiwa Trudie Amulungu's Taming My Elephant

Mauta, Portia Inonge (Namibia University of Science and Technology, 2023-06-01)

The purpose of this study was to conduct a cognitive linguistic analysis of trauma in Andrew Niikondo’s Are you a person or a ghost and Tshiwa Trudie Amulungu’s Taming my elephant. Cognitive linguistics is a scientific ...

Cognitive stylistics and petit recit: An examination of the narrative consciousness in the "God of Small Things".

Krishnamurthy, Sarala (2011)

As has been pointed out be many critics, “God” in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy functions as a metaphor for Velutha and becomes symptomatic of power relations that cut across the several binaries: man/woman, ...

A cognitive stylistics study of Ndinaelao Moses' Masked Warrior and Malakia Haimbangu's Complicated

Kambwale, Elizabeth Ndavavaelao (Namibia University of Science and Technology, 2023-05)

The purpose of this study was to examine two Namibian authored texts titled Masked warrior by Ndinaelao Moses (2019) and Complicated by Malakia Haimbangu (2021) through cognitive stylistics. The study evaluated the language ...

A cognitive stylistics study of The Other Presence and The Hopeless Hopes

Hafeni, Linus Nghilifavali (2019-06)

The research presents a cognitive stylistics study of two Namibian novels: Francis Sifiso Nyathi’s The Other Presence and Salom Shilongo’s The Hopeless Hopes. The novels have been selected because they presented Namibian ...

Collaborative postgraduate programme in applied science in earth observation, Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

Louw, Frikkie; Mwewa, Lameck; Maphanyane, Joyce; Sakala, Enock; Motola, Siddique (Klaus Hess Publishers, 2018)

Capacity-building in the Southern Africa Science Services Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) is an essential part of the initiative’s science programme. One of the major capacity limitations ...

A collocation multistep methods for integrating ordinary differential equations on manifolds.

Fatokun, J. O; Ajibola, I. K. O. (Academic Journals, 2009)

This paper concerns a family of generalized collocation multistep methods that evolves the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations on configuration spaces formulated as homogeneous manifolds. Collocating ...

Communal cattle husbandry practices and their impact on market participation: a case study of FSP farmers from Zambezi region in Namibia

Akashambatwa, Clifford Lubinda (Namibia University of Science and Technology, 2016)

Cattle play an important socio-economic role in the livelihood of communal farmers in Namibia. This study examines the socio-economic determinants of adoption of improved livestock management practices among communal ...

Communal land

Nghitevelekwa, Romie (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2018)

Communal land is one of the land tenure systems in Namibia, the other being freehold land tenure system. At independence in 1990,Namibia resolved to retain communal land on the basis that majority of the population derived ...

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