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This thesis looks at what the church has currently been doing towards women's sexual and reproductive health issues. ln particular, the aim of the thesis is to find out how the Anglican Church is involving itself in improving women's sexual and reproductive health. The study gathered both physical and religious views and experiences. Physical ex... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2006
Author: Kalalo, Chimwemwe Umboni Supervisor(s): Klaus FiedlerPoverty alleviation, especially among the rural people, is considered the overall aim of the Government of Malawi, while the acceleration of agricultural and rural development has been identified as the main strategy in order to fight against poverty. In this framework, food security has a crucial role. Malawi has for the past decade been catego... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2005
Author: Romeo, Sigfrido Supervisor(s): Aggrey AmbaliThis thesis examines and compares the portrayal of patriarchy in Nervous Conditions, So Long A Letter and The Joys of Motherhood. It argues that compared to the other two novels, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions portrays patriarchy in a more vivid and authentic manner that captures the colonial condition of the female characters in these ... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2005
Author: Kabwila-Kapasula, Jessie Zondiwe Supervisor(s): Olufemi AbodunrinThis study examines the way three authors, Ousmane Sembene, Calixthe Beyala and Yvonne Vera portray the quest for the self in Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu, Your Name Shall be Tanga and Without a Name respectively. The study argues that despite regional and gender differences the three authors portray an identical notion of the self through their fe... Read more
School: School of Arts, Communication and Design
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2005
Author: Lipenga, Timwa Supervisor(s): Brighton KamangaThough Anthony Nazombe’s poetry has been published in various journals, nationally and internationally, it has received very little critical attention compared to that of other Malawian poets, such as Jack Mapanje, Frank Chipasula, Steve Chimombo and Felix Mnthali, who were writing during the same troubled socio-political environment as he. This... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2005
Author: Mthatiwa, Syned Dale Makani Supervisor(s): Pia ThielmanThis study investigated learner participation in the language classroom in four secondary schools in Blantyre district two years after the implementation of the CLT syllabus. The data revealed that the interaction patterns in these classes were still dominated by teacher talk. Although the new syllabus emphasized learner involvement through pair... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2005
Author: Ndalama, Luciano Venansio Supervisor(s): Samson MacJessie-MbeweAmong others, the two available analyses of Bantu syllable onsets in the literature, namely the consonant cluster and the single segment approaches, are discussed. The phonology of Chitonga seems to favour an analysis that does not permit clusters of segments of the form CC (consonant clusters), VV (vowel clusters) or GG (glide clusters). In the... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2004
Author: Mkochi, Winfred Supervisor(s): Asante MtenjeWe define a graph and call it a wheel-sunflower graph considered as one of the compatibility graphs that may arise in computer-based network information systems. Then we study characterizations that permit us to compute Tutte polynomials of wheel sunflowers using Tutte polynomials of generalized parallel connections. As one of the applications o... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2004
Author: Kamndaya, Mphatso Steve Supervisor(s): E.G.M BandaAccording to the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey (2000), the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Malawi is one of the most severe in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Malawi AIDS Control Programme estimates that over one million people are infected with HIV in the country. Statistics show that younger women 15-24 years have the highest rates of HIV infection. Young... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2003
Author: Chipeta, Effie KondwaniThe central mission of the Christian Church is the proclamation of the Good News of Jesus Christ. This essentially consists of his Person and his redemptive work . This is what is called the kerygma or Gospel. The New Testament gospel writers seek to explain this kerygma by using Old Testament categories like Messiah, Son of God, Son of Man and ... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2001
Author: Nkhoma, Jonathan SamuelThis study attempts to demonstrate that the entire philosophical edifice of Plato advances the principle that ignorance is detrimental to the well-being of individuals and society. The study contends that Plato’s theories of human nature, knowledge, virtue, as well as political and social organization support his conviction that virtue is knowle... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Doctoral Thesis Issue year: 2001
Author: Mpekansambo, Lawrence M. Supervisor(s): P.A MwaipayaDuring mid and late 1980s Malawi undertook financial reforms which, inter alia, included interest rate liberalisation. This interest rate liberalisation had several aims amongst which were; to introduce market determined interest rates that could enhance savings mobilisation process and to bring effective competition in the financial system. Unf... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 1994
Author: Mwanamvekha, Joseph MathyolaThe thesis which this work is based is that the study of African Traditional world views and concept is essential for the development of a meaningful, relevant and authentic theology for Africa, a theology that takes seriously the existential condition of the African in his cultural set~up. The concept of God is taken as the kay towards the dev... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 1984
Author: Musopole, Augustine Chingwala