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E-Learning in Rural Secondary Schools under Sarpang Dzongkhag: Opportunities and Challenges

Kelzang Dorji, Neten Zangmo & Yangchen Norbu · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2023

This study investigated the opportunities and challenges of E-learning associated with its implementation. In this qualitative study, a total of 32 participants were selected through purposive sampling (24 students participated in a focused group with mixed grouping—six from clas...

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Prevalence of Young Person Involvement in Smuggling of Goods in the Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos, Nigeria

Adedeji Oyenuga, Oluwatoyosi W. Idowu, Kudirat A. Badmus, Iyanuoluwa J. Falana, Omobolanle M. Akanbi & Hamirat O. Bakare · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2023

This paper presents a qualitative investigation into the prevalence of young persons' involvement in smuggling goods within the Badagry Local Government Area, a border community between Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. Drawing on the Anomie Theory, the study focused on individu...

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Commentary on the Need for Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine Legislation in the Gambia

Raphael Nyarkotey Obu · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2023

Background: The Gambia, a country of over two million people with a deep history of traditional medicine in the African Continent still has no legislation to regulate the practice and promotion of traditional medicines. The striking thing is that it is the only country on the Afr...

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Diaspora African Women Writers and Postcolonial Thought: A Structural Comparison of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Americanah

Alou Yacoubou · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2023

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (hereafter refers to as Hope) and Americanah display some striking similarities in terms of setting and characterization while they portray some provocative postcolonial preoccupations in terms of human displacement and the question of identity w...

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Storytelling of the Religious Meaning of Sunan Kalijaga’s Heirloom Washing Tourist Attraction: A Phenomenological Perspective

. Fatkurrohman, Muhammad Baiquni, Mukhtasar Syamsuddin & Hendrie Adji Kusworo · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2023

The tourist attraction of the heirloom washing ceremony is very popular in Indonesia, but few researchers know about the meaning contained in each heirloom washing symbol. Based on a phenomenological perspective, this research sought to analyze the meaning of symbols, especially...

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Effectiveness of Radio Broadcasting on the Preservation of Ethnic Identity of the Ikwerre People in Nigeria

Chieme Azubuike & Tunde Uchegbuo · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2022

This study investigated the effectiveness of radio broadcasting on the preservation of ethnic identity of the Ikwerre People in Nigeria. The research was based on development media theory. The survey research design was adopted in the study with a population of 1,390,895 people f...

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Knowledge of Traditional Cloth (Lowԑgya) Produced in the Nandom District in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Kuupole, Evelyn, Dzramedo, Bernard Edem & Adjei, Akuoko Daniel · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2022

Aim: The study focused on the traditional cloth produced by the Dagara people in the Nandom District. The paper investigated the origin of Dagara traditional cloth, the types of cloths produced among Dagara people, names of the cloths. It further looked at symbolism and the signi...

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Violence, Religious Fanaticism and Trauma Response: A Study of Selected Nigerian Psych Fiction

Kehinde Kemi Rebecca & B. Omobowale Emmanuel · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2022

The topic of religious fanaticism and violence has become a permeating topic in several disciplines.  This study is a psychoanalytical reading of the dysfunction in  Nigerian psych fiction. It aims at understanding the representation of violence, trauma and dysfunction in the fam...

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