There are many situations in which the earliest possible detection of an intrauterine pregnancy would enhance clinical management. Current radioimmunoassays for hCG can detect pregnancy as early as eight to 12 days ...

Back in the early 1990s when a section of the American foreign policy think tank and the intelligentsia were euphorically forecasting scenarios for the consolidation of western victory in the Cold War, James Woolsey, then ...

The essay discusses the trajectory of the African renaissance as an idea and a project, a task that in essence entails examining Africa's postcolonial development paradigms, performances, and prospects. It is argued that ...

This study explored the possibility that encouraging women to behave more dominantly in leadership situations will undermine their effectiveness rather than increase it. As predicted, women who enacted a dominant approach ...

1. INTRODUCTION Despite the fact that conflict has portrayed women and girls as victims and actors, their role in conflict transformation is yet to be considered as peace building. This is because, women have always ...

Ken Walibora, one of the most known and promising authors in the new generation of Swahili writers in Kenya, may well be considered as a male-centric writer, since his novels published from 1996 to 2012 feature men as their ...

Throughout history, societies have faced popular protests and revolts that have stemmed from a host of reasons and have attracted the participation of all groups in society regardless of gender, religion, class, and age. ...

The bicentennial of the British abolition of slave trade was the occasion to devote this issue of Research in African Literatures to 'writing slavery'. The articles examine both the literary and cultural flowstreams that ...

Every generation has challenges that are specific to the youth and which look modern at the particular time and open up numerous opportunities. In each generation, some people are identified as “leaders” in one of two ways. ...

Every geo-political region of Nigeria is characterised by entrenched structures of violent conflicts, with the youths as the principal driving infrastructure. In the oil-producing region of the south-south, resource control ...