Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1177/00219096231200590
Babatope Matthew Ajiboye
Kidnapping and hostage-taking have plagued Nigeria for over two decades, beginning with protests in the country’s Niger-Delta region. Afterward, the phenomenon has spread like a Harmattan bush fire across the country’s length and breadth. Although the phenomenon evolved from sheer agitation it became the most thriving business, even though it is on the wrong side of morality. Evidently, the spectacle has drawn tremendous literature and a crow’s nest that range from its evolution to politics, socioeconomic consequences and alternative negotiation, among other concerns and worries associated with it. Going by studies, the phenomenon has resulted in atrocious ransom payments, inhumane treatment and even deaths of helpless victims. Connectedly, the unpleasant experiences of victims, especially at the hands of their captors, inform this discourse on the alertness and responses of the Nigerian Police to kidnapped victims, which is what has remained either under-assessed or significantly under-examined. Relying significantly on both primary and secondary data, this article assesses the main security institution entrusted with the internal security of the nation, viz-à-viz its response to victims’ calls via operational tools, manpower, training and education, intelligence and synergy with sister security agencies. This article concludes that inadequacies and deficiencies in these variables have stalled the timely rescue of victims by police forces in the country.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1177/00219096231197779
Eyo O. Mensah, Benjamin O. Nyong, Eyamba O. Mensah, Queen O. Ayeni
This article investigates the sociocultural aspects of street-related linguistic practices on commercial tricycles in Uyo metropolis, south-eastern Nigeria. Marginal urban texts on tricycles reveal a process of identity construction and the quest for ideological distinctiveness of the grassroots in articulating their spatial street wisdom. The study offers contextual analyses of tricycle texts to unpack how they reflect riders’ social conditions, and problematise how riders relate their subjectivities to the audience in the mobile urban space. We conclude that tricycle texts bring to light creative aspects of a local subculture that lends a voice to a marginalised segment of the society.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1177/00219096231197777
Graham Oluteyo Amakanji, Pontian Godfrey Okoth, Edmond Were Maloba
Globally, conflicts are phenomenal and are caused by multivariate risk factors; however, purely land-use-based conflicts are gradually growing and becoming conspicuous. Authoritative studies project that violent conflicts over land and resource distribution are set to be on the upsurge with the African Continent set to bear the greatest brunt. These are set to take homegrown extremist trajectories thereby redefining global, regional, and national counter-violent extremist architecture. This paper sought to investigate demographic risk factors for homegrown extremism in the squatter enclaves of Mount Elgon region. Using a convergent parallel mixed method research design, primary data were collected from 400 households. Study findings on demographic risk factors for homegrown extremism are an antithesis of conventional Euro-American train of thoughts. The results established that that gender (being both male and female), age (being older) and being married posed a high risk factor to homegrown extremism. The paper recommends the need to expedite multi-stakeholder human development needs based approaches in pursuit to reverse the risk of homegrown extremism in the squatter enclaves of Mount Elgon region, Kenya.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1177/00219096231197742
Abdulsalam Ibrahim Shema, Marko Kiessel, Cemil Atakara
Numerous studies proposed models for assessing architecture and power such as Dovey’s Framing places: Mediating power in built form and Njoh’s Forms of power over that analyse the built environment in relation to various forms of power. However, those models deal mainly with the western and/or modern built environment. There is a lack of studies that specifically deal with the vernacular built environment of African societies. This study assesses how power, as a socially constructed discourse, influences and is mediated through African societies’ vernacular built environment. It focuses on the walled city and palace of Zaria, Nigeria. Studies of the built environment in relation to power discourses are continuous processes, and due to the subjectivity of interpretations our research adopts the epistemological approach of constructivism when assessing the socially constructed generation of symbolic meaning. Considering the general discourse of power within built environment, a methodological framework was developed, which focuses on forms of power over. The framework might also be useful for studies of other (African vernacular) built environments. Power over within the vernacular built environment of Zaria is predominantly based on a socially constructed discourse – a fact that is certainly valid for other traditional African built environments as well. It is mediated, visibly and invisibly, through spatial and physical features, including the use of symbols, and deeply embedded in Zaria’s urban form and architecture, especially its palace which conveys the identity and authority of the traditional royal institution.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1177/00219096231197771
Taekbin Kim, John Ishiyama
Despite concerns about the stability of the early days of the Kim Jong Un regime, he has firmly established his control over the existing system. How was he able to achieve this? Important insights are provided by Kim Jong Un’s patter of official appointments, particularly involving the members of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK). This study scrutinizes the pattern of elite appointments under Kim Jong Un from 2012 to 2019, examining the personal data of 296 members of the WPK Central Committee. The results reveal that under Kim Jong Un’s leadership, party and military elites enjoyed the privilege of being appointed to key posts compared with cabinet elites. However, as his power consolidation advanced, this preferential treatment for party and military elites began to diminish starting in 2016. These findings suggest that certain tensions and conflicts may exist within North Korea under Kim’s rule.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1177/00219096231197766
Nyakabawu Shingirai
This article argues that individuals’ internalised frameworks, shaped by Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, play a crucial role in their ability to conceive entrepreneurial possibilities and to recognise opportunities. To explore this argument, interviews were conducted with Zimbabwean entrepreneurs residing in of Cape Town, South Africa. The participants exhibited diverse habituated experiences including culinary preferences, work backgrounds and family histories. The article contends that these habitual dispositions, whether conscious or unconscious, significantly influenced their decision to engage in entrepreneurship within the South African context.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1177/00219096231197776
Jamilah Ahmad, Enojo Kennie Enojo, Ibrahim Mohammed Nasiru, Ine-Ere Rita Sani, Chikelue Chris Akabuike, Ogbonne Ijeoma Pauline, Verlumun Celestine C. Gever
This study determined the impact of computer-assisted visual multimedia instructions (CAMI) on improvement in business administration skills among widows in rural areas using a quasi-experimental design. The result showed that at Time 1, the widows in both the control and CAMI groups reported low knowledge of business administration skills such as teamwork, delegation, supervision, financial management and customer service skills. After CAMI, the widows significantly differed with those in the treatment group reporting significantly higher mean scores on all the measures of business administration. Widows in CAMI group (unlike the control group) also reported an improvement in their business start-up intentions.
{"title":"Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Visual Multimedia Instructions on Improvement in Business Administration Skills Among Widows in Rural Communities","authors":"Jamilah Ahmad, Enojo Kennie Enojo, Ibrahim Mohammed Nasiru, Ine-Ere Rita Sani, Chikelue Chris Akabuike, Ogbonne Ijeoma Pauline, Verlumun Celestine C. Gever","doi":"10.1177/00219096231197776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096231197776","url":null,"abstract":"This study determined the impact of computer-assisted visual multimedia instructions (CAMI) on improvement in business administration skills among widows in rural areas using a quasi-experimental design. The result showed that at Time 1, the widows in both the control and CAMI groups reported low knowledge of business administration skills such as teamwork, delegation, supervision, financial management and customer service skills. After CAMI, the widows significantly differed with those in the treatment group reporting significantly higher mean scores on all the measures of business administration. Widows in CAMI group (unlike the control group) also reported an improvement in their business start-up intentions.","PeriodicalId":46881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian and African Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1177/00219096231197752
Michael Gameli Dziwornu, Diego Coletto
Alternative and often disruptive urban processes in the Global South, such as container urbanism, are gradually pushing urban planning institutions towards the margins of urban governance and transformation. Understanding how urban institutional actors perceive and respond to these emerging processes is thus crucial for unravelling the rationalities that actively transform the spatial configuration of cities. Drawing on the concept of spatial rationalities, this article examines the institutional dynamics of the unprecedented spatial diffusion of container urbanism in Accra, Ghana. The article makes two contributions to the literature. First, it shows that the continuation of a neoliberal urban governance agenda has shifted the institutional perception of container urbanism as a form of aberration. Second, it sheds light on how the actions by institutional actors to recuperate spatial order are often eclipsed by political interferences, creating an illusion of control in the management of urban space. Consequently, the article calls for a reassessment of impractical regulatory mechanisms that target container users and other informal modes of appropriating urban space with far-reaching consequences for urban citizenship and the right to the city.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1177/00219096231197724
Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson
Across Ghana’s higher education institutions, women’s representation in student leadership has been generally low despite the gender-neutral requirement. Women’s participation in student leadership politics in Ghanaian higher education institutions, specifically universities, has received little attention from higher education and feminist scholars who have briefly mentioned or completely glossed it over. This intellectual omission makes this paper relevant. Here, it is argued that there is sufficient evidence to suggest that, despite the neutrality of student leadership policies, men dominate student politics. This paper problematises the question of gender inequality in student leadership, through the African feminist lens.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1177/00219096231197770
R. H. Mushonga, F. Makwara
The COVID-19 pandemic presented possibilities of socio-political rapture as it stimulated mass evacuations and remarkable efforts to emplace. However, regardless of the measures to restrict non-essential travel and barring the entry of people into cities as a way of curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, urban migrants invented and reincarnated ways and means of negotiating entry into economic spaces in an effort to avoid becoming marooned in time and space. This ethnographic study explored these dynamics using the case of Nigerian migrant traders in Harare’s informal economic spaces. By drawing on their narratives, we argue that surviving the pandemic was made possible by forming, maintaining and sustaining social networks of sort. Therefore, while uncertainties (COVID-19) interrupt time, routines and the mundane aspects of life, it also has a productive potential for people to make sense of the hazards that confront them, hence reflexively crafting solutions and fashioning possible futures.
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