Volume 23 / Issue 3 / pp. 23883-23889 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i3.3
Background: Humanising nursing care is a holistic approach to providing care. For children with profound intellectual disabilities, it entails providing basic nursing care, protecting, loving, promoting, and respecting the rights of children. Nurses who provide care to children with profound intellectual disabilities are expected to implement humanising nursing care; However, the nature of their work makes it difficu...
Volume 23 / Issue 3 / pp. 24072-24083 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i3.20
This study explored how workplace sexism affects the mental health of employed women in Ghana. Using a cross-sectional survey of 620 women aged 21–65, this study examined the relationship between experiences of gender harassment, sexual harassment and psychological distress, defined as symptoms of depression, anxiety, dissociation, and sleep disturbances. Regression analyses showed that both types of harassment signi...
Volume 23 / Issue 2 / pp. 23350-23365 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i2.5
Post-colonial feminist writers have significantly challenged traditional gender representations in lit-erature, particularly in high school novels. These writers often explore themes of identity, power dy-namics, and resistance within the context of colonial and post-colonial societies. Through their works, they highlight the experiences of marginalised groups, particularly women, and critique how gender roles are co...
Dealing with household food insecurity has become a serious challenge for policymakers in developing countries, including Ghana. A number of risk and vulnerability factors account for food insecurity among peasant women in Ghana and elsewhere. This study explored food insecurity vulnerability among low-income women in rural communities in Northern Region, Ghana, through semi-structured interviews with 28 participants...
Volume 23 / Issue 3 / pp. 24084-24090 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i3.21
This article accentuates that South Africa’s progressive constitutional and legislative framework guarantees the right to basic education for all. However, teenagers who are pregnant teenagers continue to encounter institutional obstacles that hinder their enrollment and retention in school. Thus, it limits their access to basic education, which contravenes the Constitution and legislation that upholds everyone’s acc...
Volume 23 / Issue 3 / pp. 24091-24098 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i3.22
Schools are being hit by all forms of turbulences, as the world is wrestling with a myriad social, political and economic challenges. This then calls for a need to be proactive and not reactive, in developing strategies to navigate these turbulences through building resilient, and sustainable development solutions that will ensure schools remain fully functional and buoyant at any given time. The study is qualitative...
Volume 23 / Issue 2 / pp. 23832-23840 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i2.37
The goal of this study is to identify the linguistic, social, and cultural elements that influence the use of euphemistic terms in Northern Sotho and Siswati by examining them via a sociolinguistic lens. By looking at how euphemisms work in both languages, the study explores the cultural settings that shape their development as well as the social roles they play in upholding civility, avoiding taboos, and reflecting ...
Volume 23 / Issue 3 / pp. 23932-23941 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i3.8
Introduction: While suicide remains beyond legislative control, euthanasia is subject to legal regulation in most countries. Data on suicide is readily available and reasonably reliable, whereas statistics on euthanasia are often less pronounced and obscure. Objectives: This study aims to assess affirmative attitudes towards suicide and euthanasia, explore the relationship between these attitudes, and analyse trends ...
This study reflects on the pedagogical use of hackathons as epistemic and transformative learning environments for cultivating entrepreneurial leadership competencies among students. Positioned as core learning methodologies rather than peripheral activities, hackathons were designed to immerse students in complex, real-world problem spaces requiring critical inquiry, creativity, and collaboration. Within these exper...
Volume 22 / Issue 3 / pp. 22975-22983 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v22i3.10
This paper examines the cultural, socio-economic, and political dynamics that impede women's engagement in Nigerian elections, examining the multifaceted barriers that impede their participation. Women's political representation in the electorate is substantial; however, their political representation in the National Assembly is alarmingly low, with only approximately 7% of women holding seats. This under-representat...
Oluwaseun Ayomipo, Joseph Ayantade, Ayobami Ojebode
Volume 23 / Issue 3 / pp. 24183-24190 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i3.31
The Police are critical to ensuring security and promoting peaceful coexistence in society, thus facilitating national development. Previous studies on police-citizens relations have focused on low levels of trust in the police, perceived ineptitude, ineffective procedural justice and police corruption. However, limited attention has been given to citizens' communication behaviours as a fundamental mechanism underlyi...
Volume 23 / Issue 2 / pp. 23810-23821 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i2.35
Postpartum care, which is generally called Omugwo has been part of the culture of man since creation. Amongst the Igbo, it is a special form of care that is given to a lady after birth. This form of care involved the family of both the wife and husband considering its deep-rooted cultural significance. This study eval-uates the nature of Omugwo amongst the Igbo people with special focus on the challenges that husband...
This paper explores how TikTok users employ the phrase Siyazidlalela (“it’s a joke”) to perpetuate gender-based bullying and digital harassment, also highlight how humour often conceals harmful behavior. Despite TikTok’s community guidelines and policies aimed at protecting users particularly women from gendered abuse, the playful framing of harassment has become widespread. The paperexamines gender-based bullying wi...
Volume 23 / Issue 3 / pp. 24060-24071 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i3.19
The Objectification Theory explicates that self-perception is relatively known to produce self-consciousness typified by habitual monitoring of the outer physical appearance. Often, people are likely to concentrate on how the body looks rather than how the person feels. In traditional rural communities, it is not known if gay men’s perception of themselves as gay, including their physical appearance, is likely to tri...
John Peter Ekerete, Kazeem Oyedele Lamidi, Costa Hofisi
Volume 23 / Issue 2 / pp. 23777-23798 / DOI 10.4314/gab.v23i2.33
This paper examines the impact of anti-smuggling activities on border development in Nigeria, focusing on security, economic growth, and socio-political stability. While anti-smuggling operations aim to curb illicit trade and enforce legal compliance, they have significantly influenced border communities’ liveli-hoods. It addresses a pressing issue in Nigeria’s economic and security landscape—smuggling—by examining t...
