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Cover And Table Of Contents, Institute On African Affairs May 2025

Cover And Table Of Contents, Institute On African Affairs

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.


Secessionism In Africa, Edmond J. Keller May 2025

Secessionism In Africa, Edmond J. Keller

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.


Finance For Development And Developing Countries: The Preconditions Revisited, David E. Amadasu May 2025

Finance For Development And Developing Countries: The Preconditions Revisited, David E. Amadasu

Journal of African Policy Studies

Increasing the rate of inputs- private foreign direct investments to accelerate development in LDCs or developing countries has not been attained over the years. The reason is that more poverty stares the faces of the people in these countries. This is the problem. The literature has said that accelerating development through the rate of inputs has preconditions of friendly environment, sound macroeconomic policies, absorptive capacity, competitiveness of the market, capital accumulation, technology assistance, etc, for private investment to strive. But the situation has not changed much. Do we not need to revisit the preconditions? Consider the non-economic, i.e., personality traits, …


Population Increase, Environment, Food Access And Development In Africa: The Role Of The African Union, Amado J. Kaba May 2025

Population Increase, Environment, Food Access And Development In Africa: The Role Of The African Union, Amado J. Kaba

Journal of African Policy Studies

This paper examines the impact of the massive population increase in Africa in the post World War II era and the environmental challenges the continent confronts in trying to feed such a high number of people. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section examines the demographics of Africa, which show that the continent has increased its total population by 750 million people from 1950 to 2008. The second section of this paper then presents arguments by scholars pertaining to the environmental challenges, especially for agriculture, facing Africa as it finds ways to feed this massive number of …


Pathologies In De-Bureaucratic Public Organizations In Nigeria, Joseph E. Imhanlahimi May 2025

Pathologies In De-Bureaucratic Public Organizations In Nigeria, Joseph E. Imhanlahimi

Journal of African Policy Studies

Because of the nouveau and rapidly growing interests in, and acceptance of, de-bureaucratization (popularly called "deregulation" in Nigeria), as a more attractive organization concept than bureaucratization, the central concern of this paper is an identification and objective analysis of bureau-pathologies in de-bureaucratic public organizations in Nigeria, in response to those of bureaucratic organizations which have already been analysed in the literature. The major and prevalent bureau-pathologies identified and analyzed are inconsistency and unpredictability, informality and denials, unlimited or uncircumscribed flexibility, personalization, limitation of de-categorization, laziness, and goal displacement. Their effects can be summarized as the prevalence of worrying degree of …


Cover And Table Of Contents, Institute On African Affairs May 2025

Cover And Table Of Contents, Institute On African Affairs

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.


Economic Growth And Exchange Rate In Sierra Leone: An Empirical Investigation, Abu Bakarr Tarawalie, Oluwole Owoye May 2025

Economic Growth And Exchange Rate In Sierra Leone: An Empirical Investigation, Abu Bakarr Tarawalie, Oluwole Owoye

Journal of African Policy Studies

This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and exchange rate in Sierra Leone for the period 1970-2005. We followed the lead of Edwards (1989, 1988) and Elbadawi (1994) within an error-correction model (ECM) to identify the determinants of the real effective exchange rate, and we specified a real output growth equation to capture not only the effect of real effective exchange rate on real GDP growth, but also to establish the relative effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy on real output growth during the review period. Our empirical results suggest that the terms of trade, nominal exchange rate devaluation, …


From Importer To Exporter: The Changing Role Of Nigeria In Promoting Democratic Values In Africa, J. Shola Omotola May 2025

From Importer To Exporter: The Changing Role Of Nigeria In Promoting Democratic Values In Africa, J. Shola Omotola

Journal of African Policy Studies

This paper takes a critical look at Nigeria's changing role in the promotion of democratic values in Africa since its return to democracy in 1999. The paper argues that the changing role of Nigeria from an importer to an exporter of democracy can be understood in terms of the global wind of change; Nigeria's African centre-piece policy; perception of threats to its leadership position in Africa especially from South Africa; and the personality of Obasanjo given his international credentials and stature. The paper however notes that inherent contradictions in the domestic political economy such as nsmg poverty, inequality and politics …


Information, Public Policy Analysis And Sustainable Development In Nigeria, Joseph E. Imhanlahimi, M. O. Ikeanyibe May 2025

Information, Public Policy Analysis And Sustainable Development In Nigeria, Joseph E. Imhanlahimi, M. O. Ikeanyibe

Journal of African Policy Studies

Information and public policy analysis are critical factors in adequate public policy formulation, implementation and evaluation if the public good is to be achieved in Nigeria. This paper has carried out a critical examination of the interface between information and the public policy process and the effect on public policy analysis and has found that there is a crucial interrelationship among them in order to promote sustainable development. The paper found that the interrelationship is however, seriously interfered with or obstructed by a variety of dominant constraints. The constraints include inadequate human capital, financial resources, large-scale secrecy in government business, …


Cover And Table Of Contents, Institute On African Affairs May 2025

Cover And Table Of Contents, Institute On African Affairs

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.


The Problems Of Financing Library Services, David E. Amadasu, Matilda Ebahi Amadasu May 2025

The Problems Of Financing Library Services, David E. Amadasu, Matilda Ebahi Amadasu

Journal of African Policy Studies

Funding of libraries is a problem whether in Nigeria or anywhere in the world. The reason is that libraries are relegated to the background economically or otherwise when competing with facilities or products for limited budget or financial resources. More importantly is the fact that library service is incorporeal and cannot stand political selection. The library service does not enjoy the status of economic or private goods susceptible to price or excludability and public or social goods for which price cannot exclude users. This is the significance of library service or circulation and should therefore attract or enjoy enough budgetary …


Of Corruption And Anti-Corruption Strategies In Nigeria: The More You Look The Less You See, Sylvester Olubani Fajonyomi May 2025

Of Corruption And Anti-Corruption Strategies In Nigeria: The More You Look The Less You See, Sylvester Olubani Fajonyomi

Journal of African Policy Studies

This statement from the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria reflects the outcome of the regime's efforts at fighting corruption in its first four years (1999-2003) in office: "Some members of the Nigerian public have expressed their opinion to the effect (that) our anti-corruption crusade in the last four years has been deficient in credibility because it appeared to lack the support of the Federal Executive Council who only rarely expressed their support in public. The situation has to change with the new cabinet. Each and every one of you must do more than give a nodding support for …


The Wheel Of Fire: An Obsessive-Compulsive Reading Of Frodo Baggins, Andreas J.W. Minshew May 2025

The Wheel Of Fire: An Obsessive-Compulsive Reading Of Frodo Baggins, Andreas J.W. Minshew

Journal of Tolkien Research

Although addiction has been the main psychological framework for understanding the Ring’s influence, it does not fully capture Frodo’s inner conflict. This paper argues that an obsessive-compulsive reading accounts for his ego-dystonic relationship with the Ring and his lack of an initial period of using it for pleasure, both of which differentiate his experience from other Ringbearers. This reading, rather than in opposition to addictive or post-traumatic frameworks, can coexist with both to bring added nuance to how readers and scholars understand Frodo’s experience.


Contributors & Acknowledgements May 2025

Contributors & Acknowledgements

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Consultation & Writer Reflections On Hrdy And Wrangham: What Erectus Says About Us, Eva Altizer, Emma Dorobiala May 2025

Consultation & Writer Reflections On Hrdy And Wrangham: What Erectus Says About Us, Eva Altizer, Emma Dorobiala

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Hrdy And Wrangham: What Erectus Says About Us, Eva Altizer May 2025

Hrdy And Wrangham: What Erectus Says About Us, Eva Altizer

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Consultation & Writer Reflections On Memory Wars: Korean Popular Culture And The Politics Of Historical Justice With Japan, Grace Lee, Charlie Stocker May 2025

Consultation & Writer Reflections On Memory Wars: Korean Popular Culture And The Politics Of Historical Justice With Japan, Grace Lee, Charlie Stocker

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Memory Wars: Korean Popular Culture And The Politics Of Historical Justice With Japan, Grace Lee May 2025

Memory Wars: Korean Popular Culture And The Politics Of Historical Justice With Japan, Grace Lee

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Consultation & Writer Reflections On Algorithms Of Destruction: Examining Israel’S Ai-Powered Military Response In Gaza, Hayley Shay May 2025

Consultation & Writer Reflections On Algorithms Of Destruction: Examining Israel’S Ai-Powered Military Response In Gaza, Hayley Shay

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Algorithms Of Destruction: Examining Israel’S Ai-Powered Military Response In Gaza, Hayley Shay May 2025

Algorithms Of Destruction: Examining Israel’S Ai-Powered Military Response In Gaza, Hayley Shay

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Consultant & Writer Reflections On Representation Of Blackness In Insecure By Issa Rae, Cameryn Polk, Tenzin Kunga May 2025

Consultant & Writer Reflections On Representation Of Blackness In Insecure By Issa Rae, Cameryn Polk, Tenzin Kunga

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Representation Of Blackness In Insecure By Issa Rae, Cameryn Polk May 2025

Representation Of Blackness In Insecure By Issa Rae, Cameryn Polk

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Consultant & Writer Reflections On Beyond The Screen: A Critique Of Haidt’S Phone-Based Childhood Narrative, Nhat Linh Dang, Estan Rodriguez May 2025

Consultant & Writer Reflections On Beyond The Screen: A Critique Of Haidt’S Phone-Based Childhood Narrative, Nhat Linh Dang, Estan Rodriguez

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Front Matter May 2025

Front Matter

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Screen: A Critique Of Haidt’S Phone-Based Childhood Narrative, Nhat Linh Dang May 2025

Beyond The Screen: A Critique Of Haidt’S Phone-Based Childhood Narrative, Nhat Linh Dang

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


Prologue Vol. 16 May 2025

Prologue Vol. 16

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.


The Call, May 2025, Lindenwood University May 2025

The Call, May 2025, Lindenwood University

The Call

The Call is an electronic newsletter produced by the Lindenwood College of Arts and Humanities.


Webdesign Jayasaintfrances.Com, Taylor Mcauliffe May 2025

Webdesign Jayasaintfrances.Com, Taylor Mcauliffe

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Shakespeare’S Murderous World: Not A Doomed Reality, Afton Fay May 2025

Shakespeare’S Murderous World: Not A Doomed Reality, Afton Fay

The Criterion

No abstract provided.


From Relic To Wreath: Investigating Victorian Hair Art, Ella Kauffman May 2025

From Relic To Wreath: Investigating Victorian Hair Art, Ella Kauffman

Senior Seminars and Capstones

Museum patrons often felt disgust and awe after I would tell them what the intricate wreaths in front of them were made of when I gave tours at the Crow Wing County Historical Society. Hair art was popular in the United States and Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with its peak occurring between the 1860s and 1900.1 Despite its popularity, it is not often discussed at length in fields that study Victorian artwork or bodily artwork. Many Victorian scholars were entirely put off by the medium because of the morbidity, and the practice is often dismissed as a …