- Volume 13, Number 1 (2025)
COLONIAL SHADOWS IN GLOBAL HEALTH REPORTING: THE CASE OF MONKEYPOX AND AFRICAN REPRESENTATION
Michael Peterson Jonathan
This paper examines how the international media reporting on the monkeypox epidemic reinforces stereotypes about Africa and what this means for Africa in global power relations. How European and Western media depict Africa in their reporting of an epidemic creates and reinforces power dynamics and political bias along the lines of Africa being portrayed as a diseased-poor continent. The effect of these global inequalities is evident in the travel ban policies and the unequal distribution of vaccines. The concepts of hegemony, stigma, and labeling theory were used as theoretical approaches to analyze how foreign media hegemony creates and reinforces stereotypes...
FDI AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN RWANDA: AN ANALYSIS OF RECENT TRENDS
Marie-Claire Uwase Mugiraneza
This study is intended to assess the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Rwandan economic growth, such determinants are gross domestic saving, population, and gross domestic product and to confirm if it has an impact on Rwandan economic growth. To achieve this study a multivariate time series analysis was used to analyze the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on economic growth. In this study, diagnostic tests and the results confirmed (proved) that the model was good and the results from the tests suggest that the variables were not seriously affected by heteroskedasticity and serial correlation problems. The results showed a...
ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION AND ITS EFFECT ON NEW BUSINESS VENTURES: INSIGHTS FROM EBONYI STATE UNIVERSITY (2014–2020)
Chukwuebuka Michael Nwosu
This study is on entrepreneurship education and new business creation among Ebonyi State University Graduates (2014-2020). 2014 was used as the base year because it was in 2014 that the University started offering entrepreneurship courses with emphasis on the development of entrepreneurship competencies, acquisition of entrepreneurship skills and development of entrepreneurship attitude. Specific objectives of the study were to determine the degree to which development of entrepreneurship competencies, entrepreneurship skills, and improvement of entrepreneurship attitude affect new business creation among Ebonyi State University Graduates. It was survey research that used a sample size of 392 from a population of 21,120....