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Item Sierra Leone: A Political History by David Harris London: Hurst, 2013. Pp. 232. £19·99 (pbk)(Cambridge University Press, 2014-04-30) Richards, Paul M.Item Health-care availability, preference, and distance for women in urban Bo, Sierra Leone(Springer Science+Business Media, 2016-03-30) Fleming, Lila CObjectives To examine the diversity of the health-care providers in urban Bo, Sierra Leone, identify the types of health-care facilities preferred by women for fevers, and analyze the road network distances from homes to preferred health-care providers. Methods A population-based random sampling method was used to recruit 2419 women from Bo. A geographic information system was used to measure the road distance from each woman's home to her preferred provider. Results Preferred health-care providers for acute febrile illnesses (commonly referred to as "malaria" in the study communities) were hospitals (62.3 %), clinics (12.6 %), and pharmacies (12.4 %). Participants lived a median distance of 0.6 km from the nearest provider, but on average each woman lived 2.2 km one-way from her preferred provider. Women living farther from the city center had preferred providers significantly farther from home than women living downtown. Conclusions The diverse health-care marketplace in Bo allows women to select clinical facilities from across the city. Most women prefer a malaria care provider farther from home than they could comfortably walk when ill.Item The empirical evidence of corporate tax impact on private investment of developing countries using Ghana as a case study(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2019-02-22) Senzu, Emmanuel TweneboahUnderstanding and appreciating the crucial role privates’ investment plays in developing economies towards it sustainable growth, it became an imperative assignment to investigate the effect of corporate taxes and it impacts on privates’ Investment in developing countries, but focused the study on Ghana for the hypothetical test. For this very reason, the study sort to derive a cogent argument between corporate tax and it impacts on private investment including controllable variables like real GDP, Inflation estimated under consumer price index, exchange rate measured nominally, government expenditure and finally domestic credits as a vector indicators using Johansen approach to co-integration.Item THE COMPLEMENTARY ROLE OF NON-BANK FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (NBFIS) IN SIERRA LEONE FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION SPACE: A CASE STUDY OF NATIONAL CORPORATIVE DEVELOPMENT BANK, SIERRA LEONE(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2015-04-04) Kabia, Allieu BadaraIn the past, little or no attention was directed to the informal sector in the development agenda in Sierra Leone. The inability of the formal sector to absorb all the available resources in the country has led to the rapid growth of the neglected informal sector. The aim of this research is to assess and evaluate the role played by the National Cooperative Development Bank as a Non-Bank Financial Microfinance Institution in providing financial services to class of economically poor people in the Western Area whom hitherto were been neglected by the formal sector. A sample of 30 “Barrays” with each constituting 5 members totaling to 150 respondents were thoroughly investigated 2001 to 2005. The OLS econometrics estimation technique was used to analyse the data employing a Probit Regression model. The result reveals that the probability of access to credit is increased if the individual is a; trader, self employed, widow and with increases in the initial amount deposited which was used as a proxyItem Elementary forms of war: Performative aspects of youth militia in sierra leone(2013-11-01) Richards, Paul M.Item A matter of grave concern? Charles Jedrej's work on Mende sodalities, and the Ebola crisis(Taylor & Francis, 2015-11-13) Richards, Paul M.Charles Jedrej's corpus of published work contains several papers on the Mende women's sodality, Sande. His analysis was that Sande mobilizes power (hale) to dissolve cultural complexity into its elementary form, so that causes of social confusion can then be ‘pulled’. By focusing on the ritual mechanisms involved, Jedrej found that collective representations could be reformulated and strengthened through the ideational momentum generated by ritual practices within the sanctity of the secret cult. In effect, Jedrej argued that sodalities do not perpetuate fixed traditions, but are a means through which social change can occur. His work thus anticipates more recent (neo-Durkheimian) accounts of ritual-based ‘models’ of social dynamics. The present paper provides a contextualization and restatement of Jedrej's argument, and then considers how his insights might be useful in addressing challenges of behaviour change posed by the 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in Upper West Africa, especially in regard to funeral practices for society elders, deemed by some authorities to be a major ‘motor’ of epidemic spread.Item Not All Is Markets(Springer Nature, 2018) Bulte, ErwinItem Athletes Abstinence Knowledge from Eating Disorders like Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Binge Eating Disorder (BED), as Health Education Method in Decreasing Unhealthy Ageing with Reference to Physical and Mental Health(2017-06-01) Joseph, Bebeley Samuel**Aim:** The objective of this study was to point out abstinence knowledge in decreasing unhealthy ageing with reference to physical and mental health, with justification to evaluate athlete's abstinence knowledge from eating disorders like Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Binge Eating Disorder (BED) as health education method in decreasing unhealthy ageing with reference to physical and mental health among athletes at Njala Campus.Method: Behavioral Health Risk Modified Survey Questionnaire (BHRMSQ) was the research instrument for the survey.The variables of the findings were proved at level of significance p<0.05 through an inferential statistical instrument called Dependent t-test (t).The researchers interviewed mainly undergraduate athletes with an average number of one hundred and fifty (n=150), of which 37% (n=55) female and 63% (n=95) male, were selected using the stratified random sampling.Also stratified were 43.2% (n=65) from the School of Agriculture-to-Environmental Science; 57% (n=85) from the School of Education-to-Technology; 83 % (n=125) from level (100-to-200); 17% (n=25) from level (300-to-400); 60% (n=90) within the age circle of (18-to-25); 40% (n=60) within the age circle of (26-to-30+) in years.Results: Analysis shows negative skewedness in all three variables as placed in tabulated values (t-scores of 0.237, 0.452 and 0.318)of 5, 7 and 9 when proved at p < 0.05.Conclusion: The findings demonstrated that majority of athletes' lack abstinence knowledge from eating disorders like Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Binge Eating Disorder (BED) regarding health education method in decreasing unhealthy ageing with reference to physical and mental health among athletes at Njala Campus.Item The Impact of Motivation on Pupils’ Academic Achievement and Learning Outcomes in Mathematics among Secondary Schools in Sierra Leone: A Case Study Kori Chiefdom, Moyamba District Southern Sierra Leone(Global Society of Scientific Research and Researchers, 2015-09-20) Gegbe, BrimaMotivation can be viewed as an internal state arouses, direct, and maintains behavior. This simply means motivation is a reason of students’ thinking in a given situation . Mathematics teachers should wisely utilize available learning resources to enhance positive motivation, reinforce neutral motivation, if any, and neutralize any negative attitudes towards learning and performance in mathematics. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of motivation on pupils’ academic achievement and learning outcomes in mathematics among secondary school pupils in Njala and Taiama kori chiefdoms Moyamba district. A total of 100 questionnaires were administered in the four schools and twenty five questionnaires from each school. Data was collected using Mathematics academic performance Questionnaires (MAPQ) for students and analyzed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings show the major problem face by students in learning mathematics is the language used by the teachers and inadequate mathematics textbooks and learning resources.Item Unintended consequences of the ‘bushmeat ban’ in West Africa during the 2013–2016 Ebola virus disease epidemic(Elsevier BV, 2018-01-31) Bonwitt, JesseFollowing the 2013-2016 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa, governments across the region imposed a ban on the hunting and consumption of meat from wild animals. This injunction was accompanied by public health messages emphasising the infectious potential of wild meat, or 'bushmeat.' Using qualitative methods, we examine the local reception and impact of these interventions. Fieldwork was focused in 9 villages in the Eastern and Southern provinces of Sierra Leone between August and December 2015. We conducted 47 semi-structured interviews, coordinated 12 informal group discussions, and conducted direct observations throughout. We also draw from research undertaken in Sierra Leone immediately before the outbreak, and from our participation in the EVD response in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Our findings underscore the social and political reverberations of hunting proscriptions. Messaging that unilaterally stressed the health risk posed by wild meat contradicted the experiences of target publics, who consume wild meat without incident. This epistemic dissonance radically undercut the effectiveness of the ban, which merely served to proliferate informal networks of wild animal trade and sale-rendering the development of acceptable, evidence-based surveillance and mitigation strategies for zoonotic spillovers almost impossible. Further, the criminalisation of wild meat consumption fuelled fears and rumours within communities under considerable strain from the health, social, and economic effects of the epidemic, entrenching distrust towards outbreak responders and exacerbating pre-existing tensions within villages. These unintended consequences are instructive for public health emergency response and preparedness. While wild meat is a risk for zoonotic infection, mitigating those risks entails interventions that fully take into account the local significances of hunting-including a communicative engagement that is designed, validated, and continually refined before emergency situations. Ultimately, our research questions the value of legal sanctions as a means of behavioural change in an emergency context.