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Indigenous Language Media, Communication, and Sickle Cell Disorder: Peculiarities of Indigenous Language Media in Tackling Misconceptions of Sickle Cell Disorder
Abstract
The importance of health communication and information cannot be over emphasized especially with issues related to sickle cell disorder. Sickle cell disorder, common among Africans, has a lot of myths and misconceptions tied to it, so this chapter unearths and explores how indigenous communication can facilitate learning and understanding of the disorder majorly in rural areas and some urban areas where knowledge of the disorder is assessed low using the focus group discussion. It also reveals the importance of incorporating indigenous language and communication techniques in increasing awareness and eradicating stereotypes as regards sickle cell disorder. The findings of this chapter reflect that misinformation occurs due to lack of proper understanding of language used in sickle cell health communication-related issues. Hence, this chapter proposes that health education about the concept of SCD should be executed majorly in indigenous languages and through the indigenous media platforms.
... The improper understanding of the language creates a chaos between the health care seeker and the health functionaries, often leading to delusion of the problems. 42 ...
This review article focuses on community barriers among tribes living in different parts of rural regions in India and placed to find out the possible resolution/passion. The access to health care services has a very low coverage in rural region of the country especially in tribal communities. A systematic search was covered since last two decades from 2000 to 2020 of articles were extracted from Google Scholar, PubMed, Science Direct, JSTOR, WHO portal, Research Gate, Census 2011, etc. The health indicators of tribes were originated alarming status quo as widely held malnourished and sufferer from different disease and illness. Findings towards accessing quality health care services revealed that difficult geographical situation, communication in own language, financial constraint, low level of education, illiteracy, approaching traditional medicine and ancient culture as community barriers were remained constant. Low level of education, strong cultural believes and traditional culture norms are the strongest community barriers reflected their self-decision-making for not accessing the modern health care facility. An approach as creating effective awareness in harmonic way could be useful for bridging the gaps by involving existing medical resources and staffs, which can play a critical role in reducing the barriers. Thus, review findings suggest the need for implementing awareness programs can divert towards quality health care and thereby can “connect the unconnected” to stay healthy.
In this paper, the researchers look at the uniqueness of indigenous language and how figurative language is used to communicate meaning in telecommunication Yoruba advertisements. There are four major telecommunication operators in Nigeria- MTN, Airtel, GLO and 9 mobile. The highest two operators with active subscribers-MTN and Airtel were chosen for this study. All MTN Yoruba advertisements and all airtel Yoruba advertisements were the population of the study. Through random sampling, MTN Smart Recharge advertisement and Airtel Goody bag advertisement were the sample. The qualitative textual analysis was employed to examine the figurative languages used in MTN Smart Recharge Yoruba advertisement and Airtel Goody bag Yoruba advertisement. The researchers found that 12 figurative languages were used and described in 25 presentations (Metaphor, allusion, symbolism, eulogy, sarcasm, pun, anaphora, repetition, hyperbole, simile, alliteration, rhetorical question) in the two selected advertisements. We, therefore, recommend among others that advertisers, not just telecommunication companies should pay serious attention to the use of figurative language that can attract the audience to their services and show the uniqueness of indigenous language.
Background: The use of multi-sectoral communication on human’s handling processes of environment is not popular in the literature as crucial factor in winning the war against climate change and its attendant problems of greenhouse pollution, global warming and destruction of lives and properties. Objective: The study investigates the practices surrounding climate change and its awareness in Ado Odo/Ota local government of Ogun State. Methods: The survey data obtained from randomly selected 970 residents in Ado Odo/Ota local government was complimented with six key indepth interview with opinion leaders. Results: The findings show that the current behaviours surrounding climate change in the study location includes burning of waste and bush (41.1%), %), indiscriminate disposal of waste (18.1%), and the use of kerosene (45.4%), fire wood (6.4%) and coal for domestic purposes (3.3%). Conclusion: The study recommends multi-sectoral communication strategy (MCS) and the use of television for effective climate change awareness campaign for behaviour medication. © 2018, Union for African Population Studies. All rights reserved.
The paper examines the Yourba people, their history, their language and the geography of their location, Essentially, too, the paper attempts a study of the newspapers published in the language of the Yoruba. In specific terms, it considers the origin, the nature, the operations, the impact, the problems and the prospects of the newspapers. Iwe Irohin Fun Awon Ara Egba ati Yoruba was the first Yoruba newspaper. It existed for eight years between December 3, 1959 and October 13, 1867. Among the Yoruba newspapers existing now, Irohin Yoruba, said to be a re-incarnation of Iwe Irohin, is the oldest. It was founded in 1945 by the Allied Newspapers of Nigeria Limited. As at present, it is under the management of African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc. Other existing Yoruba newspapers include Alaroye, Akede Agbaye, Alaye and Ajoro. Yoruba newspapers are mostly weeklies. They are very generous in the choice of point size of their story headlines, most especially, when they come either on the front or back pages. The newspapers are packaged like tabloid newspaper-magazine. Their headlines are, usually, dramatic in tone. A major problem confronting Yoruba newspapers in the non-challant attitude of the educated Yoruba elites. This has robbed Yoruba newspapers of the kind of patronage, recognition and respect enjoyed by newspapers published in English Language.
This paper takes into account the exceptionality of the socioeconomic characteristics (age, income, education, marital status, occupation) of female participation in politics through the use of indigenous communication. The theory was laid on democratic-participant theory. Four communities were selected in Lagos and Ogun states. Survey design, Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and in-depth interviews (IDI) were adopted to generate both quantitative and qualitative data for the study. Structured and semi structured copies of the questionnaire were administered on 800 purposively selected respondents but only 775 copies of the questionnaire were used for analysis. Four (4) focus group discussions, made up of 8 purposively selected discussants each took place in four communities. Four purposively selected participants took part in the in-depth interviews. The quantitative data were presented in tables and analysed, using percentage counts, and cross tabulation. Mean and standard deviation were used for ranking of the perception of women on the role of indigenous communication in politics. The qualitative data, on the other hand, were transcribed and analysed, adopting the constant comparative technique and thematic approach. From the findings, young women participate more in politics. On age distribution, respondents were analysed and the result reveals that 40%, were between 26-35 years, only 8.2%, were over 55 years. The age distribution reveals that over 70% of the respondents were young women. Most of the respondents in this research were between 18 and 35. Recommendation were made among others that since young female participate more in politics, leaders in the community should devise more activities to promote the participation of young women and involve them in the preparation, organisation and evaluation of such activities.
Indigenous communication systems are essential element of the socio-cultural tradition of Africans. These systems have been used to promote cooperation , mobilization and participation among African people. This paper takes into account the uniqueness of indigenous communication especially on women's political participation and was laid on two-step flow (Multi-step flow) theory. Empirical study was looked into and the researchers conclude that since indigenous communication provides women with knowledge and information on political activities at the local level, it follows that women should be trained with a view to acquiring the knowledge and know-how required for standing for elections or applying for decision-making posts.
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a major cause of death for young children in Africa, which the World Health Organization has declared a public health priority. It is increasingly spreading outside of Africa because of population migrations, and, thus, it will become in the near future a global health concern. It is therefore important to understand how this genetic disorder is maintained in human populations. Although the association between Plasmodium falciparum malaria and SCD is well known, the strength of this association is far from known. Using an extensive cohort of 3,959 persons, distributed over the entire Gabonese Republic, this study shows that P. falciparum malaria continues to exert strong selective pressure in favor of the sickle cell allele.
It is an established fact that our beliefs about what we teach influence the way we teach. That is why it is important that we, as reading educators, have a good understanding of what reading is. Our idea of reading will influence the methods we use to teach it; and this will, in turn, affect the attitude children have toward reading and the extent to which they become good readers. From our work with parents, teachers and educators in Nigeria, we have come to realize that there are misconceptions about what the reading process is and about what should be the purpose of reading instruction. For example, one popular notion of reading is that reading is pronunciation. Many teachers have the mistaken idea that once they can get their children to pronounce the words in their class texts and recite them fluently, the pupils know how to read. To many teachers the English lesson and the reading lesson are one and the same thing. As a result, many children learn to call words without understanding. Teachers and parents are surprised that although their children can pronounce words in a passage fluently, they have difficulty making sense of the passage. This has, perhaps, led to the unfortunate attempt to separate reading from comprehension. That is, there is the misconception that reading does not necessarily involve understanding although comprehension does. But the truth is that reading and comprehension mean the same thing. We are not reading unless there is comprehension or understanding. ’Reading’ that does not involve understanding is simply ‘barking at print’.