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Issues Related to Infertility in Africa: An Ethical ScanBy Joseph N. Ogar, Nwoye Leonard, Samuel Akpan Bassey
Abstract: For many individuals, having offspring is a definitive dream. Shockingly, however, for a few, the problem of infertility can be to a great degree, disastrous and annihilating to their tentative dreams. Infertility, especially within African context, is a hot matter issue and quite plaguing to social relations and marital institution. In Sub-Saharan Africa for instance, high esteem is set on children and the individuals. This has lead many in need …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Biotechnology · Vol. 8, Issue 3, 2018 · pp. 26–32 Read article →
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Developmental Democracy in Africa: A ReviewBy Samuel Akpan Bassey, Mfonobong David Udoudom
Abstract: Democracy is one of the virtues we ache for, as many now observe an undemocratic society as a savage society. Richard L. Sklar built up a hypothesis called developmental democracy in which he opines that democracy will essentially prompts the improvement of African people and states. For the most part, there has been contention whether development precedes democracy or rather democracy helps development, which is very much unclear. Regardless of …
Published in OmniScience: A Multi-disciplinary Journal · Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2018 · pp. 1–9 Read article →
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Democracy and Gasset’s ‘The Revolt of the Masses’: An ExpositionBy Samuel Akpan Bassey
Abstract: Democracy simply put, is the government of “the people”. There is no doubt that the rise of “the people” is now a principal political force in our contemporary world. Though democracy is largely celebrated today, Ortega y Gasset, in his book Revolt of the Masses thinks that it is an unfortunate incident. For him, the masses, regrettably, are vulgar. The masses are drunken by the possibilities that contemporary science has …
Published in OmniScience: A Multi-disciplinary Journal · Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 · pp. 38–45 Read article →