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The purpose of this study was to examine the attitude to computer among Business Education students in Lagos State tertiary institutions. The effect of year of study of the Business Education students on their attitude to computer was studied. Four institutions of higher learning (two universities and two Colleges of Education) in Lagos State were selected for the study. The sample comprised of 520 Business Education students. The subjects responded to a computer attitudinal scale and a questionnaire comprising items on the biodata of respondents. The study adopted the expost-facto research approach as none of the variables was manipulated. The data collected were analysed using mean, standard deviation and ANOVA. The statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software was used to carry out the analysis. The result revealed the following: year of study had significant effect on the Business Education students' attitude to Computer. Useful recommendations as they affect government policies, delivery of Business Education in our tertiary institutions as well as Business Education students were made.

This article analyzes the impact of the legalization of traditional indigenous electoral practices known as usos y costumbres (U/C) on voting patterns in state elections in Oaxaca. The key question addressed is whether the legalization of U/C in 1995 has contributed to the persistence of PRI rule, as the PRI continues to govern Oaxaca, despite suffering significant setbacks elsewhere in Mexico during the 1990s. The author compares voting patterns in electoral contests from 1992-2001 between electoral districts with a dominance of U/C municipalities, & those in which voters select their municipal & state representatives according to the party system. This analysis shows that there is no evidence that the legalization of U/C has given the PRI an unfair advantage in state elections in Oaxaca. 5 Tables, 1 Map. Adapted from the source document.

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. The European powers that colonized much of the world over the last few hundred years created a variety of social systems in their various colonies. In Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects, Olukunle P. Owolabi explores the divergent developmental trajectories of Global South nations that were shaped by forced settlement, where European colonists imported African slaves to establish large-scale agricultural plantations, or by colonial occupation, which resulted in theexploitation of indigenous non-white populations. Owolabi shows that most forced settlement colonies emerged from European domination with higher levels of education attainment, greater postcolonial democratization, and favorable human development outcomes relative to Global South countries that emerged fromcolonial occupation after 1945. To explain this paradox, he examines the distinctive legal-administrative institutions that were used to control indigenous colonial subjects and highlights the impact of liberal reforms that expanded the legal rights and political agency of former slaves following abolition. Spanning three centuries of colonial history and postcolonial development, this is the first book to systematically examine the distinctive patterns of state-building that resulted fromforced settlement and colonial occupation in the Black Atlantic world

In this book, Olukunle Olowabi explores the divergent developmental consequences of nations in the Global South that were shaped on the one hand by forced settlement, where European colonists established large-scale agricultural plantations with enslaved African labour, and on the other by colonial occupation. He shows that most forced settlement colonies emerged from European domination with higher levels of education attainment, greater postcolonial democratization, and favourable human development outcomes relative to Global South countries that emerged from colonial occupation after 1945.

Intellectual vitality of the Arabic culture came into stagnation through the close of the 18th century. However, the beginning of the 19th century potrayed the rebirth of the Arabic culture seen first in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, from where it spread gradually in varying degrees to other parts of the Arab world. This cultural resurgence with its full import of the Arab Muslim society especially in Africa has prompted the rise in Arab national consciousness (nationalism) as well as religious (Islamic) reawakening, which have a wonderful over effect on the contemporary World Order. The methodology adopted in this paper was document review. This paper tried to investigate the gradual process of the Arabic cultural resurgence, which has found expression in the shifting paradigm of Arabic literary works of some literati and religious revivalism in Africa. In fact, it is noticed that Arabism has been an integral part of Islam; the activities of the nationalist movement and that of Islamic reformers have political and cultural consequences in the modern world.