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This article focuses on the use of the genre of the cartoon strip to convey knowledge to the youth, about the Rwandan genocide as illustrated by Mark Njoroge Kinuthia in 100 DAYS: In the Land of the Thousand Hills (2011). The article seeks to demonstrate that cartoon strip appeals to young readers and allows transferring of knowledge through visual and verbal signs. This article uses Critical discourses analysis (CDA) to analyse the pictures. CDA pays attention to words, pictures, colour, font and all the visuals that constitute a cartoon text. This allows the readers/audiences of cartoon to emerge with multiple meanings. However, this article is confined to analysis the words of the cartoons, because the use of visuals from the book requires special permission that we were not able to secure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) may be defined as the actions of an organisation that are targeted towards achieving a social benefit over and above maximising profits for its shareholders and meeting all its legal obligations (Ghillyer 2009). This definition only scratches the surface of a very complex and often elusive topic that has presented organisations as being the image of unchecked greed. CSR is a phenomenon that is growing in prominence and popularity as organisations find themselves in the limelight due to consumer evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout the business world, leaders of the most successful firms have begun to understand the importance of analysing every activity, system and process in their operations to make absolutely sure that they function efficiently and effectively. In the course of this assignment an attempt to understand total quality management will be made, along with an examination of the different schools of thought regarding total quality management and the effect this concept has on production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of regional economic communities in the development of trade in Africa is widely recognised. Currently, intra-African trade stands at 10 per cent. This is in sharp contrast to other developing regions of the world. In Asia and Latin America, the levels of intra-trade are 50 and 26 per cent, respectively. There are a number of reasons accounting for the low level of intra-African trade, including the weak mandate given to regional economic communities to monitor and enforce the commitments assumed by countries under regional trade agreements. The lack of integration has negatively impacted on African countries and affected their ability to attract foreign direct investment commensurate with their development needs. Had African countries been less exposed to external markets, they would have been minimally affected by the global financial crisis. The importance of boosting intra-African trade was highlighted by Africa's Heads of State and Government when they devoted this year's summit to this theme. In the run-up to the summit, the African Union Commission released a study that underscored the importance of regional economic communities in the process of economic integration in Africa. Currently, SADC member states are in the process of implementing the SADC Trade Protocol, which would create a fully- ledged free trade area and later a customs union, and at the same time engaged in tripartite negotiations aimed at merging the three (SADC, COMESA and the EAC) regional configurations. They are also engaged in the EPA negotiations with the European Union, which would create a free trade area and also the Doha negotiations under the auspices of the WTO. The main objective of this article is to estimate SADC countries' bilateral trade potential, which may result in the improvements in trade facilitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]