This article examines how Nigeria’s core values are being redefined in the face of the new media and cultural globalisation era; it identifies Nigeria’s core values to include age, greeting, dressing, among others. The questionnaire was used as an instrument to elicit data from the sampled population (Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State). Findings show that the Internet, especially...

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has become a test case of the effects of globalisation, in that it demonstrates how international processes may affect regional life situations and how 'the local' can simultaneously develop in its own way, through the processes of appropriating, modifying, and resisting global influences. Drawing on fieldwork in Tanzania, I show how the Luo in the Mara region de...

Globalisation is ambivalent. On the one hand, it brings prosperity, comfort and convenience in the form of economic growth, technological advancement, more open and democratic governance, and so forth. On the other hand, there are vast amounts of casualties from its progress, which only benefits some groups or countries. Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in Indonesia have established themselv...

‘Globalisation’ is a rag-bag, but the ‘anti-globalisation’ movement – a combination of trade union protectionists, passionate environmentalists, Third-World sympathisers, and antinomian activists who substitute ‘globalisation’ for the earlier ‘capitalism’ and ‘multinational corporations’ – is proving to be a force not lightly dismissed. Organisations like the World Bank, the UK’s Department for...

In this paper the concepts of content management and cross-cultural communication are combined under the perspective of translation resources. Global content management becomes an integrative paradigm in which specialised translation is taking place. In a case study we discuss the Global Content Management strategy of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna. Convergence o...