1. INTRODUCTION: Literacy is a skill the privileged often take for granted. Education and literacy are basic factors for determination of the level of development achieved by a society. The UNESCO defines literacy as “something way beyond its conventional concept as a set of reading, writing and counting skills, literacy is now understood as a means […]
1. INTRODUCTION: Former US President Franklin D Roosevelt once remarked, “The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.”[1] The traces of democracy can, in fact, be found in some of the oldest societies. Democracy essentially means giving power to the people that it aims to govern. Over the last […]