4.3. Analysis and
interpretation of data from survey questionnaire
This section deals with the analysis and interpretation of
data collected from both qualitative and quantitative portions of the study.
Data collected was got from 720 individuals met in the four
former provinces of Rwanda and the city of Kigali. The researcher determined
the sample while basing on the socioeconomic criteria; therefore he took a
stratified sample (72 strata). In every stratum he took a sample of ten people
by purposive sampling technique.
The purpose of this study has been to test the hypotheses that
the economic development of Rwanda requires the optimism of its population and
the optimistic point of view helped the ``script-writer and drawer'' A.Z.C. to
achieve his project of CS.
Therefore, this examines the empirical evidence and
establishes the ground upon which the research hypotheses were tested to be
proved valid or otherwise before a conclusion can be drawn.
Data were analysed using simple statistical methods, frequency
tables showing response to particular questions were constructed and percentage
response to the questions calculated. Interpretation of findings was based on
percentage response to the questions.
4.3.1. Respondents' views on
reading CS
In order to be able to draw correct conclusions, firstly the
researcher asked questions to know if the respondent often reads the CS. The
answers are shown in table 4.1.
Table 4.1. Respondents' views
on reading CS
|
Respondent often reads the CS
|
Number of respondents
|
Percentages
|
|
Yes
|
106
|
14.72
|
|
No
|
614
|
85.28
|
|
Total
|
720
|
100
|
Source: Primary data.
Table 4.1 reveals that concerning the first question that was
to know if a person often reads the CS, 14.72% of the respondents gave an
affirmative answer. The 85.28% of the respondents don't often read the CS. This
is not astonishing because the country is not economically developed enough to
have artists producing sufficient CS or import them. Furthermore, the CS is
often view in Rwanda as the literature for illiterates and pre-teenagers.
For the respondents that accepted that they often read the CS,
the researcher was interested on how they acquire them. The answers are shown
in table 4.2.
Table 4.2. Respondents'
answers about how they acquire the CS they read
|
Means
|
Number of respondents
|
Percentages
|
|
Borrowing
|
101
|
95.28
|
|
Buying
|
5
|
4.72
|
|
Total
|
106
|
100
|
Source: Primary data.
Table 4.2 reveals that 95.28% of respondents find the CS in
the libraries that are in the vicinity or borrow them from their neighbors. The
4.72% that remain buy them in the bookstores.
Although a great number of respondents said that they borrow
the books from libraries, it is not easy to find a library all over the
country. Even the small number that has been accommodated for such activity is
located only in towns. Those who buy the CS, even though they are few, don't
find easily where to buy them because they are rare.
After considering that most of the respondents don't read the
CS, the researcher asks them why. The answers are shown in table 4.3.
Table 4.3. Respondents'
answers about why they don't read the CS
|
Reason
|
Number of respondents
|
Percentages
|
|
They are rare
|
219
|
35.69
|
|
They know nothing about them
|
86
|
14.01
|
|
They are childish
|
302
|
49.19
|
|
They are not interesting
|
7
|
1.11
|
|
Total
|
614
|
100
|
Source: Primary data.
Table 4.3 shows that 35.69% of the respondents said that they
like to read the CS, look for them but don't find any. The 14.01% of the
respondents don't know what the CS is. The 49.19% think that the CS is a simple
tool of entertainment intended to youth. The 1.11% simply said that the CS
doesn't have any importance for them.
All these answers enabled the researcher to conclude that the
CS are rare in general. Here, he admits that the market for the CS in Rwanda is
too small. Even though there are several people who like the CS, rare are those
who are able to buy them. The reasons of the rarity of the CS in Rwanda are
mainly the laziness and the carelessness of Rwandan artists, associated with
the disinterestedness of institutions assigned to promote the art and the
Rwandan culture.
In reality, Rwandan artists (fine-artists) prefer paintings,
which they sell to white people and other few individuals who have enough money
to purchase them, because they are luxurious. So, they don't have enough time
to make CS.
As the CS is one of the tools helping the population to attain
a certain level of development in a creative way, their achievement requires
the artist to think positively in order to clear all the obstacles shown above.
Regardless of the external situation, the artist should choose to feel good
about it and make the most of it (internal optimism about one's own
feelings).
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