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Smart, Kirsten. "National consciousness in Postcolonial Nigerian children's literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22880.

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This project highlights the role of locally produced children's written literature for ages six to fourteen in postcolonial Nigeria as a catalyst for national transformation in the wake of colonial rule. My objective is to reveal the perceived possibilities and pitfalls contained in Nigerian children's literature (specifically books published between 1960 and 1990), for the promotion of a new national consciousness through the reintegration of traditional values into a contemporary context. To do this, I draw together children's literature written by Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi and Mabel Se

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Mgbeadichie, Chike Francis. "The critical concept of Afrocentrism in Nigerian literature." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/21088.

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Since the early 1960s, Afrocentrism has been developed as a theory that resists forms of marginalisation of African peoples, places African culture at the centre of inquiry, and promotes African peoples as subjects rather than objects of humanity. However, as this thesis sets out to show, this theory has gained more ground as an anti-Eurocentric theory that liberates Africans from the margins of western domination and colonization. This project intends to challenge this limited critique of Afrocentrism. In ‘Afrocentrism: The Argument We’re Really Having’ [American Historical Review, 30 (1996),

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Ozumba, Kachi A. "Incarceration in Nigerian and British literature : creative and critical works." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539082.

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Ney, Stephen. "Ancestor, book, church : how Nigerian literature responds to the missionary encounter." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26235.

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Ancestor, Book, Church reinserts into Nigerian literary history the texts generated by the nineteenth-century Anglican missionary incursion into Yorubaland, in the southwest of today’s Nigeria. I demonstrate how these early texts – in Yoruba and in English, written by Europeans and by Africans – and the histories and modes of thought that they reflect can be used as resources for understanding contemporary African literatures. Thus I argue against those who would dismiss the missionary text as absolutely foreign to and the missionary encounter as strictly an interruption of an “authentic” Afri

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Sáes, Stela. "Chinua Achebe e Castro Soromenho: compromisso político e consciência histórica em perspectivas literárias." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-13022017-140542/.

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No exercício de comparativismo literário entre as obras Things fall apart, do escritor nigeriano Chinua Achebe (1958), e Terra morta, do angolano Castro Soromenho (1949), é possível estabelecer aproximações e distanciamentos que dialogam entre si e podem trazer reflexões relevantes para o estudo das literaturas africanas. Enquanto a primeira oferece uma visão inédita a respeito do funcionamento interno da sociedade Ibo na Nigéria diante da situação colonial, a segunda transparece as frágeis relações dos colonos portugueses nas instituições políticas, econômicas e sociais do império na região d

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Carbonieri, Divanize. "Hibridismo e simultaneidade no romance \'The famished road\', de Ben Okri." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-08112007-144812/.

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No romance The Famished Road (1991), o autor nigeriano Ben Okri dá uma nova dimensão à figura da criança-espírito ou abiku, que é um motivo recorrente entre os iorubás e em diversas outras culturas da África ocidental. Como um fenômeno da crença dessas culturas, o abiku é um tema característico da narrativa oral africana, tendo sido usado também em várias obras da literatura africana de língua inglesa. Okri realiza, contudo, uma inovação ao transformar o abiku no narrador de seu romance. Uma vez que essa criatura é um in between, vivendo permanentemente na intersecção entre o mundo dos vivos e

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Raji, Moshood Gbola Adeniyi. "A modern trend in Nigerian Arabic literature : the contribution of 'Umar Ibrahim." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1986. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29399/.

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This thesis is a research into the growth in Nigeria of Modern Arabic Literature, from the impact of modern secular thought on the medieval Arabic-Islamic literary tradition. In chapter one the spread to Nigeria of Islam and the growth within its cultural context of Arabic literature are discussed in the light of the classical Arabic literary theory. Cultivated as an integral part of Islamic traditional sciences, Arabic literature throughout its development in Nigeria had remained the function of Islamic religion. All the literary men were essentially Muslim jurists (al-fuqaha') writing in a s

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Asagba, O. A. "Festival drama : Aspects of continuity and change in contemporary Nigerian theatre." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372955.

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Bonson, Anita M. J. "The concept of development in adult education literature : Nigerian and Jamaican perspectives, 1976-1986." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28151.

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Over the last few decades, adult education literature has indicated an increasing interest in the topic of national development. However, in general this literature's conceptualization of "development" is unclear, since it rarely analyses the concept within any explicit frameworks. One purpose of this study was therefore to bring more clarity to the discussion of development as it relates to adult education. An examination of literature on development thought and on the development/education relationship indicated some reflection by the latter of shifts in development perspectives, though the

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McCabe, Douglas Anthony. "'Born-to-die' : the history and politics of abiku and ogbanje in Nigerian literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406992.

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Yerimah, Ahmed Parker. "Changes in the Nigerian theatre, with special attention to four post-Soyinkan playwrights." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1986. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/7cd5ae30-676d-4de8-b07d-9e1c09efdd55/1/.

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The thesis examines the main conventions governing traditional Nigerian entertainment and the development of these conventions under influences from Western drama. Wole Soyinka's development of these conventions is considered along with his influence on present day play-wrights. The main section of the thesis is concerned with the further evolution of Nigerian theatrical conventions by four playwrights; Zulu Soiola, Wale Ogunyemi, Femi Osofisan and Bode Sowande. The discussion is presented in three parts. In the first chapter, there is a recapitulation and evaluation of the conventions which e

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Ette, Mercy. "Does the Nigerian press support democracy? : an analysis of press coverage of political transition programmes." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268648.

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Smit, Willem Jacobus. "Becoming the third generation: negotiating modern selves in Nigerian Bildungsromane of the 21st century." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2335.

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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABTRACT: In recent years, original and exciting developments have been taking place in Nigerian literature. This new body of literature, collectively referred to as the ―third generation‖, has lately received international acclaim. In this emergent literature, the negotiation of a new, contemporary identity has become a central focus. At the same time, recent Nigerian literary texts are articulating responses to various developments in the Nigerian nation: Nigeria‘s current political and socio-economic situation, diverse forms

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Abatan, Adetutu Abosede. "Cultural perspectives and adolescent concerns in Nigerian young adult novels." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40308.

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Multicultural literature is a very important tool in today's classrooms because it enables teachers and students to learn about the practices, historical background for attitudes, norms and customs of other cultures and peoples.<br>Ph. D.

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Malam, M. N. "On the establishment of a new information order in Africa : a study of PANA, Nigerian newspapers and journalists." Thesis, City, University of London, 1993. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17611/.

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The global information and Communications debate has not only grown in importance but has also carved out a new area of international relations and study, i.e information diplomacy. In the past most attention and studies have been devoted to the imbalance in the flow of news, data and information between Western nations (considered as the most information developed) and the Third World (regarded as less information developed) • However, this study attempts to argue that information imbalance and inequality within and between the Africa and the Western countries is not only an external problem

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Weaver, Kristina N. "Sayling, stories from the mothership: narrating political geographies of Nigerian campus cultism." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1512/.

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"Sayling, Stories from the Mothership" is a collection of ethnographic fictions ? short stories ? adapted from notes, archival materials, and interviews compiled over a year of geographic fieldwork in southwestern Nigeria. Touching on a wide range of themes, from domesticity to internet fraud, the stories explore the interface of occult violence and youth politics in the contemporary period. They are connected through overlapping characters and through their relationships to a central geography: the University of Ibadan (UI), Nigeria?s oldest and most prestigious institute of higher education

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De, La Cruz-Guzman Marlene. "Of Masquerading and Weaving Tales of Empowerment: Gender, Composite Consciousness, and Culture-Specificity in the Early Novels of Sefi Atta and Laila Lalami." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417002139.

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Aghoghovwia, Philip Onoriode. "Ecocriticism and the oil encounter : readings from the Niger Delta." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86488.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study seeks to understand the ways that environmental concerns and the phenomenon of oil production in the Niger Delta are captured in contemporary literary representations. In the thesis, I enlist several works, five poetry collections and a Nollywood video film, produced between 1998 and 2010, to investigate and analyse the different ways they engage with the effects of oil extraction as a form of violence that is not immediately apparent. Amitav Ghosh argues that representing something of such magnitude as oil modernity c

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Campos, Juliana Sant\'Ana. "O Sétimo Juramento de Paulina Chiziane e Hibisco Roxo de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: um olhar sobre a constituição das personagens." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-19032019-124450/.

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É possível afirmar que a produção literária de qualquer sistema social dialoga com o contexto histórico, cultural, econômico e político dentro do qual está inscrita, e tal contexto, por sua vez, também dialoga e reage a essa produção definindo um constante movimento sistêmico. Tais imbricações entre literatura e contexto social incidem na construção das personagens, muitas vezes, mobilizadas, nos textos literários, pela construção de suas próprias identidades e em tensão não só com o contexto social dentro do qual vão sendo inscritas, mas também e, inevitavelmente, com as demais personagens qu

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Quayson, Laud Ato. "Tradition(s) and the individual talent : the development of a Nigerian tradition of writing (with special reference to the works of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261547.

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Wambui, Mary Theru. "Female identity in the post-millennial Nigerian novel: a study of Adichie, Atta, and Unigwe." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020013.

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This thesis project examines the work of three female Nigerian authors: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta and Chika Unigwe. They are part of a growing number of young African writers who are receiving international acclaim and challenging narratives that have long defined the continent in pejorative terms. They question what it means to be female and African in a transcultural, global world but counter discourses that are both restrictive and prescriptive. Their female characters are not imaged in binary terms as either victims or villains. For all three writers, the African story has to be

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Hutchison, Yvette. ""Memory is a weapon" : the uses of history and myth in selected post-1960 Kenyan, Nigerian and South African plays." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51338.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 1999.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In hierdie proefskrif word gekyk na die verwantskap tussen geskiedenis, mite, geheue en teater. Daar word ook gekyk na die mate waartoe historiese of mitiese toneelstukke gebruik kan word om die amptelike geheue en identiteite, soos deur bewindhebbers in post-koloniale Nigerie en Kenya geskep, terug kon wen of uit kon daag. Hierdie werke word dan vergelyk met die soort teater wat tydens die Apartheidbewind in Suid-Afrika geskep is, om verskille en ooreenkomste in die gebruik van historiese en mitiese gegewens te bekyk. Di

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Oladosu, Olayinka Abdulahi. "Femininity and Sexual Violence in the Nigerian Films, Child, not Bride, October 1 and Sex for Grades." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1621857462497919.

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Agum, David. "African Social and Political History: The Novelist (Chinua Achebe) as a Witness." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/216514.

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African American Studies<br>Ph.D.<br>This study examines the role of African novelists as major sources of historiography of Africa, and the socio-cultural experience of its people. Although many African novelists have over the years reflected issues of social and political significance in their works, only a few scholarly works seem to have addressed this phenomenon adequately. A major objective of this dissertation then is to help fill this gap by explicating these issues in the fiction of Chinua Achebe, a great iconic figure in African Literature. Utilizing the conceptual and analytical fra

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Nkalubo, Arthur. "A Marxist Reading Of Things Fall Apart In The Esl Classrom : Exploring Colonial Socio-economic Exploitation in the Nigerian Context." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45721.

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This thesis aims to explore how a critical reaading of the novel Things Fall Apart (1958) can provide valuable perspective for educators and students when examining socio-economic issues in a colonial context in the ESL classroom. The main issues being analysed are how the novel reveals and explores socio-economic forms of exploitation under colonialism, and how a critical reading of the novel can be used in teaching to inform and persuade learners about social injustices. To show this, the essay examines the novel from a marxist perspective, and more specifically by drawing on the concept of

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Nkalubo, Arthur E. "A Marxist Reading Of Things Fall Apart In The Esl Classrom : Exploring Colonial Socio-economic Exploitation in the Nigerian Context." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45721.

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This thesis aims to explore how a critical reading of the novel Things Fall Apart (1958) can provide valuable perspective for educators and students when examining socio-economic issues in a colonial context in the ESL classroom. The main issues being analysed are how the novel reveals and explores socio-economic forms of exploitation under colonialism, and how a critical reading of the novel can be used in teaching to inform and persuade learners about social injustices. To show this, the essay examines the novel from a marxist perspective, and more specifically by drawing on the concept of

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Danaila, Ioana. "Construction, évolution et questionnements identitaires dans la littérature nigériane contemporaine." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020GRALL005.

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La littérature nigériane du début du XXIe siècle repositionne la notion d'identité dans un contexte d'immigration et de mondialisation qui la complexifie et la remet en question. Si l'affirmation de l'identité nationale n'est plus une priorité, la troisième génération d'écrivains nigérians met l'accent sur des représentations de l'identité comme parcours et dynamique.L'identité est d'abord envisagée comme une construction spatio-temporelle axée sur l'héritage des cultures traditionnelles, les représentations de l'espace et le rapport à l'Histoire. Toutefois, cette construction est remise en qu

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Awele, Emmanuel Chukwudi. "Globalization and slow violence : slow genocide at the periphery in Jeannette Armstrong’s Whispering in shadows and Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6850.

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Abstract : The work that follows analyses the environmental, cultural, economic and rhetorical methods of conceptualizing violence affecting traditional Niger-Deltan and pan-Indigenous peoples. Whispering in Shadows by Jeanette Armstrong and Yellow-Yellow by Kaine Agary represent how Okanagan and other pan-Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Niger Deltans experience contemporary forms of slow genocide as a result of environmental pollution and various forms of displacement from ancestral spaces. This analysis of both texts brings to the fore the Indigenous sense of life, well-being, and pro

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Courtois, Cédric. "Itinéraires d’un genre. Variations autour du Bildungsroman dans la littérature nigériane contemporaine." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSEN031.

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Depuis le début des années 2000, l’un des traits distinctifs de la littérature nigériane tient dans son utilisation du genre littéraire du Bildungsroman , dont cette thèse considère les différentes évolutions chez les romancières et romanciers dits de la troisième génération. En examinant une vingtaine de romans, de Waiting for an Angel (2002) de Helon Habila à Freshwater (2018) d’Akwaeke Emezi, ce travail se propose de brosser un portrait panoramique d’un pan de la littérature nigériane ultra-contemporaine par le prisme du Bildungsroman. Prenant appui sur les études de genre, cette étude cons

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Malowany, Maureen. "Representations of African women in the historical literature of Nigeria, 1890-1990." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61322.

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The thesis has been divided into five chapters. The three central chapters reflect paradigmatic shifts in Nigerian historiography. During the colonial era, although a few texts written by Nigerians entered the published literature, most writing was produced by non-Africans, anthropologists and colonial administrators, for the purpose of social investigation and control. With the establishment of Nigerian universities in 1948, academic historians, fuelled by the desire for independence, reclaimed their discipline to write local and national political histories. Encouraged by the concerns of the

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Egbo, Benedicta. "Variability in the quality of life of literate and non-literate rural women, a Nigerian account." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0002/NQ27916.pdf.

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Oduko, Olusegun A. "Television drama in a developing society : the case of Nigeria." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34604.

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Cumpsty, Rebekah Lindiwe Levitt. "'Lean[ing] into transcendence' : transformations of the sacred in South African, Zimbabwean and Nigerian literatures." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13953/.

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Enchantment is a defining feature our postcolonial, globalised world and the literary is where much of this wonder is registered and celebrated. Thus this thesis attends to the postcolonial dynamic of sacred and secular experience as it is represented in contemporary African literatures. Debates around the secular and postsecular are long standing in the fields of religious studies, anthropology and philosophy, but as yet underappreciated in literary studies. I develop a hermeneutic of the imminent sacred as a way to read the constitutive and recuperative gestures subjects make as they assert

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Adenekan, Olorunshola. "African literature in the digital age : class and sexual politics in new writing from Nigeria and Kenya." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3895/.

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Using wide-ranging literature and theoretical concepts published digitally and in print, this thesis will build the emerging picture of African literature in English that is being published in the digital space. The study will analyse the technological production of classed and sexualised bodies in new African writing in cyberspace by some of the young writers from Nigeria and Kenya, as well as writing from a few of their contemporaries from other African countries. This thesis will also analyse the differences between the agenda of the previous generation – including representation and perspe

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Thiam, Djibril S. "Soyinka's drama in relation to the traditional Yoruba culture of Nigeria." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301263.

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Musa, Muhammad Danladi. "Confronting Western news hegemony : a case study of News Agency of Nigeria." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34601.

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This thesis is an attempt at examining the extent to which indigenous news agencies in the third world are able to fracture the old order of information by providing alternative news. In other words, the thesis sets to examine whether indigenous third world news wholesalers could be viable alternatives to the international news wholesalers of the advanced industrialised capitalist countries as is hoped among NIIO advocates. The study focuses on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) as a representation of such social institutions faced with the task of providing alternative window to the country's a

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Nwokocha, Sandra Chinyeaka. "Feminism in twenty-first-century Nigerian novels by women." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7310/.

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Scholarship on twenty-first century Nigerian female-authored novels has long been dominated by womanist readings, regardless of the fact that these modern narratives represent feminism in strong terms. The readings often subsume subversive femininity within non-aggressive liberation, resulting in an insufficient narrative of the intricacies of the novels of the period. This thesis challenges such representations by proposing subversion as the hallmark of twenty- first century Nigerian female-authored novels through a textual analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a

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Nunes, Alyxandra Gomes. "Things fall apart de Chinua Achebe como romance de fundação da literatura nigeriana em lingua inglesa." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269860.

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Orientador: Vilma Sant'Anna Areas<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T17:51:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nunes_AlyxandraGomes_M.pdf: 5924071 bytes, checksum: ec6f14a2684786e75704cd2c4819f406 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005<br>Resumo: Este trabalho se propõe a analisar o primeiro livro do romancista nigeriano Chinua Achebe, Thingslall apart, comoromance de fundação da literatura nigeriana de língua inglesa. A partir de considerações teóricas das características do texto fundacional, busca

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Ojinmah, Umelo R., and n/a. "Post-colonial tensions in a cross-cultural milieu : a comparative study of the writings of Witi Ihimaera and Chinua Achebe." University of Otago. Department of English, 1988. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070619.113620.

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In many former British colonies independence from colonial rule has produced a myriad of post-colonial tensions. Increasingly, writers from the indigenous race in these former colonies have felt moved to respond to these tensions in their imaginative fiction. This study has undertaken a comparative cross-cultural analysis of the works of two writers from such societies whose indigenous cultures share common assumptions, to explore the underlying impetus of these tensions, and the writers� proposals for resolving them. Chapter One assesses Witi Ihimaera as a writer, and explores his concept of

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Valencia, Isabel. "Välkommen till Lagos : En semantisk översättning från engelska till svenska." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Tolk- och översättarinstitutet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182314.

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Postkolonial teori har skiftat intresset från västerländska diskurser till frågor som ideologi, ojämlika maktförhållanden och etik. I samband med översättningsvetenskapens kulturella vändning på 1980-talet, började översättningsvetare ifrågasätta översättningsstrategier som antingen assimilerar (domesticering) eller stereotypiserar (exotisering) källkulturen. Newmark (1981) föreslår en semantisk, källtextorienterad översättningsprincip och menar att så länge den åstadkommer en likvärdig effekt, är en ordagrann översättning inte bara den föredragna, utan den enda godtagbara översättningsmetoden

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Osiebe, Garhe Victor. "Political music genres in postcolonial Nigeria, 1960-2013." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6812/.

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This thesis attempts an intervention in popular music classification. It argues that popular musicians do not only choose the titles to their works, but go further to define the genres of these works. The dynamic at play is such that most popular musicians claim to produce works of different and new genres with each new work they create. By engaging with the works of a selection of Nigerian popular musicians, the thesis demonstrates that the disorderliness in popular music branding can be restricted. Through a critical discourse analysis of the textual elements of the material and of ‘alternat

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Ebong, Inih Akpan. "Drama and theatre among the Ibibio of southeastern Nigeria : a case study of Utuekpe or Ekoon drama." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365341.

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Ventura, Priscilla de Carvalho Maia. "WE HAVE FALLEN APART: o legado colonial em Purple Hibiscus de Chimamanda Adichie e Things Fall Apart de Chinua Achebe." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2018. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/7879.

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Anagah, Mathew Ike N. "North-Eastern Igbo music : a case study of Efvu/ Odabara/Itutara music and its social function among the Izhiangbo people of Nigeria." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356883.

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Foreman, Chelsea. "Speaking With Our Spirits : A Character Analysis of Eugene Achike in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65249.

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The purpose of this essay is to conduct a character analysis on Eugene Achike from Chimamana Ngozi Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus, to see whether or not the character is used by Adichie as a portrayal of colonial Nigeria and its values. I have done this by looking at the themes of violence and hypocrisy in relation to Eugene’s language usage, religious attitude, and behaviour towards others, and comparing these aspects of his personality with the attitudes shown by colonialists in colonial Nigeria. The more important issues that prove Eugene’s character is a portrayal of colonial Nigeria are:

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Goubali, Talon Odile. "Littérature engagée : Une nouvelle perspective sur la guerre civile au Nigéria (1967-1970)." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CERG0892/document.

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Le thème de la guerre civile au Nigéria de 1967 à 1970, aussi appelée guerre du Biafra reste un thème majeur de la littérature nigériane. Les évènements qui ont amené au conflit au lendemain de l’indépendance du pays montrent une période post-coloniale encore marquée par les maux de la construction nationale des anciennes colonies que sont le régionalisme, la religion et le problème ethnique. La fin du conflit en 1970 inaugure une ère de mutation des problèmes d’avant la guerre qui perdurent avec la succession des différents régimes au pouvoir. De plus, le conflit devient un sujet tabou à effa

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Jones, Rebecca Katherine. "Writing domestic travel in Yoruba and English print culture, southwestern Nigeria, 1914-2014." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5249/.

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Travel writing criticism has sometimes suggested that little travel writing has been produced by Africans. This thesis shows that this is not the case, through a literary study of writing about travel published in Yoruba-speaking southwestern Nigeria between 1914 and 2014. This is a study of writing about domestic travel – Nigerians travelling within Nigeria – and of both Yoruba- and English-language texts. It is both a study of conventional ‘travel writing’ such as first-person travelogues, and of the motif of travel in writing more broadly: it encompasses serialised newspaper columns, histor

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Compton, Marissa Deane. "The Living River: Ritual and Reconciliation in The Famished Road." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6816.

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In Ben Okri's The Famished Road, rituals such as baptism are easily lost in the dense symbolism. The novel is, in the words of Douglas McCabe, a "ramshackle and untidy affair, a hodge-podge of social ideologies, narrative forms, effusive enthusiasms, and precision-jeweled prose poems" (McCabe 17). This complex untidiness can be discouraging for readers and critics alike, and yet "there is something contagious about the digressive, meandering aesthetic of The Famished Road" that makes the novel difficult to consign to confusion (Omhovere 59). Commonly considered post-colonial, post-modern, and

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Peters, Audrey D. "Fatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus"." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1769.

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Purple Hibiscus, a novel by third-generation Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, appears at first glance to be a simple work of adolescent fiction, a bildungsroman in which a pair of siblings navigate the typical challenges of incipient adulthood: social ostracism, an abusive parent, emerging desire. However, the novel's setting-a revolutionary-era Nigeria-is clearly intended to evoke post-Biafra Nigeria, itself the setting of Adichie's other major work, Half of a Yellow Sun. This setting takes Purple Hibiscus beyond the scope of most modern adolescent fiction, creating a complex allegory in w

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Morais, Thayane de Araújo. "Há coisas em volta do teu pescoço: questões de gênero em Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie." PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ESTUDOS DA LINGUAGEM, 2017. https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/25095.

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