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Kehinde, Ayo. "Rulers agains writers, writers against rules : the failed promise of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigerian fiction." Journal of English Studies 8 (May 29, 2010): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.149.

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Various literary critics have dwelt on the nature, tenets and trends of commitment in Nigerian literature. However, there is paucity of studies on the imaginative narration of the impediments facing the actualization of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigeria. This paper examines the strategies and techniques of representing the failed promise of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigerian fiction, using the examples provided by Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. The methodology involves a close reading of the

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Ojo, Oluwasola Emmanuel. "Hedges and Boosters as Modality Markers: An Analysis of Nigerian and American Editorials." k@ta 22, no. 2 (2020): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/kata.22.2.55-62.

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Many studies have been carried out on the use of hedges and boosters as persuasive strategies, but little is known about their employment when texts such as editorials are compared cross culturally. This study comparatively examined the employment of modality markers to express doubt and conviction in Nigerian and American editorials. Farrokhi and Emami’s (2008) classification of hedges and boosters was employed to analyze twenty editorials selected from two Nigerian newspapers and two American newspapers. Findings reveal that both sets of editorial writers made use of hedges and boosters a lo

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Falola, Toyin. "Nigerian Translingualism: Negotiation and Desirability of Language in Nigerian Literature." Yoruba Studies Review 7, no. 1 (2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.v7i1.131429.

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The power to communicate effectively and the politics of language were over the years intertwined, compelling writers used foreign languages to reach a wider audience, make sense of our world, describe different worlds, and create other experiences. Translingualism is also like a bridge for readers who cannot speak an author’s native language. The adoption of literary translingualism is a knotted discourse, but the texts of Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, and Chimamanda Adichie reviewed to examine this loosely defined term. This essay dissects the essence of literary trans

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Afejuku, Tony E., and E. B. Adeleke. "Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre." Matatu 49, no. 1 (2017): 54–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04901004.

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Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as the ‘second generation of writers’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays, and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka. As a committed playwright, Osofisan focuses on the reappraisal of his immediate society and the challenges of living in this society. He calls attention to all that is undesirable in the politics, economy, and religion of contemporary Nigeria and asks for a change of attitude which, hopefully, will bring sanity to the

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Adeyemi, Remilekun Iyabo. "I’m part of the collective: exploring the influence of L1 culture on communal representation through the use of we, us and our in Nigerian undergraduates’ written texts." Journal for Language Teaching 53, no. 2 (2021): 53–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jlt.v53i2.3.

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This study explores the influence of L1 culture on Nigerian tertiary learners’ use of first-person plural personal pronouns we, us and our in written texts to indicate the collective, i.e., the writers’ social community. The quantitative and semantic analysis of the learners’ use of the pronouns was done using the Nigerian learner English corpus (NLEC) in comparison to Louvain corpus of native English student essays (LOCNESS). The quantitative analysis indicates the overuse of first-person plural pronouns by Nigerian learners compared to their LOCNESS counterparts. The study reports on the sem

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Ugochukwu, Françoise. "Essays in Honour of Wole Soyinka at 80, Ivor Agyeman-Duah (Ed.) - book review." Issue 1 1, no. 1 (2018): 107–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2516-2713/2018/v1n1a7.

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Wole Soyinka, best known as a Nigerian writer, playwright and Nobel laureate, has been a staunch supporter of the Nigerian cinema, and one of his plays, Death and the King’s horseman, is currently in the process of being adapted to the screen. He embodies the link between the Nigerian society, Yoruba culture and Nollywood. This book of essays in honour of Wole Soyinka’s life and works, offered to him on his 80th birthday, brings together a good number of contributions - short paragraphs, long essays, formal interviews, impromptu conversations and poems. The authors of these texts include a for

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AFEJUKU, TONY E., and E. B. ADELEKE. "Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre." Matatu 47, no. 1 (2016): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000397.

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Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as ‘second generation’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka. As a committed playwright, Osofisan focuses on the reappraisal of his immediate society and the challenges of living in this society. He calls attention to all that is undesirable in the politics, economy, and religion of contemporary Nigeria and asks for a change of attitude which, hopefully, will bring sanity to the country. One of

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Opeyemi, Ajibola. "When it no longer matters whom you love: the politics of love and identity in Nigerian migrant fiction." Inkanyiso 13, no. 1 (2021): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ink.v13i1.13.

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A number of creative texts by Nigerian migrant writers recreate migrant characters’ experiences of love, intimacy and connected identity politics in the diaspora. However, there is a paucity of scholarly engagements with Nigerian migrant writers’ representation of the complexities that attend the formation and reconfiguration of migrant characters’ identity and love relationships outside the motherland. This study, therefore, examines the intersection of love, place and identity in three purposively selected texts – Segun Afolabi’s Goodbye Lucille, Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah and Unoma Azu

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Brown, Magdelene Aneetee, and Dr Patchainayagi S. "Cognitive Constructivist Theory of Multimedia for Appreciative Response: An Approach to Decode Sociolinguistic Appropriations in Texts’ of Nigeria." Webology 19, no. 1 (2022): 4232–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.14704/web/v19i1/web19279.

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The paper aims to explore Multimedia as a cognitive tool to enhance the study of appropriated texts of Nigeria and the sociolinguistic reasons behind appropriating the English language to carry the native's experiences. The writers of Nigeria deploy the strategies to reconstruct Africa's taunted imageries and cultures. An ethnographic study exposes the strategic method of representing authentic versions through abrogation. The article examines and re-evaluates, identified resistant strains that are consciously or unconsciously integrated in the texts, according to their level of contact with t

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Iwabi, Abraham Modahunsi. "CONTAINING SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA DISEASE AND INFANT MORTALITY THROUGH LITERARY TEXTS WITH HEALTH MOTIFS." International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences 11, no. 3 (2024): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11174018.

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<strong>Abstract:</strong> Nigeria occupies the highest position in the global epidemiology of sickle cell anaemia. This raises concern among some Nigerian writers and prompts them to make anaemic crisis the motif of their texts in order to create awareness that will reduce the number of anaemic patients. This study is delineated within the medical humanities to conscientise people to the portraiture of genotypic compatibility in literary texts. It aims at exploring literary dimension to curtailing the menace of sickle cell anaemia. The research elucidates the interface between literature and

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Ogoanah, Felix Nwabeze, and Fredrick Osaro Ojo. "A multimodal generic perspective on Nigerian stand-up comedy." European Journal of Humour Research 6, no. 4 (2018): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2018.6.4.ogoanah.

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Studies in stand-up comedy in Nigeria have recently begun to gain serious attention. Several articles that describe the psychological and socio-cultural contexts of joke texts of stand-up comedy in Nigeria have appeared within the last few years (Orhiunu 2007; Imo 2010; Adetunji 2013; Filani 2015, 2016, etc.). However, one aspect of the phenomenon that is yet to be explored is the function of a multimodal generic framework and its contributions to the humorous content of the genre. While it is important to maintain the spoken text as many writers have done, the “multiple embodied modes” (Norri

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Christian Nnaji, Ikechukwu, and Chike Benedict Okoye. "Style as the Man Itself: Focus on Language Strategy in Five Selected Nigerian Dramas." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 11, no. 6 (2024): 8188–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v11i06.03.

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Style as the Man Itself: Focus on Language Strategy in Five Selected Nigerian Dramas’ namely Charles Okwelume’s Babel of Voices, Diet of Violence, Toni Duruaku’s Cash Price, Femi Osofisan’s Midnight Blackout and Wole Soyinka’s The Beatification of Area Boy. It also examines the playwrights’ emerging trends on the stylistic peculiarities of the selected texts. The impacts focus on the linguistic tongue of these three major ethnic tribes in Nigeria (Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba) as reflected in the playwrights’ choice of words or diction. The findings review the relevance of exposing audience to other

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Adeyemi, Olusola Smith. "Interrogating Nationalist Ideologies in Nigerian Drama: A Textual Analysis of Esiaba Irobi’s <i>Hangmen Also Die</i>." International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities 27, no. 1 (2024): 435–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v27i1.28.

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There is no contesting the fact that dramatic writing and criticism in Africa have their relevance; either for the purpose of entertainment, information or conscientisation for social transformation, or drawing attention to new ideas in scholarship. Also, within this, is the notion that every writer has his/her ideological leaning(s), which serve as the springboard for contextual understanding of what the work addresses. Esiaba Irobi is one of such writers that deploy their drama texts in the signposting the aforementioned ideals. This article, through textual analysis, investigates how the pl

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Eziechine, Augustine O., and Queen Esene. "Women and the Quest for a New Narrative inContemporary Nigerian Drama: An Examination of Irene Isoken Agunloye's Sweet Revenge and Tracie ChimaUtoh- Ezeajugh'sNneora: An African Doll's House." European Journal of Linguistics 2, no. 2 (2023): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.47941/ejl.1386.

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Purpose: This paper seeks to examine the presentation of the images of women in Nigerian drama. Many female playwrights in Nigeria believe that women are misrepresented in plays written by men. Their claim is that the images of women as presented in the literary works of most male playwright are not true reflection of women in real life. In the early Nigerian drama, mostly written by men, women were usually portrayed as weak, inferior, and unimportant personalities. The women are generally quiet and subdued and their primary functions revolve around the family. Even in contemporary times, most

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Chukwulobe, Innocent Chimezie, and Zainor Izat Zainal. "NON-HUMAN SUBALTERNS IN HELON HABILA’S OIL ON WATER AND LAWRENCE AMAESHI’S SWEET CRUDE ODYSSEY." Journal of Language and Communication 9, no. 1 (2022): 116–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.47836/jlc.9.1.08.

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This study explores the environmental challenges of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria especially as it affects non-humans as a subaltern group. The environmental challenges and devastation of the region is consequent upon the unregulated and unprofessional exploitation of petroleum product. Over the years, the environmental devastation by multinational oil firms in the Niger Delta region has gained prominent attention from Nigeria literary writers and critics. However, it is worthy of note that most of these writers and critics are majorly interested in the negative or positive effects of oil ex

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IWEHA, Iheanacho. C., and Hussaini U. Tsaku. "Citizenship Question and the Hope of Ethnic Nationalities in Nigeria: A Reading of Emmy Idegus' Beloved Odolu Kingdom and Kwarapchan." International Journal of Contemporary Research in Humanities 2, no. 1 (2024): 48–56. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14875588.

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This paper explores the complex relationship between citizenship and ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. It aims to shed light on the ongoing debate surrounding citizenship rights and ethnic representation in Nigeria. It analyses two contemporary Nigerian play texts <em>Beloved</em><u> </u><em>Odolu Kingdom</em> and <em>Kwarapchan</em> written by Emmy Idegu.  The paper investigates how playwrights wrestle with issues of belonging, identity, and marginalisation within the context of a nation grappling with its own definition of citizenship. In the paper, the authors try to examine how these p

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N, Afolayan, K., and Oladeji, F. O. "Ecocritical Perspectives in Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991) and Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021)." Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture 4, no. 01 (2025): 81–92. https://doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2025.v04i01.009.

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Abstract: Any critic familiar with the art of African writers will discover its filial link with primordial art forms. While critical responses have mostly focused on the social relevance of those forms in respect of their uses to resolve postcolonial dilemmas, more interpretations are needed which contextualise ecological texts within a framework that interrogates the relationship between man and his environment. This paper is an ecocritical engagement with Ben Okri’s The Famished Road (1991) and Every Leaf A Hallelujah (2021). The paper gives attention to two ecological issues raised by Nige

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Ochiagha, Terri. "THERE WAS A COLLEGE: INTRODUCING THE UMUAHIAN: A GOLDEN JUBILEE PUBLICATION, EDITED BY CHINUA ACHEBE." Africa 85, no. 2 (2015): 191–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972014000990.

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ABSTRACTGovernment College, Umuahia is known as the alma mater of eight important Nigerian writers: Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Gabriel Okara, Chike Momah, I. N. C. Aniebo, Chukwuemeka Ike, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Christopher Okigbo. Many illustrious Nigerian scientists, intellectuals and public leaders passed through the college in its prime, and in West Africa the name of the school evokes an astounding range of success stories. But Umuahia's legend as ‘the Eton of the East’ and the primus inter pares of Nigeria's elite colonial institutions obscures its present reality: nothing remains of its pa

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Iweha, Iheanacho C. "Theatre without borders: Evaluating e-book publication of play texts in the Nigerian educational space." Nigeria Theatre Journal: A Journal of the Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists 23, no. 2 (2024): 122–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ntj.v23i2.2.

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The theatre ecology had embraced digital technology long before the Covid-19 pandemic entered our lives. The orange economy, as we know it, is driven by creativity from the arts and humanities as well as the sciences. Playwriting pedagogy, as was traditionally taught, pointed to the stage, printing press and elitist publishers as windows to the world. The theatre arts is a discipline that has a value chain of products and services. Adopting the survey and historical-analytic methods, this paper focuses on playwriting and the playwrightpreneur’s options to the conventional style of publishing f

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Sene, Abdou. "Female Self-affirmation and Self-fulfilment in Nwapa’s One is Enough (1981)." International Journal of Scientific Research and Management 10, no. 03 (2022): 1012–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsrm/v10i3.sh05.

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The portrayal of women in most African male-authored novels which appeared before and after the independences, frustrated many African female intellectuals. The latter considered that some African men writers have not presented a fair image of women in their writings. For them, they have marginalised and relegated women to second-class citizens. Thus, these female intellectuals set out in their turn to write literary texts in which they correct what they considered to be shortcomings in African male writings. Among these women writers stands out Flora Nwapa who deals in One is Enough (1981) wi

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Aboh, Romanus, and Chuka Fred Ononye. "The Discursive Mechanisms of Nigerianisms and “Trancultured” Identities in Mary Specht’s Migratory Animals." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 5 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.5p.1.

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The study of literary texts from the purely formal-sentence linguistics is less helpful because it undermines contextual effects on the use of language in literature. Discourse analysis, unlike formal sentence-level linguistics, is more robust in its analysis of literary texts since it provides insights into how sociocultural and historical factors influence, to a large extent, writers’ use of language. Against this backdrop, we examine Mary Specht’s use of “Nigerianisms” in her novel, Migratory Animals (Migratory), to account for the context-specific ways through which language has been used,

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ABEGUNDE, Clement Tayo, and Seyitan Damilola DAVID. "Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Comparative Study of Othello and Ahmed Yerima’s Otaelo." Àgídìgbo: ABUAD Journal of the Humanities 13, no. 1 (2025): 137–48. https://doi.org/10.53982/agidigbo.2025.1301.10-j.

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Adaptation is one of the fertile grounds of literary scholars both in criticisms and writing. And there is no doubt that series of literary figures have succeeded in this both nationally and internationally. It is also an avenue for discourses and counter-discourses thereby engendering the scope of literature. Writers like Ola Rotimi, Femi Osofisan, Olu Obafemi among others have excelled in this regard making references to Western literary works intertextually to foreground their ideologies and the literary world in turn gives them attention. The purpose of the paper is to explore the adaptati

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Ajibola, Opeyemi. "The Trauma Continuum: Narrating Deprivation, Dissent and Desecration in Elnathan John and Tricia Nwaubani’s Fiction." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 5, no. 3 (2023): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v5i3.1343.

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Northern Nigeria has in contemporary time been renowned for dissent that manifests in civil unrest, violence and insurgency. Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday and Tricia Nwaubani’s Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, are closely read, to underscore the texts’ recreation of northern Nigerian young adults’ experiences of trauma occasioned by the Boko Haram insurgency. This is to foreground the writers’ insiders’ perspectives on the causes and consequences of dissent, with a view to underscoring the novels’ contribution to a nuanced understanding of dissent as a complex and multidimensional reality.

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Joyce, Onoromhenre Agofure. "Natural and Imagined Ecologies: An Ecocritical Study of Helon Habila's Oil on Water and Ben Okri's Stars of the New Curfew." NDỤÑỌDE : Calabar Journal of The Humanities 13, no. 1 (2018): 249–59. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1467911.

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Abstract This paper focuses on the complex correlation between humans and their ecologies along with the role of literature in critiquing these relationships. The paper explores Helon Habila"s novel Oil on Water (2010) and Ben Okri"s collections of short stories Stars of the New Curfew (1999) as creative responses to the disquiet in the Nigerian social space. The study demonstrates that the selected Nigerian writers present the view that the Nigerian people and ecologies are exploited by the Nigerian elites in connivance with the corporate owners of technology for economic interests, leaving b

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Ezenwamadu, Nkechi Judith, and Chinyere Theodora Ojiakor. "Proverbs and Postproverbial Stance in Selected Plays of Emeka Nwabueze and Zulu Sofola." Matatu 51, no. 2 (2020): 432–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05102015.

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Abstract Since the birth of Nigerian literature, writers have produced impressive collection of literature in English. African oral traditions like proverbs have been in use in creative works. Over time, there have been some alterations in proverbs as their usage and meanings slightly assume different dimensions on their seriousness, effects and explicitness of the message therein, forming either an extension to the traditional proverbs or coinages of certain expressions. It is contended that the meaning of proverbs can be interpreted within the semantic, ideational, stimulus-response, realist

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Abubakar, Amina. "Motivating Literacy and Literary Skills in Students for Remediation: An Innovative and Foregrounding Approach." American Journal of Education and Practice 6, no. 2 (2022): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.47672/ajep.1113.

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Purpose: Innovative And Foregrounding Approach to Motivating Literacy and Literary Skills (IFAMLSIS) provides a summary of the writer's foreground approach to motivating students on the core aspects of reading, writing and literary skills spectacled from an innovative skills program. The module, an action research, was developed as part of remediation program for students who lacked the proficiency in English language in the Department of English of the Federal College of Education Kano, Nigeria. The focus of this review is on the fundamental components of reading, writing, and literary abilit

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Mahmud, Memunat Olayemi, and Destiny Idegbekwe. "Linguistic Context as Explicators: A Study of ‘Fill in The Gaps’ Exercises in Selected Nigerian Senior Secondary English Textbooks." International Journal of English Language Teaching 10, no. 4 (2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ijelt.13/vol10n4pp112.

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This study examines the ways in which the linguistic context helps the Senior Secondary School Students to unravel the missing words in the ‘fill up the gap’ exercises in their English textbooks. The aim of the study is to uncover the extent to which the linguistic context helps the students in arriving at the correct vocabulary to be used in the exercises. Applying the context theory as proposed by van Dijk (2008) as the theoretical framework, the study examined two Nigerian Senior Secondary English language textbooks namely The Intensive English for Senior Secondary Schools and Round up Engl

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Oji, Ruth Karachi Benson. "Painting the state in the text." Pragmatics and Society 12, no. 4 (2021): 649–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.20007.oji.

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Abstract Literary works across cultures are never written in a vacuum. They depict the reality of the society where they are set. With the societal obligation of the writers to serve as righters, especially in Africa, this study attempts a pragmatic inquiry of the state of the Nigerian society as implicitly and artistically painted in Remi Raji’s poetry collection, A Harvest of Laughters. The known literature on Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters have analysed the collection mainly from literary and ideological perspectives. Attention has not been given to the collection from a pragmatic persp

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Eziechine, Augustine Obiajulu, and Queen Esene. "The Quest for Female Political Leadership in Nigeria: Irene Salami-Agunloye’s Vision in More Than Dancing." International Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research 12, no. 3 (2024): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ijellr.13/vol12n319.

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Nigerian women writers are becoming more and more deeply committed to the mistreatment of women in their country. The writers, particularly the female playwrights, use their creations to confront the problem of Nigerian women's political alienation. Their writings shed light on a number of sociopolitical concerns intended to elevate democratic principles and sound administration in Nigeria. However, this paper takes a critical excursion into Irene Salami-Agunloye’s More Than Dancing to establish the possibility of using drama as a means of projecting the quest for female political leadership i

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Tatang Iskarna. "The Portryal of Christianity in Achebe’s Arrow of God: A Postcolonial Perspective." DIALEKTIKA: JURNAL BAHASA, SASTRA DAN BUDAYA 7, no. 2 (2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33541/dia.v7i2.3047.

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AbstractThe emergence of postcolonial criticism makes the voice of Africans’ colonial experience heard and seriously considered. In some ways, this voice is a little bit different from what the European poets or novelists have expressed in their literary texts. For most Europeans, colonialism is perceived as a civilizing force that benefits and progresses to the colonized African societies, primarily through one of its arms: Christianity. Although this religion, as most missionaries propose, has nothing to do with the worldly affair, such as a lust for natural resources and colony, it becomes

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Musa, Rasheed Abiodun. "The theatre of Ovonramwen." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 52, no. 2 (2006): 153–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.52.2.04mus.

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Abstract The Ovonramwen theatre is a paradigm that necessarily celebrates various theatrical performances and play-texts that reflect on the life and time of Oba Ovonramwen, the former King of the Benin Kingdom, Nigeria. Using the deductive methodology, this paper reflects on the politics of historical reconstruction in the Nigerian theatre and importantly evaluates various play-texts written about Ovonramwen by Nigerian playwrights. We conclude that the international theatre market will benefit from the Ovonramwen theatre and sincerely call on the British Government to tell us their own accou

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Isonguyo, Akpan. "Leadership Question and the Writer's Style: A Literary Stylistic Analysis of Adaobi Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You By Chance." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE HUMANITY & MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 2, no. 07 (2023): 718–22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8191818.

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This paper interrogates some artistic positions taken by Adaobi Nwaubani in projecting leadership issues in I Do Not Come to You by Chance. The paper notes that in spite of the enormity of critical attention on leadership in African critical space, bulk of the critical materials center around the ineptitude of African leaders and its consequent underdevelopment of African societies and the suffering of the mass. Literary critics hardly pay attention to those artistic positions through which authors project leadership issues in their texts. It is against this backdrop that this paper is dedicat

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Ngozi, Madu Bridget, Njoku Innocentia Kechinyere, Udoye Ify, and Akabike Ify. "Transitivity and mood in Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel and Ngózi Chuma-Udeh’s Forlorn Fate." Integrity Journal of Arts and Humanities 3, no. 2 (2022): 44–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.31248/ijah2022.049.

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This study examines transitivity and mood in Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel and Ngozi Chuma-Udeh’s Forlorn Fate. It is a textual analysis with particular emphasis on the functional value of the language use in relation to the transitivity system and mood system inherent in the extracted sentences which form the data and their significance. The research design for this study is a descriptive qualitative method of analysis based on some principal approaches to the analysis of a text. The theoretical framework that guides this study is Halliday’s Systemic Functional Theory of Grammar (SFG) p

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Uma, Abdullahi Dahiru, and Baba Musa Y. M. "The History of Women's Writing." Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture 2, no. 01 (2023): 40–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2023.v02i01.006.

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The concept feminism encompasses to an intense awareness of feminine identity and concerns, which has become a significant theme in literature since its rise and development. Despite its controversial nature, this essay offers a comprehensive understanding of feminist literature, including various types such as liberal feminism, radical feminism, Marxist feminism, socialist feminism, cultural feminism, black/African feminism, womanism, African womanism and satanism, and mothers. Women writers have contributed aesthetically and intellectually to the progress and development of society, rejectin

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Edokpayi, Justina N. "Lexico-semantic Analysis of Sam Ukala’s Skeletons: A Collection of Storie." East African Journal of Education Studies 6, no. 2 (2023): 396–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajes.6.2.1381.

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This study is devoted to Ukala’s use of lexico-semantic devices in Skeletons: A Collection of Stories, to convey the themes of the text. The ability of a literary writer to use the appropriate lexical items and style in a text is expedient for the conveyance of meanings, and the themes of such a text. This is due to the fact that the ideational function of language can only be performed if the readers effectively grasp the subject matter of the text. Every literary artist strives to convey his/her messages in the best possible manner. This study explicates Ukala’s creative strategies and choic

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Crow, Brian. "Soyinka and his Radical Critics: A Review." Theatre Research International 12, no. 1 (1987): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300013304.

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The volume of critical writing on the theatre of Wole Soyinka both in Nigeria and abroad indicates his unrivalled pre-eminence among African play wrights. His work is still not as well known in the West as it should be, though his plays do occasionally get performed, especially in the USA, and it is encouraging that six of them have recently been published in one volume in the Methuen ‘Master Playwrights’ series. If cultural chauvinism is at least partly to blame for ignorance of the Third World's leading dramatist, there is also a genuine problem of access to a writer whose work is ‘difficult

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Ogunlola, Omolayo. "Polygamy in Contemporary Yorùbá Society of Southwestern Nigeria: The Yorùbá Writers’ View." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science IX, no. IV (2025): 1037–50. https://doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2025.90400080.

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It is on record that Polygamy had been part of the Yorùbá tradition since the inception of the race. In the past, marrying more than one wife was a factor used for determining the wealth and prosperity of a man. This is because most men were dominant peasant farmers, hence, the need to have more women and children to assist in farming activities. It is interesting that despite this situation, they lived together in harmony. In most cases, unless one is told, it was difficult to distinguish between children of one wife from the other. Today however, Polygamy has translated into something else.

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Temile, Sunny O., Al Bahloul Mohammed, and Dadang Prasetyo Jatmiko. "Earnings Management and Value Relevance in Nigeria: A Pre and Post Ifrs Analysis." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 5, no. 5 (2018): 4672–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v5i5.05.

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The purpose of this article is to analyse the literature concerning legal framework for outer space activities by states. Review was conducted on the elements of national space law, including literature critiquing particular strengths or weaknesses of existing laws and literature, on the obligations placed on States under international law and on why writers make particular recommendations as to the content of legislation. The article will summarise the key elements one would anticipate finding in the outer space regulatory framework and which will form the structure of the analytical framewor

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Onuoha, Onyekachi Peter. "Diaspora digital literature: role reversal and the construction of self in selected Ikheloa’s autobiographies." International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies 5, no. 2 (2018): 33–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.8541.

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The digital space serves, for the diaspora Nigerians, as a creative platform for identity and cultural preservation: a way through which they maintain connection with their homeland. This notion is evidently articulated in their creative writings on the digital space through where they imaginatively explore diverse social realities and personal experiences. This paper sets out to examine diaspora digital literature: role reversal and the construction self in selected Ikheloa’s Autobiographies. It interrogates memories of the home concept and the lamentation of the self as a social construct. T

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Finley, Mackenzie. "Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence." Yoruba Studies Review 2, no. 2 (2021): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.v2i2.129908.

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With Nigerian novelist Amos Tutuola as primary subject, this paper at[1]tempts to understand the construction of sociocultural identities in Nigeria in the wake of independence. Despite the international success of his literary publications, Tutuola was denied access to the most intimate discourses on the development of African literature by his Nigerian elite contemporaries, who emerged from University College, Ibadan, in the 1950s and early 1960s. Having completed only a few years of colonial schooling, Tutuola was differentiated from his elite literary contemporaries in terms of education.

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Sangoor, Mareb Mohammed, and Ahmed Mohammed Bedu. "A Pragmatic Analysis of Modality in English Academic Texts in Nigeria and Iraq." International Linguistics Research 8, no. 2 (2025): p57. https://doi.org/10.30560/ilr.v8n2p57.

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Despite scholars’ attention on the typology of modality as a linguistic phenomenon, yet the use of modality across varieties of English is not well visible in communication-based researches that take semantics, pragmatics and discourse issues as the objects for their investigation. The paper generates its data from six M. A. dissertations from Nigerian University and equal number of the M. A. dissertations from Iraqi University to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate the contextual use of modality within the pragmatic perspective. The data analysis reveals that modality such as usualit

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Uche, Nnyagu PhD Ozoh Ngozi Jacinta PhD. "Ghost in African Literature: an Appraisal of Selected Ghost Stories from Umeasiegbu's Abandoned Ghost Babies and Ghost Stories." SSAR Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (SSARJAHSS) 1, July-Aug (2024): 34–43. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14837745.

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One major indispensable role of Literature is its ability to mirror the author’s society. By mirroring the society, Literature helps the unwary to understand and appreciate the society. Obviously, each society is distinct from another and while some societies are of the view that death is an end point of every individual, the Igbo people and some other tribes in the Eastern Nigeria believe that after death, the soul of the deceased hovers as a result of conditions. The deceased persons still appear to people and some migrate to far away places to continue their life. This belief is well

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Christian Nnaji, Ikechukwu, and Chike Benedict Okoye. "Migration and Culture Shock: Neo-Cultural Praxis and Mathe-Logic Reformations in Selected Texts." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 11, no. 6 (2024): 8193–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v11i06.04.

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The study examines ‘Migration and Culture Shock: Neo-Cultural Praxis and Mathe-logic Reformations in Babel of Voices, Tinuke’s Last Dance. It also reviews various feelings and excruciating experiences of the people. This provides a discursive analysis of society and constant need to x-ray those aspects of cultural trends that are problematic. The research is library oriented. Psychological and historical approaches are used in the study as theoretical framework to achieve greater result concerning issues raised in this study and writer’s lenses through the society. In a nutshell, the findings

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Lombardo, Andrea Laura. "Heterogeneity and self-referentiality in Things Fall Apart’s proverbs." Moderna Språk 112, no. 2 (2018): 63–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v112i2.7681.

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This article aims to provide a revisiting of the novel Things Fall Apart (1958) by the Nigerian essayist and writer Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) as regards the established notion in postcolonial studies which claims that African literature solely writes back to the western paradigm. The central thesis of this paper is that Achebe’s seminal first novel exhibits self-referential moments as do metafictional texts of the 1990s (Mwangi, 2009) to particularly focus on local nuances as well as colonial criticism. This self-reflexive technique foregrounds aspects of content and form that are especially e

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Concilio, Carmen. "The 'Cockroach' Waste and Wasted Life in World Literatures in English." Le Simplegadi 19, no. 21 (2021): 80–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.17456/simple-175.

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In this essay I intend to pursue a comparative reading of three postcolonial texts – in their intertextual and counter-canonical relationship with Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915) – that deal with the ethics, but also the aesthetics, of the relationship between humans and animals. By doing so, and with the help of the Kafkian critical apparatuses, particularly Deleuze and Guattari’s critical contribution (1986), which will be the core of this study, I will also examine the nexus between literature and the environment, with particular emphasis on waste, also taking into consideration the

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Muhammad Mubeen Shah and Dr. Muhammad Islam. "Comparing Social and Print Media News Headlines: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Journal of English Language, Literature and Education 7, no. 02 (2025): 170–92. https://doi.org/10.54692/jelle.2025.0702271.

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The clickbait content creation strategy on social media differs from the techniques used to construct headlines in traditional print media. Social media content creators generate their income through those links, whereas newspapers are purchased in bulk. In this context, this study presents an analysis that compares the use of linguistic choices in social and print media news headlines to engage readers. The study employed a qualitative approach, and a sample of six news headlines, comprising three from Daily Jang and three from social media pages, was analysed at two levels in the light of a

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Inya, Blessing T. "Linguistic Landscape of Religious Signboards in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria: Culture, Identity and Globalisation." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 9 (2019): 1146. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0909.11.

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This paper focuses on the linguistic landscape (LL) of religious signboards in select areas of Ado Ekiti, Nigeria with a view of establishing the relationship between the languages used on these signboards and the implication for identity, globalisation and culture. Fifty-three LL items were photographed for the study. The areas selected were based on activity level and the number of religious signboards they featured. The data were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings revealed the dominance and the pervasiveness of the English language over and across the other languag

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Durgesh Ravande and Prashant Takey. "A Feminist Analysis of the Changing Roles of Women in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah." Creative Saplings 2, no. 04 (2023): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.04.340.

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Chinua Achebe is one of the pioneering figures of African Fiction. In his several critical essays and interviews Achebe has discussed the role of an author belonging to a postcolonial country, and declared that he writes his fiction with a definite role. He has penned five novels including his masterpiece Things Fall Apart (1958) in which Achebe, with his realism, has taken up the task of telling his people the greatness and weaknesses of their Ibo culture. Here, the object of his criticism is the colonizer British exercising power under the guise of a civilizing mission. On the other hand, in

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Beatrice, Idowu OLUWADARE PhD. "Exploring the Theme of National Hope in the Poem "Homeless, Not Hopeless" For the Attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 04, no. 12 (2021): 3456–62. https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v4-i12-02.

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Nigeria is currently bewildered with lots of challenges which are negatively affecting all the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the attained in 2030. This paper attempts to bring to the fore these challenges and how students’ awareness and exploration of hope through Literature-in-English could serve as an antidote. It also presents various reasons Literature –in- English students should be advocates of sustainable development by inculcating right values and attitudes in bringing hope to the down trodden in the society at their different levels. It also reveals the

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Okam, Chinyere Lilian. "Women and the Girl Child: Creating a Conversational Space of Equality." International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities, no. 23 (July 5, 2021): 121–39. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5070101.

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Abstract The depiction of events in the society and storing the knowledge of such is an important forte of the dramaturge. Drama has been a very pertinent cultural form (whether textual or performative) through which writers create memory and knowledge of varying issues, especially issues of women and the girl child rights. Methodologically using content analysis of Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia and The Broken Calabash, the article explores the language of revolution against the domination of women and the girl child by patriarchal structures. It is anchored on Donal Cabaugh's th

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