A Study of Archetypes in Mel Gibson and Kunle Afolayan Films CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background to the Study Jung (1938, 1959) is the philosopher credited with founding what is today known as analytical philosophy, which is also referred to as Jungian philosophy. This philosophy espouses the concepts of extraversion and introversion, as well as […]
A Study of Conjuncts and Cohesion in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The interpretation of a text is tied to the ability of the readers to not just make sense of the individual lexicon but also draw a connection between the groups of words, phrases […]
A Study of Signs in Selected Films The Concept of Semiotics The term semiotics has been in use since the seventeenth century. Accounts that it was spelled semeiotics, and was first used in English by Henry Stubbes (1670:75) to precisely denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs. Semiotics has its […]
A Stylistic Approach to Chimamanda Adichie’s Work A Case Study of Americanah ABSTRACT This project aims at investigating features of style in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah. It majorly focuses on identification of features of style in line with contemporary stylistics and the analysis of the same features through graphological, syntactic and semantic levels. The features under study include: […]
A Thematic Exploration, Adimora Ezeigbo’s Heat Songs and Evwierhoma’s Out of Hiding CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Although women play very significant roles in various spheres of Nigeria’s development, their contributions to the growth of the country are, often, not acknowledged or encouraged. For instance, the role of women in the development […]
An Analysis of Gender Relations in Zaynab Alkali’s the Virtuous Woman Abstract The human society exhibits nuances of conflicts overtly or covertly. Unfortunately, these conflicts permeate every strata even relationships. In the struggle for self actualisation and assertion by females, the study explores the gender relations in Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman. Therefore, methodology for […]
An Analysis of Modernism on Christopher Okigbo’s Labyrinths, with Path of Thunder What is modernism? The Modernist Period in English Literature occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965. In broad terms, the period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting […]
SUMMARY OF “SUNDIATA: AN EPIC OF OLD MALI” The epic of Sundiata is told by the griot (storyteller and keeper of history) Djeli Mamadou Kouyaté. He begins with details of Sundiata’s ancestors, as the force of history is important in the tale of the man whose victory will create the Mali Empire. Sundiata’s father, Maghan […]
An Analysis of Themes in African Literature, the Case of Nigerian Literature Themes of Colonialism, Liberation, Nationalism, Tradition, Displacement and Rootlessness in African Literature This paper deals with some of the themes in African literature such as colonialism, liberation, nationalism, tradition, displacement and rootlessness. First of all, it is necessary to have an idea about […]
An Examination of the Language of Sport in Nigeria ABSTRACT The issue of the existence of a language synonymous with sport often generates debates amongst scholars. Many regard it as simple an aspect of a language that describes sporting events as perceived by the language users and not as a full-fledged specialized language variety. This […]