Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has successfully bagged another top award by the UN Foundation Global Leadership. Chimamanda who has gotten over 16 awards since 2002 has been honored with the Global Leadership Award by the UN Foundation Global Leadership. She was recognized at the “We the Peoples,” the 2019 UN Foundation’s Global Leadership Dinner, […]
Summary of the Novel Trafficked is a novel that deals with the issues of human trade, that is, women trafficking through a series of reminiscences. Nneoma, the leading female character in the novel shows the trauma that goes with human trafficking; the deceit, the lies, the cons, and the slavery or servitude that goes hand […]
Abstract This Study analyses and discusses the pragmatically negation in selected U.S and Nigerian presidential speeches. It first examined the process of speaking as a form of intimated and supportive relationship that serves as cement that holds friendships, families, communities, societies and government together. The focus is on political discourse which is closely related to […]
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to identify the pragmatic acts of locution, illocution and perlocution of President Muhammadu Buhari’s speeches during the campaign build-up of the March 2015 general elections. To do this, the study adopted the Speech Act Theory of Austin (1962) and Searle (1969) using the illocutionary acts of expressive, commissive, declarative, directive, […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Primary Education is the first formal Education level. It is the education given in institutions for children aged six to eleven plus. This level of education has among its goals the inculcation of permanent literacy and numeracy and the ability to communicate effectively (Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004:14). […]
ABSTRACT This study undertakes a comparative analysis of the works of two Nigerian female novelists: Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa, it looks at the contemporary African society which is dominated by men. Little or no recognition is given to women thus they have been oppressed, depressed, subjected and neglected. In this regards African female writers […]
TABLE OF CONTENT PAGE Abstract CHAPTER ONE/INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study 1.2 Statement of the Problem 1.3 Objectives of the Study 1.4 Scope and limitation of the study 1.5 Significance of the Study 1.5 Methodology 1.6 .1 Biography of Buchi Emecheta 1.6.2 Biography of Flora Nwapa CHAPTER TWO: Introduction 2.1 Literature Review 2.1.1 A […]
REFLECTING THE TIMES: A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY IN SEFI ATTA’S EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME ABSTRACT This research work presents A Journey of Self-Discovery reflecting the times of Sefi Atta’s novel Everything Good Will Come. It has examined the growing up of a child from adolescence to adulthood. This research is subjected to textual analysis, using […]
THE MILITARY IN SELFI ATHA’S EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME AND NGOZI ADICIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Everything Good Will Come is about the coming-of-age of Enitan, the chief character, as she develops from a gripping aura of innocence to an assertive consciousness. Born into two tangled worlds – an […]
INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Theatre arose as a performance of ritual activities that did not require initiation on the part of the spectator. This similarity of early theatre to ritual is negatively attested by Aristotle, who in his Poetics defined theatre in contrast to the performances of sacred mysteries: theatre did not require the […]