Wole Soyinka has come to symbolise authority in Africa and world drama. His treatises and proclamations have attained such iconic reverence that his drama is often understood „only‟ by the wholesome acceptance of his „esteemed‟ authorial voice. Death and the King’s Horseman has been considered a masterpiece; Soyinkaâ... Continue Reading
Wole Soyinka has come to symbolise authority in Africa and world drama. His treatises and proclamations have attained such iconic reverence that his drama is often understood „only‟ by the wholesome acceptance of his „esteemed‟ authorial voice. Death and the King’s Horseman has been considered a masterpiece; Soyinkaâ... Continue Reading
Wole Soyinka has come to symbolise authority in Africa and world drama. His treatises and proclamations have attained such iconic reverence that his drama is often understood „only‟ by the wholesome acceptance of his „esteemed‟ authorial voice. Death and the King’s Horseman has been considered a masterpiece; Soyinkaâ... Continue Reading
Hardly can there be a discussion on literature without a reference to historical issues. The close relationship between literature and history makes it easier for literary writers to use historical events as raw material for their literary production. African American literary history is a rich history that writers from within and outside America h... Continue Reading
Historicism is a literary theory that focuses on historical events in works of art. It thus depict how historical issues are embedded in literature. The research entitled â€�“Adabi da Tarihanci: Nazarin Wasu Wasanni Na Rudolf Prietzeâ€Â�(Literature and Historicism: An Analysis of Some Plays by Rudolf Prietze) looks at how historical phenomena... Continue Reading
Recent approaches to community development are driven by some practices that fail to recognize the integral link between culture and development. For development to speak to the needs and realities of a people there is a need to re-conceptualize development as a process, one which examines how cultural forms such as festivals can inform developmen... Continue Reading
In spite of the huge conventional mass media campaign on HIV prevention in Ghana and its attendant high public awareness, there is low level adoption of some preventive measures by the public due to their limited involvement in the communication process as well as a knowledge gap about the disease as confirmed by Ghana Demography and Health Survey ... Continue Reading
This work entails an archaeological study of five hill settlements occupied by the Mernyang ethnic group in the southern part of the Jos Plateau. The research area was chosen because the Jos Plateau region especially its northern part, presents evidence for a very long period of human antiquity, however for the Qua‟anpan area in the south whi... Continue Reading
The Hausa culture just like many has been infiltrated by foreign ideologies. Hausa home video movies as a veritable tool for projecting and preservation of the Hausa culture have been perceived to be promoting and depicting foreign ideologies which are at variance with the tenets of the Hausa value system. These home videos movies have effectively ... Continue Reading
HIV/AIDS has remained a major threat to population health in developing countries and Nigeria in particular. The 2013 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) says though mortality rates differ by zones, the under-five mortality rate for the ten-year period before the survey ranges from 185 deaths per 1,000 live births in North West Zone to 90... Continue Reading
Occupation is a process whereby a human being uses the natural resources and endowments that God makes available for him to utilize for his survival. This research focuses on the influence of the strangers on selected Hausa traditional occupations and crafts in Kano from 1900-2015. As a framework for analysis, the research adopted two theories whic... Continue Reading
Occupation is a process whereby a human being uses the natural resources and endowments that God makes available for him to utilize for his survival. This research focuses on the influence of the strangers on selected Hausa traditional occupations and crafts in Kano from 1900-2015. As a framework for analysis, the research adopted two theories whic... Continue Reading
The use of common language by a specific group of people for a specific purpose is an important aspect in sociolinguistics. The ‘conductors‟ are group of people who share specific language among themselves or with their drivers, sometimes with the commuters. The research entitled â€�“Semantic and Syntactic Study of The Language of Bu... Continue Reading
This thesis titled „A Contrastive Analysis of Lexical and Phonological Variations in Enone and Enochi Varieties of Idoma Language‟ was embarked upon with the intention of investigating the lexical and phonological variations that exist in Enone and Enochi speech forms. The study examines and analyzes some of the differences and similari... Continue Reading
The research entitled â€�“A Comparative Study of Hausa and Bade Non-adverbial Itemsâ€Â� is an attempt to investigate into the fact that languages that belong to the same family normally exhibit some sort of similarities. Also they would have to differ in some areas especially due to the fact that they are different languages. The comparison w... Continue Reading