This study â€�“ASociolinguistic Analysis of Language Variation among the Academic and Non Academic Staff of Ahmadu Bello University, Zariaâ€Â�is preoccupied with the intrinsic relationship between language variation, sociolinguistics, social context and culture of individual as well as diverse groups in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. It esta... Continue Reading
A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER DEGREE IN ARABIC LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT OF ARABIC, FACULTY OF ARTS, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA Continue Reading
The social media platforms provide students with the opportunity to share educational materials interact and participate in group discussion that invariably improves their learning and ability to discourse academic issues. Alongside these opportunities comes the challenges of overdependence and misuse of the social media for other things osther tha... Continue Reading
One of the most serious problems facing Nigeria as a country today is the high incidence of the Tiv/Fulani conflict. The conflict has become so rampant that no day passes without an incident of conflict reported in the national newspapers in one part of the country or the other. Thus, it seems that the audacity of the perpetrators increases daily a... Continue Reading
The place and expression of Oral tradition in selected novels of Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison shows how oral tradition is able to link the past and present in terms of family origins and cultural identity at the same time. Since Africans were transported as slaves to America, they have nurtured and created a dynamic culture within a climate of i... Continue Reading
Rap music as one of the elements of hip hop culture originated in New York’s South Bronx neighbourhood in the late 1970s. Its lyrics provide a powerful lens through which to view the many dimensions of the African American predicament. As a form, Rap music is for African Americans the means to pen down their history and social circumstances ... Continue Reading
â€�“A stylistics study of literary analytical of Usman Jan Kurfi Poetryâ€Â� The thesis exposed artistically presentation of the poems. The research is comprises of four chapters and conclusion. The first chapter is an introduction which is contains the topic of this thesis, Reasons, Objectives, Significance, Limitations, Research Problems, Me... Continue Reading
This study examines, from a deconstructionist perspective, the interface of literature and philosophy through a literary-critical study of selected works of the 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose corpus has historically been appropriated by academic philosophers as a contribution to the truth-conditional propositions of phil... Continue Reading
Writers, world over, have ideas or phenomenon that influences their works in one way or the other. The phenomenon might not be mentioned or directly stated. At some point in time, these writers might even be unconscious or rather, oblivious of the influence(s) inherent in their works.This work takes a look at the Marxist theory as a tool, with a vi... Continue Reading
In the Nigerian state lies the problem of unity ever since its existence. Overtime, several linguists have tried to look at the diverse ethnolinguistic groups and a way out of Nigeria‟s persistent ethnic problems. Presently, Nigeria has about three hundred and fifty (350) ethnic groups alongside five hundred and twenty two (522) languages. Continue Reading
This thesis titled â€�“Text, Nature and Representation: An Ecocritical Reading of Selected Caribbean Novels,â€Â� examines the depiction of nature in relation to culture in Michael Anthony’s The Year in San Fernando (1965), Herbert G. De Lisser’s Jane’s Career (1972), Earl Lovelace’ The Dragon Can’t Dance (19... Continue Reading
This thesis examines the structural configuration of the autobiography and how various components from its narrative structure to theme and textuality interact in creating the autobiographical form. The exploration of these elements and how they are juxtaposed in Muhammad Asad‟s The Road to Makkah reveals that the form is essentially structur... 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 byRudolf Prietze) looks at how historical phenomena ... 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