This work explores Migration and Displacement in Afolabi‘s A Life Elsewhere and Adichie‘s Americanah.It investigates migration and the attendant displacement of the third world countries which is often premised on the illusion of the search for a good life. Migration is here explored in the light of how its attendant realities; of stere... Continue Reading
This study examines the important moral, traditional, education, etc. roles Hausa women folktales bequeathed to children. It seeks to analyse how tales contribute to the moral development of the Hausa child as well as establish the dominant themes and characters in the stories. It also analyses Hausa woman and folk narration, the roles played by th... Continue Reading
Poliomyelitis has over the years been proven to be one of the most contagious and dreaded childhood diseases. The effect of this disease ranges from general health discomfort due to physical deformation of legs, paralysis and early infant mortality. The adverse effects of Polio on children propelled intensive campaigns on the acceptance of Polio va... Continue Reading
Studies in child language indicate that social and environmental conditions affect the rate of language development in children. Most of these researches have been carried out in western countries with different sociolinguistic settings. The few available ones in Nigeria are longitudinal studies where each of the researchers used just one subject, ... Continue Reading
Marijuana abuse is said to be one of the commonest substance adopted by young people in recent times, particularly in Nigeria. More worrisome is the peculiar sociological and socio-economic problems youth find themselves in, as a result of indulgence in Marijuana use, such as reckless sexual activities, rape, murder, idleness, restlessness, interfe... Continue Reading
There have always been two traditions (structuralism and post-structuralism) in philosophy. One asserts that there are truths that are universal and eternal. They stand outside history and the physical world. Contemporary studies in African Literature have been forced to recognize the challenge of an alternative interpretive model by way of post-st... Continue Reading
Stress and its fatal consequences on health negatively affect the job performance and productivity of academic staff in our educational institutions. Against this backdrop, this research was carried out to assess the communication of stress management for healthy living and higher productivity among the academic staff of Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Continue Reading
Multilingual speech communities may appear similar on the surface yet they are different in several respects. These differences are not visibly manifest until they are investigated. In this regard therefore, the study has selected three (3) multilingual speech communities across three geo-political zones of Nigeria for comparison which are Billiri ... Continue Reading
The research, entitled â€�“A Contrastive Syntactic Study of the Sentence Structures of English and Igalaâ€Â� was undertaken as a contribution towards the development of contemporary Igala grammar. The work entailed looking at various constructions in Igala against similar constructions in English. The structural theory as employed by Quirk, G... Continue Reading
Every language often reveals what the people who use it see, feel and think; what they can talk about, and how they organize the world around them. Idioms and Proverbs are linguistic elements that address the heart of a discourse in any given context-truthfully and objectively. In Africa, and especially in Nigerian cultures, Idioms and Proverbs ar... Continue Reading
Among the Igbo people of South Eastern Nigeria, the art of conversation is regarded very highly and proverbs are seen as â€�“abubo e ji eri okwuâ€Â� that is (condiments to speech) or literally defined as â€�“the palm oil and salt with which words are eatenâ€Â�. Igbo proverbs have aesthetic appeals which have revealed that apart from bei... Continue Reading
The media is a powerful tool of influence in societies. Media interviews provide a special platform that showcases how language is used. This study focuses on the Pragmatic concepts of Face-Saving and Face-Threatening Acts on the BBC‘S HardTalk interview. It attempts to find out what kind of acts interlocutors on interviews perform; how face ... Continue Reading
This research preoccupies itself mainly with the pragmatic analysis of the use of euphemisms in Yoruba language. It sets out to examine euphemisms as used by Yoruba speakers and to analyse the dynamics that govern their use by identifying the direct and indirect acts performed by Yoruba speakers in the selected euphemisms and to investigate the ext... Continue Reading
This research explores the court praise songs of Zazzau Emirate. This particular research focuses its attention on who are these singers, what are their songs about and what constitute the themes and the literary styles employed in their royal court songs.The study features the songs of court singers in Zazzau Emirate such as Sarkin Sankiran Zazzau... Continue Reading
This study was conducted to appraise UNICEF‟s communication approaches for the Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) programme in Benue state. Child malnutritionhas been achallenging issue,with the IYCF programme deployingseveral communication approachesto reduce the level of malnutrition in Nigeria. This research was anchored on the Health B... Continue Reading