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51) SOCIO-POLITICAL MOTIFS IN NIYI OSUNDARE’S THE EYE OF THE EARTH AND VILLAGE VOICES

ABSTRACT Literary scholars believed that literature serves as one of the viable tools for transforming and liberating the society from it ills. This study however attempted to investigate the socio-political motifs in Niyi Osundare’s  the Eye of the Earth and Village voices. The researcher applied the Marxist theory in order to have a clearer... Continue Reading

52) SYNTACTIC AND LEXICO-SEMANTIC ANALYSES OF SELECTED SMS TEXT MESSAGES AMONG THE UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN STUDENTS

 ABSTRACT Words form the basis for a Linguistic analysis at any level of language study. The aim of this essay was to identify the various Lexical and Syntactic elements that make up personal text messages among the students of the University of Ilorin. Lexical features, Lexical relations, Word-formation processes and Word Sequences were employed... Continue Reading

53) THE IMPACT OF YORUBA LANGUAGE ON THE SPOKEN ENGLISH OF STUDENTS (INDIGENES) OF ILORIN (TOWNSHIP)

ABSTRACT This study has set out to find the influence of Yoruba Language on the sound system of spoken English Language among the indigenous Ilorin Yoruba undergraduate students. It was to find out the features that distinguish Ilorin Yoruba accent from the Received Pronunciation. The Recorded speech of fifty selected undergraduate students from... Continue Reading

54) THE MYTHOLOGICAL ICONS IN AMOS TUTUOLA THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD

ABSTRACT This project explores the Amos Tutuola’s Palm – Wine Drinkard in terms of it’s use of mythological icons. In particular, the project seeks to explore the novel as an important artifact and a literary product of social existence. It examines how “authencity” is signified in The Palm – Wine Drinkard as it is written by a native... Continue Reading

55) THE SOCIOLOGICAL INDICES OF AFRICAN DRAMA: A STUDY OF WOLE SOYINKA’S THE BEATIFICATION OF AREA BOY: A LAGOSIAN KALEIDOSCOPEAND OLU OBAFEMI’S SCAPEGOATS AND SACRED COWS

ABSTRACT A persisting tendency in African Drama has remained a careful evaluation and a critical analysis of the African society for the purpose of heralding the cultural virtues and attacking the vices prevalent in the African society for a general social transformation.  Drama has been defined as the mimesis of life on stage before a given... Continue Reading

56) THEMATIC EXPLORATION OF BUCHI EMECHETA THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD AND SECOND CLASS CITIZEN

ABSTRACT This long essay is a thematic exploration of Buchi Emechata’s The Joys of Motherhood and Second Class Citizen both of which focus on Feminism as a worldwide social theory, ideology and political movement directed at changing the existing power relations between man and woman. The works identified sociolinguistic factors such as age,... Continue Reading

57) THEMES AND IMAGERY IN SELECTED ROMANTIC POEMS

ABSTRACT This study is set out to analyze the themes and use of imagery of the Romantic period in William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much With Us” and “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” and William Blake’s “London” and “The Garden of Love”. The purpose is to enlighten readers on the need for the return of man back to nature as... Continue Reading

58) TRADITIONAL AESTHETICS TRANSFER AND THE AFRICAN NOVELISTS: A STUDY OF ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART AND LAYE’S THE AFRICAN CHILD

ABSTRACT African novelists draw their raw materials from different sources, some draw their raw materials from the folktales being told at night, some writes about the village life before the Colonial masters while some transfer the beauty in African tradition into their works. Laye’s The African Child and Achebe’s Things fall Apart are... Continue Reading

59) UTOPIANISM AND CHARATERISATION IN AMINATA SOWFALL’S THE BEGGER’S STRIKE AND SEMBENE OUSMANE’S XALA

INTRODUCTION Though a lot of people have written Utopianism and characterization, but this research work is to assess Utopianism in Aminata Sowfall’s The Beggars Strike and Sembene Ousmane’s Xala through the use of characterization. Hegel’s in the phenomenology of spirit maintains that as a warning against all forms of Utopianism, similar... Continue Reading

60) THE SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF SLANG AND JAGONS IN THE NIGERIAN MILITARY BARRACKS: A STUDY OF SELECTED BARRACKS IN LAGOS STATE

ABSTRACT The role language plays in the context of society or the individual is also referred to by the term function.  Language is used to communicate ideas, to express attitudes, and so on. It may also be used to identify specific situations such as informality or intimacy. Language can also come as slang. While slang is a variety of speech... Continue Reading

61) A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE NOUN PHRASE OF THE NIGERIAN PIDGIN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ABSTRACT   This study compared noun phrase in Nigerian Pidgin (NP) and the English language. It was noted that NP developed as a contact language due to trade interaction with European explorers and eventual colonial masters. Researches have shown the dynamism and complexity of the NP and have sought to establish grammatical structures for the NP... Continue Reading

62) TRUE AND FAIR VIEW CONCEPT

INTRODUCTION    The “true and fair view concept is one of two competing but not mutually exclusive legal standards for financial reporting quality that have been subjected to serious debated  on their meaning use and importance. The other is presently fare in conformity with vernally accepted accounting principles. While the former is closely... Continue Reading
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  • ID:ENG0540
  • Pages:110

63) A LINGUISTIC - STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF SOME SELECTED POEMS IN NIYI OSUNDARE'S "A CITY WITHOUT PEOPLE"

ABSTRACT This research effort sets out to examine the stylistic features employed by Niyi Osundare in the poems, “the Language of Pain”, “Death Came Calling”, “with the Nib of a Borrowed Pen”, “The weeping Book”, and “The Lake came to my House”, culled from the anthology titled “A City Without People”. It also aims at... Continue Reading

64) LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENT IN AYI KWEI ARMAH’S THE BEAUTYFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN

ABSTRACT This long essay proposes an analytic and a cross-analytic review of the language choice of environment in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. The novel tells the story of a character, simply called “the Man” who is surrounded by corruption in a corrupt West African state, and how he (the Man) struggles to keep out... Continue Reading

65) COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HEROISM IN BEOWULF AND SUNDIATA

ABSTRACT  One wonders what the importance of comparing the acts of heroism in Beowulf and Sundiata is, since these two epics are products of two distinct and distanced cultures. In the quest to find out the essence of heroism in this context, the researcher was compelled to study both epics, partly for its own merit and also to peer into the... Continue Reading

66) STRATEGIES USED BY SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR PROMOTING CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS AT THE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

The work centred on the approaches or methods used by English teachers in the junior secondary schools in teaching and promoting creative writing skills. The rationale for the study arose from the poor creativity observed among junior secondary school students. Most of them can not even write a composition about themselves. The fault may not... Continue Reading

67) GENDER COMPLEMENTARITY IN IFEOMA OKOYE'S BEHIND THE CLOUDS AND AKACHI ADIMORA-EZEIGBO'S HOUSE OF SYMBOLS.

ABSTRACT This study examines issues that border on the marriage institution and gender complementarity in the African/Nigerian society. The genders, more especially the female gender have all of a sudden become uncomfortable with their natural roles in matrimony as they now prefer the roles of their male counterpart. This has resulted to domestic... Continue Reading
  • Type:Project
  • ID:ENG0535
  • Pages:112

68) REALISM IN NURUDDIN FARAHS CROSSBONES

Realism in Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones is the realistic analysis of the effect of war in  Somalia. It mainly explores the realistic nature of war. Realism in Literature is the accurate representation of reality.... Continue Reading

69) AFROPOLITANISM AND THE CRISES OF IDENTITY IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE'S AMERICANAH AND TEJU COLE'S OPEN CITY

This is my B.A. long essay submitted to the department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria where I bagged Bachelor of Arts in English.  Abstract The experience of migration, exile, globalisation, identity, and their effects of hybridity, poly valency, Afropolitanism, cultural fusion, cross-ethnicity, transnationality and intermixture have... Continue Reading

70) CULTURE AND LANGUAGE IN AFRICAN LITERATURE: A STUDY OF CHINUA ACHEBE'S ARROW OF GOD

Abstract  There  is  a  symbiotic  relationship  between  language,  culture  and  literature  as  each reinforces, projects and distills the other. The need for the projection of African culture had  informed the development of  modern African literature which serves to enlighten, educate and showcase African worldview, practices... Continue Reading

71) RE-WRITING THE PAST AND THE DILEMMA OF SOCIAL RELEVANCE IN TOYIN ABIODUN’S THE TRIALS OF AFONJA AND THE MARRIAGE OF ARIKE

This is a research on Toyin Abiodun's drama texts 'The Marriage of Arike' and 'The Trials of Afonja' describing it as books on history and African culture using the theory 'New Historicism'. ABSTRACT Many writers resort borrowing and incorporating elements of culture in their works other to preserve from extinction. The writers in this time... Continue Reading

72) FOLKTALES AND PROVERBS IN AFRICAN MYTHICAL TRADITION: A STUDY OF K. SELLO DUIKER'S HIDDEN STARS AND CHINUA ACHEBE'S ARROW OF GOD

Folktales and folklore which are traditional art, literature, knowledge and practice disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral examples were initially collected and documented by some writers for culture preservation only because they felt that these elements of folklore are going into extinction and need to be frozen in... Continue Reading

73) THE DYNAMICS AND EXIGENCY OF THE QUEST FOR SELF IDENTITY: A PSYCHOANALYTIC EXPLORATION OF JUDE DIBIA’S UNBRIDLED AND WALKING WITH SHADOWS

This research work presents a focus on the nature and nuances of identity, through the lens of psychoanalysis and queer criticism respectively for the two novels under study. ABSTRACT  Axiomatically, identity is the defining pivot of our lives; therefore, it is an exigency. The struggle for identity  and self-realisation forms  the overriding... Continue Reading

74) RE-VISIONING HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE NIGERIAN NOVEL: A STUDY OF JUDE DIBIA’S WALKING WITH SHADOWS AND CHINELO OKPARANTA’S UNDER THE UDALA TREES

ABSTRACT Queer studies in Nigerian literature seem to still be stuck in the situation Chris Dunton described in 1989 claiming that homosexuality has been denied history by African writers. There has been a proliferation of works handling characters that are homosexual since the turn of the 21st Century, and not in the usual stereotypical and... Continue Reading

75) THEMES AND STYLE / LANGUAGE IN FOREIGN GODS INC. BY OKEY NDIBE

This work examine the themes and style employs by Okey Ndibe in Foreign Gods Inc. which captures or demonstrates the contemporary decadence in Nigeria and Nigerians in diaspora as well as Africa as a whole. However, this work basically uses qualitative methodology of textual analysis of the novel, Foreign Gods Inc. It adopts the formalistic... Continue Reading
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