Feminist Aesthetic in Zaynab Alkali’s the Stillborn and the Virtuous Woman

Feminist Aesthetic in Zaynab Alkali’s the Stillborn and the Virtuous Woman   Abstract of Feminist Aesthetic in Zaynab Alkali’s the Stillborn and the Virtuous Woman The study has examined the extent of the marginalization of the African woman in a sexist society which relegates womanhood to gender roles. It has discovered, for instance that the…

Feminist Aesthetics in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again and Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun

Feminist Aesthetics in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again and Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun   Abstract of Feminist Aesthetics in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again and Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun Feminism as a concept gained approval the help of some male feminist writers who write for the sake of women liberation but…

Feminist Perspectives in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes and Ifeoma Okoye’s Behind the Clouds

Feminist Perspectives in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes and Ifeoma Okoye’s Behind the Clouds   Abstract of Feminist Perspectives in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes and Ifeoma Okoye’s Behind the Clouds There are different perspectives to gender issues, but this work has limited its review to the womanist perspective in Aidoo’s CHANGES and Okoye’s BEHIND THE CLOUDS.  In establishing the perspective,…

Folklore and the Quest for Re-invention a Study of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Hope Eghagha’s Death Not a Redeemer

Folklore and the Quest for Re-invention a Study of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Hope Eghagha’s Death Not a Redeemer   Abstract of Folklore and the Quest for Re-invention a Study of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Hope Eghagha’s Death Not a Redeemer Folklore as an aspect of the…

Gender Discourse in the Nigerian Society (a Case Study of the Female Gender in Tess Onwuemes Go Tell It to Women)

Gender Discourse in the Nigerian Society (a Case Study of the Female Gender in Tess Onwuemes Go Tell It to Women)   Abstract of Gender Discourse in the Nigerian Society (a Case Study of the Female Gender in Tess Onwuemes Go Tell It to Women) Genderism, an apt neologism for gender equilibrium in literary discourse…

Gender Ideology and Social Crises in Ifeoma Okoye’s Behind the Clouds and Men Without Ears

Gender Ideology and Social Crises in Ifeoma Okoye’s Behind the Clouds and Men Without Ears   Abstract of Gender Ideology and Social Crises in Ifeoma Okoye’s Behind the Clouds and Men Without Ears Academic exploration into gender issues in literature and culture has taken a new dimension. The trends in writings and discourses have been…

Images of Social Vices in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry (a Study of Denja Abdullahi’s Mairogo and Jide Balogun’s the Desert in the River)

Images of Social Vices in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry (a Study of Denja Abdullahi’s Mairogo and Jide Balogun’s the Desert in the River)   Abstract of Images of Social Vices in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry (a Study of Denja Abdullahi’s Mairogo and Jide Balogun’s the Desert in the River) As a result of social vices in our…

Politics and Aesthetics in Selected Plays of Wole Soyinka

Politics and Aesthetics in Selected Plays of Wole Soyinka   Abstract of Politics and Aesthetics in Selected Plays of Wole Soyinka This study has been embarked upon to present the politics and aesthetics in selected plays of Wole Soyinka paying much attention to his The Beatification of Area Boy and Kongi’s Harvest. The study has been able to extract…

Post–colonialism and Literary Aesthetics (a Study of Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and a Dance of the Forests)

Post–colonialism and Literary Aesthetics (a Study of Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and a Dance of the Forests)   Abstract of Post–colonialism and Literary Aesthetics (a Study of Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and a Dance of the Forests) Post-colonialism and Literary aesthetics are integral aspect of literature which has contributed immensely to…

Pragmatic Features of Nigerian English (a Case Study of Selected Poems of Bayo Adebowale)

Pragmatic Features of Nigerian English (a Case Study of Selected Poems of Bayo Adebowale)   Abstract of Pragmatic Features of Nigerian English (a Case Study of Selected Poems of Bayo Adebowale) This essay focused on the pragmatic features of Nigeria English as used in literatures, using the selected poems of Bayo Adebowale as a case…

Symbols of Decadence in Ayi Kwei Armah’s the Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Symbols of Decadence in Ayi Kwei Armah’s the Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born   Abstract of Symbols of Decadence in Ayi Kwei Armah’s the Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born This work introduces the major variable in this research topic as well as gives a brief background of the text adopted for critical analysis….

Syntactic and Lexico-semantic Analyses of Selected Sms Text Messages

Syntactic and Lexico-semantic Analyses of Selected Sms Text Messages   Abstract of Syntactic and Lexico-semantic Analyses of Selected Sms Text Messages 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…

The Concept of Feminism in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen and Okoye Ifeoma’s Behind the Clouds

The Concept of Feminism in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen and Okoye Ifeoma’s Behind the Clouds   Abstract of The Concept of Feminism in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen and Okoye Ifeoma’s Behind the Clouds This essay tends to explain what Feminism is all about. It tries to bring out the idea of feminism in…

The Effects of Nigerian Pidgin English in University Community

The Effects of Nigerian Pidgin English in University Community   Chapter One of The Effects of Nigerian Pidgin English in University Community Introduction: One of the most important differences between man and animal is man’s ability to speak and make others understand him. Language is only possible because within each society, people agree to understand…

The Impact of Yoruba Language on the Spoken English of Students (Indigenes) of Ilorin (Township)

The Impact of Yoruba Language on the Spoken English of Students (Indigenes) of Ilorin (Township)   Abstract of The Impact of Yoruba Language on the Spoken English of Students (Indigenes) of Ilorin (Township) This study has set out to find the influence of Yoruba Language on the sound system of spoken English Language among the…

The Influence of English Language on Our Nigerian Indigenous Languages: Examples of Borrowing From English Into Yoruba by Unilorin Undergraduates

The Influence of English Language on Our Nigerian Indigenous Languages Examples of Borrowing From English Into Yoruba by Unilorin Undergraduates   Abstract of The Influence of English Language on Our Nigerian Indigenous Languages Examples of Borrowing From English Into Yoruba by Unilorin Undergraduates Generally speaking, it seems unlikely that English will cease to be used…

The Mythological Icons in Amos Tutuola the Palm-wine Drinkard

The Mythological Icons in Amos Tutuola the Palm-wine Drinkard   Abstract of The Mythological Icons in Amos Tutuola the Palm-wine Drinkard 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…

The Osun Osogbo Festival: Its Functions and Aesthetics.

The Osun Osogbo Festival Its Functions and Aesthetics.   Chapter One of The Osun Osogbo Festival Its Functions and Aesthetics. Introduction Festival is an event usually set by a local community. It centres on and some unique Aspects of that community. It is a set of activities and practice designed to entertain the People of…

The Role of Women in the Socio- Economic Development of Nigeria as in the Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

The Role of Women in the Socio- Economic Development of Nigeria as in the Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta   Chapter One of The Role of Women in the Socio- Economic Development of Nigeria as in the Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Traditionally the experience of marriage and…

The Sociological Indices of African Drama (a Study of Wole Soyinka’s the Beatification of Area Boy a Lagosian Kaleidoscope and Olu Obafemi’s Scapegoats and Sacred Cows)

The Sociological Indices of African Drama (a Study of Wole Soyinka’s the Beatification of Area Boy a Lagosian Kaleidoscope and Olu Obafemi’s Scapegoats and Sacred Cows)   Abstract of The Sociological Indices of African Drama (a Study of Wole Soyinka’s the Beatification of Area Boy a Lagosian Kaleidoscope and Olu Obafemi’s Scapegoats and Sacred Cows)…

Theme of Vengeance in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Merchant of Venice.

Theme of Vengeance in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Merchant of Venice.   Chapter One of Theme of Vengeance in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Merchant of Venice. INTRODUCTION Vengeance is depicted in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Merchant of Venice the major theme was a social phenomenon during Shakespeare’s days. England then was a proud nation and…

Traditional Aesthetics Transfer and the African Novelists: a Study of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Laye’s the African Child

Traditional Aesthetics Transfer and the African Novelists a Study of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Laye’s the African Child   Chapter One of Traditional Aesthetics Transfer and the African Novelists a Study of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Laye’s the African Child INTRODUCTION Reading through African novels, this research work was triggered by a lot…

Utopianism and Charaterisation in Aminata Sowfall’s the Begger’s Strike and Sembene Ousmane’s Xala

Utopianism and Charaterisation in Aminata Sowfall’s the Begger’s Strike and Sembene Ousmane’s Xala Chapter One of 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…

A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Influence of Gender on the Language Use of 400 Level Students

A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Influence of Gender on the Language Use of 400 Level Students   Abstract of A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Influence of Gender on the Language Use of 400 Level Students The thrust of this study is a sociolinguistic analysis of the gender on language use. The method of investigation used…

A Stylistic Analysis of Organisational Signals and Sub-thematic Identification Elements in Selected Nigerian Newspaper Articles

A Stylistic Analysis of Organisational Signals and Sub-thematic Identification Elements in Selected Nigerian Newspaper Articles   Abstract of A Stylistic Analysis of Organisational Signals and Sub-thematic Identification Elements in Selected Nigerian Newspaper Articles The aim of this study thesis is to investigate organizational signals (textual cohesion) and sub-thematic identification (paragraph development) as the basic elements…

A Systemic Text Linguistic Study of Selected Nigerian Novels

A Systemic Text Linguistic Study of Selected Nigerian Novel   Abstract of A Systemic Text Linguistic Study of Selected Nigerian Novels The aim of this research was to do an in-depth study of the variations in language as used by the various novelists in the novels selected for this study. The objectives of the study…

Facts and Fiction in Nigerian War Prose: Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

Facts and Fiction in Nigerian War Prose Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun   Abstract of Facts and Fiction in Nigerian War Prose Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun “Fact” is something actual as opposed to invented;…

Language of Persuasion: an Analysis of the Inaugural Speeches of Presidents Jonathan and Buhari

Language of Persuasion an Analysis of the Inaugural Speeches of Presidents Jonathan and Buhari   Abstract of Language of Persuasion an Analysis of the Inaugural Speeches of Presidents Jonathan and Buhari This research studied the language of persuasion of inaugural speeches in Nigeria to find out their use of rhetorical appeals. It investigated certain linguistic…

Race, Identity and Perspectives of African American Women in the Selected Works of Toni Morrison and Rita Dove

Race, Identity and Perspectives of African American Women in the Selected Works of Toni Morrison and Rita Dove   Abstract of Race, Identity and Perspectives of African American Women in the Selected Works of Toni Morrison and Rita Dove This study is concerned with an appraisal of Race, Identity and Perspectives of African American Women…