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AFTER DECOLONISATION: WHOSE KNOWLEDGE, WHOSE FUTURE? Power, Technology and the Making of African Thought
Political independence did not erase the intellectual structures established under colonia...
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Call For Papers
AFTER DECOLONISATION: WHOSE KNOWLEDGE, WHOSE FUTURE? Power, Technology and the Making of African Thought
Political independence did not erase the intellectual structures established under colonia...
Submit Now
Obari Gomba — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 05 July 2018
This paper examines the relationship between poetry and society as indicated by the creativity of poets. Poetry is an age-long form of art; it has existed across communities and cultures. Through its capacity to combine...
Jude Chinweuba Asike — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 01 July 2018
One of the most important areas of philosophy is that of the relationship the life after death. Quite often this has become a very important issue in the life of Igala people. They have an allowed interest in the concept...
Nasir Muhammad Abdulhameed — University of Jos
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 18 May 2018
The practice of female circumcision started in ancient Egypt and spread to other parts of the world. It was imbued in the cultures of different communities long before the coming of Islam. Female circumcision is carried...
Ikwor Ibe Afiauwa — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 18 May 2018
This paper examined the concern of the limitations of human language, which create a confusion of ideas and impairment of meaning, through a qualitative analysis of Willian Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The Ideational The...
Adiele, Chidi — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 03 July 2017
The initiation ceremony involves elaborate dances. Lifestyle after the initiation process is what matters most in men’s initiation ceremony. This research aims at documenting men’s initiation process and songs used in Ig...
Jones U. Odili — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
Adeline Iwo Lawson-Jack
Christian women associations in the 21st century are leading hundreds of community development programmes in line with the social gospel. Inherent in their style is their dedication in getting residents of their communit...
Nneka Umera-Okeke — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
Various approaches have been used to describe how women use language in the society. They range from the deficit approach, dominance and difference approaches to the modern social constructionist approach. This study obs...
Michael Alozie Nwala — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
Ijeoma Chidinma Cookey
This paper examines the semantic relations at the sentence level in two of Patience Jonathan’s 2015 Campaign Speeches. The meaning of a sentence can be altered by a word, a sentence or a previously uttered word or senten...
Basil S. Nnamdi — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
Ariche Chrisantus K
Man is an inquisitive being, a curious animal possessing an intellect
and endowed with an insatiable craving for knowledge. This incited
Aristotle to declare that all men by nature desire to know. Thus most
people...
John Ebimobowei Yeseibo — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 July 2017
The feminist goal is to usher in an integrated human society, one that is free of gender imbalance. The primary aim of feminism is to expunge from society all forms of male dominance, oppression, subjugation and marginal...
Goke A. Akinboye — University of Ibadan
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
Gill Oluwatosin Adekannbi
The idea of ‘the other’ and ‘otherness’ often relates to the state of a group being
different from certain individuals, groups or peoples. Over and over again, a
greater or superior group, using certain social distin...
Jordan Samson Rengshwat — University of Jos
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
A century and a half ago, Western democracy was unknown in many parts of
the world. Towards the end of colonialism this form of government began to
emerge in the non-Western world. As time went by, this form of gover...
Ime Usen — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
The emergence of feminist filmmaking in the Nigerian Video Film Industry collaborates with feminist literature to champion the cause of women in
Nigeria. The focus of this paper is to examine how women are presented an...
Sharp-Akosubo Dufua — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
En attendant le vôte des bêtes sauvages et Quand on refuse on dit non d’Ahmadou Kourouma sont en fait deux perspectives différentes à partir desquelles des narrateurs racontent l’histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique et su...
Emmanuel Uba — Covenant University
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
Edwin Onwuka
Oluwasegun Omidiora
The traditional teaching strategies adopted by many phonology teachers in
Nigeria are teacher-centric; students in this mode scarcely get the main idea,
rarely interact with the supporting ideas, and seldom grasp the...
