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...
Diana-Abasi I. Francis — University of Calabar
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
The paper analyzes the trend and nature of electoral violence in Nigeria. It places electoral violence in the context of Merton’s strain theory, Vold’s conflict theory and Hirschi’s social control theory in order to dete...
Chinedu B. Ajuruchi — Imo State Polytechnic
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
Harm to human life and the environment has been identified as a recurrent concomitance of many developmental projects in human society. Hence, to safeguard human life and the environment from development-induced harm, th...
Etiido Effiong Inyang — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
This article focuses on the creation, development and sustenance of the University Press and scholarly publishing in Nigeria using the growth challenges and peculiarities of the University of Port Harcourt Press as a cas...
