Ogochukwu Violet Okoye — Imo State University
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
Etiido EffiongWilliam Inyang
Printmaking as a dynamic and expressive art form has in recent times thrown up varying approaches to the making of multiple editioned original prints. The precursory developments of the printform and its adaptations in N...
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...
Tamunosiki V. Ogan — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the rational foundation of utilitarianism and the place of minorities in pursuance of their overall happiness. To this end, the paper juxtaposes the assumption of utilitarian princ...
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...
Emmanuel B. Eyo — University of Calabar
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 July 2017
The aim of this paper is to expose the thrust of Charles Darwin’s theory of social and biological evolution and also restate that his theory of evolution reveals some imperfections especially in the study of socio biolog...
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...
Akpofure Oduaran — Delta State University
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 February 2017
Pidgin and creoles, mixed languages and code-switching are some of the main outcomes of language contact. In Nigeria, as well as other ex-colonial countries in sub-saharan Africa, code-switching between the ex-colonial...
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...
