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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
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...
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...
