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The semantic effects of verb raising and its consequences in second language grammars [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article considers whether highly proficient second language speakers of English can distinguish meaning contrasts associated with constructions where there is a raising be, and constructions where there is a non-raising thematic verb, as illustrated
Casillas, G   +8 more
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Policy Issues of e-Commerce Technology Diffusion in Southeast Nigeria: The Case of Small Scale Agribusiness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The benefits brought about by the emergence of e-commerce, e-business and other Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) applications have not been fully explored in the developing economies of the world.
Bartholomew, Aleke   +2 more
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COVID-19 and the Food Deficit Economy in Southeastern Nigeria

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2021
This study examines the significant impact of the total lockdown adopted by the Nigerian government to checkmate the spread of Coronavirus in the country.
Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Igbo pre-colonial norms and values as pillars for the sustenance of post-colonial Igbo society

open access: yesNsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies, 2021
The thrust of this work is on engineering the pre-colonial norms and values, embedded in Ala (earth-goddess deity) to contend the contemporary moral decadency prevalent in Igboland.
Chinonso E. Agbo
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Education and Gendered Roles in Post-Adjustment Igbo Society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The impact of Igbo lost the 1967-70 making Biafra-Nigeria war was of collective punishment of the Igbo through the policy of marginalization and exclusion. This strategy of disempowerment imposed a heavy price on the Igbo attitude to education.
Ajayi, O. O.   +3 more
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Changing Nigerian cultures: two films against witchcraft and an impossible dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The prominent place of witchcraft in Nollywood films produced in the 1990s is widely acknowledged, and has prompted a number of comments from critics.
Ugochukwu, Françoise
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PRESCRIPTIVE AND PROSCRIPTIVE FEMALE GENDER ROLE PROVERBS IN TONY UCHENNA UBESIE’S ISI AKWU DARA N’ALA i

open access: yesProverbium, 2015
Traditionally, the Igbo culture is remarkable for its prescriptive and proscriptive gender stereotypes for women. Most of the time, if a woman does not subscribe to these gender roles, she is considered a bad woman and sometimes, ostracized.
Mary Mba
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THE CONCEPT OF ‘ALA BỤ ALA’: A SIGNAL FOR IGBO EXTINCTION

open access: yesInternational Studies Journal, 2023
Igbo people has been known as the ethnic group that is most travelled. They do not only travel but also prosper in foreign lands, build houses, feel at home and relax in another man’s land.
CYPRIAN CHIDOZIE EZE   +1 more
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Auteurs igbo (Nigeria): du choix de la langue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Le pays igbo, au sud-est du Nigeria, est depuis une cinquantaine d’années une pépinière d’écrivains anglophones, romanciers pour la plupart, dont le plus connu en France est Chinua Achebe, du fait, entre autres, que son premier roman, traduit en 1966, a ...
Ugochukwu, Françoise
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Things Fall Apart and Chinua Achebe’s Postcolonial Discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Chinua Achebe, the contemporary Nigerian novelist, is considered as one of the prominent figures in African anti-colonial literature. What makes his works specific is the way he approaches the issues of colonization of Africa in an ...
Salami, Ali, Shoar, Bamshad Hekmat
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