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West African English in Digital Discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper applies sociolinguistic and discourse-analytical approaches to examine the features of West African English (WAE) in digital discourse. Data comprises 23,374 posts and responses from some popular social and political online forums hosted by ...
Chiluwa, Innocent
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Ethical Dilemmas in Contemporary Igbo Christian Marriages: Navigating Modernity and Cultural Identities

open access: yesReligions
This study explores the ethical dilemmas in contemporary Igbo Christian marriages as couples navigate the interaction between modernity and cultural identities.
Kanayochukwu Michael Okoye   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The media, ethnicity and religion as determinants of failed republics in Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper analyses the covert influence of ethnicity and religion on the media and voting in Nigerian elections and demonstrates how previous Nigerian republics have been hindered because of the impact of ethnic disservice and election crises, thereby ...
Oboh, Godwin Ehiarekhian
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Derivations in O̩ni̩cha Igbo

open access: yesAFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2016
The paper examined derivation as one of the word formation processes in the Ọnịcha variety of Igbo. Derivation is defined in the literature as one of the productive processes of word formation. It is achieved in Ọnịcha mainly through the process of affixation. This paper studied derivation in the dialect through the processes of affixation.
openaire   +3 more sources

Nigerian video-films on history: Love in Vendetta and the 1987 Kano riots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper considers a Nigerian video-film from 1996, Love in vendetta, featuring Zack Orji and inspired by the 1987 Kano riots, one of the many incidences of violent outbreaks which opposed Christians to Muslims in the 1980s and resulted in thousands of
Ugochukwu, Francoise
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Peace in Isaiah 2:1-4 as an eschatological reality: implications for peace in the contemporary society

open access: yesNsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies, 2020
Isa 2:1-4 is usually referred to as Isaiah’s oracle of peace and nonviolence. Isaiah looked forward to a time when humans will reject war and embrace peace; when weapons of war will be transformed into implements of agriculture and human wellbeing.
Philip Igbo
doaj  

Challenging the Colonial Stereotypes or Conforming to Them: Investigating Achebe’s Intent in Things Fall Apart [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2019
Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart attempts to depict the pre-colonial Igbo life, culture and traditions along with the systematic description of a fully functioning administration, religion, justice system, social and family rituals of the Igbo ...
A. B. M. Shafiqul Islam   +1 more
doaj  

That old time religion in West Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
African Studies Center Working Paper No.
McCall, Dan
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The dynamics of fish trade in North-East Nigeria: a case study of Doron Baga [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper, which is based on field research in Doron Baga and Maiduguri, attempts to describe and analyse the main determinants of the fish trade in North-east Nigeria with Doron Baga as the main focus.
Gazali, Waziri Ahmad, Mukhtar, Yakubu
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Autour de la mort prématurée dans l’oralité igbo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This study, based on nine folktales recorded between 1972 and 1987 in Anambra, Enugu and Imo States of Nigeria, considers the traditional attitude towards untimely deaths, especially repeated children’s deaths as presented in oral literature. The article
Ugochukwu, Françoise
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