Abstract: This study was designed to investigate the Influence of Cognitive Style and Gender on Students’ Achievement in Selected Areas of Mathematics. The design adopted for the study was survey research design. The findings from the analysis revealed that there was a significant influence of cognitive style and gender on students’ achievement in selected areas…
ABSTRACT: This research work examined Cultural Affirmation in Chinua Achebe’S Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God. With reference to the analysis of the two novels, the study has shown that Achebe’s novels dramatize African cultural conflicts during the colonial rule its consequences to African ways of life. The novels also portray the history of…
CONFLICT AND AFFIRMATION IN NGUGI WA THIONGIO’S A GRAIN OF WHEAT AND THE RIVER BETWEEN CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Ngugi Wa Thiongo is a leading African writers whose writings portray and examine cultural conflict and affirmation in African society. According to in his essay entitled, Home come, he contends that: Literature…
ABSTRACT: This study examined Feminism In Nigerian Theatre A Study Of Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again And Tess Onwueme’s The Reign Of Wazobia. The role of the theatre as a mirror to the society has long been settled. How factual does the theatre reflect the role of women is part of a…
ABSTRACT: This research work examined Political And Socio-Cultural Conflict In Chinua Achebe’s Anthills Of The Savannah And A Man Of The People. From the two selected novels under investigation, the study has revealed that the political and socio-cultural conflicts in our Nigerian societies is as the result of misleading and corrupt practices of some political…
ABSTRACT: This study examines The Theme of Disappointment in the Novels of Buchi Emecheta’s the Joys of Motherhood and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. With response to psychological pain and agony in the characters under investigation, the study portrays that disappointment, suffering and the emotional trauma caused by a situation which is appraised as an absence of a…
ABSTRACT: This research work examines Traditionalism And Modernism In Ama Aidoo’s The Dilemma Of A Ghost And Efua Sutherland’s The Marriage Of Anansewa. The two are strong Ghanaian writers who write strongly on the importance of African traditional and that of modern ones. The study also shows the different traditions guiding every society of the…
MARXISM IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE IN CHRIS EGHAREVBA’S CANOPY OF THUNDER AND FESTUS IYAYI’S VIOLENCE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Marxism is an economic and political theory that seeks the attention of class struggle in the society. This theory also drowns attention to the unfair and exploitation conditions, seeking to reverse the system…
THE DISPOSSESSED AND DISPOSSED IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND NGUGI WA THIONGO’S PETALS OF BLOOD CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ngugi Wa Thiongo are famous West and East African writers whose writings portrays, dramatic, displaced, dispossessed, violence, discrimination and disillusionment in the Nigeria, Kenya and…
ABSTRACT: This study is set out to analyze the issue of Poverty and Social Injustice in Festus Iyayi’s Violence and Peter Abraham’s Mine Boy. In Violence, the author pictures a society with two classes of people- the rich and poor, the oppressive forces fighting against the poor to submerge them in perpetual state of poverty…