Abstract: This research work is on the Dispossessed and Dispossed in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s purple Hibiscus and Ngugi Wathiongo’s Petals of Blood. There are three forms of dispossession which are identified in these two selected novels. They are psychological, political and cultural dispossession. In Purple Hibiscus for instance, the author writes about the obnoxious cultural…
Abstract: This research work examined Perceived Factors and Parents Attitudes towards Girl Child Education in Oruk Anam Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. A survey research was conducted using a self-developed and validated instrument. Copies of the questionnaires were administered to teaching and non-teaching staff of five (5) secondary schools and the hypotheses formulated…
Abstract: This research examined the Socio-Cultural Discrimination in Buchi Emecheta’s the Joys of Motherhood and Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. Buchi Emecheta is one of the most important female writers to emerge from Nigeria. She is distinguished for her vivid description of female subordination and conflicting cultural values in modern Africa. In Emecheta’s The Joys of…
Abstract: This research examined Parental Styles and Academic Performance of Junior Secondary School Students in Uyo Local Government Area. Three null hypotheses was stated and tested at 0.05 level of significant and was analyzed using independent t-test statistics. The result obtained reveals that parenting style such as: democratic and permissive home, high parental and low…
FEMALE SUBJUGATION IN SOME FEMALE WRITERS; AN EXAMINATION OF MARIAMA BA’S SO LONG A LETTER AND BUCHI EMECHETA’S SECOND CLASS CITIZEN CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Traditionally, African women have experienced low status of subjugation, oppression, cultural domination and patriarchal suppression. Looking at female subjugation as portrayed by Mariama Ba and Buchi…
Abstract: This research work dealt with Societal Perception and Female Students Participation in Sporting Activities among Secondary Schools. The study was conducted in Uruan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire for the respondents. The sample size of the study consisted of seventy five female students…
Abstract: The research is an analysis of Revenue Allocation and Agitation for Resource Control in Niger Delta Area. The main objective of the research was to examine revenue allocation to Niger delta between 1999-2007 and analyze how this revenue was utilized in some key sectors of the state economy. The idea is to establish the…
IMPACT OF WESTERN EDUCATION IN THE SOCIETY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY For a start, someone might argue that colonialism, slave trade and missionaries are the bastion of Western education in Africa. This is true to the extent that colonialism serves as a vehicle of implantation of cultural imperialism in Africa. Colonialism,…
Abstract: This research work examine the Impact of Western Education on African Culture in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State as the case study. The central argument stems from the submission that colonialism, slave trade and missionary are the platform upon which Western education thrive and are sustained. While insisting that Western education…
Abstract: This research examined Internal Control Variables and Profit Maximization in Medium Scale Enterprises in Akwa Ibom State. It is so worrisome that medium and small scale enterprises in Nigeria have not performed creditably and they have not played the expected significant role in economic growth. They have not influenced apprentice training so as to…