CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The study of English grammar is considered an important aspect of the learning of English in Nigeria and in the world as a whole. One of the aims of the English language syllabus by the ministry of education is to enable pupils, students and the undergraduates to…
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The term “syntax” comes from the Greek language, meaning “arrange together.” The term is also used to mean the study of the syntactic properties of a language. In linguistics for instance, “syntax” refers to the rules that govern the ways in which words are combined to form…
Abstract: This research work examines the theme of childlessness and its effect in African society in Flora Nwapa’s one is enough and Buchi Emecheta’s the joys of motherhood. Over the years, the ugly and humiliating treatment meted out to childless women in African societies and the subsequent misrepresentation of these women characters in this literary…
Abstract: The research work examined female socio-cultural and religious problems in Nawal El Saadawi’s woman at point zero and Mariama Ba’s so long a letter. Over the years, the challenges facing the female folk is that of cultural and religious problems. It is also discovered that, several cultural practices affects the females. As examined by…
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Satire in African literature has been in existence for a long period of time. It is also a fashionable tool used by playwrights, critics and various individuals in reforming societies which are engulfed in socio-political conflict, social, religious and moral decadence as well as attacking unwholesome attitudes…
ABSTRACT: This project is on a critical study of The Theme Of Moral Reformation in Children Literature in Alice Obong-Eren’s Give Me a Chance and Umoinyang’s The Sacred Cow. The purpose of the study was to examine the theme of the moral reformation in children’s literature using the two novels mentioned above. Obong-Eren’s Give Me…
Abstract: This study examines Satire in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again and Femi Osofisan’s Midnight Hotel. It is discovered in the study satire can be seen as a work which portrays the social vices, crimes and absurdities of men individuals in a society. The study also shown that Rotimi and Osofisan are…
Abstract: This research work examines literature and reformation in children in Umoinyang Umoinyang’s the sacred cow and Joseph Akpabio’s successful failure. It is discovered in the study that literature is a work of art that examines a people’s culture, tradition their historical and experiences. While reformation means making changes to something with the intention of…
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study The emergence of African female writers into the male dominated African literature is seen in the twentieth century which consequently brings a conscious art of feminist ideology. Feminist on the other hand write for equality between men and women. Feminist movement is sometimes called the women’s liberation…
Abstract This research work examines widowhood and conflict Resolution in Akachi Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones and Children of the Eagle. The study explores the pathetic stories of widows’ experience in African societies. The study also has shown that Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo, a fictional writer wrote about her own personal experiences in her…