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…
Abstract This research work exposes the effects of socio-cultural practices on women in Nawal El- Sadaawi’s Woman at Point Zero and Akachi Ezeigbo’s Children of The Eagle. The issue and effects of socio-cultural practices on women is considered by female writes as headaches of every society today. Owing to the above mentioned issues, their writings…
Abstract: This research work centers on the Theme of Corruption in Zulu Sofola’s The Wizard’s of Law and Chris Egharevba’s The Labourer’s Blood. It mirrors corruption in the political, social, Judicial and Economic sectors of society. It also criticizes and exposes the inherent evil practices of the political leaders, lawyers, and the Judicial system, civil…
Abstract: This research study examines Modernization and Traditionalism in Wole Soyinka’s the Lion and the Jewel and James Henshaw’s This Is Our Chance. From a textual analysis of the two plays, the study reveals that there is a different between African tradition and that of Western culture based on the findings made in these two…
Abstract: This research work portrays the Gender Issues in African Female Writings in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa and Alice Obongeren’s the Maiden’s Dilemma. No doubt, the two feminist’s works critically pictures the negative effects of African cultural practices against women during marital rites and custom. In word of Beauvior Simon’s The Second Sex he says…
Abstract: This Project focuses on the theme of Exploitation and Disillusionment in Ngugi WA Thiongo’s Black Hermit and the Trials of Dedan Kimathi. It has been discovered that African literature is dominated by both the colonial masters and the stooge African leaders. The African leaders were said to have betrayed their brotherhood in favour of…