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» ABSTRACT This study explores fundamental relationships existing in the works of two great American Scholars of the 19th century: Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It argues that, Song of Myself”, the poetry collection in Whitman’s major literary work Leaves of Grass, echoes or re emphasizes some of Emerson’s significant ideological and philosophical beliefs. Ralph Waldo Emers...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The epic is quite familiar in literary study and criticism. Its Western as well as African variants well known among scholars and students of literature all over the world. African versions of the epic such as Mwindo, Chaka and Sundiata give us some ideas about the African epic. But is there any such thing as the pan African epic, and do Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons, Osiris Rising a...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The study has proposed a narrative grammar for reading Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments, and Why Are We So Blest? A narrative grammar is a distinct set of models and narrative categories to analyze a story. Tzvetan Todorov, Claud Levi Strauss and Vladimir Propp are major proponents of this theory. Each uses a personal GRAMMAR, that is, a distinct set o...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The study sought to examine how selected characters (Jojo Badu, Marjorie, Norah and Dwayne) in Benjamin Kwakye‘s The Other Crucifix (2010) use the clause as an interactive unit to establish and maintain interpersonal relations. The Mood system and its grammatical categories of Modality, Subject, Polarity, Tense and Vocatives of Halliday‘s Interpersonal Metafunction of Systemic...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This study is a structural examination of Ga English code switched utterances among native Ga speakers. It seeks to find out the nature and structure of code switching as it occurs among family members within the family setting. As such, data for the study was collected from selected people within a family. All the participants are balanced bilinguals and literate in both languages. The a...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Womanism as a variant of African feminism provides the platform for a holistic analysis of the works of African female writers. In this work, Ogunyemi’s womanist theory is read into the works of two Nigerian female writers, Chimamanda Adichie and Buchi Emecheta, authors of Purple Hibiscus and The Joys of Motherhood respectively. Undertaking a womanist reading of these two novels is ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION This thesis is about compounding in Dangme, a Kwa language spoken in the south eastern part of Ghana. The main objective is to describe the nature of compound words in the language. The present chapter is a general introduction to the study. In section 1.2, I present a general background to the study. In sections 1.3, I discuss Dangme language, its sound systems an...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Recognized as the founding father of modern African Literature in English, Achebe stands out as perhaps one of the most critiqued authors due to his portrayal of women in his early novels. In an attempt to respond to the disparaging representation of Africa in colonial novels such as Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), Achebe focused on portraying the power and charisma of the Africa...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This research is a tentative sociolinguistic study of language variation in the English spoken in Ghana. The purpose is to identify consonantal variations in the realization of the affricates and the fricatives that contribute to the unique pronunciations Ghanaians exhibit and describe them. Thus, the study identifies and describes the alternative pronunciations of the affricates and the ...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The study focused on the collection management practices of two academic libraries in Ghana. Both academic institutions are in the Central Region of Ghana and were basically established by the Government of Ghana to train graduate professional teachers for basic and second cycle schools. The survey method was used to look at the tasks undertaken by library staff to ensure that the intelle...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This study is to investigate the Effect of Improvisation of Instructional Materials for Biology Instruction in Senior Secondary Schools in Calabar Municipal Local Government Area of Cross River State. To carry out this study, the research design was adopted for this study. A sample of 200 SS1 students was drawn randomly from the population of all secondary schools in Calabar Municipal Loc...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Assessment of the duration exposure dependent effect of carbamate treated net on hepatic and renal functions of albino wistar rats after 30 and 60 days was carried out. Serum ALT, AST and ALP levels were determined to assess liver function while serum creatinine and urea levels were measured for kidney function. Eighteen (18) male albino wistar rats weighing 138 146g were divided into 3 g...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Street hawking is one of the commonest forms of child labour in Nigeria. The hawking of wares by children has been a serious issue confronting the Nigerian society. Children hawk in some of the most horrible conditions conceivable, where they face a serious risk of injury, chronic illness, kidnapping, rape or death. Objective: This study aimed at determining street Hawking and health impl...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study This research work titled Gokana/Tai relations since 1960 2015 is limited is focused on the relationship between both communities and its neighbouring communities as well as well. According to Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary. The relationship can be define to be the way in which two people, groups, or countries behave towards each 1.2 Stateme...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Economics has been defined by different people in different ways economics is the study of the ways of making choices and allocating score resources to satisfy human wants. It is the study of how people and society makes decisions; allocate and manage scarce resources to achieve their needs. In this view, Hall (2013) defines economics as the stu...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Okrika and Kalabari relations has been found to be more of rivalry than allied structure in the Eastern Niger Delta, beginning from the period of pre colonial, colonial but ends in post colonial era. During the pre colonial era, it was because of fishing rights and settlement at the bank of the Calabar River, which often led to wars. This spurred the researcher to examine the gravity and ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to study African Oral Literature is a medium through which the African society, culture, customs, norms, belief, communal experiences, and social and religion are sustained. Oral literature as an imaginative realised through words of mouth or actions and individual creative genius mostly during performance situation where there is a conscious structured arra...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Nigeria is made up of a vast geographical area comprising of various tribes and ethnic groups. This tribes all have their different cultures and traditions binding individuals subject to or belonging to each tribe. It has been emphasized that the sources of Nigeria law include; English law, Islamic law, and customary law. The question that norma...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This research work focus on parental attitudes towards physical education in Boki Local Government of Cross River State. To achieve the purpose of the study, three research questions as well as three hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. Literature review that relates with the variables under study were reviewed accordingly. Population of the study is made up of 1,225 parents, su...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Nigeria is endowed with huge proven gas reserves estimated to be 184 trillion cubic feet (Tcf). It ranks as the 7th holder of natural gas reserves in the world, and the largest in Africa. Nigeria also flares more natural gas than any other country; it accounts for 12.5% of the world‟s annual gas flared and it wastes $2.0 billion annually by flaring gas associated with crude oil extracti...Continue Reading »
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