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Psychological characteristics of health-related quality of life among retired elite athletes in Nigeria
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- A number of studies in national theatrical discourse have focused on die elements and forms of theatre and its performance as well as comparative discussion of differences in similar and dissimilar theatrical traditions across cultures and nations. Several of these investigations centre on other national and theatrical concerns without addressing the roles these forms play in reinforcing national identity and without necessarily focusing on the substantial potentials inherent in die forms in identifying a people’s identity and promoting and preserving the same. There were four objectives that necessitated die inquisition into this study. The first was to bring to the fore the exemplary manner in which die Tiv nation of Nigeria sustained its identity as an ethnic group among several other colonially created slates. The second was to establish dial die Tiv were able to achieve this through the celebration., sustenance and preservation of Kwag-hir, one of the surviving and indigenous theatrical puppetry traditions in Nigeria. The third was to establish dial fostering a strong national identity enhances a nation, not only in the political sense but culturally, validating the value systems which arc inherent in the traditions of peoples, promoting relations; cross-national, cross-cultural and international which will enhance the unity of Nigeria irrespective of the number of ethnic groups it is made up of. The fourth was to examine how Kwag-hir binds together Tiv identity; the structure and organisation which encapsulate Tiv cosmology, driving belief, behaviour, to the upholding of Tiv ideals. The study engaged concepts on identity in a descriptive and explicative analysis of die Tiv theatre, centring on puppetry (Kwag-hir), a principal and a core cultural theme which in several ways reveal the underlying 'driving belief, behaviour and consistent political and cultural posture of die Tiv. Findings reveal that die informed consciousness that enhanced die resistance of die Tiv to political and religious manoeuvring? remains die underlying tenets of Kwag-hir theartre. This impenetrable posture dial signifies Tiv identity marks them out among several oilier ethnic groups. 1 results 1
- African Cultural Self 1 results 1
- African cultural identity 1 results 1
- African postcolonial text 1 results 1
- African-Germanistik 1 results 1
- Alrocentrism 1 results 1
- Ancestral ethnicity 1 results 1
- Archetypal symbols 1 results 1
- Athletic identity 1 results 1
- Awe people of Southwest Nigeria 1 results 1
- Children 1 results 1
- Children are socialized into adult roles in society through the process of socialization particularly through the family which is the first contact point of any child into the open world of human relations. Socialization forms differ from one society to the other, in Nigeria there are three major ethnic groups in addition to about two hundred and forty seven minor ones, the pattern and forms of socialization among these ethnic nationalities differ. Ethnic identities and loyalty are built up in children in Nigeria based on these different cultural settings. Divergence in political and social relations including ethnic bigotry experience in the country in contemporary time has its root embedded in the differentiation existing in the nature and nurture of children at the formative stage of their lives. This paper examines the patterns of socialization and child rearing found among the various ethnic groups in Nigeria with a view to identifying lines of symmetry for the promotion of unity and oneness that will engender rapid and sustainable development in the country. 1 results 1
- Chinua 1 results 1
- Collective identity 1 results 1
- Colonialism 1 results 1
- Construction of a distinctive cultural identity in a heterogeneous community entails employing cultural symbols to portray a group’s peculiarity. Within the university space in Nigeria, Igbo students re-enact the Igbo world through the employment of cultural symbols and ceremonials for the construction of an Igbo cultural identity. This study employs empirical evidence to explore how the Igbo world is re-enacted through ethnic identity construction within the territoriality of the university.1 By looking at how the local culture is translocalised in the university space, I explore the Igbo world in the context of this multi-ethnic, yet peculiar environment. The questions are: how do Igbo students in public universities in Nigeria (re)construct Igbo identity in the university space, using cultural forms, symbols, and ceremonials? In what forms do the conferred connect with the larger university community as a symbol of the “self” and the “collective,” reflecting group distinctiveness and contributing to the sustenance of the Igbo world in the university environment? This study has implications on the sustenance of Igbo cultural identity in a globalising world. 1 results 1
- Construction of identity constitutes a major means by which novelists, dramatists and poets deal with the interface between themes and social realities in their writings. Given the centrality of this engagement to literary discourse, elaborate attention has been given to identity construction in most literary genres, especially, poetry, drama and autobiographies. However, inadequate attempt has been made to explore the role of contextualized vocabulary choices in identity discourse in the novel, which contains clearer and more elaborate testimonies of identity construction than other literary genres. This study, therefore, investigates lexical and discursive construction of identity in selected twenty-first century Nigerian novels in terms of forms and lexico-discursive features. This is with a view to determining how identity is indexicated in the novels. The study adopted aspects of Ruth Wodak‘s discourse-historical analysis, together with lexical semantics and Manuel Castells‘ identity theory. Four Nigerian novels were purposively sampled: two Nigeria-based authors: Abimbola Adelakun‘s Under the Brown Rusted Roofs [RR] and Vincent Egbuson‘s Love My Planet [LP]; and two foreign-based authors: Helon Habila‘s Waiting for an Angel [WA] and Okey Ndibe‘s Arrows of Rain [AR]. Habila‘s and Egbuson‘s award-winning novels were sampled over their other novels, while Adelakun‘s and Ndibe‘s only novels were respectively selected. The texts were selected because they manifest issues relating to identity construction. The language of the novels was subjected to lexical and discursive analyses. Four forms of identities – national, ethnic, social, and religious – manifested in the novels. National identity bifurcates into cultural sameness and uniqueness – lexicalized through borrowing and innovations and politics, characterised by indigenous abbreviations. Ethnic identity, indexed through borrowing and naming, is laden with conflictual and antagonistic moves, indicating resistance to the outgroup. Three types of social identities are negotiated: professional, ingroup and outgroup. Professional identity is lexicalised through borrowing from Spanish, Latin and French, and Nigerian Pidgin; ingroup identity indexicated by emotive slangy expressions; and outgroups by naming and euphemisms that are replete with disaffiliating strategies. Three forms of religious identities, constructed through religious expressions, manifested: legitimising, resistance and powerlessness. Legitimising and resistance identities are respectively characterised by domineering and resistant discourse moves and powerlessness by attitudinal indexes, effusive and affiliating mappings. Sexual identity, constructed through naming, slangy and euphemistic expressions, are contested on the discursive strategies of inclusion and exclusion marked by tagging, subversive and aggressive moves. While the religious expressions in LP, AR and WA encode Christian identity, RR‘s exploration of Arabic expressions constructs Islamic identity. Although LP and WA borrow extensively across indigenous languages to legitimise national identity and ethnic identity construction, evident in elaborate adoption of Yoruba and Igbo expressions, there are no significant differences in their choices of lexicodiscursive features. Twenty-first century Nigerian novelists deploy lexico-discursive features in the construction of identity forms; beliefs, religion and education play significant roles in the construction of identity. These demonstrate an exquisite interplay of form and function elements in the construction of identity in the Nigerian novel 1 results 1
- Counter-Hegemony 1 results 1
- Counter-Hegemony Discourse 1 results 1
- Critical intercultural communication 1 results 1
- Cultural knowledge 1 results 1
- Cultural knowledge and identity representation 1 results 1
- Cultural life and meanings 1 results 1
- Cultural representation 1 results 1
- Cultural symbols and ceremonials 1 results 1
- Decolonisation 1 results 1
- Discursive features 1 results 1
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