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Efficacy of Literature–Based Instructional Strategies on Pupils’ Awareness of and Attitude to Child Rights in Kwara State, Nigeria
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Postproverbial irony in contemporary African cultural expressions
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The Quest for Improved Learning Outcomes in Literature-in-English among Senior Secondary School Students in Ibadan, Nigeria: Teachers’ Instructional Organisation in Focus
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EFFECTS OF READERS THEATRE AND RECIPROCAL TEACHING STRATEGIES ON STUDENTS’ LEARNING OUTCOMES IN PROSE LITERARY TEXTS IN IBADAN METROPOLIS, NIGERIA
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- "The importance of prose literature to the students’ academic and moral lives is numerous. However, the rate at which students fail this subject at the school certificate level calls for urgent attention. This has led scholars to determine the influence of many teacher factors on students’ achievement but not many have focused on students’ factors especially in prose literature hence this study. The study adopted the descriptive research design of the correlational type. 223 SSIII students of Literature-in-English from six purposively selected secondary schools in Ibadan metropolis were respondents in this study. Prose Literature-in-English Achievement Test (r = 0.83), Students’ Peer Influence Questionnaire on Prose Literature-in-English (r = 0.84) and Questionnaire on Students’ Beliefs about the Values of Prose Literature-in-English (r = 0.83) were instruments used to collect data and data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. There was no significant relationship between peer influence (β = -.082, P>.05), students’ belief (β = -.050, P>.05) and students’ achievement in prose literature. The two variables jointly explained 7% of the total variance of students’ achievement in prose literature. The relative contribution revealed that none of the variables was significant, peer influence (β = -.073, P>.05) and students’ belief (β = -.021, P>.05).Therefore, the findings cannot predict which of the variables has the highest or the lowest contribution. Based on this, it is concluded that since none of the variables was significant, some other variables could be identified for students’ underachievement in prose literature in Ibadan metropolis. " 1 results 1
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- African American literature has been predominantly a male-preserve in the task of narrating the experience of slavery and its relics of denigration before the advent of reactionary literature by black female writers. Studies on female-authored African American literary works have concentrated on responding to male-authored representations of the tensions of racism, internal crisis of man-woman relationships and the challenges of empowering the black female character. Little attention has been paid to African American female writings across generations and gender categories. This study, therefore, investigates the narrative thrusts of selected works of Maya Angelou and Terry McMillan to determine the dimensions of divergence across generations of African American female writers. The study adopts Alice Walker‘s womanist theory and bell hooks‘ feminist theory which account for differences in the construction of black women consciousness. Six novels – Maya Angelou‘s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), Gather Together in my Name (1974), and The Heart of a Woman (1981), and Terry McMillan‘s Waiting to Exhale (1992), A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2001) and The Interruption of Everything (2005) – were purposively selected. The texts are subjected to literary and comparative analyses. From the first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to the last The Heart of a Woman, Angelou offers detailed testimony on the effects of displacement on the individual psyche and the black community. Maya Angelou‘s selected novels reveal the creation of a collective communal memory through the use of the autobiographical prose form. Angelou‘s narratives reveal her understanding of history, her reverence for memory of collective black folk tradition and represent the Black Arts era. In contrast, Terry McMillan‘s Waiting to Exhale, A Day Late and a Dollar Short and The Interruption of Everything reveal a paradigm shift from the communal experience to the individual, the internal crisis among individuals in the family and aspiration of specific sentiments as she projects the female character as ambitious and daring. McMillan‘s fiction stands out in several ways. She revises and borrows recognisable literary conventions to project the changing roles of women to reinforce her radical perspective. However, the choice of professionally successful black women as characters in her novels relates to the drastic increase in the population of working class women in the 1990s and reflexive of the post-womanist tradition. Her works accentuate the quest for personal liberty, romance and intimate relationships as the central conflicts facing black female protagonists. Although two decades separate Angelou‘s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Terry McMillan‘s Waiting to Exhale, a close reading of the novels reveals that the texts derive qualitative interpretations from the unique difference in ideas and aesthetics represented by Alice Walker, bell hooks and other Black feminists. While Maya Angelou‘s novels keep within the womanist tradition, those by Terry McMillan are radically feminist and modernist in orientation. Thus, the two writers exemplify the Black Arts era and post-womanist literary generation respectively and differently situate the novels within specific historical, socio-political, economic, gendered and literary contexts. Key words: Generational difference, Womanism, African American literature, Maya Angelou, Terry McMillan. Word count: 498 1 results 1
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- African critical discourse is replete with existing studies on first and second generation novelists and their abiding commitment to socio-historical realities. While the first generation writers focused nationalist ethos, the second generation evinced political activism. However, the third-generation novelists, who exhibit a tendency towards political engagement, have not received adequate critical attention and sufficient comparative evaluation. This study, therefore, examines the engagement paradigms in third-generation Nigerian novels. Psychoanalysis (Freudian and Lacanian) and New Historicism are employed as theoretical frameworks. Psychoanalysis is relevant to the understanding of the internal workings of the human mind at different levels of consciousness which is germane to the characterization in the selected novels for this study. New Historicism entails a dynamic consideration of history and the text from the perspective of both the critic and the writer, which is also central to the selected texts. It involves a close and comparative reading of six purposively selected texts: Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus; Sefi Attah's Everything Good Will Come; Okey Ndibe's Arrows of Rain; Adaobi Nwaubani's I Do Not Come To You By Chance; Helon Habila's Waiting for An Angel and Bina Ilagha's Condolences. The novels are content and comparatively analysed along three paradigms of Child Narration, Development Fiction and Quest for Justice. Third-generation Nigerian novelists have upheld and consolidated the tradition of commitment in African literature. The novelists have evolved identified paradigms to engage the post-independence challenges of the enabling milieu. Through the paradigm of Child Narration, ChimamandaAdichie and SefiAttah effectively exploit omniscient narrative technique as a device for projecting socio-historical decadence in Purple Hibiscus and Everything Will Come respectively. Okey Ndibe's Arrows of Rain and Adaobi Nwaubani's I Do Not Come To You By Chance exemplify the appropriateness of the Development Fiction paradigm through the engagement of developmental issues like political corruption, moral decadence and internet fraud prevalent in the twenty-first century. Quest for Justice as an engagement paradigm situates Helon Habila's Waiting for an Angel and BinaIlagha's Condolences as Justice Narratives. It equally manifests in the crusade for prison reforms in Waiting for an Angel and the question of violation of human and communal rights in Condolences. Technically, the paradigms foreground the selected texts by exuding metaphors of neo-colonial decadence, evolution of informed and balanced narrators, narrative devices, suspense and images of socio-historical dislocation. The selected novels share affinities of pragmatic engagement of post-independence decadence and refractive temperament, propelled by the frameworks of the isolated paradigms used in the study. Third-generation Nigerian novels are dynamic and unique in their engagement of post-independence challenges as instantiated in the paradigms of Child Narration, Development Fiction and Quest for Justice. Thus, the refractive capacity of fiction is adequately foregrounded. There is, therefore, an inherent potential of the third-generation Nigerian novel to serve as an imaginative catalyst of socio-political re-engineering. 1 results 1
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- African literature in the twenty-first century still projects a robust trail of postcolonial discourses, strongly tied with African thematic refrains, and aptly foregrounded by the agency of postcolonialism. However, there has been an insurrection of stylistic changes from African writers as far as back as the twentieth century, among which is K. Sello Duiker. This study engages Duiker’s deviation from the social realist style of writing, given the fact that Duiker’s renowned novel, The Quiet Violence of Dreams, strongly identifies with postmodern literary trends. Therefore, this essay attempts at critical analysis of paranoia, linguistic ambivalence and erotic sexuality in the novel, with the view to foregrounding its symmetrical stance with postmodernism within African context. One argues further that the novel cannot be restricted to a distinct narrative or interpretation, which stems from the overexploitation of postcolonial themes. 1 results 1
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- Arabic literature had been a vehement genre of Arabic literary heritage since pre and post Islamic age, being a rare source contained a compendium and anthology of Arabs, likewise, in getting more acquainted with a real classical Arabic language and civilization, had hitherto contributed to its widespread to other Islamic countries where Islam and Arabic studies have been applausive and acknowledged. It is of no doubt that the genesis of Arabic Literature in Nigeria is traced to the time Arabic studies began in the 9th Century C.E, because it led to the time Islam got to Nigeria, Albelt, going along with Islamic and Arabic Education. Since then, Arabic Nigerian Authorships have worked tremendously to promote the Status of Arabic Literature in everyday through their intellectual prowess by producing many works of note in the field of Arabic Literature. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the Status of Arabic literature of Nigerian authorship in the twenty-first Century and bring into limelight their immense contribution to the sustainability of Arabic literature in Nigeria. Before delving in to the main work , the paper would give a cursory look into general over-view on the concept of Arabic literature in human literary heritage, Likewise, the genesis of Arabic literature in Nigeria, dichotomy in the periods of Arabic literature in Nigeria, Status of Arabic literature of Nigerian authorship in the past and compare it with the present and proffer a suitable prospects in the future would be discussed. 1 results 1
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