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THE IMPACT OF IMPROVED RURAL WATER SUPPLIES ON THE HAMAR AKD HUNR TRIBES OF SOUTH-WESTERN KORDOFAN - A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
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Assessment of florsstic composition of forest undergrowth of international institute of iropscal agriculture (iita) forest reserve Ibadan, -Nigeria.
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Information Structure in Nigerian Pidgin English Print and Electronic Media Advertisements
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Influence of Private Institutions’ Participation on Access to University Education in South Western Nigeria (1999-2008)
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- A survey involving the use of questionnaires and personal communication during field visits was undertaken in Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo states of Nigeria to ascertain the level of utilization of the inedible portions of oil palm products often referred to as wastes. Items identified as wastes and their present uses include trunk for bridges and roof trusses; fronds and leaves for brooms, thatching of roofs and fences, staking of creeping and climbing plants, weavmg of baskets and cages and cordage materials; fruit bunches for black soap production; kernel shells for soil erosion control and furnace fuel; and mill effluents for sludge cake used as fuel, A substantial amount of these wastes are unutilized which has resulted in their constituting nuisance in plantations and mill sites. Incineration is the only disposal method employed to create space for other activities. It is recommended that the use of these wastes be popularized among urban dwellers to create market for them. Fruit harvesting and conversion of the trunk are tedious; hence the development of appropriate technology for improved efficiency required. 1 results 1
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- Adaptation as a literary art in its entirety has been described as a mimetic art. The enterprise of reshaping and recreating a text, context and co-text from its original form to suit a new context, space, time or culture is the other element of adaptation which could take on the inter or intra cultural regalia. Femi Osofisan's folio includes dynamic inter and intra cultural adaptations; most of which have been studied across theatrical and critical contexts. This study examines his re-creative engagement of the Yoruba Thunder God, Sango, a character magically transformed from Yoruba history and legend into the contemporary theatrical life in Duro Ladipo's Oba Ko So. This study examines the demystification of the Thunder God and his queens, who are also prominent deities among the Yoruba pantheon. It comparatively examines the gaps Osofisan's Many Colours Make a Thunder- King fills along the observable and discernable convergence and divergence in the sinews of adaptation evident in the dynamic adaptation of characterology, thematic centring, plot structure and form in both plays. The triggers of Osofisan's exploration and craft are intriguing as he celebrates and interrogates existing texts and philosophies and, in this case, extending the philosophical, historical as well as gender related arguments in his recreation of the Thunder God and his queens. 1 results 1
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- Assessment of understorey species of a tropical rainforest ecosystem in South-western Nigeria, exemplified by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) forest reserve, Ibadan. A total of twenty-four permanent sample plots of 0.0625 ha were used for the assessment of understorey composition, density and frequency. Relative frequency, Relative Density and Importance Value Index (TVT), similarity, diversity and Detrended Correspondence Analaysis (DCA) statistics were used to analyse the data. The result showed a total of 3,833 individual from 128 species and 44 families (28 shrub, 57 trees, 33herbs, 2 grasses and 8 climbers ) were identified. Papilonaceae had the height number of species (11) followed by Moraceae (10), Albizia zygia had the height frequency of occurency (24), density of 169.33/ha. However Culcasia scandens had the height density of 299.33/ha. Highest Importance value index of 13.82 was recorded for Culcasia scandens, followed by Chromolaena odorata (11.80). The.least (IVI) 0.18 was recorded for Blepharis maderaspatensis, Carica papaya, Cissus pinata. Similarity between paired plots varied from 0.16 to 0.75, Simpson diversity (0.9529) and dominance of 0.0471, number of species present in each of the plotranged from 0-39. Plot 84 had the heighest species (39), high Eigen value (73.7%), length of. ordination space (-2 to 6) and the location of all the plots in the first quadrant indicated that the environment was stable indicative of minimal variation in floristic composition between plots and high heterogeneity of the site and species respectively. These findings showed that the IITA forest is diverse in species composition and the diversity of the understory may act as a catalyst for successful natural forest succession. Hence may be creating a more favourable environment for the establishment of native forest flora and habitat for fauna. Ultimately may be leading to conserving biological diversity. The study eventually concluded that a proper protection from human interferences and scientific management of undergrowth of the study area may lead to biodiversity rich site in the country. 1 results 1
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- Blogging, as a social medium, serves as a platform for individuals and organisations to produce rhetorical discourses that deserve scholarly attention. This rhetorical outlook of blogging features significantly in Middle East conflicts, as instanced in the Mideast blogs that cast their focus on the Israeli-Hezbollah war of 2006. Existing studies on blogging as a social practice seem to concentrate mainly on its social roles without paying much attention to its rhetorical outlook. This study explored the ideological nature of rhetoric in blog posts in order to establish how a comprehension of such rhetoric helps to create a better understanding of the role of blogging in the social process, especially in the context of conflict. A combination of socio-linguistic, semiotic and discourse analytic approaches, as expounded by M.A.K. Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, Teun van Dijk’s Triangulated Approach to discourse and Charles Sander Pierce’s semiotic theory, was adapted as the theoretical framework for the study. Ten Mideast weblogs, characterised by personal, collaborative and corporate blogs, which address the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, and seven hundred and fifty posts, with two hundred and fifty readers’ comments, evenly distributed between the blog types, were purposively selected. The data, which are in three modes of signification -language, pictures and cartoons - were content-analysed. Bloggers employed three discourse structures - surface, schematic and dialogic – to pursue Zionist, anti-Semitic and Arab nationalistic ideologies in the posts. These three structures were arranged in a manner that got the blog readers into believing that they had made appropriate choices of response to the postings read, whereas their behaviours and opinions had been controlled through rhetorical strategies such as overstatement, understatement, metonymy, euphemism, mitigation and repetition, which all have a closer relation to underlying ideologies and belief systems of the bloggers. The surface structure contained nationalistic ideologies that were not overtly expressed but located in the linguistic and non-linguistic expressions that characterised the surface structure. The schematic structure defined the canonical order of the discourse through which topics were organised by conventional schemata such that subordinate topics were upgraded by assigning more prominence to them as headlines. The dialogic structure engaged the blog readers in imagined conversation, in which they were assigned passive role as mere commentators, whereas readers’ support was required for the credibility of the published news stories. The pattern of rhetoric in the posts was such that blog readers were made to tilt their views in support of the opinions expressed by the significations in the posts through the discourse strategies, a situation that made most comments in the posts align more with the viewpoints expressed by the bloggers. The nature of rhetoric in the Mideast posts indicates that bloggers conceal their opinions in various significations in an attempt to create strong persuasion for ideological support. The study has therefore provided the ground for establishing the Mideast blog posts as a site for readers’ manipulation in political communication, which is realised through rhetorical strategies embedded in the discourse. 1 results 1
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- Facts are vital parameters not only in the sciences, history and translation studies but also in literature Facts are the back-hone of human discussions irrespective of the nature of things discussed. To avoid attacks for political reasons, some Francophone Postcolonial African writers, create imaginary spaces in their novels and embellish them with facts. This is for instance, the preoccupation of Ahmadou Kourouma in his debut novel, Les soleils des independances (1970), and others. The objective of this paper is to show Kourouma’s commitment as a literary linguist, politician, historian, geographer, and indeed as an iconoclastic writer. The issue of identity is also addressed in the analysis of Kourouma’s works. This study, therefore, adopts a narrative analysis of data collected from Ahmadou Kourouma’s Les soleils des independances (1970), Monne, outrages et defis (1990), En attendant le vote des betes sauvages (1998) Allah n ’est pas oblige (2000), and Quand on refuse on dit non (2004). Special attention is paid to critica works of linguists, political theorists, translators and literary scholars among others, to buttress our discourse. Kourouma is known for his language revolution, political discourse, translation skills and his quest for identity. In fact, Kourouma’s coloration of French language with Malinke, his mother-tongue stands like pillars to solidify his creative work and to promote African languages and identity. Needless to say that facts and spaces are parameters responsible for the gradual development of Kourouma’s novels for they allow his protagonists to complete their journey in the process of actualizing their destiny. 1 results 1
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- In most Nigerian cultures, sex and sexuality are covertly expressed, but Contemporary Nigerian Hip-hop Artistes (CNHHAs) use different Escapist Discourse Strategies (EDSs) to create ambiguity and divert the attention of the Censor Board from the real sexual themes while negotiating socio-cultural restrictions in their music. Studies in the humanities and social sciences have attempted to discuss on how sex and sexuality are communicated in most Nigerian cultures. However, the (EDSs) employed by CNHHAs to maintain and negotiate socio-cultural restraints on the communication of sex, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, and intimacy in Nigerian Hip-hop music have not been given adequate scholarly attention. Therefore, this study investigated the music of selected CNHHAs, with a view to identifying the (EDSs) they employ for sex and sexual motifs in their music. Gunther Kress version of multimodality theory, which argues that all communicative events draw on multiplicity of modes, provided the framework. The lyrics and visual contents of nine CNHHAs: Wizkid, RunTown, Oritsefemi, Iyanya, Olamide, Wande Coal, Tiwa Savage, Cynthia Morgan and Seyi Shay, were purposively selected because they employed (EDSs) to discuss sexual themes. Eighteen tracks from nine albums were selected, with two uncensored tracks from each artiste. The lyrics and videos were downloaded from Youtube, 9jabaze, play something and ideycome.com and watched on Sound city Hip TV and MTV Base. The data were subjected to Multimodal analysis. The artistes employed fifteen linguistic strategies: ambiguity, substitution, repetition, veiling, ellipsis, exaggeration, onomatopoeia, meaning extension, metaphorisation, reference, codeswitching, slang, sexual innuendos and coinages; and thirteen nonlinguistic strategies: sexual dance, grinding, twerking, suggestive look, sexual gestures, breast-flashing, use of index finger, buttocks flashing, breast-heaving, use of tongue, alluring clothing, focusing, and gender distribution, to communicate sexual themes. Linguistic strategies differ in their ability to function as a powerful guise. Ambiguity, veiling, ellipsis, metaphorisation when merged with nonlinguistic strategies do not reveal the sexual themes until they merge with shared knowledge and context while other linguistic and nonlinguistic strategies work at par to nib, and trace the intended sexual themes. Slangy expressions, sexual innuendos, ambiguity, sexual dance, grinding and twerking are strategies for depicting sex while other strategies are used to emphasise sexuality. Sexual innuendos, metaphors and ambiguity are common to Runtown, Olamide, Wande Coal, Iyanya and Oritsefemi, while sexual gestures and sexual dance which depict erotism, dry sex and heightened romance are common to all the artistes. All the nonlinguistic and four linguistic strategies with the dominance of females in the videos, reveal the portrayal of women as sexual stimulator in the videos and lyrics. Escapist Discourse Strategies in Nigerian Hip-hop music are intentional, systematic and motivated by the artistes‟ quest to discuss sexual themes in the public space. Thus, Censor Board needs to deplore more effective ways to track down these escapist strategies and prevent them from getting to the public space 1 results 1
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