ABSTRACT This research explores the issues of home and identity in two postcolonial novels, Ghana Must Go and Homegoing. In the era of globalization, people are pushing for borderlessness, transculturalism and hybrid identities as against a pure national or cultural identity. Among such people are African third generation writers who are also second generation migrants. They themselves have had issues in trying to define their identities and, due to the many spaces and cultures they encounter...
Kant's main idea, whatever sense can finally be made of it, depends on his fundamental two-worlds doctrine. He locates determinism in the empirical world or world of appearances, and freedom in the world of things-in-themselves, the world of reason. It is important that the latter world is not in time.
ABSTRACT This study emerged out of the need to understand the contemporary global tension and agitations for freedom and self expression at all levels. Such quests that have resulted in so much agitations, terrorism and even outright wars in diverse places are also a result of the great increase in human self-consciousness in recent times. People and nations are becoming highly conscious of pursuing their own identities and destinies as they deem fit without undue interference from any quar...
Abstract This study examines the interface between the Commonwealth integration and Nigerian foreign policy. The thrust of the study however is to ascertain whether the enthronement of democracy in Nigeria has significantly impacted on Nigeria’s Common-wealth economic relations. The study also investigates the extent to which the frameworks of democracy have enabled the Commonwealth impact on social welfare in Nigeria. Relying on Dependency theory derived from the political economy paradi...
ABSTRACT The overall context of this study is Hegel’s concept of Right, that is, the entire normative structure of social life. However, Hegel’s concept of State as an end in itself betrays the dialectical element in his thought, thereby posing the question of the relation of the individual to the state. The study attempts to establish that individual and society are here reconciled through perfecting each other. The study therefore examines the concept of right as this pertains to some...
This is the research conducted in five Tanzanian local churches, it concerns with how the Substandard teachers (or bad and false) teachers influence the provision of Christian education in local churches, the world is now full of scholars and the act of having uneducated, illiterate teachers who have no experience in service makes it hard to properly serve the demand of globalized and integrated world of today. This result into poor Christian education and loss of interest in religious matter...
During the 1960s and 1970s, the second wave of feminism took place in Britain. Back then, women did not just carry the fight for equality in marriage and work, but they also wanted to break free of the chains of gender stereotypes that the patriarchy drew about them. The second wave of feminism; also known as the ‘Women’s Liberation Movements’, did not focus on giving rights to women only but also to sex minorities (e.g. homosexuals, transsexuals. etc.). Caryl Churchill is a prominent E...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the influence of work and occupational stress on employee’s job satisfaction. Two hundred and fifty (250) participants were used for the study. Two hypotheses involving shift and non-shift work, high and low occupational stress were tested. Two instruments were used to measure the variables of interest. A 2 x 2 factorial design was adopted resulting in the use of 2-way ANOVA for data analysis. The result shows a statistically significant influence of shift ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish the relationship between implementation of children rights and child soldiering in Hawl-wadag, Mogadishu Somalia. This study was guided by three specific objectives, that included determining the i) implementation of children rights; ii) the level of child soldiering; iii) the relationship between the extent of implementation of children rights and child soldiering in Hawl-wadag, Mogadishu Somalia. This research employed descriptive correlational desig...
ABSTRACT This study examined the relationship between the 1996 and 2003 civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, (DRC) and human rights violations in that country. The area of study was the African Great Lakes region, and the (DRC) was the unit of observation and analysis. The ex-post-facto design was adopted for the study. Data were collected from secondary sources. The secondary data were analyzed using the qualitative descriptive method, logical induction and content analysis. To e...
Abstract In Heidegger’s conception of time, Dasein temporalises its own Being and as such constitutes time. Temporality here is the temporality of Dasein. But the question of Dasein is the question concerning the meaning of Being in general. Heidegger holds that for the question of the meaning of Being to be answered, Dasein must be interpreted in connection with the phenomenon of time. The interpretation of time Heidegger gives in response to the question of the meaning of Being gives ti...
ABSTRACT Cultural diversity is increasingly becoming an inevitable feature of most modern states. This is because trade, tourism, international dialogue amongst scholars, scientists and artists and the movement of skilled labour as well as migration have ensured that few countries do not contain within them significant numbers of peoples from other cultures. A likely consequence of this diversity is clash of cultural interests, especially between minority and majority cultural groups, in re...
This article explains border protection and trans-border criminality. It also highlights the causes of trans-border crimes, it also identifies the impacts of these crimes on the socio-economic development of Nigeria and the global community as a whole. This article also focuses on the influence of border protection and trans-border protection on Jailbreak and provides recommendations based on global best practices.
Abstract Contemporary Muslim communities witnessed many inventions and innovations as a result of global progress and civilisation. Some of the innovations are full of evils that affect the hearts. Some Muslims instead of reading and listening to the Qur’anic recitation in the early hours of the day, they spend huge time on social medias through internet devices available to them or listening to radio news, From these it can be said every Muslim should care about his/her heart, purify i...
ABSTRACT This research was carried on Translation titled, Interlingual Translatability of figurative expressions with reference to Tera language spoken in Gombe State, Nigeria as receptor language. The research tries to investigate and identify firstly some existing obstacles in the process of inter-lingual translation of idiomatic expressions, and then suggests some weighty theoretical strategies to overcome such difficulties. In line with Baker’s (1992) classification of difliculties an...