ABSTRACT Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1959) presents Iboland (western Nigeria) in the period between 1850-1900, covering life both before and after the arrival of British colonies and Christian missionaries. In this novel, Achebe offers an almost documentary account of the daily life, customs, ceremonies and beliefs of the Igbo people without evasion or romanticizing. Tired of the misrepresentations of Africa and the Africans in the western canon, Achebe tries to portra...
This article examines how Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) is a postcolonial narrative that explores the effects of western capital-colonialism on African people's traditional values and religious institutions. The novel chronicles the painful effects of western capital-colonialism on African people's traditional values and religious institutions, and the protagonist, Okonkwo, fails to return his people to the shared culture they formerly had. It also examines how the novel also expos...
From pre – colonial to colonial to post pre –colonial periods, women in Africa have a long and varied history of political activism. African women have participated in political parties, women's movements, national liberation movements, and other social movements. Additionally, they had to deal with patriarchal structures and culture's opposition. These could be attributed to several cultural restraints in African society. Therefore, this paper examines the political and cultural restrain...
The question of freedom, suicide and happiness has always been on the cresses of human’s mind. Camus in his book The Myth of Sisyphus addresses these issues. He elucidates that this world in itself is not absurd, what is absurd is our courting with the universe that is irrational. The absurd depends as a lot on man as on the sector. It is all that links them collectively. The aim of the research is to humans to feel free and happy within their existence, thereby, realizing that suicide isn�...
The study makes use of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe's "in the chest of a woman" in an effort to examine the effects of feminism and their effects on society. Finding the causes of racism, men's and women's oppression, and the never-ending disputes between genders in social life is the fundamental goal. The report also addresses the voices of women, who continue to call for their social rights. The data are examined using descriptive, analytical, and graphical analysis techniques. By relying on the theme...
introduction In this chapter we sketch the pronunciation system of English. We begin with phonetics, a system for describing and recording the sounds of language objectively. Phonetics provides a valuable way of opening our ears to facets of language that we tend to understand by reference to their written rather than their actual spoken forms. Phonology concerns itself with the ways in which languages make use of sounds to distinguish words from each other. Teachers should be knowledgeable a...
Introduction: Generally speaking, the linguistic discipline of morphology – the term is derived from the Greek word morphos meaning „form‟ – examines the internal makeup and structure of words as well as the patterns and principles underlying their composition. In doing so, morphology straddles the traditional boundary between grammar (i.e. the rule-based, productive component of a language) and the lexicon (i.e. the idiosyncratic, rote-learned component). Morphology looks at both sid...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Pages Introduction…………………………………………………………………….. 2 Course Aims…………………………………………………………………… 2 Course Objectives………………………………………………………………. 2 Working through this Course……………………………………………………. 3 Course Materials………………………………………………………………… 3 Study Un...
In their paper, "Okonkwo’s Reincarnation: A Comparison of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease," Mary JanePatrick Nwakaego Okolie and Ginikachi Christian Uzoma explore the reincarnation myth, a global concept founded basically in religion and tradition. It was especially vibrant in the ancient times in places like Egypt, Greece, and in continents like Asia and Africa, which possess varying understandings of the myth. In Igbo tradition, for example, it is believed that reinca...
This paper sought to address holistically, the modern technology as an Information and Communication Technologies, which has become possible in our communities since the availability of computers. Moreover, to what extend we can exploit it in education in general and English Language teaching / learning (ELT) in particular, according to our conditions and needs. Information Communication Technologies should be exploited effectively to shift from teacher-centered approach to the student-center...
Abstract Authors often adopt different viewpoints to x-ray and convey their messages in their artistic productions. Predominantly, some have engaged the first person point of view (internal focalisation) to subjectively present their tales, while some have used the third person point of view (external focalisation) to objectively bring home their messages. Thus, this study interrogates Elnathan John’s deployment of internal focalisation and narrative subjectivity in Born on a Tuesday. Thi...
The present study seeks to analyze Adrian Tchaikovsky’s novel The Doors ofEden (2020) to describe how posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism cango hand-in-hand in contemporary speculative fiction. The novel itself isa masterpiece in world-building where the action takes place against thebackground of an eternally proliferating multiversal reality. Parallel worlds,sentient monsters, posthuman, non-human entities abound in the novel, andthis will be seen as complementary and conducive to the ...
The article endeavors to show how in post-apocalyptic fiction the traditional religious,historical and cultural tropes can prove to be powerful enough to capture and embody theenormously complex and extremely ambiguous worldview of the narrative. Despite most suchideas of the past getting gradually bracketed, effaced and relegated to the background thetraditional cultural religious and literary tropes often continue to exert significant influence oneven a post-apocalyptic world thus refusing ...
The present article endeavors to study Stephen Baxter’s two novels, namely World Engines: Destroyer (2019)and World Engines: Creator (2020), in order to analyze the role of agential realism of the autopoietic, selfaware machines in creating and sustaining a post-anthropocentric and posthuman world. Also, since the novelsare set against the backdrop of a continuously proliferating manifold of parallel worlds, the study will attemptto show how adopting a post-anthropocentric viewpoint can hel...
This paper deploys the postulations of African womanism/feminism to examine gender complementarity in three of Ngugi wa Thiong'O’s novels: The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, and Petals of Blood. While the prominent role Ngugi accords his female characters has been acknowledged and explored critically, how he deploys the African feminist/womanist ideology in his writings, and uses his writings to advocate for gender complementarity within the African socio-cultural real...