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Style, Lexical Choices And Media Ideology In Selected English-Medium Newspaper Reports On Niger Delta Conflicts, 1997 – 200

ABSTRACT Media reports on Niger Delta (ND) crises in Nigeria have reflected a relationship between lexicostylistic choices and reporters‘ ideological stances. Existing studies on these reports have, however, neglected this relationship, concentrating on general stylistic, pragmatic and discourse features. These features, which are concerned more with the linguistic and contextual dimensions to the reports than the interaction between the ideology and style used by newspaper reporters, have...

Ibibio Libation Performances and Worldview

ABSTRACT Libation among the Ibibio involves invocations, incantations and supplications to the gods and ancestors through which their world view is expressed. While aspects of libation such as sacrifices, chants, rites and rituals, which emphasis on contents, have been adequately researched, performance of libation has not been elaborately studied, relevant as it is in revealing the cultural values of the Ibibio people. This study, therefore, examines the performance properties and world vie...

Socio-Economic and Political Dimensions of Christian and Muslim Pilgrimages in Lagos State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT Existing studies on pilgrimage have focused more on the spiritual dimension and have neglected the social, economic and political aspects. For instance, the activities of stakeholders such as state governments, pilgrims, retailers, bureau de change officers, and pilgrimage board officials are hardly explored from a holistic point of view, thus allowing for an abbreviated conception of pilgrimage. This study, therefore, examined the practice of pilgrimage in Lagos with a view to dete...

Brits – Kaffraria 1853 - 1866

ABSTRACT In Die Behandeling Van Brits-Kaffraria Va,N 1853 Tot 1866 (Dit Wil S~ Vanaf Cathcart Se Skikkinge' Tot By Die Bekendmaking Van Die Anneksasie Van Brits-Kaffr~Ia) Is Die Bedoeling Nie Gewees Om 'N Volledige Opgawe Te Gee Van Al Die Besonderhede In Verband Daarmee Nie, Omdat Di T Die Per·- Ke Van Tn Skripsie Te Ver Sou Oorskry. Daar Is Alleenlik 'N Poging Aangewend Om Tn Duidelike Beeld Te Gee Van Die Belangrikste Geski Edkundige Gebeurteni Sfw En Ontwikkelinge In Brits-Kaffraria Tyde...

African Writing In English In Southern Africa

ABSTRACT I would like to express my thanks to Prof. R. G. Howarth for his encouraging and patient supervision of my work over many year.s. !t .is largely due to his pioneering and inspiring interest in South African literature that I was able to complete my work in the face of almost insurmountable difficulties.. My thanks also go to Prof. E. Westphal for his supervision and help. I am indebted to Mrs. P .E. Stevens, librarian in charge of the Special Collection section of Jagger Library, and...

Socio - Economic Study Of Parkwood Estate. Cape. Flats

Socio - Economic Study Of Parkwood Estate. Cape. Flats

A Preliminary Survey of Religion in an Urban Location

Abstract: This report had its genesis in a proposed thesis, purporting to investigate the part that Religion (including both Christianity and the indigenous beliefs of the Bantu) is playing in the lives of the people at Langa, the Municipal Native location lying about eight miles from Cape Town. It was felt that, after some two hundred years of missionary endeavour in South Africa, the time was ripe for an assessment of the degree to which Christianity had become part of the Bantu scheme of t...

Sir George Greys Federation Policy 1854 - 1859

Sir George Greys Federation Policy 1854 - 1859

Die Kulto'rele Betekenis Van Die Eerste Afrikaanse Geskrifte Tot 1900.

Die Kulto'rele Betekenis Van Die Eerste Afrikaanse Geskrifte Tot 1900.

Glass Beads as Indicators of Contact and Trade in Southern Africa ca. AD 900 - AD 1250.

ABSTRACT Luxury goods, used in mediaeva1 long distance trade ca. AD 900-1250, found an important market among the Iron Age peoples of southern Africa. Indirect evidence of this trade can be seen in the form of archaeological collections of glass beads at sites throughout Africa and Southeast Asia. Thousands of beads have been found at Iron Age sites in the eastern Transvaal Lowveld and at inland sites along the Limpopo Valley and in Botswana. Similar looking types of beads, referred to as sma...

Die Kulto'rele Betekenis Van Die Eerste Afrikaanse Geskrifte Tot 1900

Die Kulto'rele Betekenis Van Die Eerste Afrikaanse Geskrifte Tot 1900

Depositional Processes In Saldanha Bay And Langebaan Lagoon

ABSTRACT This study deals with the physical aspects of sedimentation in Saldanha Bay and Langebaan Lagoon. On the basis of detailed textural investigations the depositional history of the study area has been established. The sediments in the bay and in the lagoon consist of a fine terrigenous quartz population and a coarser skeletal carbonate population, which have been mixed in various proportions. In order to gain size parameters that are more closely related to the hydraulic nature of depo...


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