THE IMPACT OF ISLAM ON AFRICAN CULTURE From the earliest period of the world, man or the human-race has always been heterogenized and symbolically sub-divided (a part from colour and language) by a series of empirical events which have incidentally led to, shapened and determined their varied uniqueness whilst interacting with both spiritual or abstract and temporal or physical events and features of worldly life, and thus, the emergence of culture as a glaring feature of different gen...
This paper centres on the Mauritian Creole, the national language of Mauritius, an island in Africa. Dev Virahsawmy, a Mauritian writer has written several literary works using the Mauritian Creole, and he has adapted some of Shakespeare's works using this language. An examination of his use of the Creole will be viewed in this essay.
There is need for a multi disciplinary approach to solving or researching the issues of cash crop production. This is because the academic situation is characterized by sharp boundaries, an ecologist tends to avoid social situation and an anthropologist does likewise with natural habitat, energy flow and the like. However, this is a research based on historical development of cash crop production in Nigeria. The research deals with Nigeria as a country with tropical climate. It discu...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication Acknowledgment Preface Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE Biography of Isaac Newton CHAPTER TWO Composition of Light CHAPTER THREE The Encyclopedia Meanings of Terms CHAPTER FOUR Principles of Design CHAPTER FIVE Elements of Design
ABSTRACT This study is set out to analyze the themes and use of imagery of the Romantic period in William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much With Us†and “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud†and William Blake’s “London†and “The Garden of Loveâ€. The purpose is to enlighten readers on the need for the return of man back to nature as the means for correcting a decaying society. The Romantic theory is adopted for the analysis of this study. The r...
ABSTRACT A persisting tendency in African Drama has remained a careful evaluation and a critical analysis of the African society for the purpose of heralding the cultural virtues and attacking the vices prevalent in the African society for a general social transformation. Drama has been defined as the mimesis of life on stage before a given audience and a replication of the human society on stage. Therefore the purpose of this research is to highlight and discuss in details the sociological ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page Certification Dedication Acknowledgements Table of contents CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The Concept of Aesthetics in the Osun Osogbo Festival 1.3 Purpose of study 1.4 Scope of study 1.5 Methodology 1.6 Justification CHAPTER TWO 2.1 The concept of oral literature 2.2 The Origin of Osun Osogbo River 2.3 The Osun Festival CHAPTER THREE 3.1 The Aesthetics in the Osun Osogbo Festival 3.1.1 Drums 3.1.2 Dance 3.1.3 Costumes 3....
ABSTRACT This study is an examination of the language of Christian religion with particular reference to the Roman Catholic Church and Pentecostal denominations. Chapter one embodies the introduction to the study, the objective of the work, its scope and delimitation, a brief origin of Christian religion, and that of the two denominations. Chapter two is a brief review of the related literature. Chapter three brings out the features of the language of Christian religion; the lexical, grammat...
ABSTRACT African Diasporic writers have written on the experiences and social dilemma faced in their homeland and in the foreign land. It is thus against this background that this research work is based. Thus the major intention of this essay is to highlight the homeland issues and experiences of Diaspora and attendants vices that have been the major preoccupation of Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in their works. This work will not only highlight but also unfolds what Africans go thr...
ABSTRACT This study examines the use of symbols and images as poetic techniques in South African poetic writing. The poems seek to address the issues of socio-political injustice, apartheid, oppression and man’s inhumanity to man in the society, a kind of counter – attacking the apartheid system of the South African society, which allows for inequalities and abject poverty of a section of the society while the other section thrives in affluence. At the end we discover how Denni...
TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER ONE 1.0INTRODUCTION 1.1Definition of Terms 1.2Statement of the Problem 1.3Aim and Objectives 1.4Significance of the study 1.5Scope of Research 1.6Research Methodology CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW CHAPTER THREE THE ACTIVIST BY TANURE OJAIDE CHAPTER FOUR ARROWS OF RAIN BY OKEY NDIBE CHAPTER FIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION SUGGESTIONS 5.1 SUMMARY Conclusion WORKS CITED
ABSTRACT This research endeavour focuses on the social and political ills prevalent in the African societies with the view of correcting them thus, making the contemporary society a better place to live. Using two texts from renowned Nigeria writer, we see the economic, social and political evils which morally degrade our society and the community at last. These evils are being satirized to bring about transformation. Here, the sociological approach is employed. The quota sampling system is ...
ABSTRACT It is known fact that racism and oppression are one of the major issues in Black American literature. This study will attempt to make readers realize these themes in Richard Wright’s Black Boy by analyzing the concept of racial segregation of Black in America. We will examine the historical perspective of Black writing narrative and the effects of racism and oppression, which include poverty, hunger assault etc. and the ways through which the blacks reacted to racism. We can ...
INTRODUCTIONLanguage is the distinctive quality unique to man. It is what enables man to express him/herself and communicate with his/her fellow man, and it is acquired naturally. According to Fromkin et al “…language is the source of human life and power” (3). They also state that “we use language to convey information to others…, ask questions…, give command…, and express wishes” (173). There are two specific media of using language: oral – which is by words of mouth; an...
Abstract The spread of colonial empire was introduced in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the American Revolutionary war and the Latin American wars of independence. Colonialism is the policy of acquiring and maintaining colonies, especially for exploitation. Colonialism therefore will be examined in Alex La Guma's A Walk in the Night and R.K Narayan's A Horse and Two Goats. They both showcase the ailments of colonialism in their respective works. Apartheid in South Afric...