• Use of Deixis in the 2015 Election Campaign Speeches of Muhammadu Buhari 

  Onyishi, Matthias Chinweuba (2017-11)

  This study was geared towards determining how Buhari deployed persons, time, space and social relationships in the deictic field of his campaign speeches and how meaning and effect are shaped and conveyed by the president’s ...
• Subversion of Patriarchal Binary Opposition in Alice Walker’s the Color Purple and Kate Chopin’s the Awakening 

  Obinyeluaku, Chikaodili Oge (2016-12)

  In spite of civilization, subjugation of women under male hegemony has been an unending challenge. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening examine a patriarchal society that relegate women to the ...
• Blackness and Role Assignment in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon and Small Island 

  Nwoke, Chidiebube Precious (2017-08)

  Blackness has continued to grow in meaning such that its meaning can be described as ambiguous. Blackness in a racist environment dominated by whites assumes meanings that are negative. In a racist environment, blackness ...
• Econtextualizing Engagement: an Ecocritical Perspective on Ibiwari Ikiriko’s Oily Tears of the Delta and Tanure Ojaide’s Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel 

  Nwaka, Caroline Olubunmi (2017-11)

  There is no doubt that Nigerian literature has been seen as a tradition that is useful, functional; that is engaged. That engagement has been, in the most part, socio-political and cultural. Nigerian literature has been ...
• A Critical Analysis of Igbo-Ọmaba Chants as Poetics of Culture in Lejja Town, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria 

  Madu, Uchechukwu Evelyn (2015-10)

  A lot of research has been carried out by scholars in the social sciences and Humanities on the Ọmaba masking institution to the extent that almost every aspect of it has been explored in one way. The Ọmaba Festival, the ...
• Politeness forms and Hedging Strategies in English among Igbo Bilinguals. 

  Dozie, Chinomso Patricia (2017-11)

  The objective of the study was to conduct a linguistic analysis of politeness and hedging strategies in the conversational English of Igbo bilinguals. Through a purposive sampling process, a total of 3000 copies of ...
• Ideational Meaning in the Change Agenda Manifesto of the All Progressive Congress of Nigeria 

  Akaniro, Uzoma Felix (2017-05)

  This study is a descriptive analysis of the manifesto of the all progressive congress presidential aspirant Muhammadu Buhari using M.A.K. Halliday’s systemic Functional Grammar as the theoretical model for the analysis and ...
• Apollonian/Dionysian Predicament in Albert Camus’ The Stranger 

  Ude, Chinedu (2016)

  Character study most frequently comes up in the criticism of narrative, one of the three forms of literature. This is so because a narrative text comprises a unique world—of creatures (characters), a language and incidents—that ...
• Existentialism in the novels of Bessie Head 

  Ojiakor, Theodora Chinyere (2017)

  The study examines the influence of the existentialist themes in the novels of Bessie Head. Various studies have been done on the works of Bessie Head, especially with particular focus on the concept of identity, the exilic ...
• The other mother in Jamaica Kincaid’s at the bottom of the river and Bessie Head’s maru. 

  Matthew, Akaninyene Friday (2015)

  Mothers are women who inhabit or perform the role of bearing some relation to their children, who may or may not be their biological offspring. Those who give birth to children because they produce their ovum for fertilization ...
• Representation of environment in selected Chinua Achebe’s novels 

  Akpan, Enefiok Edet (2017)

  This study examines the representation of the environment in the novels of Chinua Achebe. The study focuses on Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God and Anthills of the Savannah. It looks at how Achebe portrays the environment ...
• Dyadic representation of mythic structures in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah 

  Egbutu, Ikechukwu Otuu (2016)

  This study isolates myth as one of the structural principles of literature. The mythic structures are perceived in dyadic figuration: the quest myth and the myth of the year god. The four characters chosen from Adichie’s ...
• A contrastive study of Igbo and English affixation 

  Ojukwu, Chika Kate (2011-05)

  This research work hinges on the contrastive analysis of Igbo and English affixation. The Igbo and English languages are of different linguistic backgrounds and as such are characterized by differences in the affixation ...
• The Positive Influence of the Language of Social Media on the English Language 

  Okodo, Onyedikachi A. (2017-06-06)

  The boom in the use of social media in our time has no doubt brought a lot alteration in different language conventions. The early users of social media battled with space and time. Since social media language is in the ...
• A Stylistic Analysis of Wole Soyinka’s “The Beatification Of Area Boy” and “A Play Of Giants” 

  Amama, Donatus Linus (2017-05-30)

  Wole Soyinka has been rated as a man of commendable style. The parlance, “The man and the style” has become axiomatic in his literary writings. Soyinka has attained full relevance in the philosophy of his art and style. ...
• Status Struggle: Evaluation of the English Language and the Indigenous Languages in Nigeria 

  Odoemela, Benjamin Tochukwu (2017-05-22)

  The presence and the use of the English language in Nigeria has been seen as a threat to the indigenous languages. The truth lies in the fact that Nigeria has adopted the language of her colonial master and has given it ...
• The Morpho-Semantic Implications of English Loan-Words from Africa 

  Chilaka, Blessing Chinwe (2017-05-22)

  This research work examines how the English language adopted words of African origin into its vocabulary. It also investigates the morphological and semantic changes that these words go through in order to thrive successfully ...
• Politeness Strategies in Selected Nigerian Newspaper Editorials 

  Mgbeoji, Bede Ngoka (2017-05-22)

  This work examines the politeness features in selected Nigerian newspaper editorials— The Daily Sun, The Nation, and ThisDay newspapers. The study assesses how the various politeness maxims are exploited and violated in ...
• The Representation of Persons with Disabilities in Selected African Fiction 

  Oliver, Kingsley Ugochukwu (2017-05-22)

  The concept of disability as an entity worthy of study in African literature is hardly ever considered, yet it an engaging issue. Disability means different things to different people at different times and that is what ...
• Merger of Theme and Style in Chimamanda Adichie’s "Purple Hibiscus" and Zaynab Alkali’s "The Virtuous Woman" 

  Egbo, Patience (2017-05-22)

  This work is a study of the merger of theme and style in Chimamada Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman. It is an analysis of how special configuration of language has been used in the realisation ...

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