A Study of Signs in Selected Films The Concept of Semiotics The term semiotics has been in use since the seventeenth century. Accounts that it was spelled semeiotics, and was first used in English by Henry Stubbes (1670:75) to precisely denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs. Semiotics has its … Read more

A Stylistic Approach to Chimamanda Adichie’s Work A Case Study of Americanah ABSTRACT This project aims at investigating features of style in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah. It majorly focuses on identification of features of style in line with contemporary stylistics and the analysis of the same features through graphological, syntactic and semantic levels. The features under study include: … Read more

A Thematic Exploration, Adimora Ezeigbo’s Heat Songs and Evwierhoma’s Out of Hiding CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Although women play very significant roles in various spheres of Nigeria’s development, their contributions to the growth of the country are, often, not acknowledged or encouraged. For instance, the role of women in the development … Read more

An Analysis of Gender Relations in Zaynab Alkali’s the Virtuous Woman Abstract The human society exhibits nuances of conflicts overtly or covertly. Unfortunately, these conflicts permeate every strata even relationships. In the struggle for self actualisation and assertion by females, the study explores the gender relations in Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman. Therefore, methodology for … Read more

An Analysis of Modernism on Christopher Okigbo’s Labyrinths, with Path of Thunder What is modernism? The Modernist Period in English Literature occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965. In broad terms, the period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting … Read more

SUMMARY OF “SUNDIATA: AN EPIC OF OLD MALI” The epic of Sundiata is told by the griot (storyteller and keeper of history) Djeli Mamadou Kouyaté. He begins with details of Sundiata’s ancestors, as the force of history is important in the tale of the man whose victory will create the Mali Empire. Sundiata’s father, Maghan … Read more

An Analysis of Themes in African Literature, the Case of Nigerian Literature Themes of Colonialism, Liberation, Nationalism, Tradition, Displacement and Rootlessness in African Literature This paper deals with some of the themes in African literature such as colonialism, liberation, nationalism, tradition, displacement and rootlessness. First of all, it is necessary to have an idea about … Read more

An Examination of the Language of Sport in Nigeria ABSTRACT The issue of the existence of a language synonymous with sport often generates debates amongst scholars. Many regard it as simple an aspect of a language that describes sporting events as perceived by the language users and not as a full-fledged specialized language variety. This … Read more

An Examination of the State of the English Sentence in Conformity to Societal Standard ABSTRACT Information communication technology continues to play an ever increasing role in information dissemination. In this regard, this study seeks to examine the state of the English sentence as regards conformity to standard in a society where emphasis is concentrated on … Read more

An In-depth Study of Lexical Borrowing from English to Hausa CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction This project is centered on An In-depth Study on Lexical Borrowing from English to Hausa, with the aim to study the English and Hausa lexical loan words. The concept borrowing has been defined and explains by different scholars. It is a universal socio-linguistic … Read more