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Re-imagining Nigerian unity : identity, ethno-nationalism and the depiction of the nation in Nigerian novels by female authors

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Bearing witness to an era : contemporary Nigerian fiction and the return to the recent past

............................................................................................. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................... v CHAPTER ONE .......................................................................................... 1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY .................................................................... 1 1.

An examination of women’s voices in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The thing around your neck”.

'Courageous and stimulating ...remarkable mixture of analysis, poetry, theory and personal testimony.' Trouble and Strife Originally printed clandestinely and smuggled out of the USSR, this collection from the first Russian feminist magazine gives a comprehensive picture of women's lives in Soviety society. Women scientists, workers, artists and intellectuals of all ages and ethnic backgrounds and from all parts of the Soviet Union report on their experiences as workers, mothers, daughters and dissidents.

Kinship and Marriage in the Soviet Union: Field Studies@@@Women and Russia: Feminist Writings from the Soviet Union

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Of Mules and Mamas: Four Women, Africana Mothering, and Resistance

Sefi Atta’s debut novel Everything Good Will Come (2006) examines the growing up of a child from adolescence to adulthood. Through these various forms of growth the heroine becomes aware of her environment and how it affects her. This paper seeks to explore how these dimensions help in shaping the vision of the woman. The female characters in this novel are very assertive and utilize all means available to them to affirm their individualitsy. The paper also examines the socioeconomic and political landscape of Nigeria and how its affect the psychology of the woman. The paper submits that the woman cannot continue in the space defined for her by the society; she must fight for her space both in the home and in the larger society. She must speak out because silence is no longer golden; it has become a destructive metaphor. Key words :

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Feminist Dimensions in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come

This paper examines the continuous presence of the military as a motif in the Nigerian novel. It examines the paradigm shift from the older generation of Nigerian novelists who saw the military as corrective mechanism to the younger generation of Nigerian novelist who hold that the military is the bane of the decay that has come to envelop the modern Nigerian society. It is the position of this paper that ideologically, the military cannot be seen as a corrective mechanism. This is because it is responsible for the corruption religious malaise, academic rot and human right abuses among other observations that have bedeviled the Nigerian society. These among others are the issues which this paper has set out to discuss. Finally, the paper concludes the civil rule should left for civil authority while the military should remain within its orbit of protecting the territorial integrity off the nation. Key words : Scaffolding; Zone of Proximal Development; Peer review

http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/viewFile/j.sll.1923156320110303.134/2154

The Military as a Motif in the Nigerian Novel: Helon Habila’S Waiting for an Angel

This article examines the communicative significance and sociolinguistic import of deathprevention names in Mbube, Ogoja Local Government Area of Cross River State, Southeastern Nigeria. Naming in the Mbube cultural context reveals deep insights into the 
relationship between the name-giver and the cultural framework of the Mbube people. This 
study is an attempt to identify death-prevention names Mbube people bestow and what 
they communicate in terms of ideology, spirituality and social solidarity. The study relies 
on Leech’s (1983) socio-pragmatic paradigm on meaning processes, which interrogates 
social perceptions underlying participants’ interpretation and performance of communicative action (Kasper and Rose, 2002:2). Data for the study were sourced from givers and bearers of death-prevention names in the study area. Interviews and participants 
observations were the key elicitation techniques with respondents who have in-depth 
knowledge of the history, language and culture of the Mbube people. The study gains 
sufficient insights from Mbube religious beliefs, cosmology and history, which resonate in 
the Mbube naming system generally and death-prevention names in particular. Findings 
reveal that Mbube death-prevention names confer honour on both the past (ancestors) and 
the present (living beings), and serve as symbolic resources that encode deep cultural 
meanings, construct identity and reinforce the notion of personhood.

I cannot baptize Satan: The communicative import of Mbube death-prevention names

The Western voice is one of the pioneering voices in the early development of the feminist criticism of the Nigeriannovel. As a result it constantly deploys Western critical methods into the criticism of the Nigerian Novel .This papertherefore re-examines these issues using meta-criticism in order to put the feminist ideology in proper perspective inthe Nigerian Novel. The feminist ideology in the Nigerian Novel tends to reduce Africa to cultural satellite of Europe.The attempts by the practitioners of feminist theory to define and align themselves with the theory have producedmany strands of the same theory. Among these strands are: feminism, motherism, womanism among others, all in aneffort to remain African and still relevant within the global perspectives. The paper discusses Western feminist critics’views on the Nigerian novel. The paper concludes that though the theory is gaining wide acclaim in Nigeria, whatthis paper advocates is womanism which is accommodative, complimentary and non-radical in its approach

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The Western Voice and Feminist Criticism of the Nigerian Novel

This paper seeks to explore the New Historicist dimensions in the Nigerian novel with a focus on Helon Habila’s Measuring Time. The Nigerian history as seen by Habila has not validated many assumptions and needs to be revised .This revision of history by Habila puts the Nigerian history in proper perspective. The new historicist dimensions in this novel include: history, culture politics and the military. It is the position of this paper that the Nigerian writer should begin to write about Nigeria’s most recent history. It is the exploration of this most recent history in Habila’s Measuring Time that this paper sets out to examine using the tenets of new historicism. This theory examines primarily the historical as well as cultural aspects of the text. It also sees the text as an associate unit of other texts and it is in the network of these texts that meaning is realized. This most recent history as seen in this novel includes religious crises, corruption, the military usurpation of political power and electoral fraud. The paper reveals that if Nigeria would get her elections right and put right leaders in place, there would be a multiplier effect on other sectors of the polity and the wellbeing of the citizenry would be improved. The paper opines that the failure of Nigerian leaders to manage their affairs should not be blamed only on colonialism. Both the leadership and followership have a duty not to fail.

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Jonas Egbudu Akung

Papers

Feminist Dimensions in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come

The Military as a Motif in the Nigerian Novel: Helon Habila’S Waiting for an Angel

I cannot baptize Satan: The communicative import of Mbube death-prevention names

The Western Voice and Feminist Criticism of the Nigerian Novel

New Historicist Dimensions in Helon Habila’s Measuring Time