ABSTRACT This study explores power in selected plays of Wole Soyinka and Femi Osofisan, focusing on its social manifestations, use, effects and characters‘ responses to its exercise in Soyinka‘s Kongi’s Harvest, Madmen and Specialists, From Zia with Love and The Trials of Brother Jero, as well as in Osofisan‘s Morountodun, Another Raft, Once upon Four Robbers and Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels. The study reveals that in spite of ideological differences, Soyinka and Osofisan have rema...
ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary approaches to criticism contribute much to the understanding of library tests. The principle of psychoanalysis, for instance, can reveal that many opinions often expressed about African and African American literary works can be interrogated. Within the context of psychoanalytic principles, it can be argued that biology and culture work together to shape the lives of individuals, and works of literature which portray human actions should highlight the influences of ...
ABSTRACT This study is an investigation of the influence of the Izon language and culture on the English of Izon-English bilinguals and the extent to which the variations manifested in their English usage can be induced by such variables as the bilingual‟s linguistic, cultural and educational background. One hundred (100) Izon-English bilinguals, who have lived within the Izon culture for at least two years, were randomly selected from the Arogbo-Izon community of Ondo State for the study. ...
ABSTRACT This study is an examination of how selected Nigerian novelists have, through the literary imagination, used protest as a mode of expression necessary for assessing the relationship between art, ideology and social consciousness. This study examines the relationship of these three elements within the context of selected Nigerian novels dealing with a specific society struggling within difficult economic and socio-political circumstances. The analytical focus is on six primary texts, ...
ABSTRACT This study explores power in selected plays of Wole Soyinka and Femi Osofisan, focusing on its social manifestations, use, effects and characters‘ responses to its exercise in Soyinka‘s Kongi’s Harvest, Madmen and Specialists, From Zia with Love and The Trials of Brother Jero, as well as in Osofisan‘s Morountodun, Another Raft, Once upon Four Robbers and Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels. The study reveals that in spite of ideological differences, Soyinka and Osofisan have remar...
Abstract This study attempts an eclectic approach on the nexus between theZimbabwean crisis, migration and identity using postcolonial theory in exploring Zimbabwean post-colonial politics. An extensive investigation into the nexus between the Zimbabwean crisis, migration and identity through re-tracing the past historical experiences of Zimbabwe is made while at the same time consulting a wide range of post colonial literature that falls within the field. I also consider the phenomena of mig...
Abstract Hedges and boosters play different roles in academic discourse. This thesis is an analysis of the application of hedges and boosters in all ten theses of the Master of Arts in English Studies submitted and examined at the University of Namibia between 2014 and 2015. The primary aim of this study was to examine how research writers use hedges to distance themselves from their claims, and how they use boosters to show commitment towards their claims. The study used both the qualitativ...
ABSTRACT This study was an exploration of the autobiographical representation of the experiences of four Namibian women who participated in the country’s liberation struggle. The premise of this study was to interrogate how the autobiography genre was used to depict ‘herstory’, subjectivity and the public sphere in these female narratives. Herstory in this study portrays autobiography as a tool of narrating women’s personal history, analysed from the postcolonial-feminist perspective;...
ABSTRACT This thesis provides a comparative analysis of the depiction of women characters in the plays God of Women by Nyathi and Othello by Shakespeare. The main purpose of the study was to find out how Nyathi and Shakespeare depict women characters in their plays. The researcher evaluated the use of literary techniques the authors use in their portrayal of the female characters in the plays. The researcher employed the feminist literary theory in this study. The study revealed that both Nya...
ABSTRACT This research work examines the impact of corrective feedback (CF) on the writings of business communication students in selected tertiary institutions in Ghana. In Ghana, CF is one area in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) that has not received much attention. Both empirical and theoretical literature were reviewed. Noticing and Swain’s Comprehensible Output Hypotheses were the two theoretical underpinnings the research adopted. The design of the research was sequential explorato...
ABSTRACT This study was motivated by the pervasive difficulties which Namibian learners and students experience in reading and understanding English texts, and which impact negatively on the academic progress of these learners and students. The research was aimed at identifying specific language-related properties of English texts which might impede the English reading comprehension of students in Namibia entering university, as well as possible elements in the language background of these st...
ABSTRACT This study is an exploration of the literary representation of survival and coping strategies during times of socio-political and economic crisis as presented in selected contemporary Zimbabwean fiction in English. The main purpose of the study was to investigate how fiction, particularly the short story, manages to capture the various innovative and resilient ways used by the people inhabiting the city during tempestuous and trying times, and how they manage to live with hope and po...
ABSTRACT Reading Morrison’s fiction at the hand of Bakhtin and Levinas, as well as considering her own non-fiction, led to the conclusion that sufficient evidence exists to argue Morrison’s novels present identity as ethical responsibility that can advocate for a manifesto for positive social change. Analysis focused on the investigation of identity construction in Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), Tar Baby (1981), Paradise (1997), and A Mercy (2008). Through her fiction Morrison can be...