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    A dictionary of modern Kabba language
    (PFL Publications, 2021) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    This present work is the outcome of researches I undertook at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka class of Descriptive Linguistics, under the tutelage of Rev. Orji, during the 1971-1972 session. This work continued in Paris during my STINT at The University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) 1975-1979. Back home in Nigeria, on the 9'h of November 1979 till date I intensified my commitment to the Dictionary of Kabba Language from 1980-1981 at (CBAAC) Centre for Black Arts and Civilization. With the help of University of Lagos native speakers (Who were students), my work continued with research grants from University of Lagos Central Research Committee. This work is the fruit of more than four decades of diligent, committed, devoted studied attention to Kabba Language, linguistics and lexicography.We know this is a pioneering work and we dare not delude ourselves of its exhaustiveness because future researchers will have a field day in compiling KABBA DICTTONARYOF PERSONAL Names, medicinal plants and herbs, Agricultural terminologies, Kabba proverbs and praise names, Names ofKabbaflora andfauna. We exhort future Kabba Linguists to tone-mark future editions of A Dictionary Of Kabba Language. Language is dynamic and ever evolving, researchers should take note of this fact and endeavour to enrich Kabba Language with not only borrowings and loan words, but efforts should be intensified to attract the myriads of neo-logisms from the internet, social media, computer technologies loan-words. Kabba citizens might not be endowed with space-knowledge terminology, but we are aware of Osupa, Irawo, Orun and other probable galaxies emerging in NASA space engineering.
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    A manual of poetry for Kogi SSCE Pupils
    (Upper Standard Publications, 2003) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    Ebira thematic thrust abounds also in Brotherhood 0/ Cain on pages 74, 99, 101, md in Isule Wotu n'ehi (p 114), in Ebara: The Egungum, a poem, Adokita appeared. IL i instructive to remind readers that the whole book is dedicated to AMMCO. Kuroko appeared in Kabba: A Play on P134. 'rh Ogidi thematic thrust appeared in the Preface. The Headmaster's Retreat, A Poem jor Severine Naiye) appeared on page 74 in Brotherhood of Cain. gale and Ogidi motif also appeared in Kabba: A Play page 94: Gbede, Ikiri, homorika, Egene (134) and Ebora Oluwo (p 142). Mock Battle (p 41) in Brotherhood of Cain is dedicated to Capt Abisoye who led a company from Enugu l Kabba in 1964.Th Igala motif appeard in the poem (Kadiri Ogaji) in the book, Lion Head and Ankpa on page 610f Tree of Trinitv, a collection of poems. koloke and Nupe also appeared in Kabba: A play on pages 108 and 140, while E nyin, Ajaokuta on pages 110 and Masaba on page 140. In amji several translations of Hausa Sung-Poems are to be found on pp 16- 17,by Salihu Iankid (Salslar Ahmadu Bello); pp 35 - 37 (Sir Ahmadou [ikan Shehu) 1
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    Brotherhood of gain: a collection of poems (Kabba literary Series)
    (Rothmed International Limited, 2001) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
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    Ciroma, Kabba, Gabaidu of Unilag: a memoir of an academic guru
    (Latderaj Printing, Lagos, 2021) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
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    Contemporary Nigerian Arts & Artists : a modern guide
    (Upper Standard Publications, 1999) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    Fine and Applied Art after literature forms a lasting mental picture in the minds of all decernining men. The role played by painters, cartoonists, sculptors in the cultural life of France can best be illustrated by the surprise cultural immersion test the French foisted on some Nigerian students on compulsory year abroad at the universite de Dakar in September 1972. They expected us, Nigerians to have an encylopaedic knowledge of French writers, painters, sculptors, musicians etc from the Middle Ages to the 'year 2000. This is why this work devoted to Nigerian Fine and Applied artists is an academic imperative for our Nigerian art lovers and artisits.
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    Count down in yoruba literature for JSSCE students
    (Upper Standard Publications, 2007) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    These titles were written by French Professors to teach English in French language. I wondered aloud why teach English in French? Is it to save money that would have been spent in paying Professors from Oxford and Cambridge Universities salaries and to put paid to the English new found relevance as a world language over and above French language often tagged the language of diplomacy? After a deep meditation, I discovered that there is sense in the Pari. Academy's authority's decision. After all, all the cultural references that the beginners and scholars in English language will need will be easily assimilatable if taught with the mind of French. Linguistic ambiguities will be explained in clear French Lan U
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    Cultural quiz for Kogi State pupils
    (Upper Standard Publications, Lagos State, 2007) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    Many Scholars and highly placed Nigerians believe that the social conflict and political instability in Nigeria are as a result of Nigeria's ethnic, cultural, f Itgious and multi-lingual pluralism. Some even believe that national integration for national development which should harness the diverse pluri-cultural goodies is Impossible because of ethnic pluralism. A group of Nigerian Scholars believe that conflicts that threaten Nigeria's march towards nationhood should be traced to the existence of separateness of our cultural groups. It is true that the study of complex composite societies is a difficult task. It is also true that conflict can come about from incompatible value systems. So can it come about from a common value system. It is our belief that what is happening in Nigerian is not Igbo culture competing with Nupe culture, Hausa culture and Yoruba culture with Tiv culture, Urhobo culture with Idoma culture, Edo culture with Ibibio culture, Jukun culture with Ibibio culture, Idoma culture with Egun culture, Igala culture with Ebira culture, Borgu culture with Fulani culture, Gambari culture with Esako culture. It is true that ethnicity as a group differences along known boundaries and citizens interaction across ethnic borderlines can lead to misunderstanding which too often leads to war. A cursory look at conflict points of the world will lead us to believe that most of them stemmed from ethnicity. The French in Canada are fighting an irredentist cultural battle against the English. The Irish are doing the same against the English. This observation is valid in Katanga, in Shaba province of Zaire, the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, ANC Vs Nkatha Zulu cultural groups, Liberia, Western Sahara, Angola, Somalia, Uganda, etc. We believe like the Late Sardauna of Sokoto, the Premier of Northern Nigeria that "we must not forget our differences but we should strive to understand our differences." Ethnicity or cultural difference in Sir Ahmadu Bello's thinking can provide a force for healthy competition for economic development, concord and peace and progress if we undertake to study these positive aspects of our differences.
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    Cultural quiz for Niger State Pupils and students
    (Promocomms Limited, 2021) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    I t 11 try to understand our differences so as to live in peace it/. one another. Sir Ahmadu Bello (1909-1966). Imu t from the on set give a rounding Merci beaucoup, thank you sir, to our Amiable Vice - Chancellor, Prof A.K. Adamu, who has granted me an opening in the department of Fench of our prestigious University: Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU) Lapai, since January zo" 2020. This is so b cause, the history of Kogi State, old Kabba Province to which I belong, in general and Kabba Kingdom and Nupe Empire is so intimately link, both in substance, governance, language and cultural borrowing. I must say I am welcome home, because the Bawa Salka, the Jeremiah Gana, Garuba Kuta and many more upe pupils were my school mates at Kabba Provincial secondary school Okene in the 1%Os.
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    Cultural, poltical & historical quiz for Lagos State Pupils and Students
    (Promocomms Limited, 2021) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    Who wrote the Bibliography of the History of Lagos State - T. M. Salisu that is the significance of the bibliography? The significance of an adequate and exhaustive bibliography to this kind of 'search work cannot be overemphasized. This bibliography is intended to supplement Banjo's work in a earlier publication. What is the scope? In view of the scarcity of written sources for the early history of Lagos, the scope of this bibliography is on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries history of the state. Various kinds of materials are included in this bibliography which have been made as exhaustive as possible. What is the arrangement? The arrangement adopted is by forms or kinds of materials/sources listed. The entries under each kind are arranged alphabetically by author or title and unless otherwise indicated are found in the University of Lagos (ULL).
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    Dance and theatre: a pictorial illustration of Kabba Women Woro Musical Assembly
    (Rothmed Publications, 2001) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    Africa, this is how far we have come. (Sophie Oluwole, a gender activist) A quick look at how Africans were seen in the past through the eye. of European travelers, tourist-explorers, anthropologists, ethnographers, colonialists shows an ethnocentric, eurocentric perverted and demented lack of an in-dept understanding of the social-organisation of the African societies. Homer (C 700 Bc) wrote that Africa (Ethiopia) is a remote place where people worshipped and sacrificed to gods. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) wrote that Africa is a timeless place in which there' are no arts, letters or social organisation, but only fear and violent death. Beget Friedricb (1770-1831) wrote that the people lived in a condition of mindlessness barbering without laws and morality. J. J. Rousseau (1712 1778) wrote that Africarrs cannot think in any reflexive manner. And that their engagement in arts is perceived as a thoughtless activity which is the antithesis of the intellect. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the 3rd president of the United States of America wrote that it would be impossible for black persons to understand the mathematical formula in Euclid's Famous book The Elements. This was the Jefferson that posited that all men are created equal! Comte Josepli Arthur Gobineau (1816-1882) wrote that Africans are people who lack the sophisticated linguistics skills, the scientific and political faculties of the European and are best suited to dancing, dressing up and singing!
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    Developing communicative skills in French Language (Listening, speaking, reading, writing)
    (Printview communications Limited, Lagos State., 2003) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    The communication needs of today requires that we help our second language learners-students to build an original and stimulating second language acquisition skills that focuse on acquiring the listening skills from the very out-set. This book is targeted at Nigerian undergraduates. The use of Audio-visual cassettes, video sets will help to develop the receptive and expressive language skills of our students both at oral and written levels. In this communicative method we have endeavoured to make our students to be able to function linguistically in everyday-life situation communication, that is, effective communication in French is the principal goal of this manual. Accuracy in Grammar has been dealt with elsewhere. Accuracy in conference situation vocabulary has also been liquidated in another of our work. But our major goal is pronunciation.
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    Essays in World Theatre
    (Promocomms Limited, 2003) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    In a Nigeria in which diplomatic ties are now knitted by sponsoring dramatic troupes to perform abroad, it is only natural to expect that reciprocity as a rule in international relations should recommend to us, Nigerian scholars, not only to write on Nigerian dramatic patrimony abroad but also to write on the performance of world theatre in Nigeria. In the month of February and March 1990, the Bubble Theatre of London and West End Theatre performed Macbeth by Shakespeare and Plaza Suite by Neil Simons in Lagos, Abuja and in different parts of Nigeria. Chinese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Soviet, French as well as American theatre groups have performed in Nigeria several times since 1962. We are also aware that Chief Ogunde had visited the Americas, Europe and had performed in many of their cities. Duro Ladipo and Kola Ogunmola had visited and performed in Algiers, Britain, France. Belgium, Austria, Holland and Brazil. European and American audiences already saw in their works similarities with Brechtian operatic works. Wale Ogunyemi's plays have also been performed in London and cw York. We are also aware of the fact that Albert Morgan's dance drama, titled Oshun Obaluaye, created by Cubans in Miami, Florida, in ovember 1983 reminds us of the cultural and linguistic affinities existing between igerians, Cubans and the Brazilian black Diaspora. To this may be added Zora Zeljan's play on Oxala (Orisa-nla) in which the Yoruba god, Sango, featured. Nigerian University wits, such as Bode Osanyin, Femi Osofisan, J.A. Adedeji, LP. Clark, Bode Sowande, and Wole Soyinka among others have also carried Nigeria's intellectual theatre to such countries as America, Japan, Senegal. West Germany, Switzerland and England.
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    Essentials of French grammar for predominantly english-speaking learners
    (The Rehoboth Links, Lagos., 2001) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
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    Francophone heritage in Africa
    (Promocomms Limited, 2004) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    The aims and objectives of this seminal work is to help the predominantly I n dish-speaking Nigerian learners of French to understand the political history both colonial and pre-colonial of their French-speaking African brothers and to -e how French colonialism influenced their comportment, behaviour and choices. In doing so, we endeavour to make them aware of areas of differences md similarities between them and their ECOW AS, OAU French-speaking brothers. This work is essentially pre-colonial and colonial in scope. Very little IS touched in this work on the post independence era which we hope will be the subject matter of another work in the course of the century. The first chapter defined the neologism «La Francophonie» and did a projection of this commonwealth of French-speaking countries. The second chapter devoted to the colonial history of French West Africa starts with an introductory note in French titled Histoire de I 'Afrique Occidentale. Chapter three is devoted to the history and geography of Senegal. The geographical location, population, the climate, vegetation, drainage system, cities, agriculture and commerce, the regions, communication and transportation systems, export and import trade. Even some of African writers, poets, playwrights, novelists, are given visibility in fuller details in subsequent chapters. This we hope will afford Nigerian students and policy makers alike the opportunity to understand certain crucial features of francophone countries and their ties with France and how such ties influence their comportment, taste, scale of preference, decision making process and their attitude to new alliances.
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    Gamji
    (Foundation Publishers, 1993) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    We are all. aware of the fact that becoming a hero is the property of a VIrtuous man. This is because heroism has noth- I~g to ?o with luck or talent but requires constant efforts at all' times, mdeed, to the end of one's life. Hu~iIity is. the fountain of strength of all heroes. So are ~t?er VIrtues like: prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, aith, . hope, and .chanty. Heroism is not what one cultivates conscIOusly: but IS by popular acclamation, something that is usually achieved only with or after death as in the case ofmartyrs.?amji.' the In?n ~~o was able to bring together all themu.'t.l-ethntc, multi-religIOUS,. multi-lingual and multi-cultural ~ntltles o.f the North .to create the monolithic Arewa identity 1nt? a united people, IS th.e subject of this two-hour play. The ~nter ~?ys we have a hentage, a viable heritage. The heritage Garnji, a man, who was the centre of the Nigerian political t?rms of the 1960s, a literally misunderstood man. Gamji is th! legendary and mystic BigmlJll with the wristwatch the like of whom the gods' ift . ' give as g: s to humanity once in several ~e~erati~ns and who are hard to come by or to replace bee- .IlIS~their ~.ho.esare oversize. In fact there may never be any ~).thcr,Gam!l. like ~ir Ahm~du Bello for a long time to come. I he SucceSSIOnVOidGamji created in the caliphate's tradition lor twenty-tive years attests to the veracity of our claim.
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    Gamji
    (Upper Standard Publications, 2006) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    Gamji wasan kwaikwayo ne da Or. SJ. Timothy Asobele ya rubuta da Ingilishi aka kuma buga tun shekarar 1993. Wasa ne kamar yadda sunan ya nuna da aka yi a kan rayuwar marigayi Ahmadu Bello Sardaunan Sakkwato, Firimiyan Arewa, wanda ake yi wa lakabi da Gamji. Kodayake marubucin ya nuna cewa wannan wasan kwaikwayo kaga shi aka yi, ba tarihi ne aka rattaba ba, to amma sunayen wasu 'yan wasan da ya yi amfani da su, sun aye ne na hakika kuma ana iya fahimtar masu sunayen kai tsaye. Amma da yake a gabatarwarsa ya nuna cewa kada a danganta sunayen da suka fito a wasan da wasu mutane da aka sani, mu sai muka ga ab in da ya fi kyau ma shi ne a yi wa sunayen gyaran fuska domin a batar da bami .
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    Historical trends of Nigerian indeigenous and contemporary Music
    (Rothmed International Limited, 2002) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    Music is the entertainment aspect of culture. In many parts of the world it has been discovered to be a soothing balm to listeners on different occasions such as in ceremonies: marriages, funerals, birth-day, independence anniversaries. Music in the past has helped in re-organising the mental alertness of people. A concrete example of this could b~ ,drawn from the biblical Saul who was always thrilled and calmed by Dovid s harp and that during King Saul fit of mental derangement. . Music in some societies and countries and In some other parts of the world is as important as food. In Congo, America and Britain from where one could say the most popular world musicians have emerged, such as James Brown, Micheal Jackson, the Late Jimmy Cliff and the late Bob Marley of Jamaica, music is a prized national patrimony. . To come nearer home in Nigeria, music has also formed an Integral part of our life and this music varies from one region to the other or fr?m one state to the other. But the most popular music of Nigeria could be said to be Juju in the Yoruba land, as well as Sakara, Apala, and Fuji; Goge in the Northern part of the country, Highlife in the Eastern part, Funk, Afro Beat, a.nd R~aggae. As a matter of fact, there are many musicians in Nigeria but In this. work, emphasis will be laid on the outstanding ones in the areas alread~ ment~oned. Mention will also be made of their biographies, nature of their music and performance both at home and abroad. .. . The Black and African peoples are an essentially musical peoples. This is not a cliche but a truism. The essence of their music is still felt in far aw~y climes in the USA, Brazil and Cuba where the Jazz, Samba and Rhumb~ 'll~SIC and dance have been immortalized in the minds of the world as the contnbutlon of Black and African peoples to world culture and civilization.
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    Introduction a l'imaginaire et a la mythocritique des mythes de soundjata, chaka, shango, Gueido
    (Uppr Standard (Nig), 2016) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    My the etl.itterature nest d'autant plus etonnant qu'un disciple de Roger Fayole, auteur de l' lebre ouvrage, La Critique et ancien elevea Paris III dans les annees 1970 est decide de s'aventurer dans le domaine de la mythocritique alors qu'il est heritier d'un modele qui se veut cIassique. Car dans les cours dispenses par Roger Fayole ; l'Ecole Normale Superieure rue d'Ulm, a Paris et a Paris III dans les annees 1970, il etait question d'une Methode de la Critique Moderne et Contemporaine. Dans ces cours il etait question des discours critiques d'aujourd'hui sur les textes litteraires. La encore les cours ont touche la critique d'inspiration Psychanalytique, ritique litteraire et Sociologique de la litterature, la Psychanalyse existentielle de I.P. Sartre, Critique litteraire et linguistique: Structuralisme, Semiotique, Textologies etc. Mais rediger une introduction rninimale sur Mythe et litterature demande une connaissance des grilles et des canons litteraires et de la mythocritique. Cette introduction d'ernblee nous plonge dans le siIIage de ce qu'il convient d'appeler le double regard critique. Car les fables tisses autour de la personne de Chaka, Soundjiata, Shango, Gueido etc nous introduit dans les fantasmes de leur personnalites, dans I'imaginaire de l'Afrique pre-coloniale, vers les lumieres des mythes negro-africaines et vers une cIinique des vies de l'Afrique medievale de Soundjiata ou la Psychanalyse prend le-devant et ou la fantasmagorie de l'occultisme Sud-africain s'impose avec la personnalite de l'empereur Chaka le Zoulou, le leader sanguinaire.
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    L'heritage Litteraire Francophone
    (Upper Standard (Nig), Lagos State, 2016) Timothy Asobele, S.J.
    L'heriuige liueraire jrancophone est une invitation a la critique des eeuvres francophones. C'est I'Itineraire d'un ancien eleve de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (paris ill) et de I'Ecole Norrnale Superieure 45, rue d'U1m Paris 5. (1975-1979). Que le temps passe !!! L'ouvrage est un plaidoyer pour qu'il y ait une critique litteraire resolument africaine. C'est I'aboutissement du cheminement ou periple d'un ancien eleve du Professeur Roger FayoIle, Professeur de litterature francaise a I'Ecole Normale Superieure et a la Sorbonne Nouvelle ou il faisait partie du groupe de recherche de la Iitterature francaise et comparee au departement de la litterature francaise.
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    La psychocritique du conflit de la raison et du sentiment dans Hernani de Victor Hugo et Faust de Wolfgang Goethe
    (Department of Foreign Languages and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka., 2018-07) Timothy Asobele, S.J.; Tiamiyu, A.N
    Le développement national demande des efforts collectifs émanant des décisions et critiques objectives. L’étude de courant littéraire du romantisme révèle la supériorité du sentiment sur la raison. Les écrivains romantiques français et allemands - Musset, Vigny, Novalis et Wackenroder - ont produit des héros bizarres, antisociaux, révolutionnaires et libéraux. Ce conflit entre le classicisme et le romantisme équivaut celui entre le rationalisme et l’individualisme, entre la raison et le sentiment. Hernani de Victor Hugo et Faust de Wolfgang Goethe sont deux drames tragiques qui ont dépeint les traits romantiques. Cette communication essaie d’établir que les problèmes sociaux proviennent du sentiment (politique, religieux et tribal) surtout au Nigeria. Tel que nous employons, choisissons les leaders, et critiquons les actions du gouvernement sur le plan sentimental, les meilleurs résultats ne seront jamais acquis. Faust et Hernani sont deux héros romantiques qui ont influencé leurs sociétés par des sentiments vifs. Ils ont provoqué le suicide des autres et ont lutté sans respecter le système établi auparavant. La Psychocritique de Freud a assisté à mieux comprendre ses comportements romantiques. Cette communication est donc, une analyse du rapport entre le romantisme et la psychanalyse dans un drame allemand et un drame français. En conclusion, cette étude révèle trois niveaux du conflit – personnel, familial et communautaire - qui existe dans toutes les situations sociales dans lesquelles chacun doit essayer de respecter la raison.