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    100 years of Literary Enterprise in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Trends, Challenges and Prospects
    (Journal of the School of Languages, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Ondo, 2015-06-14) Ikwubuzo, I.
    Early this year, Nigeria celebrated her first centenary of nationhood. It afforded her an opportunity to appraise the level of development she has, over these years of nation building, attained in various spheres politics, economy, technology, education, health, national integration, capacity building, among others. Her strength, weaknesses, successes, failures, various setbacks and challenges, all have been x-rayed by various analysts. It is also worthwhile to extend such appraisal to the developmental strides Nigeria has made through, and in the area of literature in her indigenous languages. This paper, therefore, attempts to survey, with particular reference to Igbo literature, the development of literature indigenous Nigerian languages, its emergence, some of the past and present challenges encountered in its studies, the progress made, its utilitarian value, and prospects for further growth. It concludes that in spite of the challenges literature in Nigerian Languages has witnessed, and is still witnessing, in the course of its development, the trends, as exemplified by the situations in Igbo and Yoruba literature in this paper, reveal a significant steady growth and potentials to advance further if the right attitude is shown, such as automatic employment for graduates of Nigerian languages, increase in admission quota for Nigerian languages in our tertiary institutions, among others.
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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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    ‘A Minimalist Syntax of Yoruba Splitting Verbs
    (Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2016) Ilọri, J.F.
    While the literature on Yoruba splitting verbs affirms that every verb in the group splits to sandwich its object, very little is known about how the process really comes by. This paper investigates this group of verbs in Yoruba looking especially at their syntactic frame and features in both causative and inchoative constructions. Employing theoretical insights from minimalist grammar with data evidence from Standard and Central Yoruba dialects, it argues that such verbs are base generated in the core VP before their first halves are raised to lexicalize the functional light v within the outer VP shell. The paper concludes that Yoruba splitting verbs are complex lexemes entered in the lexicon as single units of word items before they get selected and merged to their nominal c-selected complement in the syntax.
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    A Morpho-Semantic Study of Okun Names: Implications for Okun Linguistic Identity
    (2021) Ilọri, J.F.; Arẹ, O.
    The commonest names among the Okun people are those typically borne by all Yoruba groups (e.g. Olusọla, Ọlọrunfẹmi, Awoniyi, Ogungbemi, Faniyi, Adebayọ, Kayọde, etc.). However, names (such as Ayinmiro, Alemika, Berida, Iyekolo, Melaye, Makele, etc.) which are peculiar to the Okun groups and exclusively based on the linguistic structure of their dialects are not as common as the general Yoruba names either as first names or as surnames. Interestingly, many speakers of other Yoruba dialects in South West Nigeria are hardly aware of the Yorubaness of such names as they often erroneously associate them with other tribes in Nigeria. Furthermore, the use of Okun indigenous names is in recession as many people, natives inclusive, no longer use them nor know what they mean. This paper investigates the linguistic structures of Okun exclusive names with a view to descriptively analysing how they are morpho-syntactically and semantically constructed, and how these constructions demonstrate clear ancient affinity with other Yoruba groups. Findings show that Okun indigenous names have well-known Yoruba culture and language structures which range from frozen/lexicalized clauses (both simple and complex), noun phrases, and nominalised VPs involving morphosyntactic and morphophonemic processes such as prefixation, desententialisation, clipping, contraction, assimilation, and deletion. All these combined tend to make the names culturally unique and interesting. Given the overwhelming evidence from the morpho-syntax and semantics of the Okun indigenous names investigated, which evidently align well with what obtains in Standard Yoruba and other well studied dialects of the language, the study concludes that Okunlects are linguistically integral to the Yoruba dialect continuum.
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    A Syntactic Analysis of Yorùbá Anaphora System’. AMU
    (Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, 2005) Ilọri, J.F.
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    A Syntactic Reappraisal of Polar Question Constructions in Igb
    (2021) Ilori, J.F.; Onuora, J.
    Assumptions in the literature suggest that Igbo language employs a combination of a low-tone and a resumptive pronoun which agrees with R-expression subjects of question clauses to derive polar questions. This study, however, additionally identifies a high-pitch intonation, apparently missed out in the earlier studies, as a crucial functional item in Igbo polar questions (IPQs henceforth). This informs a reappraisal of the syntactic projection of IPQ constructions undertaken in this paper. Relying on insights from minimalist grammar and other works within the generative tradition alongside acoustic investigation of pitch tracks of relevant speech samples on Praat, the paper proposes a complex but split pre-clausal functional morpheme which subcategorizes for declarative TPs as complement and subsequently, via internal merge, optionally sandwiches either the Pronominal/R-expression subject of IPQs or the whole of the declarative TP of IPQs having clause-final particles to derive convergent polar question constructions in the language.
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    A Syntactic Reappraisal of Polar Question Constructions in Igbo
    (2021) Ilọri, J.F.; Onuora, J.
    Assumptions in the literature suggest that Igbo language employs a combination of a low-tone and a resumptive pronoun which agrees with R-expression subjects of question clauses to derive polar questions. This study, however, additionally identifies a high-pitch intonation, apparently missed out in the earlier studies, as a crucial functional item in Igbo polar questions (IPQs henceforth). This informs a reappraisal of the syntactic projection of IPQ constructions undertaken in this paper. Relying on insights from minimalist grammar and other works within the generative tradition alongside acoustic investigation of pitch tracks of relevant speech samples on Praat, the paper proposes a complex but split pre-clausal functional morpheme which subcategorizes for declarative TPs as complement and subsequently, via internal merge, optionally sandwiches either the Pronominal/R-expression subject of IPQs or the whole of the declarative TP of IPQs having clause-final particles to derive convergent polar question constructions in the language.
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    A Syntactic Reappraisal of Polar Question Constructions in Igbo
    (2021) Ilọri, J.F.; Onuora, J.
    Assumptions in the literature suggest that Igbo language employs a combination of a low-tone and a resumptive pronoun which agrees with R-expression subjects of question clauses to derive polar questions. This study, however, additionally identifies a high-pitch intonation, apparently missed out in the earlier studies, as a crucial functional item in Igbo polar questions (IPQs henceforth). This informs a reappraisal of the syntactic projection of IPQ constructions undertaken in this paper. Relying on insights from minimalist grammar and other works within the generative tradition alongside acoustic investigation of pitch tracks of relevant speech samples on Praat, the paper proposes a complex but split pre-clausal functional morpheme which subcategorizes for declarative TPs as complement and subsequently, via internal merge, optionally sandwiches either the Pronominal/R-expression subject of IPQs or the whole of the declarative TP of IPQs having clause-final particles to derive convergent polar question constructions in the language.
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    Accumulation and Dispossession: Cocoa Production, Rural Development and the Structural Adjustment Programme in Southwest Nigeria, 1986 – 1996
    (A JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & STRATEGIC STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, 2018) Ajiola, F.O
    The production and sales of cocoa were critical factors in rural development in colonial southwest Nigeria. Although abundant literature exists on the contributions of cocoa to economic development in southwest Nigeria, the impact of cocoa production on rural social relations, and community development in southwest Nigeria during the period of the structural adjustment programme is yet to be fully explored. This paper, therefore, examined the relationship between cocoa production and rural development in southwest Nigeria with a view to mapping out the transformation that occurred in the postcolonial rural social formations. The data comes from Idanre, the largest cocoa-producing town in the southwest, Nigeria. Primary and secondary sources were used. These included oral interviews, which were conducted with informants purposively selected due to their knowledge of cocoa production and community development in Idanre. Following economic liberalization and abolition of the Cocoa Marketing Board in 1986, Idanre witnessed urban-rural migration, as many indigenes and migrants outside the community returned to cocoa farming. These returnees competed for scarce resources with the local population and at the same time, facilitated the introduction of innovation, both capital investments, technological and modern socio-cultural traits. SAP also encouraged many non-cocoa producing families to invest in the cocoa business and they made a fortune through which they contributed to the transformation of both their livelihoods and the community.
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    Acquisition de la compétence langagière à travers la lecture : Stratégies pour les apprenants du Français Langue Etrangère
    (ABUDOF Journal of Humanities, Department of French, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Nigeria., 2009) Balogun, L.I.
    La lecture, un des éléments d’acquisition de langue, est aujourd’hui incontournable dans l’enseignement et apprentissage d’une langue étrangère. Elle constitue le pivot à travers lequel se développe toute autre compétence de l’acquisition d’une langue : (l’oral, l’écrit, la correction phonétique, l’intonation, la prononciation etc..). Dans ce travail, nous essayerons de parcourir les stratégies de lecture qui peuvent aider l’apprenant nigérian du FLE à franchir les problèmes d’acquisition de cette langue à travers la lecture. Nous examinerons également les consignes générales et le rôle de l’enseignant en tant que médiateur dans l’apprentissage de la lecture.
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    Adam AI-lIuri and Neo-ijtihad: An Examination of His Legal Views on Ramadan Fasting in Nigeria
    (Nigeria Association of Teachers of Arabic and Islamic Studies (NATAIS), 2017) Adegoke, K.A.
    Shaykh Adam Ibn Abdullah al-IIuri was one of the rare erudite scholars in Africa continent in twentieth century who contributed a lot to the development of various Islamic disciplines. The Arabic School (Markazu 't-Talimi '1-'Arabi AI-Islami) established by him in 1952 has produced several Islamic scholars who specialised in different areas of Islamic disciplines. The objective of this study is to examine some of the neo-Ijtihad exercises of AI-Iluri on the jurisprudential issues surrounding the observance of Ramadan fasting in Nigeria such as the universal and geographical application of moon sighting, personality of the moon-sighter,number of moon-sighters, textual and artificial calculation of moon sighting and day of doubt (Yawm As-Sakk) which always serve as jurisprudential controversy on the commencement and termination of Ramadan fasting among Nigerian Muslims. Research method used in this study is expository, descriptive and analytical so as to come up with the relevance of AI-Iluri's neo-ljtihiid legal exercise to Nigerian environs. Conclusively, the study makes a finding that local related jurisprudential issues should be better handled by local Islamic scholars than consulting foreign materials from the author who may not be aware of the situation and circumstances peculiar to the environment. The paper therefore recommends that Nigerian Muslims should inculcate making use of the neo-ljtihiid legal exercise of their local scholars as a token of appreciation of their scholarship and a form of encouragement for them to do more in proffering solutions to some emerging problems among the Nigerian Muslims .
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    Adultere comme une periode romantique a travers Madame Bovary de Flaubert
    (Journal of Modern European Languages and Literature, 2021) Tiamiyu, A.N
    Une période romantique a été toujours considéré comme une période historique de la première moitié du 19ème siècle. Etudes précédentes sur Madame Bovary de Flaubert (un prototype du roman du Réalisme) ont ignoré d’examiner le Romantisme surtout au moyen de la critique d’une période romantique. Egalement, la plupart d’études antérieures sur le Romantisme n’ont pas considéré l’adultère comme une période romantique. Donc cette communication a particulièrement examiné certains principes romantiques - le rêve, l’imagination, la promenade, la nuit, la mélancolie, l’aventure, la liberté et le suicide - dans un contexte d’adultère appelé la période romantique dans cette communication. La méthode comparative architextuelle de Louis Hebert est employée pour réaliser cette critique. L’étude a montré que Madame Bovary est un roman le plus romantique des romans romantiques du 19ème siècle, qu’Emma Bovary est une héroïne et une victime de l’influence de la littérature française qu’elle lit pour échapper l’ennui au foyer conjugal, que la nonchalance et la naïveté de Charles ont contribué à sa décadence morale. L’étude conclut en encourageant les hommes mariés de maintenir le tempo romantique et renouveler leur amour de temps en temps afin d’éviter la rupture de leur mariage car il semble que les femmes sont créées plus romantiques que les hommes.
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    AFRICA AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF HIV/AIDS: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT: WHITHER THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE?
    (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018) Adeboye, O.
    In June 2011, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDs (UNAIDS) marked 30 years of the epidemic with the publication of a 139-page document titled “AIDs at 30: Nations at the Crossroads in which it outlined the strategies utilized to fight the epidemic, the progress made so far, and the challenges faced by the body. What comes out of every page of the document is the message that HIV/AIDs is a global challenge which requires an equally global and collaborative response.
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    Africa and the World : Globalizing Inequality
    (1900) Jegede, S.B
    Globalization and Globalism, its Philosophy, seem attractive on the surface, especially when one considers that Man, by nature, is a gregarious animal. The increasing connectivity, interdependence, universal cooperation and expansion of world trade which Globalization theoretically preaches, can hardly be ignored. However, connectivity, cooperation and interdependence of the states and peoples of the world cannot be successful where there is a glaring inequality of status. In a world divided into developed and underdeveloped countries, we wonder what is being globalized. In view of the above, this paper argues the position that African countries need to pay attention to developmental issues before any attempt at globalization. Globalization is a world of competition and no one goes into a competition without having the requisite skills or products. Globalizing at this stage of underdevelopment puts African States at a disadvantage, except the developed world decides to trade its development for underdevelopment.
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    African Traditional Medicine and the Question of Patients’ Presumed Consent in Difficult Medical Conditions
    (Salvador:Editora Segundo Selo., 2020) Akin-Otiko, A.
    The right of patients to ‘informed consent’ before the commencement of treatment is a fundamental requirement in Western healthcare practice. The first sentence of the Nuremberg Code of 1947 states that patients’ ‘informed consent’ ensures that patients understand the pros and cons of chosen treatment, and are willing to go ahead freely with the prescription given by the healthcare giver. This process is different in the African Traditional Healthcare. Patients’ consent is presumed, especially when ailments are not easily diagnosable. Once the patient’s consent is presumed, African Traditional healthcare givers go ahead to prescribe and treat patients, using best-known prescription. This paper examines the basis for ‘presumed consent’ in African Traditional Medicine, and evaluates its advantages as a procedure in healthcare practice. Data was gathered from patients and also from African Traditional healthcare givers regarding ‘presumed consent’. Gathered data were analyzed using descriptive method. It was concluded that presumed consent is a positive part of African Traditional Medicine based on the research findings.
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    African women in informal economy in the Twentieth Century
    (Fragrance Communications Publishers, 2009) Olawoyin, O.T.
    The concept of patriarchy gives a general impression of men's rule over women an~ of male ~o~matJOn over females in the society. This social arrangement is believed to limit. wo~en's participation in significant aspects of development and. obscure their vital contributions in many spheres of life. The idea that African women are subjugated, oppressed, weak and docile have long been held b?,~ome Western sc~ola.rs. These scholars also portray the African female as ~ victim o~ male dO~lnat~o~ and of traditional customs and practices. But while the notion of being victims of patriarchy is true to some extent it is nece~sary to. note that African women even within the realm of'male dominance,. did and still.do have some degree of autonomy independence. They exercised and continue to. exercis~ a degree of power within this space and use what resources were available to Improve their lot.
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    Afro-European partnership for countering insurgency and counter-terrorism in Africa
    (Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2021) Ajiola, F.O; Lawal, O.T
    This chapter examines the partnership and other efforts of the European Union (EU) in countering terrorism and insurgency in Africa. It discusses terrorism and insurgency and identifies the driving force behind its spread. The 21st century has witnessed the proliferation of Islamic terrorism across the world. The terrorist organisations such as the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS), Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Boko-Haram and other emerging Islamic fundamentalists across the globe are a threat to world peace and security. Terrorism as a concept is overly complicated because individuals or groups conventionally perceived as terrorists did not see themselves as such. Terrorism and insurgency can hardly be separated from one another because they both represent violent struggles; however, the central area of departure is that the insurgent groups are usually open to dialogue and are not faceless like the terrorist groups. The EU contributed tremendously to countering terrorism and insurgency effort in Africa. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351271929-15/afro-european-partnership-counterterrorism-counterinsurgency-africa-felix-oludare-ajiola-olawale-taofeeq-lawal
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    The Age and Kings of the Ijebu Kingdom
    (Goldline and Jacobs, 2017) Oduwobi, T.
    This paper is an attempt to determine the age of the Ijebu Kingdom through a consideration of extant king-lists. In the absence of contemporary documentary evidence for the earlier period internal mechanisms, basically anthropological, have been employed as analytical tools. The paper concludes with the establishment of a dynastic chronology from the second half of the fifteenth century, and dating the foundation of the kingdom by implication from this period. This conclusion is consistent with inferences from external sources derived from Benin.