1 NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COURSE CODE: MAC 314 COURSE TITLE: ISSUES IN MASS MEDIA IN NIGERIA MAC 314 ISSUES IN MASS MEDIA IN NIGERIA Introduction The title of this course is: Issues in Nigerian Mass Media. The code is MAC 314. It is designed for undergraduate students of Mass Communication. The course provides the students with basic knowledge of the history‚ ethical‚ legal‚ professional‚ socio-cultural and technological issues affecting
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‚ an “African writer”. She is virtuous with a certain gasp of social conundrum in Nigeria. She is omnivorous eye for resonant detail; a gift for real characters‚ pyrotechnic with deep humanitarianism. Americanah explicitly increases issues related to the negotiation of identities. The writer makes use of the tale of Ifemelu to reveal the coexistence of differences and‚ on the same time‚ a loss of perception in a consensus amongst them. Her critical characters are part of educational
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Kambili and Jaja both come of age in Purple Hibiscus as a result of their experiences. The book opens with Jaja rebelling against his devout Catholic father by skipping communion on Palm Sunday‚ an important religious holiday. The following chapters detail the events that culminate in Jaja’s defiance. The book is narrated by Kambili three years after this incident. Since she has been stunted by the severe punishments of her father‚ Kambili barely speaks. Her narration is striking because it can be
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Links: to other stories | |Mimicry (Nachahmung) --- ‘imitation’ of white colonial behaviour in rejecting traditional African | |culture ( “A Meeting in the Dark” (Stanley) ‚ “An Outpost of Progress” | |( Makola learns from the colonizers how to be ruthless ) | |Failure ---- no longer linked with the loneliness of colonizers in
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Things fall Apart ‘Things fall apart’ by Chinua Achebe was a unique novel that showcased the cultural history of pre-colonial Nigeria in the 1890s. The main character Okonkwo; was a hardworking and strict man whose pride and self-driven ambition eventually caused his demise. The climax of the novel dealt with Okonkwo’s fall from grace which created a chain reaction of unfortunate events. One of the most prominent themes in this novel was ‘love and family relationships’‚ which reflected the main
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In this paper I will compare and contrast one aspect of pre and post colonial Ibo culture and the way that lives are lived and the way they are affected‚ in the Ibo agricultural culture era‚ wealth is not displayed by riches but by yams!? In the Ibo cultures yams are used to show wealth as compared to the U.S that had grew wheat‚ corn and a lot more to show that they were successful‚ in the Ibo culture they use yams as a trade/currency due to its rarity and its flavor/delicacy and the difficulty
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introduced to this culture before. Achebe’s novel also gives us insight into the arrival of colonialism in Africa‚ as Achebe himself was born in Nigeria and experienced colonialism. Specifically‚ we will see that colonialism represents a major shift in the way of life of the Igbo people. The way of life of the Igbo people comes into conflict with the views of colonial rule. In addition to literature be Chinua Achebe‚ many other sources can be useful in understanding the effects of colonialism in Africa
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Ogboni (also known as Osugbo in Ijèbú) is a fraternal institution indigenous to the Yoruba language-speaking polities of Nigeria‚ Republic of Bénin and Togo. The society performs a range of political and religious functions‚ including exercising a profound influence on regents and serving as high courts of jurisprudence in capital offenses. Influence [edit] Though versions or lodges of this fraternal group are found among the various types of Yoruba polities——from highly-centralized kingdoms
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The book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is about pre-colonial life in Nigeria and the arrival of European culture. This book talks about how the village of Umuofia reacts to the culture shock of the Christian missionaries coming in and taking over. Nwoye is one of the main characters in this book. He had a negative response at first because of the way Okonkwo‚ his father‚ responded to them. After Nwoye was able to discover them for himself he decided that he wanted to pursue their beliefs.
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nation in the world (Henry‚ 2004). Tracy (2008) asserts that being a former British colony‚ Nigeria’s literacy culture ought to be as standardized as that of the Britain. About 99% of British citizens can read and write. The same cannot be said of Nigeria. Henry (2004)‚ states that out of the 814 million illiterate people in the world‚ developing countries‚ especially in Africa‚ represent a huge percentage. However‚ Latin America‚ Asia‚ and others are making frantic efforts to drastically reduce
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