Surname 3 Student’s Name: Name of Instructor: Course: Date: The Problem of Missionaries among the Igbo People Things Fall Apart presents the Igbo community of Nigeria and their initial reaction to the white missionaries arrival in their country. Through the language of the colonizers‚ Chinua shares his story from the opinion of the colonized. It is noteworthy that the Igbo people had a culture‚ informal education system‚ and even religious activities before the arrival of the missionaries. More
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that show the evils or consequences of corruption. And corruption has taught the Nigeria a dangerous and wrong lesson that it does not pay to be honest‚ hardworking and law-abiding. Through corrupt means many political office holders acquire wealth and properties in and outside Nigeria; and many display their wealth (which is beyond the means)‚ but the society does not blink. This has made politics a big business in Nigeria‚ because anything spent to secure a political office is regarded as an investment
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"Things Fall Apart" Chinua Achebe’s first novel focuses on the early period of colonialism in Nigeria‚ beginning with the initial influence of the British. “Things Fall Apart” written by Chinua Achebe‚ was published in 1958. Achebe extraordinarily portrays the impact of a Europeans on the way of life in an Eastern Nigerian village. “Chinua Achebe creates … a coherent picture of coherence being lost‚ of the tragic consequences of the African-European collision (Culross “Chinua”).” In “Things Fall
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Effects on the Acquisition of English Language by Yoruba / English Language Bilinguals Otemuyiwa Abosede Adebola Department of English‚ College of Humanities Joseph Ayo Babalola University‚ Ikeji- Arakeji‚ PMB 5006 Ilesa 233001‚ Osun State‚ Nigeria ‚ otemuyiwa2011@yahoo.com Abstract This study identified the reasons why people codes-switch‚ studied the influence parents‚ teachers and peers had on the code choice of students and recommendations were given to solving the problems of codesswitching
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THE ROLE OF GENDER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN NIGERIA CASE STUDY OF KANO STATE BY HAUWA MAGAJIYA BALA (MRS) DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE MASTERS DEGREE [MA] IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE [TEFL] SUBMITTED TO LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 2004 DEDICATION DEDICATION OF THIS PIECE OF WORK GOES TO MY BELOVED PARENTS‚ HAJIYA FATIMA ZAHRA AND ALHAJI YUSUF MUSA. MAY GOD BLESS THEM‚ AMEEN. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I thank the
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of wrecked history and attempt to restore the memories of the past. He considers to the formation of African first to rehabilitating the history and Igbo culture could share the common values which is the premise of identity of the African in pre-colonial period to the
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new influence within politics. 1.2 Definition Of Terms CHAPTER TWO 2.1 THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN POLITICS Over the years women have been relegated to the background in issues of the overall development especially in the developing nations like Nigeria. This is borne out of the
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1986. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF SAP IN NIGERIA Nigeria had experienced a period of healthy increases in exports in 1970s. And thereafter‚ the growth slowed and then plunged into negative levels between 1981 and 1986. Even agricultural exports slipped‚ from a previous healthy position to a dismal one in the 1980s. The nation also lost ground in its exports of ores and minerals. Only in oil did Nigeria improve its export share. Curiously‚ Nigeria failed to diversify her export base but continued
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It is no longer news that Nigeria is in devastation. Regardless of how diplomatic and cautious any scholar will try to be in his commenting‚ the truth and undeniable fact will always remain that in a land flowing with milk and honey‚ blessed with human resources and natural abundance‚ nothing seems to be working. The entire nation that used to be the most revered and one of the most respected worldwide‚ has found a way to fall below the respect benchmark and the floor line of the most loved index
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process and curtail any further ethnic unrest associated with bleak economic prospects and social collapse”. Nigeria seeks to be counted among the world’s 20 largest economies by 2020 and this to many is not practical. The goal of this research work is to determine using primary and secondary data‚ the role of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) so far in the economic growth of Nigeria. This would enable one to make deductions and suggestions on how to make use of SMEs at the local scale to engender
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