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12 results for “Nigeria”
Ijeoma S. Chukwu
A growing body of Nigerian fiction follows characters who return home after years abroad. This review reads five such novels published since 2009 and identifies the conventions of the ‘novel of return’: the airport arrival, the misrecognised accent and the fam…
Culture, Identity and Transcultural StudiesNgozi P. Uche
Official archives of the Nigerian Civil War remain incomplete, and much of what is known survives in family memory. This article analyses thirty oral testimonies collected in Enugu and Anambra States to show how survivors narrate displacement, hunger and retur…
Humanities and Social SciencesIbrahim K. Musa
Call-in programmes on Nigerian radio give ordinary listeners a rare public platform. This paper develops a theoretical account of these programmes as sites of public reason, drawing on Habermas and on African theories of communal deliberation. It argues that t…
Politics, Governance and DevelopmentEfe M. Oghene
Public radio stations increasingly broadcast news in Nigerian Pidgin. Combining listener surveys in Warri and Benin City with analysis of bulletin scripts, this study asks whether Pidgin news reaches audiences that English news does not. It finds that Pidgin b…
Communication and Media StudiesNkechi L. Okoli, Yusuf A. Danjuma
Shop signs, billboards and posters make language visible in the city. This study photographs and analyses 1,200 signs in three districts of Enugu to map the use of English, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin and other languages. English dominates official and commercial si…
Language, Literature and LinguisticsAdaeze N. Okafor, Tobenna Eze
Teachers in Nigerian secondary schools routinely move between English and Igbo, yet official policy treats such switching as a lapse. Drawing on forty hours of recorded lessons in four Nsukka schools, this study examines when and why teachers switch codes. The…
Education and PedagogyAda U. Okwuosa
Calls to decolonise the curriculum often stall at the question of what should be taught instead. This paper proposes a framework for bringing indigenous knowledge into humanities courses without reducing it to folklore, using examples from language, history an…
Interdisciplinary and Applied ResearchChukwudi E. Onu, Sarah L. Bennett
Chinua Achebe described his English as ‘a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit its new African surroundings’. This review reads that claim as an ethics of translation and traces its influence on later Nigerian writer…
Language, Literature and LinguisticsZainab O. Lawal
Hashtags compress political claims into a few words. Analysing 50,000 posts from three Nigerian protest movements, this study describes the grammar of protest hashtags: their imperatives, their pronouns and their code-mixing. It shows how hashtags build collec…
Technology, Innovation and Digital CulturesOluwaseun T. Bakare
Nigeria’s constitution allows legislators to speak Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba, but English remains the language of the National Assembly. This paper reads parliamentary records alongside theories of linguistic justice to ask what a genuinely multilingual legislatur…
Politics, Governance and Development