Genocide and dissonance, experienced by ethnic nationalities in Africa, lead to wanton
destruction of lives and property. Previous studies on these phenomena concentrated on
causal factors and various preventive and ...
Policy development, an iterative process designed to help organisations advance policies
to make them run efficiently in the realisation of their corporate objectives, is pivotal for
organisational success, including the ...
Poetics of politics, the use of poems to reflect governance in the society, is common
among Yoruba written poets. These poets use their poetic prowess to showcase their
political poems. Previous studies on contemporary ...
Riddle, a form of literary art in which a speaker employs formulaic expressions to test
someone’s wit on a veiled phenomenon, is deployed in languages (including Yorùbá) to
express peoples’ experiences about their ...
Lexical elaboration, a strategy in which new lexical items are developed, is a manifest
feature of languages, including Naija. Extant linguistic studies on Naija focused mainly
on the sociological and attitudinal dimensions, ...
Pronunciation Variation (PV), a situation where a lexical item is articulated differently by
speakers of a language, is prevalent in Nigerian languages, especially those with
multiplicity of dialects, including Igbo. ...
Segmental assimilation, which affects features that are inherent in segments, is
generally situated within the phonology-morphology interface across languages,
including Hausa. Previous studies on Hausa reduplicative ...
Pronouns, words which refer anaphorically to noun phrases whose referents are named or
understood from context, are one of the universal linguistic categories that play a central
role in the grammar of languages, including ...
Orin kete and Orin agbè are Yorùbá oral poetic forms predominantly performed among the
Ìbàràpá and Òkè-Ògùn people of Ọ̀ yọ́ State, South-West Nigeria. Previous studies on Yorùbá
oral poetry have focused largely on poetic ...
Herdsmen-farmers’ conflict (HFC) is one of the major conflicts that has been widely reported in
Nigeria. Extant linguistic studies on HFC in Nigerian newspapers focused mainly on linguistic
framing, as well as discursive ...
Stand-up Comedy (SUC), a form of entertainment involving humour, is commonly
deployed for social re-engineering among Africans, including Ivorians. Extant linguistic
studies on humour in Côte d’Ivoire concentrated mainly ...
Orature, a literature that is oral, is evident in African poetry, including that of
Francophone West African Negritude poets. Previous studies on West African
Francophone poetry focused on form, content and style with ...
The discourse of environmental degradation captures monumental losses which culminate
in trauma, and this largely informs the content as well as the form of Niger Delta poetry.
Existing studies on critical engagements ...
Terrorism is a controversial subject because of its variations and the perpetrators. Extant
literary studies have approached terrorism from the trauma perspective and the relationship
between the West and its Others, ...
During presidential election campaigns in Nigeria, online media platforms deploy cartoons
as strategies to project their preferred candidates. Existing linguistic studies on presidential
elections focused largely on ...
Child vulnerability which involves the susceptibility of a child to abuse can spring from
the interface of harmful sociocognitive factors, evident in the discourse of Anti Human
Trafficking and Child Protection Unit ...
Crime narratives of Accused Rapists (ARs) in correctional facilities, like Agodi
Custodial Centre, Ibadan, offers insights into confessional cues that could aid
administration of justice in Nigeria. Existing linguistic ...
Banter, a form of playful and humorous social communication, is deployed in football
discourse on Twitter. Previous studies on banter focused largely on the social bonding
function of banter in daily interaction and the ...
Presidential election campaign advertisements in Nigerian newspapers deploy multimodal
and persuasive discourse strategies, which are contextually predetermined to influence
voters’ decisions before an election. Existing ...
Paradoxical metaphor, the co-occurrence of paradox and metaphor, constitutes an
unusual trope in the representation of mental processes of ailing characters in novels.
Existing studies on the representation of ailing ...