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 ...
Songs and chants constitute multimedia aesthetics by which African playwrights and dramatists project their sociocultural background, ideas and visions. Theatre critics have examined history, myths, legends and heroic deeds ...
Virtual communities have become the largest and most diverse domains since the turn of
the century where language plays a dominant role. Studies on communities in the
Nigerian cyberspace have concentrated on discourse ...
Indigenous knowledge system, a strand of social epistemology, emphasises a socio-cultural dimension to the acquisition and justification of human knowledge. Previous studies have focused on traditional epistemology which ...
The vulnerability to crisis of the aviation industry requires prompt preparedness to handle
a crash at a moment’s notice, especially by providing appropriate and effective
communication responses. Previous studies on ...
The relevance of culture and economy in the translation of advertisements for foreign markets continues to attract attention in translation studies. Existing studies on the influence of culture and market economy on the ...
Gender awareness campaigns play significant roles in gender knowledge, attitude and practice. Globally, studies on gender awareness campaigns in higher education institutions have focused on gender equity and equality as ...
Information subsidy is a global, cost-reduction practice in which news media source contents from Public Relations (PR) agencies. Studies from different countries including Nigeria have established that newspaper contents ...
Nigerian commercial banks have employed Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) strategies to remain competitive in the industry. Studies on the use of IMC in the Nigerian banking industry have concentrated on the banking ...
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 ...
Intertextuality, a relational theory of textual surfaces, is one of the motifs that preoccupy Arabic
literary writing in Yorubaland. Existing literary studies of Arabic works of Yoruba authorship
focused mainly on syntax ...
Freedom of faith, which encompasses the protection and preservation of religion as reflected in International Law and the Nigerian Constitution, is one of the Maqasid ash-Shari’ah (Objectives of the Islamic Law). Previous ...
Jálàbí, the Islamic petitionary prayer is deployed by Muslim clerics to render spiritual
services to individuals and groups in a manner that forges a transactional relationship
between the parties. Existing anthropological ...
Kingship and power dynamics remain significant in governance discourse in Africa. Existing studies on kingship generally have portrayed the institution as a subordinate agent in colonial administration and modern power ...
Language accommodation, a phenomenon in urban sociolinguistics, is the conscious
and conscientious use of other languages’ repertoire in communication. Existing
works on urban sociolinguistics, particularly in the Nigerian ...
Semiotics, a science of signs, largely influences audience’s socio-cultural perception of billboard advertisement in postcolonial contexts. Existing linguistic studies on gender have examined various perspectives on gender ...
The Ẹdo guilds system is a professional body associated with the Edo (Bini) socio-cultural and political institutions revolving around the monarch. Extant studies on this system have essentially concentrated on its historical ...
Leadership failure is a perennially vexed issue in African postcolonial discourses, particularly in Malawi where Kamuzu Banda’s dictatorship held sway for about three decades. Existing studies on leadership in Malawian ...
One of the major challenges faced by the colonial administration in Nigeria was chieftaincy issues, which created social disorder. While the changing status of chieftaincy institution during this period had attracted much ...
Monadologism, a philosophical idea depicting a non-communicative, self-actuating system of
windowless, individualistic and deterministic beings, has implications for understanding the
challenge of social order. ...