Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu
Years later, I thought about this when I left Nigeria to go to university in the United States. I was 19. My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official...
What God Has Put Asunderis replete with these kinds of semantic shifts that lend credence to the assertion by Chinua Achebe (1975) that the price a world language such as English must be prepared to pay is submission to many kinds of use. Achebe further notes that the English spoken by Af...
It is logically unbelievable and appalling that despite the long years of independence, Nigeria the so called "giant" of Africa is still battling with the problem of good governance. The crop of leaders that have attained leadership position since independence had in one way or the other lacked...
such as the fact that 5,000 people apply for one job vacancy in Nigeria. But there are other stories that are not about catastrophe, and it is very important, it is just as important, to talk about them. 13:36 I've always felt that it is impossible to engage properly wit...
Nigeria. But there are other stories that are not about catastrophe,and it is very important ,it is just as important ,to talk about them.I've always felt that it is impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with all of the stories of that place and that...
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes this long-awaited memoir recalling Chinua Achebe's personal experiences of and reflections on the Biaf... C Achebe 被引量: 171发表: 2012年 To Be a Man Is Not a One‐Day Job: Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan...
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At the centre of this paper is the contention that literary works based on or inspired by the civil war in Nigeria represent some of the most important manifestations of the national imperative in African literature. By answering the following questions: What demands does the historical experience ...
04:12 Years later, I thought about this when I left Nigeria to go to university in the United States. I was 19. My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its...