AFRICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: AN ETHICAL PARADIGM By Alloy S. Ihuah PhD. Department of Religion and Philosophy Benue State University Makurdi. Nigeria. alloyihuah@yahoo.com 08034017856;08026242031 (i) Introduction African indigenous knowledge system expressed in proverbs‚ names and songs etc. are conscious reflections on specific situations‚ events and experiences in the lives of the people
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Slavery and colonization have two different meanings‚ but have a direct relationship in the way that they oppress the people they come across. It all started with the West Coast of Africa‚ specifically Ghana. Many European Nations came over exploited Ghana as well as developed them. They also in many ways diminished their culture by trying to force new religion‚ like Chinuna Achebe the missionaries in Things Fall Apart. Throughout this century‚ Europeans not only colonized Ghna‚ but changed West
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Biography Chinua Achebe (pronounced Chee-no-ah Ah-chay-bay)‚ born on November 16‚ 1930 is a Nigerian poet‚ professor‚ critic‚ and novelist. He was most notable for his first written novel in the 1950s named Things Fall Apart. Achebe was born in an Igbo town of Ogidi in Nigeria and was the fifth child of his parents. During the early life of Achebe‚ Nigeria was a part of the British colony and so he decided to learn English at eight years of age. Learning English at a relatively later age allowed
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1) " Can we have beliefs or knowledge which are independent of our culture?" Culture is “mankind’s primary adaptive mechanism". Essentially‚ culture is a shared store of values and beliefs common to a group of people. The prevalence of culture in the life of the individual leads to the question‚ " Can we have beliefs or knowledge which are independent of our culture?" Two terms must first be defined: knowledge and beliefs. A belief may be defined as “the ideas in which we have faith in
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The Practice of Bilingualism in Nigeria: Factors That Encourage Bilingualism – Before‚ During and After the Colonial Era A Term Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements of the Course: ENG 503: Bilingualism and Multilingualism June 2010 By Emmanuel U. Dimike 2009026016F Dimike‚ 2 INTRODUCTION In the world today‚ the number of people who use more than one language is greater than the number of people who use only one language. This study focuses on these people with more than one language
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New criticism approaches - FOUZIA LAKHMOR - G3 - S4 - ON : 530 New Criticism A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text‚ e.g.‚
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colonized‚ are Things Fall Apart‚ written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe‚ and Sundiata by author Djibril Tamsir Niane. At the end of Things Fall Apart‚ the District Commissioner‚ who was the British colonial administrator put in place to govern the Igbo society‚ is shown writing a book he plans to call the Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger. Although the District Commissioner’s book doesn’t directly apply to Sundiata because the future book will have been based of different parts
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Till this day‚ there are new contemporary scholars and authors that come forth in Nigeria to share their views on the political and social conflicts in the community. At the age of thirty one‚ Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie already has a following that writers twice her age would envy. Her first novel‚ Purple Hibiscus‚ debut to critical acclaim. Her second novel‚ Half of a Yellow Sun‚ quickly established her as one of the leading voices of her generation. She is a renowned author whose work has
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Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri areas of the north‚ there were numbers of cities with historical roots stretching back considerably before the advent of British colonizers‚ giving them distinctive physical and cultural identities. Moreover‚ in areas such as the Igbo region in the southeast‚ which had few urban centers before the colonial period and was not highly urbanized even at independence‚ there has been a massive growth of newer cities since the 1970s‚ so that these areas in 1990 were also highly urban.
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time during a long dark night. More importantly‚ it serves to teach the children a lesson in morals‚ and finally it could be argued that the story serves to foreshadow the plot of the novel. Entertainment was very limited during the times of the Igbo people they had no means
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