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Chimamanda Adichie’s short stories in her collection The Thing Around Your Neck use unconventional means of telling her main characters’ [...]
April 26, 2012
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The Master is a film that deals with many issues that surround the working world in Nigeria, many of them relevant to the prominence of criminal [...]
April 19, 2012
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The novel Measuring Time by Helon Habila chronicles the parallel journeys of Mamo Lamang and his twin brother, LaMamo, growing up in the small [...]
April 16, 2012
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The pressures of Nigerian culture seem to weigh in on the characters in Emotional Crack in a heavy, and yet indirect way as a means of punishing [...]
April 11, 2012
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Ownership is a notion in Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of the Four Wives that helps to form the identities of the novel’s five main [...]
April 5, 2012
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Amidst all of the chaos that surrounds Elvis while living and growing up in Lagos, there exists a notion of redemptive justice that provides for [...]
March 21, 2012
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Alhaji Imam is a very curious sort of protagonist for “The Water of Cure,” a story that served as an educational work for children in [...]
February 29, 2012
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Karin Barber’s “Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira” provides an interesting context with which to view the cultural effects of capitalist [...]
February 23, 2012
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War dominates every part of life in the last part of Half of a Yellow Sun is dominated by the war’s destructive effects the lives of the [...]
February 16, 2012
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The very first page of Wole Soyinka’s “Death and the King’s Horseman” explains the author’s intention that the “Colonial Factor”, [...]
February 2, 2012
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