They killed many Christians with machetes, axes and bows and arrows. Some were stabbed to death in the churches where they had taken refuge (Adimora-Ezeigbo 2008, 90-91). The view of religion as ‘the opium of the people’, Marx- ist in its tenor, underlies Adimorah-Ezeigbo’s rhetoric of conflicts.
2017524;This paper examines how Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Trafficked (2008) and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters′ Street (2009) highlight social occurrences and how they contribute to the spread of girl trafficking in Africa. It also explores how both men and women are partners in trafficking, forming trafficking networks that lure girls from
201726;B.A, M.A, PGDE, Ph.D; university lecturer, administrator; b: February 11, 1947; p: Uga; ht: Uga; Iga: Aguata; so: Anambra; m: married, has one s, two d; ed: Central
Post-colonial literature which has become a phenomenon for all nations examines, among others the anti-conquest narrative and the functional relations of social, cultural and political powers that sustained the tripartite governmental bodies of colonialism, post-colonialism and neo-colonialism. Since the colonialists viewed the masses as the ‘Other’ the well-being of …
Akachi Ezeigbo’s children of the eagle: A critical review. November 2005. Journal of International Women''s Studies 7 (1):113—117. Authors: Osita C. Ezenwanebe. University of Lagos.
Akachi Ezeigbo Prize for Literature . 265 likes · 1 talking about this. This prize is instituted in honour of Professor Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo.
Professor Akachi Ezeigbo; Department of English and Literary Studies Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike (AE-FUNAI) P.M.B. 1010. Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. …
203;PUBLIC INTEREST STATEMENT. Akachi Ezeigbo and Chimamanda Adichie in The Last of the Strong Ones and Half of a Yellow Sun, respectively, revisit history to reinterpret the role of women in colonial and postcolonial African societies.This paper is a contribution to the ongoing discourse on the reevaluation of the woman as an …
203;Snail-Sense Feminism is one of the Afro-centric feminist models that target the eradication of male domination and female subjugation in Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. Among other issues, this African indigenous model espouses that women should adopt snaillike patience and efficiency in negotiating their ways around and over …
203;Snail-Sense Feminism is one of the Afro-centric feminist models that target the eradication of male domination and female subjugation in Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. Among other issues, this African indigenous model espouses that women should adopt snaillike patience and efficiency in negotiating their ways around and over …
T. Akachi Ezeigbo. Vista Books, 1996 - Feminism - 138 pages. From inside the book . Contents. Who is Afraid of Feminism? Achebe communities contribution created creative critics culture drive economic Efuru especially evil experience extended family Ezeigbo Federal feel female circumcision feminine feminism feminist Flora Nwapa gender girl
A large number of studies on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones (henceforth The Last) adopt various literary and sociological perspectives (e.g. Bhattacharji 2008, Shodipe 2008, Nweke 2008, Ladele 2009). In comparison, little attempt has been made at a linguistic interpretation of Adimora-Ezeigbo’s novel.
The paper surveys Akachi Ezeigbo''s ''50 Years of Children''s Literature in Nigeria: Prospects and Problems'' and makes a meta-critical analysis of the trends and generations of writers she portrays
This thesis examines how the Nigerian woman writer, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s snail-sense feminism manifests in some selected literary works by the writer. The thesis makes use of a selection of
527;Hearty congratulations to Professor Akachi Theodora Ezeigbo on being announced winner of the Fonlon-Nichols Award for Excellence in Creative Writing by the African Literature Association. According to a tweet by the Journal of African Literature on May 21, , the day of the announcement, Professor Ezeigbo was awarded for her …
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo has not only creatively visualised the evil of human trafficking, but has also made the reader to feel the forceful involvement of the innocent youth in the exercise of human trafficking. The creative depth of Trafficked is characterised by the stark reality of social and moral issues in Nigerian communities, often caused
522;Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a writer, activist and professor at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. As one of Nigeria''s leading contemporary writers, she has won the coveted ANA Spectrum Prize (2001), the Zulu Sofola Prize (2002) for women writers, the Flora Nwapa Prize (2003) and the WORDOC Short Story Prize in 1994.
This research work addressed itself to the way people tend to see fictional works. People see fictional works as being fictitious, but they are over laid with fact. This long essay, using Akachi Adimora. Ezeigbo’s works as guide, demonstrated the impact of the intermeddling of fact with fiction in literary works.
Akachi Ezeigbo, an erudite professor and gender-expert insists on calling a spade a spade; she stated that; It was in the larger society I saw that women Were rated second class citizens, even at work
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo''s Trafficked: Re-defining the ''New'' Nigerian Novel. September 2019. Authors: Christopher Anyokwu. University of Lagos. Content uploaded by Christopher Anyokwu.
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo''s Trafficked: Re-defining the ''New'' Nigerian Novel. September 2019. Authors: Christopher Anyokwu. University of Lagos. Content uploaded by Christopher Anyokwu.
Contact. Professor Akachi Ezeigbo. Professor Akachi Ezeigbo is a distinguished literary scholar in Nigeria and Africa. She is a literary enigma, and the mother of contemporary Nigerian Literature. Professor Ezeigbo’s creative efforts have presented her as an endowed intellectual, creative writer, social critic, journalist, administrator and
This research work addressed itself to the way people tend to see fictional works. People see fictional works as being fictitious, but they are over laid with fact. This long essay, using Akachi Adimora. Ezeigbo’s works as guide, demonstrated the impact of the intermeddling of fact with fiction in literary works.
This research work addressed itself to the way people tend to see fictional works. People see fictional works as being fictitious, but they are over laid with fact. This long essay, using Akachi Adimora. Ezeigbo’s works as guide, demonstrated the impact of the intermeddling of fact with fiction in literary works.
202027;Interview with Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, by Onukwube Ofolue and Jennifer Nzeakor, in Sunday Sun, May 24, 2009, pp. 18-19. “How culture can deepen democratic process,” by Adimora-Ezeigbo. Interviewed by Anote Ajeluorou, in The Guardian, Wednesday, June 3, 2009, p. 50-51. “Writing is my life – Akachi Ezeigbo.”.
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo exposes the social conventions, cultural mores, and traditional practices that oppress and marginalise women, especially in the Eastern part of Nigeria, as well as celebrates their struggle for 1 Osita Ezenwanebe is a member of the Department of Creative Arts at the University Of Lagos, in Akoka, Nigeria. 2 Okorigwe is a