This thesis examines the process of creating intercultural theatre and the transfer of theatre from Africa to Canada. I use Patrice Pavis' “hourglass of cultures” as a tool to examine that process, and integrate theories of hybridity, third space, and translation into the analys…
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This is a study of state culture and ethnicity in West Africa, particularly Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria. These countries represent the diverse cultures and major economies of the West African region. State culture is a polarizing political culture originally created to achieve n…
Nigeria has had a long fight with poverty since its independence, various policies and poverty alleviation programs have been put in place with the goal to eradicate poverty; however they have not yielded the expected result. The goal of this qualitative study was to investigate…
Background. The United Nations' Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 aims for a two-thirds reduction in death rates for children under the age of five by 2015. The greatest risk of death is in the first week of life, yet most of these deaths can be prevented by such simple interv…
Objective: To assess the knowledge on prevention of MTCT of HIV among women of child bearing age in rural and urban areas Nigeria. In addition, determine if there are any urban-rural differences in MTCT knowledge. Methods: Data from the Nigerian National HIV/AIDS and Reproductiv…
This dissertation provides a political, cultural, and social history of central Nigeria. The time frame spans from the initial arrival of hunting, farming and fishing communities in the fourth millennium BCE until the nineteenth century CE. This work differs from other histories…
The study focused on the role of advertising in the process of social mobilization and modernization in Nigeria by examining the cultural reflections, the nature and characteristics of the messages, and the values and symbols conveyed in Nigerian mass media advertisements. In or…
This historical study explored the impact of Nigeria's health programs on child mortality between 1980 and 1995. Using data from previous studies, the relationships between the dependent variable and the independent variables were analyzed by means of multiple regressions statis…
Using two methodological approaches, a purely structural semiotic analysis with hermeneutics, this study analyzes how meaning is produced in Nigerian political cartoons published it three magazines during 1993–1996. This was a time when Nigeria was characterized as a model of de…
Globalisation denotes economic liberalisation and deregulation, the intensification of international economic relations and interdependence, and changes in the mode of production and the nature and exercise of state powers. In this context, business corporations also implement g…
The main focus of the study is to show how Islamic education in Nigeria and Kano State can be integrated with Western-style education so as to fit into existing Nigerian educational structures to benefit the millions of Nigerian Muslims, especially women, who are living in its r…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine African women's roles in politics in their proper context, and to redefine these roles from an Afrocentric frame of analysis. In this dissertation, I focus on Nigerian women, with particular emphasis on the Igbo. Throughout the work…
This study examined factors and processes contributing to militarization in The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone from the colonial period to 1985. It drew from open systems organizational change theory and the literature on the military to study the development of a natio…
The Niger-Benue confluence region is unique in Nigeria for its ethnic and cultural diversity. This pluralism is not externally imposed, it predates Colonialism or Islamization in the region. No single aspect of contemporary social life better illustrates this pluralism than the …
This work describes the major processes of word formation in Yoruba, a Kwa language of Western Nigeria. Three morphological processes--affixation, compounding and reduplication are identified as the key operations for the formation of most words in the language. The central clai…
Since 1984, Nigeria has been forced to cope with the problems of overexpanded public sector expenditures fueled by higher petroleum prices in the oil-boom years. Faced with an acute economic crisis as a result of collapsed oil revenues and increasing foreign debt service obligat…
This study analyzes the history of Nigerian Borgu between c.1500-1900, tracing the origin of the people, the emergence and development of the state system and the economic activities of the Muslim Wangara merchants. It further considers the central importance of the Kisra legend…
This dissertation explores the intellectual and political engagement of British colonial administrators and Yoruba intelligentsia in the western region of Nigeria during the decolonization era. The education and social welfare reform plans of the British Colonial Office are juxt…
This dissertation discusses compositional process in the music of the Omabe secret society of the northern Igbos of the Nsukka region of Nigeria. The Omabe musical tradition involves a long history of exchange between two different cultural traditions that border each other, the…