This is a descriptive study designed primarily to provide a comprehensive account of elementary classroom teachers' beliefs about three art education paradigms in Lagos State, Nigeria. These paradigms are, child-centered, discipline based art education-centered (DBAE) and the Ni…
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This dissertation examines the cultural construction of tradition among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. Based on fieldwork in Ile-Ife, the research seeks to describe, analyze, and interpret social and political processes of forming, invoking and deploying Yoruba tradition in…
In this dissertation, I set out to examine the process of agricultural modernization in Northern Nigeria from 1970 to 1984 using an overdetermined analysis. An overdetermined analysis is free of simple determinism, includes class and non-class factors to explain change, and exam…
The primary objective of this study was to develop an understanding of the role of intuition, a so-called “hidden intelligence,” in the decision-making styles of leaders, using Nigeria and the United States as models of study. The study was undertaken to determine if there is a …
This is a study of the role of popular expressive culture in change in Africa. It examines musicians and the forms they create, showing how music and musicians can serve mediating and revitalizing purposes. The data for this study were gathered in West Africa, particularly in th…
Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, India and Argentina all struggled to apply democracy in the 1950s. United States officials closely watched these efforts, leaving detailed records about political events. Many in the United States thought these countries would adopt, as a natural st…
The purpose of this dissertation is to study the present crisis of the sacrament of reconciliation as it affects the life of the Church in general and the life of the Igbo Church (Nigeria) in particular, and to suggest some possible solutions. The dissertation is structured in f…
The felt needs of people in every community reflect their worldview, that is, their basic “assumptions, values, and commitments” (Kraft 1989:20). Worldview determines a people's priorities, allegiance, and risks worth dying for. The research issue in this dissertation is the use…
This study examined the effectiveness of small business and microenterprise development programs in assisting participants to start or expand a business, and/or transfer the skills gained from the programs to wage employment. Further analysis specifically concentrated on finding…
Health care workers have been known to carry into the workplace a variety of judgmental and negative attitudes towards their patients. In no other area of patient care has this issue been more pronounced as in the management of patients with AIDS. Health care workers have refuse…
The purpose of this research study was to examine the extent and impact to which cultural perceptions of special education administrators affect or influence special education policies in Nigeria. This research focused on five policy issues: (1) administrators' beliefs about lea…
This dissertation seeks to avoid the common reading of postcolonial novels as embracing nationalism because they challenge empire. While recognizing that postcolonial novelists contest the imperialist construction of Africans and Asians as biologically, culturally, and intellect…
The major purpose of this study is to determine if gender makes a difference in the way headmasters and headmistresses make decisions about curriculum and instruction. The study sought to ascertain whether there are relationships between the responses of the headmasters and head…
Military intervention in Nigerian government has recurred since 1966 amidst social, economic and political crises, and the opinion in some academic and political circles is that the mass media are responsible for creating conducive atmospheres under which such crises and destabi…
The primary women characters in selected fiction by the writers, Jean Rhys, Joan Riley, Buchi Emecheta, and Michelle Cliff are the foci in this comparative study. For these characters, the fictive experiences of whom mirror the biographies of the four writers, there are various …
Democracy's promises of political equality, communal peace, and economic prosperity were forsaken when Nigeria's fourth attempt at democratic governance in 1999 led to four years of acute religious, ethnic, and regional bloodshed. To disclose the discursive dynamics underlying t…
The Afikpo community conflict resolution model is examined as an alternative system of justice in South-East Nigeria. The Afikpo model is rooted in cultural tradition. Indigenous social and political institutions function as channels for conflict resolution and justice. The proc…
This study investigates and determines certain aspects of section 5 of Decree No. 10 of 1987 on the National Shipping Policy. It deals with the relative cost of construction of comparable vessels in Nigeria and in foreign countries (i.e. USA, U.K. Japan, and S. Korea). The Niger…
Nigeria, a political entity created by the British, has several obstacles in its attempt to build its nation. In spite of possessing human and material resources, Nigeria has not used these resources to enhance and improve human development in terms of health care, education, ba…