Table Contents

Migration, Heterosexuality and Images of Devalued Womanhood in

Selected Works of Adichie, Agary and Baingana

Maureen Amaka Azuike                                                                                  1-14

Indigenous Language Teaching and the Integration of Development

Oriented Goals in Cameroon

Magdaline Bakume Nkongho 15-36                                                                         

Entrepreneurial Development: A Panacea for the Menace of Poverty

in Nigeria

Olabode Bashir Olakunle & Muslim N.A.    37-50                                                     

A Critical Analysis of Narrative Components and Lighting

Techniques in “October 1”

Ola–Koyi, S. Joseph Bankola                                                                            51-73

Contemporary Issues of Human Resource Management for Growth

and Development of Secondary Education in Nigeria

Ikati Lawrence                74-88                                                                                  

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Ikati Lawrence

Department: Vocational/Technology Education,

Faculty of Education, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Amassoma, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

E-Mail: Juwar1970@Gmail.Com

ABSTRACT

Resource scarcity is a problem experienced by virtually all human organizations. The Nigeria education sector has endured consistently declining levels of federal government funding over the last two decades. This comes in the face of ever increasing inflation rates and a growing demand for formal education. Unfortunately, this zeal for providing education as a social service in Nigeria has not been matched with a zeal for funding it. The under-funding of Nigeria education has been made worse by recent global economic crises for educational programmes to be implemented. The resources needed to accomplish this feat are, to say the least lacking. This study assesses the management of physical and human resources in Nigeria post-primary institutions. It purpose was to highlight the problem of physical and human resources inadequacy in the education sector in Nigeria and the importance of achieving managerial effectiveness through the use of prudential measures to facilitate the achievement of education objectives, particularly at the secondary school level. Availability of funds in the management and maintenance of school resources is indispensable but the management and utilization of the funds is very crucial. There must also be a commitment of the school administrator and other school personnel to maintain the resources at their disposal. This will be effective if all concerned imbibe the maintenance culture. This paper recommends the exploration of prudent measures for managing existing educational resources

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE COMPONENTS AND LIGHTING TECHNIQUES IN “OCTOBER 1”

Ola–Koyi, S. Joseph Bankola

Department of Performing Arts

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye

sundayolakoyi@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

In film making process cinematographic lighting is one of the most important features which can make or mare any production. Even though cinematic lighting often features either as part of mise-en-scene composition or as editing component, yet study have shown that this element has not been accorded due attention in Nigerian academic study or Nollywood film criticism.  Often times, this aspect is only used to explain or buttress relevant points on film analysis and evaluation.  Hence the study is meant to diagnose the creative use of lighting system as a component of narrative technique in a Nigerian film: October 1. 

In carrying out this theoretical exploration on the creative use of light in October 1, the critic employed formalism approach, library study, observation, and studio editing.  In this paper, efforts are made not only to identify the relevance of the narrative and light techniques featured in the film but to include detail examination and the various usages of these important filmic elements in the production.

ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT: A PANACEA FOR THE MENACE OF POVERTY IN NIGERIA

¹Olabode Bashir Olakunle & ²Muslim N.A.

¹Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan

²General Studies Department, The Polytechnic, Ibadan

E-mail: olabodebasheer@yahoo.co.uk

ABSTRACT

Poverty remains a major canker-worm that has eaten deep into the fabric of Nigerian society.  This hydra-headed monster defies all solutions proffered by various experts and professionals. Besides, government at various levels introduced measures to reduce poverty, such includes: Green revolution (GR), Operation Feed the Nation (OFR), Poverty Eradication Programme (PEP), Poverty Alleviation Programme (PAP), National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), Better Life for Rural Women (BLRW) among others.  All these failed, instead they wide the gap between the poor and the rich, because the targeted population-the poor failed to benefit from the measures.  This present paper contended that poverty can only be reduced in Nigeria through entrepreneurial development and education whereby the skill to reduce poverty will be ingrained in the poor themselves.  The methods adopted by the paper are reviewing of articles, periodicals, newspaper, observation and group discussion on the subject matter.

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE COMPONENTS AND LIGHTING TECHNIQUES IN “OCTOBER 1”

Ola–Koyi, S. Joseph Bankola

Department of Performing Arts

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye

Email: sundayolakoyi@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

In film making process cinematographic lighting is one of the most important features which can make or mare any production. Even though cinematic lighting often features either as part of mise-en-scene composition or as editing component, yet study have shown that this element has not been accorded due attention in Nigerian academic study or Nollywood film criticism.  Often times, this aspect is only used to explain or buttress relevant points on film analysis and evaluation.  Hence the study is meant to diagnose the creative use of lighting system as a component of narrative technique in a Nigerian film: October 1.  In carrying out this theoretical exploration on the creative use of light in October 1, the critic employed formalism approach, library study, observation, and studio editing.  In this paper, efforts are made not only to identify the relevance of the narrative and light techniques featured in the film but to include detail examination and the various usages of these important filmic elements in the production.

MIGRATION, HETEROSEXUALITY AND IMAGES OF DEVALUED WOMANHOOD IN SELECTED WORKS OF ADICHIE, AGARY AND BAINGANA

Maureen Amaka Azuike

Department of English

University of Jos, Jos, Plateau state.

Email:amakaazuike@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The artistic presentation of women in contemporary literary texts by female writers calls for urgent rethinking. The reason is that contemporary African works of fiction, written by women, are continuously replete with images of devalued womanhood and female sexual mercantilism which have increasingly encouraged the break-down of universal laws of moral conduct. This study examines the portrayal of women as migratory beings with lascivious thoughts and promiscuous intentions in Adichie’s Americanah, Agary’s Yellow-Yellow and Baingana’s Tropical Fish. The study reveals how women’s ways are darkly garbed in immorality and their words are tainted with streams of profanities. Therefore, the feminist and sociological approaches are adopted in this study because they relate literature to a larger discourse of women and the society and see literature as an instrument with which to transform society. The conclusion of this study is that the endorsement given by contemporary feminist writers to heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality, especially in the selected texts under analysis, is an anathema to traditional cultures and justifies deviant sexual behaviours in a world where sex is trivialized and is no longer treated as sacrosanct.

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE TEACHING AND THE INTEGRATION OF DEVELOPMENT ORIENTED GOALS IN CAMEROON.

Magdaline Bakume Nkongho

Higher Teachers Training Colege Maroua

Department of English and

Literatures of English Expression

E-mail: madonkongho@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

This paper is a discussion on how the dissemination of skills, knowledge and know-how through indigenous languages can bring about meaningful development. It encourages the integration of global issues in the teaching of indigenous languages with specific concerns to Cameroon and offers proposals on how development-oriented lessons can be conceived and made possible to learners. The paper is going to contribute in portraying the values of indigenous language education in the development of skills and know-how of learners. The paper is partitioned into four sections: Section 1 is a discussion on the trend of indigenous language teaching in Cameroon. Section 2 gives a review of the syllabus of National Languages for Secondary general education. Section 3 dwells on the need for development oriented goals in indigenous language teaching. Section 4 gives practical suggestions on how such lessons can be conceived integrated into indigenous language teaching.