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SOCIAL STRAFICATION IDENTITY AND HAUSA LANGUAGE IN NIGERIA ABSTRACT African Sociolinguistics is about the social and cultural dimensions of language in Africa. It studies the patterns of language use on the one hand, and the factors involved in language variation on the other. Therefore differences in language use and language variation are due to […]
TRADITIONAL HAUSA DESIGN AND HAUSA WOMEN CULTURAL IDENTITY AN OUTLOOK Abstract Design is the creation of plan or convention for construction of an object, or a system as an architectural blueprint. It is a visual communication in form of design. Traditional designers use various method like creating words, symbols, images, graphs to create a […]
Language and Identity in Africa: An Analysis of the Use Of Place Names as Part of Person’s Name in Hausa Place names are labels attached to one’s surroundings. The concept of identity helps to describe the way individuals and groups define themselves and are defined by others on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, language […]
AMONG THE ASHANTI OF West Africa AND THE ZULU OF SOUTH AFRICA From being seen as a generation or two ago as a continent full of “tribes,” Africa has more recently been re-examined in light of Western theories of ethnicity and nationhood. Since the late 1960s and early 1970s “tribes” have been replaced […]
Abstract Language is a tool for conveying man‘s social veracity. Politics is one of the fields of social life in which language plays a considerable role. Politicians engage in different rhetorical uses of language to achieve their political goals. Our concern in this paper is the linguistic perspective of political expressions, which is […]
Linguistic Imperialism in Colonial Hausa A Postcolonial Balance Sheet Abstrac Linguistic imperialism is the worst colonial policy in the human world. In Africa, its brutality penetrates beyond linguistic boundary, deep into the culture, religion, and educational policy. The Hausa resistance to the unhealthy policy is well pronounced in their orature and literary traditions. The […]
Abstract This paper ‘Language Use in Politics: A Case of Hausa Metaphorical Expressions’ tries to posit that politicians use electronic media in their electioneering campaigns to persuade and canvass for votes. Language is the main instrument use in delivering political massages. The politicians also use several figures of speech to counter attack the opponents. […]