Post-colonial Study of Akachi Ezeigbo's Trafficked. Dr. Emmanuel, Ima Usen. Department Of English, University Of Uyo. 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 ...
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Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Roses and Bullets, is a novel of war and love. It is the story of two young lovers, Eloka and Ginika, who found love in each other's eyes and desperately wanted to keep it in spite of the searing influence of war and bullets. The title of the novel is symbolic; Roses represent love while bullets
This paper examines the impacts of the 1967-70, Nigerian Civil War with emphasis on the gender in the Nigerian society. It uses Akachi Adimora …
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. 4.27. 11 ratings1 review. "This is a compelling and riveting narrative, executed in a haunting style. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo writes with the ferocity of a barbed arrow: straight from the quiver of the heart to the target of another heart. The result is a lyrical tale that is experientially rich and enriching, a veritable ...
Professor Akachi Ezeigbo's academic profile defines her as a Professor of Gender Studies and Creative Writing. She is a feminist scholar who has championed women's rights in numerous writings of different genres. Her interest in promoting womanhood has birthed the complementarity ideology—an ideological inclination wrapped in Snail-Sense ...
The above definition somewhat enunciates the canon that guide the juvenile literary series and essentially forms part of Akachi Ezeigbo's literary preoccupation, nonetheless, deployed in a folk tradition. Her concern for the Nigerian child goes beyond providing interesting stories and instilling a reading culture in them.
Apart from Omolara Ogundipe- Leslie and Akachi Adimora- Ezeigbo, who not too long ago, came up with her "Snail Sense" feminist theory, one hardly found, in any Nigerian writer, a ...
Deploying Annette Kolodny's concept, "herstory", which is the version of history, this paper examines how writers such as Ezeigbo and Adichie have …
Honours and Awards: Three year-academic scholarship awarded by the Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship Board (at undergraduate level). 1971 – 1974 December 1975, Awarded the 2nd Prize in the Christmas Short Story Competition organized by Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) 1989/90 Session Commonwealth Fellowship …
Two of her stories for children have been translated into Swahili and Xhosa languages. Her books are listed below: 1. Heart Songs(Poems). Ibadan: Kraft Books Ltd., 2009. 2. Clouds and Other Poems for Children. Ibadan: … See more
Adopting the feminist theory that argues that the complementarity of the male and genders enhances the development of the society; using The Last of the Strong Ones, this paper examines ...
Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo (1947—) was born on November 2, 1947 to Joshua and Christiana Adimora in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria. Adimora-Ezeigbo attended Archdeacon Crowther Memorial ' School (A.C.M.G.S), Elelenwa, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State in South-south Nigeria between 1961 and 1965. She finished her …
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Children of the Eagle, published in 2002, is a narrative whose multiple avian metaphors produce and are paradigmatic of symbolically significant cultural referents in Igbo traditional life. In patriarchal Igbo society in South-eastern Nigeria where the phallocentric order assumes absolute hegemony over the matriarchal ...
The 'roses' symbolise the generation to come as well as future of the nation, while bullets imagise war and fierce battle. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's thematic preoccupation in this long novel is to paint picturesquely the futility of Nigeria-Biafra war (1967-1970), which killed millions of Nigerian people, and children as well as its ...
CONCLUSION Looking at the literary productions of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo examined above, the processes of domestication and igbonization are the major literary tools of her creativity. This portends that she belongs to the Achebe school of thought and this has empowered her to lengthen the resources of English language to accommodate her Igbo ...
View PDF. Modern African Poetry. This paper focuses on a critical analysis of the "Pidgin Poems of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo." One is not in doubt that she is one Nigerian …
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 …
Professor Akachi Ezeigbo; Department of English and Literary Studies Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike (AE-FUNAI) P.M.B. 1010. Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. …
Professor Akachi Ezeigbo; Department of English and Literary Studies Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike (AE-FUNAI) P.M.B. 1010. Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. Nigeria. Phone: +234 (0)802 319 8746. Mobile: +234 (0)803 343 5629. Email: taakachi@yahoo Opens in your application.
The work of Akachi Ezeigbo, a leading Nigerian writer of the second generation, is used in the article to illustrate this resurgence and its interface with womanist theorizing. View Show ...
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a famous contemporary Nigerian writer who dexterously deploys her works (novels, short stories and plays) to highlight and attack social vices in Africa, especially as they affect the wellbeing of women. Olu Obafemi has, therefore, rightly described her as
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 ...
Akachi Ezeigbo's trilogy is therefore seen as a message of hope to all oppressed women in Africa; that women are already in the ascent and that total liberation is possible and at the threshold. The "benign way" to survive being the pathway of sound education and economic empowerment of women. These will help to facilitate the "coming ...
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo' s them ati c pre occ upat ion in th is long nove l is t o paint p icturesquely the futility of Nigeria - Bia fr a war (1967-1970), which killed millions of Nigerian ...
Here he is chatting with Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, a writer and professor of English. She talks about her career as an educator and about writing. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo was born and raised in Eastern Nigeria, but now lives in Lagos. Raised partially in a rural environment and partially in the city, she combines these two factors, as …
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