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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Biafra"”.
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New Media and Social Movements. How the Indigenous People of Biafra Movement Has Used the Internet to Mobilise for an Independent Biafran State
… framing and discourses for an independent Biafran state against multiple forms of state repressions. The thesis adopted a flexible approach that incorporated three level analysis including a macro-level analysis, which looked at the socio political and institutional environment; a …
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Igboské národní vědomí
… této oblasti vyhlásili nezávislý stát Biafra a chtěli se odtrhnout od Nigérie, což svědčí o silném kolektivním vědomí. Nositelé tohoto vědomí sami sebe označují za Igby a jejich kolektivita má znaky národa. Ve své diplomové práci se tedy věnuji igboskému národnímu vědomí. V teoretickém …
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Fatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus".
… Nigeria-is clearly intended to evoke post-Biafra Nigeria, itself the setting of Adichie's other major work, <em>Half of a Yellow Sun</em>. This setting takes <em>Purple Hibiscus</em> beyond the scope of most modern adolescent fiction, creating a complex allegory in which the emergence of …
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Moral Politics: Global Humanitarianism, Africa, and West Germany, 1960-1985
… and the wider world, and specifically to Nigeria-Biafra and Ethiopia, from the 1960s to the 1980s. It brings them together under the sign of global humanitarianism, but it does not tally them to an uplifting account or cautionary tale about humanitarianism’s rise and fall. Engaging history …
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Interrogating frustration-aggression from environmental degradation in The Niger Delta conflict
… Delta’s connection with the defunct Republic of Biafra was responsible for their neglect, marginalization, violation and the despoliation of its environment. The thesis found that the obstructions to OBHCs’ constitutional means of resolving the problem was the major factor transforming …
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Forced Migration and Population Expansion: The Genetic Story of the Garifuna
… slave trade, from Senegambia to the Bight of Biafra; however, there is evidence of origins from other parts of Africa. The mtDNA diversity in Garifuna Amerind Y haplotypes on St. Vincent appear most closely related to groups in South America, where the first peoples of the Lesser Antilles …
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Subjectivities in Decolonisation: The Post-Independence Film and Novel in Africa and South Asia
… Star (1960) and Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra (1982) situate subjective experience as an intervention into Partition and Nigerian Civil War historiographies respectively; and chapter five discusses the relationship between subjectivity and place in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar In A Sieve …
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Application of Projects of Constructing Devices in Physics Teaching and Learning for Tanzanian Secondary Schools
… secondary schools were involved namely Azania, Biafra, Kambangwa, Kigurunyembe, Kilakala and Morogoro. A total of 146 respondents were involved, including six secondary schools, 25 physics teachers and 115 Form IV students in 2008. The data were collected through questionnaires, focus group …
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A postcolonial ecofeminist comparative analysis of war fiction: The case of Arundhati Roy's The God of small and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yello sun
… through exploitation by both the mercenaries and Biafra soldiers. Contrariwise, Roy and Adichie depict women as perceptive and sensible thinkers. In The God of Small Things, Ammu is protective of her naïve children because she is well aware of the evils of this world, most of which she herself has …