The impact of corruption on Nigeria’s foreign policy as discussed in Chapter Four include loss of image, international isolation, lack of foreign direct investment/divestment, depletion of external reserves/accumulation of foreign debt, and harassment of Nigerians
Higher Education Quality Committee "We are falling short in terms of national benchmarks for intake and, more particularly, for successful graduation" (November 29 2005) Zola Vakalisa, a professor of curriculum studies at the University of South Africa, said students often dropped out of studies because of language barriers. "Many students can hardly construct a paragraph, so there are extreme language barriers. Students struggle while reading library books because that language (English) is way
Girl” in an effort to quash slavery. Sojourner Truth preached at a women’s right convention against the segregation and discrimination she faced as a black women slave. During her speech Sojourner Truth repeats the rhetorical question “Ain’t I a women?” to emphasize the intolerance she faces. Sojourner uses her speech to persuade the women of the convention to contribute to the eradication of
businesses and leaving them in debt. Statistics shows that during the era of big businesses and corruption, prices and cost of things decrease in a somewhat constant rate (Doc 1). Food prices, fuel and lighting prices, and cost of living index all decrease which could correlate with the corruption and people like Rockefeller decreasing their oil to gain customers. The Gilded Age led to corruption and having big businesses like the oil or the railroad companies affecting others in order to get
reconstruct the image of Africa, thus creating and intercultural
In that same vein, it is important for an individual to express the viewpoints either to the media, public or to the constitution. In this regard, it is important to make use of freedom of speech because constitution believed that freedom of speech will be a heart for a democratic South Africa and it will be used for truth searching. Furthermore, the artistic expressions by many artists were considered as sources of debates country wide. This include Brett Murray’s The Spear, Ayanda Mabulu’s
and freedom from want (“Four Freedoms Speech”, 2015 ). In fact, not every country can be the country that gives all freedom to all people in the country because of many significant factors, such as poverty, religion and gender. According to the United Nations Human Rights (n.d.), “there are 30 articles of basic Human rights, Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place
1. Introduction Africa at least for more than half of century was the condominium of the West except its two parts: Ethiopia and Liberia. Before colonization African societies has lived in state or stateless societies. The society has its own political structure. Those society formed patrimonial political system. Mean a while officially the Europe started colonization in Africa around 1870s. The Europe exploited resources and alienated Africans from any kind of rights. Then the different groups,
Over the years Nigeria has witnessed several empty, jabberwocky inordinate promises from our political gladiators who has used the magic of language to cajole many. However, language serves as a strong tool that our political leaders used for easy communication of thought that enhance winning of political mandate. This paper shows how language is used in politics as a tool to communicate thought and how language is used as a train to which political leaders convey meaning to the heart of Nigerians
Contemporary Use of Ebonics “At its most literal level, Ebonics simply means ‘black speech,’” it is a blend of the words ebony, black, and phonics, sounds (Rickford). This term was originally used to refer to the language of all people who descended from enslaved Africans, particularly from West Africa, the Caribbean, and North American. Though Ebonics became recognized widely recognized in December 1996 when the Oakland California School Board recognized it as the primary language of their African