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- ItemA FUNCTIONALIST ANALYSIS OF EXPRESSIONS AND EXPRESSIVENESS OF HAUSA ORATURE IN DAMAGARAM(2023-09)This study attempts a functionalist analysis of expressions and expressiveness of Hausa orature of Damagaram and demonstrates the social function each of the types fulfills. The study examines the functions and expressiveness of this tradition of Hausa orature in the region. It is important also to specify certain socio-cultural practices as a result of foreign contacts and attitudes of dispossession or distortion of the cultural values in Damagaram. The stifling of some features of ancestral values was accelerated through the education system at every level, leading to abandoning of the professional initiations and certain family occupations. This study was carried out of a very critical time for orature in Niger Republic, particularly in Damagaram because of a wave of deaths of some eminent artists of this area some of whom included Yerima Malam, Ma‘azu Ɗan Alalo and Zabiya Hurera. Methodologically, for the primary source of data, four teachers were selected as research assistants for data gathering, identifying the most famous artists in Damagaram, their places of origin, their target audience and collecting some items of their performances. Later, the researcher conducted the validation of the corpus by attending to the artists and areas in different zones. The findings of the study revealed how the Hausa orature in Damagaram area from the point of view of expressions and expressiveness is relevant in the spectrum of orature in the social function it was supposed to perform. The form and the modes of expression are the same; but because of the diversity of the environment, the genius of expressiveness remains the base of authenticity. Also, it was found that Ma‘azu Ɗan Alalo had different tunes and manners from Ɗanƙwairo not because the first was in Niger Republic and the second in Nigeria, but the fate of contexts played on the personality of each of the two and makes the first what he was, and not an adapter of the second. This is also valid between Ɗan Alalo and Zabiya Furera or Yerima Malam for the same arguments on the myth of human personality. The study concludes that each orature material – proverb, folktale, song, lullaby, sarcasm of women, epithet, innuendo, riddle, counting rhyme – carries specific message and function. Also, each performer uses his/her technique or manner – which is called expressiveness - to express oneself or pass on a message. And the more expressive a literary message is, the more likely it is to accomplish the social function to which it is destined
- ItemAnalytical study on Islamic approach and its Impact in Curbing Vices in Kano State(2021-06)The research tittle: “Analytical Study on Islamic Approach and its Impact in Curbing Vices in Kano State”. Aimed to find out the causes of the wide spread of immorality in Kano State, the level of Muslims adherence to the Islamic approach in fighting immorality and assess its impact among them. The research revealed the concept of Islamic approach, the concept of immorality, its causes and related variables. The research adopted random sampling technique,by conducting an interview with fifty-six people in the three senatorial zone of Kano State, which comprised theHisbah commanders, Imams of Juma’at Masjids and Judges. The research findings reveals that ignorance, poverty and negligence in child up bring are the major factors that leads to the wide spread of immorality in Kano State and the most common immoral acts are drug abuse then prostitution. It is also discovered that Muslims are not strictly adhering to the Islamic approach in fighting immorality and the effect of wide spread of immorality include distortion of child upbringing, insecurity and increase in indolence. The study therefore recommends that parents should give their child sound Islamic moral training and provide them with sound education. Muslims should adhere strictly to the Islamic approach in fighting immorality and the governments, Hisbah and Islamic scholars should increase their effort in fighting immorality.
- ItemA COGNITIVE SEMANTIC STUDY OF METAPHORS IN FULFULDE(2023-07)This studyis on cognitive semantic analysis of the metaphors in Fulfulde. Fulfulde language belongs to the West Atlantic geographical grouping within the Niger Congo family and the language has six dialectal areas. The objectives of this research are to examine how Fulfulde conceptualises metaphor, the relationship between the components of metaphor, and the deliberateness of the metaphor as propounded by Steen‟s (2017) Deliberate Metaphor Theory. The theoretical framework chosen for this study is Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT). The data were collected through surreptitious recording and stratified random selection of different registers such as anger, marriage, politics, religion, and reality. The data comprises of corpus design and recordings. Upon the analysis, the findings obtained corresponded with the research questions by answering how Fulfulde knowledge representation through conceptualization does not follow the pattern of target (abstract) and source (concrete) domains. The study reveals that Fulfulde conceptualisation of metaphor can be potentially deliberate or non-Deliberate in knowledge representation by choices of lexical items. The study concludes thatFulƃe metaphorical expressions through experiences can constrain the representation of metaphors and these metaphors are sometimes culture specific
- ItemAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ANKUWA HILLTOP SETTLEMENT, KACHIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE(2021-12)This dissertation titled ‘An Archaeological Survey of Ankuwa Hilltop Settlement, Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State’ is an archaeological study of the early settlement site of Ankuwa, which is said to have been inhabited by a group of Adara people. This study was carried out with an aim of reconstructing the past life-ways of the early inhabitants of the site For the sake of this research, historical archaeology’ theory was employed. Methods of research adopted include oral tradition, archaeological survey, written sources, as well as classification and analysis. The research revealed evidence of past human occupation on the site, alongside the spatial distribution between finds and features on the site. Thus the result of the survey was corroborated with those of the oral tradition and reviewed literatures, which led to a conclusion that the early inhabitants of the site of Ankuwa was a well- organized society who lived a sedentary life, in a natural environment which they adapted to by harnessing the resources it provided them in order to survive.
- ItemAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ANKUWA HILLTOP SETTLEMENT, KACHIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE(2021-12)This dissertation titled ‘An Archaeological Survey of Ankuwa Hilltop Settlement, Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State’ is an archaeological study of the early settlement site of Ankuwa, which is said to have been inhabited by a group of Adara people. This study was carried out with an aim of reconstructing the past life-ways of the early inhabitants of the site For the sake of this research, historical archaeology’ theory was employed. Methods of research adopted include oral tradition, archaeological survey, written sources, as well as classification and analysis. The research revealed evidence of past human occupation on the site, alongside the spatial distribution between finds and features on the site. Thus the result of the survey was corroborated with those of the oral tradition and reviewed literatures, which led to a conclusion that the early inhabitants of the site of Ankuwa was a well- organized society who lived a sedentary life, in a natural environment which they adapted to by harnessing the resources it provided them in order to survive.