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The fifth volume of the CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics (C-JEL 5) contains ten outstanding papers in the fields of English Linguistics and Literary Studies, along with one article focusing on creative writing. These papers cover a wide range of topics, including corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, New Englishes, academic literacy, semiotics, and literary analysis. Each paper is of high quality and contributes significantly to it...

This book is the result of more than three decades of in-depth research regarding the representation of gays and lesbians in African, Asian and Latin American cinema. The study consists of a contextualisation and analysis of South African Queer features, as well as selected short films and documentaries.

Le présent travail vise essentiellement la contribution des associations de la société civile à la consolidation de la paix au Burundi. Le Burundi a connu des crises sociopolitiques quasi cycliques qui se sont répercutées sur le vivre ensemble et le développement des communautés locales. Il s¿agira de découvrir la contribution de l¿ASBL NDUWAMAHORO-NVA, une association créée au temps fort de la crise sociopolitique qui a débuté avec l¿assassin...

Les ménages africains ont leur mode de vie en rapport avec le genre entre les hommes et les femmes,  mais ce mode de vie peut changer selon le contexte et les circonstances. Ce livre analyse les rapports de genre entre les hommes et les femmes sur le changement de leurs rôles et leurs statuts dans le camp des réfugiés burundais de Lusenda lié aux moyens financiers. Les hommes ayant perdus leurs responsabilités par manque des moyens et ne sont...

This book provides enriching theoretical and empirical perspectives to the principles and practices of digital marketing, advertising, and public relations in Nigeria. The various chapters contain insightful perspectives that would enhance understanding and discussions of the trends, opportunities and threats to digital marketing, advertising, and public relations, especially within the Nigerian context. Authors of the various chapters draw in...

The International Court of Justice case law has set a standard that meets international expectations as far as the principle of review is concerned, a standard that should not be deviated from, particularly when the laws guiding the said principle are similar to ICTR laws. Unfortunately, in the Barayagwiza case, the Appeals Chamber decision of 31.03.2000 on the prosecutor¿s request for review or reconsideration was reached contrary to the pre...

The importance of the mass media in a modern democracy has been a subject of discussion among the participants in the political space of every democratic society. The complex and diverse nature of the 21st century global society further accentuates audience reliance on the mass media for information about the all-important political sector of every democratic society, which dictates the pace in other sectors of society. The importance of the m...

Contribution de la Congrégation des Frères Bene Yozefu à l¿accompagnement des personnes âgées en commune de Giheta, tel est le titre de fin d¿études en sciences sociales. En abordant les soucis, les questions sans oublier les joies du troisième et du quatrième âge, auteur montre la préoccupation de la Congrégation des Frères Bene Yozefu, en vue de promouvoir et de protéger la dignité de la personne humaine même dans son état de vieillesse.

Die Kunsttheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts wurden "gewiß ohne Kenntnis der rhetorischen Tradition geschrieben, mit der sie jedoch auf ausgeprägte Weise zusammenhängen. Ihre Rekonstruktion ist bis heute ein Desiderat der Kunstgeschichte geblieben." (Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik) Diese Arbeit macht es sich zur Aufgabe durch eine rhetorische Interpretation des Textes Über das Geistige in der Kunst einen Beitrag zu dieser Rekonstruktion zu le...

Religion is entrenched in the Nigerian culture, and worshippers constitute a major social group. The church now occupies an apex position in constructing social, economic, political and cultural frameworks for nation building. It is this expanded role of the church of Christ in society that this book seeks to codify as well as promote. In the over fifty chapters of this volume, authors examined the role of Christianity to the society, presenti...

This book offered contributors the opportunity to put their experience in public service and politics into writing to help groom future Political Scientists and leaders who will not only learn the theoretical perspectives but also learn the practical aspects of African politics and values. The book contains clear discussions and analysis of key issues within the frame work of political behaviour. The text highlights a wide range of issues, fo...

THE BOOK This book on the Yali, Mek and Ok cultures is the last one in our series covering the major Ethno-linguistic groups in the highlands of West New Guinea (WNG). Some members of one of these inhabitants of the interior of WNG, the Mek group, were the first to have had any contacts with the outside world. A journal article published in a Dutch in 1912 gives the first account to the world about the mountainous interior of New Guinea along ...

This book compares the two sides of New Guinea: the independent country of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the West New Guinea (WNG) that forms a part of the Republic of Indonesia. By sharing the same island there are many similarities that apply to both sides such as the ethnic makeup in the eastern and western halves of New Guinea. Yet differences exist: geologies and geographies underlie some basic difference: outward maritime trade routes in ...

Cette étude porte une attention singulière sur les disgrâces rencontrées par les femmes en voulant s¿impliquer et participer formellement au processus de la consolidation de la paix. Cela étant, ce travail cherche à identifier et analyser les stratégies qüelles peuvent utiliser pour surmonter toutes les barrières (les préjugées et stéréotypes) érigées cadrant avec la thématique de conflits dans le territoire d¿Uvira. Les femmes ont des poten...

The book is a collection of essays on African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS), ethnography, cultural dynamics, language, gender, and cultural avatars, especially among the Benin and Yoruba peoples in Nigeria. It is a fresh and refreshing look at intercultural encounters among ethnicities that provides a framework for scholars and researchers in African Studies to probe the issues of continuity and discontinuity in the sociology of indigen...

Papua New Guinea has an extensive preamble in her Constitution. Part of the preamble is the National Goals and Directive Principles (goals) and Basic Social Obligations (obligations). They set out the objectives of what Papua New Guinea should aspire towards. The Constitution requires all governmental bodies, which includes the judiciary, the parliament, the executive government and Ombudsman Commission to implement them. The book sets out pra...

Master - An Ainu Story provides a rare insight into the lives and culture of modern-day Ainu (an indigenous people of Japan). It has been exhibited at The Brunei Gallery, London, Sway Gallery, London and Stockholm, The ICP Museum, New York, and has appeared in National Geographic Traveler magazine. Adam Isfendiyar is a London-based photographer, whose passion is in telling the stories of individuals and their connection to their environment. ...

Pebble in the Brook: RehabDramatics and the Engagement of Drama Therapy in Nigeria evaluates the unique challenges of engaging the performing arts in the education and rehabilitation of children and young adults with disabilities in Nigeria. The book provides information on the integration of oral and performative art forms in Nigeria in engendering qualitative developments from challenged individuals and host communities.

Khwan is certainly one of the most enigmatic concepts one encounters in the study of the Tai-speaking world. Variously rendered as 'soul', 'vital principle' or 'life essence', the concept eludes unambiguous translations as Western ontologies and the languages that reproduce them simply lack an analogous signifier. While a lot has been written on khwan, it seems that little progress was made in understanding their place in Tai conceptualization...

Think religion, think Nigeria! the saying goes. Although the description that Africans are notoriously and incurably religious has been caustically criticised and contested, it appears that it is more or less a theoretical or intellectual exercise than practical reality. One may still be persuaded to argue that Nigeria is still as furiously religious in the twenty-first century as it was before the advent of missionary religions and colonialis...