INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES
NO.22 SEPTEMBER 2018
P-ISSN: 0855-9740 E-2773-837X
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Between Hospitals and Deities: Shrines and Access to Healthcare among the Konkomba of Kpandai District, Northern Ghana 1
Richard Awubomu, Samuel Bewiadzi Akakpo and Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu
Normalising Abnormality: Post-Independence Leadership Maladroitness in Tayo Olafioye’s A Carnival of Looters 25
Solomon Olusayo Olaniyan
Feminist Consciousness and Construction of Female Identities in Razinat Mohammed’s Habiba 44
Ogheneruemu Akpore and Desmond Ndukwe
Folklore and the Individual Genius: A Functional Reading of Sam Ukala’s Plays 56
Clement Eloghosa Odia
Demographic and Psychological Risk Factors of Childbirth Anxiety Among Pregnant Women Attending the Antenatal Care Clinic in Benin City, Nigeria 72
Olaide Nathaniel Koleoso and Nosakhare Osasere Enaruna
Synergising Dialogue and Stage Directions: A Semiotic Reading of Ahmed Yerima’s Jakadiya 98
Emmanuel Tsadu Gana and Abubakar Abdulmalik
The Motivations of Youth Involvement in Transactional
Sexual Relationship in a South African University 112
Ugbenyen Folawumi
Coloniality and Subversive Integration in Northern Nigeria: Attahiru, a Hero or a Coward? 129
Yemi Atanda
Lunch Hour Concert as a Paradigm for Producing Performance Competent Undergraduate Music Students 145
Rita Adaobi Sunday-Kanu and Samuel Chukwuma Nnodim
Initiation as a Metaphor of Social Responsibility Among
the Ogu: The Example of Vothun Tradition in Badagry,
Lagos State, Nigeria 159
Olusola Smith Adeyemi and Hungbo Ovisemeho Kotin
The Rise of Hinterland Igbo Diasporas and Contemporary
Eastern Niger Delta 175
Charles O. Asuk
The Paradox of Tradition and Colonialism in Girl-Child Education in Northern Nigeria 199
Aisha Balarabe Bawa and Aisha Abdullahi Ibrahim
Life Satisfaction Scale: A Preliminary Study on Development and Standardisation Among Africans 213
Rasaq Kayode Awosola and Erhabor Sunday Idemudia
Media Credibility and Usage: Print Newspaper versus Online Citizen Media 227
Emmanuel O. Olumuji and Esther Likita Ogba
Amorphous Lighting Design: Issues in Dan Kpodoh’s Stage Production of Julie Okoh’s Victims of Violence 242
Emeka Ofora and Friday Nwafor
The Pan-Africanist Vision in Lucky Philip Dube’s The Other Side 266
Peter Akongfeh Agwu
LA Psychologie de L’homme Noir: Une Évaluation des Idées de Léopold Sédar Senghor sur L’ontologie Négro-Africaine 279
John Ogidi Acha
Regulating Climate-Induced Migration for Attainment of
Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria 293
Erimma Gloria Orie
Audience Acceptance of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Use of Afro-Beat Music as a Communication Tool against Social Injustice 316
Charles Chinedu Onwunali and Shaibu Hassan Husseini
Nigerian Drama and Social Issues: A Critical Analysis of
Iyorwuese Hagher’s Lamp of Peace and Olu Obafemi’s Near and Distant Cries 337
Jacob Shimrumun Ioraa
From Classical Athenian Machina to Ibadan Revolve Stage: Theatre Design and Technology in Practice and Theory 354
Alphonsus Shireku Orisaremi