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ABSTRACT African cosmology and worldview are sine qua non to the people of Africa, their ways of life, their ethos, aspirations, essence and their relationship with the supernatural powers. Some of the early African early dramatists have attempted to document this essential aspect of the lives of the African people.  Prominent among these dramatists are Wole Soyinka and J.P. Clark of Nigeria.  Death and the King’s Horseman is based on ...

ABSTRACT The study evaluated the Community Theatre projects mounted in Lejja and Unadu. Theatre for Development Programmes in Enugu North Senatorial Zone is posed with some challenges, especially poor participation among community members. As a result, the research is focused on ascertaining the likely causes of the community members’ lack of interest in Community Theatre which  is  indispensable  for  social,  material,  intellectual  and  political  development  of  a community. Significant issues ...

ABSTRACT The framework of this research falls on its search to draw a comparative analysis of the concept and characteristics of Classical, Renaissance and Modern tragedies. The tragic conception from the time of the Greeks to the present has undergone a metamorphosis in definitions and experience. Based on this premise, this thesis shows the diversity of the tragic conception and characteristics, its continuity and deviations. Even though there have been ...

Abstract The popularity and mass appeal of saxophone as a sonorous solo instrument is evident in its use in various categories of global music events, concerts and shows. In Nigeria, it is preponderantly used in most popular music genres such as the West African highlife, reggae, and hip-hop. A leading perspective in Western art music practice has been to view music performance as the reproduction or realization of music scores ...

ABSTRACT Advertising strategies addresses the emotions of its target audience with seductive images and appeals for the sales of advertised products. Adults may have the ability of selecting those that best correspond to their real needs. However, the same does not apply to children because children are more receptive to these persuasive commercial appeals. The purpose of this study is to survey how the use of images affects the perception ...

Abstract Poor health is one of the major problems contributing to high mortality rate in Nigeria. Apart from this, there still exists what seems to be an abysmal failure in the health systems. Such failures  as  poorly  equipped  hospitals  and  health  care  centres,  inefficient  staff,  lack  of adequate supervision and poor health communication strategies are notable. The theatre and other humanities, as major stakeholders are not playing aloof to these ...

ABSTRACT Youth unemployment has been a major problem in many developing countries of the  world. This  has  resulted to  many social pathetical and economic  problems  such  as  prostitution,  trafficking  in  persons,  ritual killings, rural-urban drift, criminal activities and crises in these countries including Nigeria.Successive governments in Nigeria have initiated various programmes targeted at youths to better their conditions. These empowerment programmes failed due to one reason or the other. The ...

ABSTRACT The Needle arts to which knitting and crocheting belong have not been researched into by many in Nigeria. This claim is substantiated by the obvious scanty materials on the subject. It even appears that no Nigerian has written exclusively on the art of knitting and crocheting. No wonder there is need for an indigenous approach to this important aspect of Art. In this work, an attempt was made to ...

ABSTRACT The Nigeria-Biafra War which is one of the most remarkable events in the history of Nigeria due to  the  sophisticated  weaponry,  suffering,  death,  genocide,  starvation and  hunger  that  were perpetrated during the war has continued to receive scholarly attention over the years. However, the war has not received enough visual documentation. Despite the dynamic nature of the war, only few artists have attempted to creatively and conceptually interrogate and ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0      Preamble Research  has  shown  that  the  rise  of  African  cinema  took  effect  from  the  early twentieth century, a period of the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa, though what became African cinema during colonial rule did not reflect the core of African cultures and values. Instead, African cinema at that time was characterised by Western stereotypes and Africa was utilized merely as an “exotic” background for Western cinema. ...

ABSTRACT The Jukun music is a sub-genre of African traditional music. Like every other African music, it is woven around day to day events of the people’s life from birth through death. It constitutes complex messages which are rooted in specific cultural practices; using elaborate vocal polyphony tunes, polyrhythm, dance drumming, horn ensemble, xylophone, rattles and so on. The  Jukun  traditional  music  makes  use  of  extensive  repetition  of  exclamations,  call ...

ABSTRACT This dissertation is a study of the influence of the Supernatural in Elechi Amadi’s The Concubine and The Great Ponds- an x-ray of men and women living in a universe teeming with God, gods, goddesses, spirits, deities, the transcendentals and natural phenomena like sacred animals,  birds,  hills,  and  rivers.  They  all  share  in  the  attributes  of  the  supernatural. Unfortunately, man’s vaunted ambition to satiate his quest for the best ...

Abstract Every nation requires sustainable development to cater for its people and growing economy. Nigeria is not exempted from this trend. The fact is that human resources form any established sustainable development. This implies that the place of teachers cannot be over- emphasized in the teaching-learning process. In Nigeria, it appears that the teaching of art in Junior Secondary schools faces a lot of setbacks not only in infrastructural facilities, ...

Abstract This  study  was  designed  to  evaluate  teacher  effectiveness  in  Art teaching in Junior Secondary Schools in Enugu State. Five research questions and three  hypotheses  were formulated  to guide the  study.  A  questionnaire (Standard  Art  Teachers’  Evaluation  Model)  was  structured  with  53  items addressing the research questions. The entire 126 Art teachers in Enugu State Junior Secondary Schools and their 77 supervisors in the positions of deans of studies, vice ...

ABSTRACT Artists are inspired in many ways from several things they see in their environments, such as objects and through their activities with those objects. Artistic inspiration may also come from such things as weather, thoughts, feelings, mood, words etc. It is the strength of the artist to make conceptual feeling concrete. In this instance, the artist has selected air as a medium of expression in sculpture. Air as an ...

ABSTRACT This work studies the modern Igbo textile artists from 1970 to 2005, the first 35 years after the Nigerian Civil War. The primary objective of the study is to fill the gap created by the non-availability of literature on the modern Igbo textile art and artists, and establish the modernist tendencies. The work studies the history – the growth and development, and the creative activities of the modern Igbo ...

ABSTRACT Fine Art is one of the core  subjects  in the  Secondary  School  System  in Nigeria.   And  the educational  goals  realizable  from  art  learning  cannot  be  overemphasized.     In-spite  of its articulate  documentation as enshrined  in the National  Policy  on Education (NPE) and   its general  acceptance as a subject  to be taught  in Secondary  Schools,  it has  the problem  of curriculum  implementation in most Schools in Benue State.  This study attempts ...

Abstract Jos, the capital of Plateau  State,  has witnessed  incessant violent crises in the last two decades. The conflicts have essentially centred on issues of politics, religion and tussle over claims of land ownership  and  right  of the  indigenes  namely,  Berom,  Afizere  and  Anaguta  versus  their counterpart,  the Hausa/Fulani  settlers.  Despite the use of many different  conflict resolution and peace mediation approaches by the government and other stakeholders, the Jos ...

ABSTRACT Music composers have taken the task upon themselves to create sonic materials that are so appealing and irresistible to the human ears. From studies in Western music scholarship, which labels the different music types as Classical/Art, Folk, Popular, and World Music, all these genres involve different processes of conception, organization, production, presentation and even appreciation. Art Music, symphonies in particular are fashioned within the paradigms of Classical/Art, Folk and ...

Abstract Collage painting technique over the years has been one of the most remarkable and significant style of painting in art. However, various artists have explored fabric and paper collage in many productive ways. The project therefore experimented on fabric and paper collage beyond the formal and symbolic essence. Furthermore, this project explored different ways the principles and elements of design inherent in the materiality  of  fabric  and  paper,  in ...