Calabar Journal of the Humanities Volume 17, Number 1 January, 2020

ŃDUÑỌDE:
ISSN: 1117-5621
Calabar Journal of the Humanities
Volume 17, Number 1 January, 2020
Ndunode Journal of the Humanities
This number and volume of ŃDUÑỌDE is the second in the series of the journal
in my tenure. The articles in this volume are predominantly from five different
disciplines which does not represent the totality of Faculty of Arts, University of
Calabar in particular and/or other schools. The reason has been traced to the
university's insistence for journals indexed in web of science. I encourage you to
patronize the journal as the next administration will fulfil the plans my
administration could not fulfil due to circumstances of the pandemic and strike
action that marred 2020. I am profoundly grateful to Dr Chinyere Lilian Okam
for the eagerness to work and the voluntary manner in which she offered to serve.
Many were consulted and given letter for the faculty journal, but they
respectively failed to deliver. I have suggested the use of a APA 6th edition
referencing style to enable us meet indexing standard. It is my desire to see our
faculty journals- CAJOLIS and ŃDUÑỌDE meeting the desired status. I wish to
thank all our contributors to this volume and members of the faculty- you are all
appreciated
Prof. Offiong Ani Offiong
Dean Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar
Editor-in-Chief
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Editorial
This edition of Ndunode has fourteen well-researched articles spread across many
areas of the Humanities contributed by both seasoned and young academics from
Nigeria’s intellectual spectrum. Four of the articles are in French language.
Okam and Ozumba's paper delineates the administrative and communication
issues in handling the pandemic and created a scenario of a post-pandemic
Nigeria if the situation is not well handled in a paper titled ―…Wish we had tried
harder‖: Post Pandemic Nigeria, Administrative and Communication frugality on
Covid-19. Iyorza, Onah and Okoro write on the theme of the 2017 Carnival
Calabar which was African Human Migration dissecting the implications of this
on Africans with pictorial interpretation for the event. And within the same
communication parlance Enendu exposes the values and roles of Media
Information and Communication in global. Okpeki’s ―A Study of the Influence of
Television Music Broadcast on the Society‖ presents music as a platform for
social communication and information that promotes significant positive
influences on listeners.
Using Ibezute’s Rediscovering my Mission, Onuoha and Olufunwa reveal that
memory gleaning engenders creativity in the artist. Ibezute’s autobiography
recapitulating the writer’s Civil War memories is an initiation of his craft. Edem
and Otosi’s paper is an interrogation of magical realism in the assertion of the
black man’s identity, particularly the female. The objective is to deconstruct the
myths around African witchcraft to bring out its virtues. The propaganda rhetoric
of the Nigerian Army and Boko Haram terrorists is the concern of Ebim and
Tanyi’s paper. While Ellah and Uwen’s paper is instructive in treating the
strategies adopted in writing medical case notes (MCNs). The explicatural
strategies facilitate appropriate diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the paper
concludes. Uwen's second article deals with collocational choices in the discourse
activities of select paramilitary agencies
Atim and Tyoh’s paper dwell on a very topical issue in their paper on Twitter and
Instagram as impediments to reading among undergraduates in some universities
in North Central Nigeria. They declare that the social media platforms have
impacted negatively on the already poor reading habits of undergraduates and
recommend a reorientation on the use of the platforms for positive ends. Tyoh
and Ushupule's article study the interaction between noun phrases or
prepositional phrases and the predicate in a sentence. The researcher used their
intuitive knowledge of Tiv to describe the theta role assignment in Tiv.
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Ohanyere dwells on the thorny issue of trans-Saharan nomadic movement and its
economic impact on Nigeria. Written in French, the paper highlights the pros and
cons of the cross-border movement. Her second article is on how African female
writers, through their creative works of art, focus on the need to challenge and
overcome oppression, suppression and marginalization associated with women in
the past. Ajimase and Acha, writing in French too, renew reflections on the
content of Beti’s novels in post-independence African literature of French
expression. Essentially, Beti’s works are seen to lampoon the activities of
colonialists and their African collaborators at independence.
Yong, Ogbodo and Kris-Ogbodo dwell on how to dissect the importance of
fidelity in the translation of an African novel titled The Last of the Strong Ones
by Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. Their study advances the opinion that a translator
should exercise his creative freedom through equivalence without changing the
meaning.
In this valecdictory volume, I appreciate Professors: Godfrey Okechukwu
Ozumba, Offiong Ani Offiong, Grace Okereke, Francis Ibe Mogu, Drs: Columba
Apeh, Austin Agantiem and Misters: Daniel Ekoro, Jude Tyoh and Waliya
J.Yohanna. My gratitude forever.
Chinyere Lilian Okam
Editor