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“Pacification” and the “You Personality” in Chimamanda Adichie’s “The Thing Around Your Neck”

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Uchenna David Uwakwe, Omeh Obasi Ngwoke

Chimamanda Adichie demonstrates a compelling consciousness of the epochs of the African history along with its besieging conflicts. Her literary engagements come with certain symbolic echoes of the cultural values associated with Africa’s eventful past, some of which she only came to discover in their dissipating status. The focus in …

Untying Colonial Knots Around Film in Africa: The Entrepreneurial Culture of Nollywood

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Innocent Ebere Uwah

Cinema in Africa took off as an anti-colonial movement. Its vivifying oxygen at the time was pan-Africanism as a way of giving voice to the continent while decolonizing the western gaze on screen. So long as the struggle was ideologically foregrounded, it remains a tough turf to unpack in arguing …

The Igbo Love for Money: Advocating for Youth Leadership as Human Capital

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Nneka Umejiaku, Ngozi Chisom Uzoka

Leadership as a human capital entails investing in youths through education, vocational studies, apprenticeship and mentoring for the purpose of development. While, Igbo's love for money is simply their culture, that propels them to work hard , create wealth and enjoy financial success. This study aims to strike a balance …

Leaders, Leadership Failure and the Nigerian State

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Victor O. Ukaogo

Through an analysis of its historical foundations, current expressions, and significant ramifications for the state, this study delves into the complex aspects of leadership failure in Nigeria. Despite its abundance of riches and potential, Nigeria has struggled with enduring issues including social instability, bad governance, and corruption, which are mostly …

Tackling Poverty in South-Eastern Nigeria, by growing Small & Medium Scale Vocational Enterprises

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Charles Uka

With the rate of unemployment towering high in the south-eastern part of Nigeria, lack of business and managerial skills or knowledge as well as fear of the unknown have crippled youths from venturing into private businesses that could have encouraged self-employment. This paper focuses on tackling unemployment through vocational/entrepreneurship education …

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