Tag: 2025

Encounter as Capital: Catalyst for Peacebuilding with Focus on Igbo Cross-Cultural Marriages in the Diaspora

Amaka P. Q. Uzodinma — Peacebuilding South-East Zonal Office, Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Awka, Anambra State | ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Encounter as a capital is an invaluable resource that can not be over emphasised in view of it's impact on social cohesion , mobility and socio economic development. Encounter as a capital being a catalyst for peacebuilding with a focus …

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

Uchenna David Uwakwe — Federal University of Technology Owerri, Nigeria, Omeh Obasi Ngwoke — University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria | ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

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 …

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

Innocent Ebere Uwah — Department of Film and Multimedia, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State | ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

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 …

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

Nneka Umejiaku — Faculty of Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Ngozi Chisom Uzoka — Faculty of Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka | ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

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 …

Leaders, Leadership Failure and the Nigerian State

Victor O. Ukaogo — Department of History and International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria | ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

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 …

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

Charles Uka — Maj Mega Projects Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria | ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

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 …