April 2012

The formation of a hybrid identity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions

  Colonization was one of the bitterest phenomena during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Imperial powers colonized some particular territories and plundered their capital. Beside economic damages, the colonizers obliterated local cultures of their colonies and imposed new ideologies on native people. Western cultural hegemony resulted in the formation of a new hybrid identity in the...

Author(s):   Peiman Amanolahi Baharvand and Bahman Zarrinjooee        

April 2012

Road transportation as lifeline of the economy in Western Nigeria, 1920 to 1952

  The complex but vital interconnection between road transportation and the economy is what this paper seeks to explore. Our primary focus is not to determine whether road transportation developed or underdeveloped the economy; rather we want to see how road transportation served as a “vehicle’’ for the pursuit of economic goals. The paper discusses how the introduction of modern means of...

Author(s):   Oladipo O. Olubomehin