May 2009

The role of referendum: A case of Ghana

  This article presents a discussion on the role of the referendum in Africa with a case study of Ghana. It reveals the importance of referendum and the types of referendum as experienced in many countries with concentration on Ghana. It has concluded that referendum is important as allows majority stance to be assimilated as a decision as opposed to few who make decisions in most decision...

Author(s): Norman, A. S and Kwadwo, Sarfo Kantanka

May 2009

Semantic map and ideology in select Nigerian poetic discourse

  Since its acceptance within linguistic studies, the concept of ideology has generated an unimaginable array of interest within linguistics. Linguistic scholars are of the opinion that no linguistic construction is ‘neutral’ in its real sense. As well, numerous linguistic investigations have proved that ideology is woven in our everyday linguistic interaction but none of these have been able to...

Author(s): Romanus Aboh