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INTEGRITY JOURNAL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Integrity Research Journals

ISSN: 2811-2407
Model: Open Access/Peer Reviewed
DOI: 10.31248/IJAH
Start Year: 2020
Email: ijah@integrityresjournals.org


IJAH Articles


Politics Of Conversion And Inter-faith Marriages Among Christians And Muslims In Nigeria: An Analysis In Religious Contest And Conflict
Nigeria is a country where Christianity and Islam compete for dominance in the political realm. This competition which often degenerates into physical confrontation is rooted in the 1804 jihad tradition of the Fulani-driven Sokoto Caliphate which is founded on the immutable request for the conversion of their non-Muslim neighbours. Unfortunately, this quest found... Continue here

Contributions Of Muslim Corpers Associaciation (mcan) To Da’wah - Islamic Proselytisation In Bayelsa State Between 1996 – 2015
This paper examines an emerging and growing method of Islamic proselytisation in Bayelsa State. Just as evangelism is a familiar practice among the Christian church, the Muslims, for a long time, have been using Da’wah to preach and spread Islam in different parts of the world. The paper contends that unlike in the Christendom where clergies, as well as... Continue here

A Comparative Analysis Of African Traditional Method Of Curbing Crime And The Endsars Protest In Nigeria
The Nigerian police as a law enforcement agency is saddled with the responsibilities of protecting lives and property and maintenance of law and order in Nigeria. It is noteworthy that the Nigerian Police set up Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to fight the high rate of Armed Robbery and other criminality in the country. Consequently, the manner in which it... Continue here

A Synoptic Analysis Of Male Chauvinism On Women In The Concubine, Efuru And On Black Sisters’ Street
This paper focuses on abuse meted on the female folks by themselves and their male counterparts using some selected novels. The study aims at examining the various forms and manifestations of abuse on African women and the socio-psychological implications on them. Data analysed in this work are elicited from The Concubine, Efuru and On Black... Continue here

The Ancient Greek Sophistry: A Synthetic Analysis Of The 21stcentury Prosperity Gospel Preachers
The Ancient Greek Sophists occupy a very important and a unique period in Western civilization, scholars are not certain if they should be considered as philosophers. This is largely due to their mode of operation. They were considered as corrupt people who made their way out of every opportunity at the detriment of others. Christianity in the 21st Century has... Continue here

The Role Of Religion (islam And Christianity) And Education For Humanization: Nigeria In Perspective
This paper discusses the role of religion (Islam and Christianity) and education for humanization: Nigeria in perspective. It also includes the dimensions of humanization, education in the project of humanization, religion in the humanization process, and the roles of education and religion in the humanization of Nigeria. The burden of this paper is to show how... Continue here

Boko-haram Insurgency In Borno State And Its Challenge To The Nigerian Army
The paper describes Islam in the Sahel region, prior to the advent of Usman Dan Fodio, who through Jihad, upset the established Islam and replaced same with a new form of Islam, which was said to be purer. He believed that, the Islamic ideology which had been in place around the Sahel region had been syncretic and should therefore be replaced. It does appear that,... Continue here

The Language Factor In The Politics Of Ethnic Identity Among The West Niger Igbo Of Nigeria
The West Niger Igbo forms one of the six sub-cultural groups of Igboland. The other five sub-groups include: Northern, Southern, Northeastern, or what Afigbo called Ogu-Ukwu, Southeastern or Cross River, and Riverain. In fact substantial parts of West Niger, Northern, and Southern sub-groups constitute the Riverain sub-group. Although all the six sub-groups have... Continue here

The Feminist Dimension Of Niger River Exploration: Accounts Of Memorable Confrontations Between The African Woman And The Nineteenth Century European Explorer Mungo Park
The exploration of West Africa through the tortuous search of the once elusive River Niger by Europeans is no doubt a popular theme in the history of West Africa. But very little has been written about the significant roles of the African woman in the overall process of the various expeditions by European explorers in search of the Niger. That there is therefore a... Continue here

Prank As Social Media Comedy In Nigeria: Chibuike’s African Snake Man Prank And Iboji Grave Prank As Examples
Prank videos have become the new-normal on social media. Pranks like smashing a stranger's phone, eating cow dung, and eating poisonous insects, have gone viral on social media sites like Facebook and Tiktok, and because social media offers content creators quick fame, stardom and wealth, content creators are ready to do anything including risking their lives... Continue here

Effects Of Scientific Modernization In The Human Society: A Critical Appraisal In The Light Of Jacques Ellul’s Thought With Nigeria In Perspective
The motivation for this paper is the clear strides made by science and technology in the world today together with the apparent abuse and dangers inherent in the same science and technology and the products therefrom. Ellul, the philosopher whose position in this area points out that both science and technology inhere a dialectic facticity of the good and the bad... Continue here

Ethnic And Cultural Diversity In Nigeria: A Panacea For National Development Or Decapitation?
Divisive tendencies are not uncommon in many heterogeneous societies. While the factors responsible for the tendencies may be as diverse as they can be, one common denominator is that if such tendencies are not well managed, they may produce unintended consequences for any society, which in most cases lingers beyond imagination. Nigeria is a multi-ethnic state... Continue here

The Western World And United Nations Handling Of The Russia-ukraine War: Implications For The Global Environment
This work critically examines the way the western world and the United Nations reacted to the Russia-Ukraine war and the implications of such actions for the rest of the world. The work made use of Neorealism as a framework of analysis, and secondary sources of data from books, documents, journals, newspapers, television stations, etc. were used. The study... Continue here

The Poetics Of Rivers And The Intertextual Practices In Joe Ushie’s ‘bekwang River’ And Gabriel Okara’s ‘the Call Of The River Nun’
In this paper, the imagery of rivers and their semantic significance in Joe Ushie’s ‘Bekwang River’ and Gabriel Okara’s ‘The Call of the River Nun’ were investigated. The study is necessitated by the assumption that given the geographic commonalities between Ushie and Okara, there are bound to be corresponding continuities in... Continue here

The Playwright And Social Justice In Nigeria: A Study Of Femi Osofisan’s ‘once Upon Four Robbers’
Playwrights play a pivotal role in championing equal justice within society. Through the dynamic medium of drama, they address pressing social issues and work towards catalyzing positive societal change. This qualitative study examines the playwright's role in advocating for social justice in Nigeria using Femi Osofisan's Once Upon Four Robbers with a... Continue here

A Comparative Analysis Of Morphosyntactic Features Of Nigerian English And Ghanaian English
This study analyses aspects of lexis and morpho-syntax of Nigerian English and Ghanaian English. It also compares the data from the International Corpus of English (ICE), Nigeria and Ghana components respectively, that are used in the same or similar way in the two varieties. A total of fifty-three lexical items are analysed in this study. All the data were drawn... Continue here

An Appraisal Of The Impact Russia And Ukraine Conflict On The Global Economy And Peace (2021-2022)
The unannounced war between Ukraine and Russia has taken the world politics, peace, economy, and global market systems by storm and the diplomatic efforts by world leaders to resolve the crisis have shown no sign of progress. Ukraine became an independent nation with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It was earlier part of the Russian empire and later... Continue here

The Role Of Religion And Social Studies In Promoting Corruption-free Society And National Development In Nigeria
Corruption has been one of the hydra-headed social problems plaguing Nigerian society and its national development efforts since independence. Several anti-graft measures put in place by the government to fight corruption have failed to yield meaningful results. This has made the quest for a more pragmatic and result-oriented approach to corruption eradication in... Continue here

Science, Religion And Faith Healing From An African Christian Perspective
This paper titled Science, Religion, and Faith Healing from the African Christian Perspective argued that science and religion are two parallel lines that cannot meet. The paper argued further that differences exist between both but the differences are not enough to say Religion and Science cannot combine to find solutions to human problems. The problem this work... Continue here

Review On The Concentration Of Police Stations In The Accra Metropolitan Area And Its Implications On Security And Social Control
The increasing urban crime rate in Ghana is causing the development of police stations in the Accra metropolitan area. The location of a police station depends on factors influencing crime-prone areas. In Accra, 16 departments report crime situations to the metro coordinator director, who then organizes meetings with the presiding member. Crime rates are typically... Continue here

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