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Item Features of Contemporary African Gynotexts: An Archetypal Reading of Ifeoma Okoye, Fafa Nutsukpo and Florence Attamah’s Writings.(Department of English, 2002) Aguoru, D.Item Oye:Ogun Journal of Arts(Faculty of Arts, 2002) Aguoru, D.Item Autobiography through the Exile Paradigm: The Olaudah Equiano Story(African Cultural Institute, 2004) Aguoru, D.This paper examines the relevance of biographical works in literary studies. Using Oluadah Equiano’s story, the essay treats thematic issues with regard to the slave trade and its consequences on Africans. It posits that what led to the success of the story as a historical document is its effectiveness as a tool in the anti-slavery campaignItem Gege: Ogun Studies in English(Department of English, 2002) Aguoru, D.Item Bridging the gap between the sciences and the humanities in Nigeria; the Wale Okediran example(Faculty of Arts, Lagos State University, Lagos, 2008-09) Aguoru, D.Contemporary studies in humanistic traditions have revealed that there are certain negative attitudes to humanistic studies in third world countries. The relevance of the humanities, especially literature, to the socio - political and economic challenges of the 21st century remain controversial. The assumption is that literature and indeed other disciplines in the humanities should be classified as ‘recreational studies’. This article examines the place of the humanities, especially literature, within the humanistic tradition. The works of Wale Okediran, a physician, politician and novelist are selected for this study. Okediran’s writings are exemplary in that they are marked with a distinct quality of having been produced by a completely humanized mind.Item Reviving an english language that is comatose(Faculty of Arts, Olabisi Onabanjo University, 2007-06) Aguoru, D.Item Features of contemporary African gynotexts: an archetypal reading of Ifeoma Okoye, Fafa Nutsukpo and Florence Attamah’s writings(Department of English, Olabisi Onabanjo University,Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, 2006) Aguoru, D.Item Autobiography through the exile paradigm: the Olaudah Equiano story(African Cultural Institute, Lagos, 2004) Aguoru, D.This paper examines the relevance of biographical works in literary studies. Using Oluadah Equiano’s story, the essay treats thematic issues with regard to the slave trade and its consequences on Africans. It posits that what led to the success of the story as a historical document is its effectiveness as a tool in the anti-slavery campaign.Item Autobiography and national experience: a study of Wole Soyinka’s selected writings(Department of English, Olabisi Onabanjo University,Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, 2004) Aguoru, D.Item A STUDY OF VARIETIES OF WRITTEN ENGLISH IN NIGERIA(1973-10) ADESANOYE, F. A.The study postulates three varieties of English performance in the writings of Nigerians, and examines these in detail for their "common core" features and their "indexical markers". In the Introduction is discussed the English in present-day Nigeria with a theoretical cline of the varieties erected, the pivot around which the investigations of the later chapters are hung. The second chapter examines specifically varieties three and two in the performance of Nigerian judges, while the third deals with the use of English in the Nigerian newspaper press. Chapter IV examines first-variety usage in Literary Nigerian English and the fifth chapter undertakes an examination of the language ability of the low grade workers of the University of Ibadan, exponents of the first variety. Chapter VI, the final chapter, summarizes the findings of the investigations, makes some concluding statements, and suggests four possibilities for further research into Nigerian English. In essence, the study identifies the linguistic features common to all the varieties examined, and their indexical markers. The study also suggests that, from the evidence of the thesis, third-variety performances in written English in Nigeria be regarded as Standard (Educated) written Nigerian English.