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International Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies (JOLLS) Vol International Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies (JOLLS) Http://www.jolls.com.ng Vol. 10 No. 1 January 2021 ISSN : 2636-7149-6300 (online & print) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGES, LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY STUDIES (JOLLS) Vol. 10, No. 1 January 2021 A Publication of the Department Of French Faculty of Humanities, Imo State University, Owerri i CC BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs International Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies (JOLLS) Http://www.jolls.com.ng Vol. 10 No. 1 January 2021 ISSN : 2636-7149-6300 (online & print) THE JOURNAL International Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies is a referred journal published by the Editorial Board, Imo State University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of French, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. All views on conclusions contained in the journal are those of the authors of the articles. 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All views on conclusions contained in the journal are those of the authors of the articles. iii CC BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs International Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies (JOLLS) Http://www.jolls.com.ng Vol. 10 No. 1 January 2021 ISSN : 2636-7149-6300 (online & print) TABLE OF CONTENTS SOUCHE DE LA MISÈRE EN AFRIQUE LUSOPHONE : UNE ÉTUDE DE WIRRIYAMU DE WILLIAMS SASSINE Dami Emmanuel Naancin 1 LITERACY, ORAL LANGUAGE AND RHETORIC Juliet Nkane Ekpang, Asa Ghevolor & Victor Bassey 9 A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF PLURALISATION IN ENGLISH AND HAUSA LANGUAGES Mohammed Sada Bature & Aminu Galadima Batagarawa 18 IMPLICATION DE LA FIDELITE, LA LIBERTE ET LE CONTEXTE CULTUREL EN TRADUCTION LITTERAIRE Ezeyi Jacinta Uche 29 ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEEDS ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS OF CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN QUR’ANIC STUDIES OF YOBE STATE UNIVERSITY, DAMATURU Muhammad Yusuf Yunusa, Aliyu Alkali Ishaku & Clifford Irikife Gbyonron 36 THE POSTCOLONIAL NIGHTMARE OF LEADERSHIP FAILURE IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF CHIMEKA GARRICKS’ TOMORROW DIED YESTERDAY Henry Terngu Tarkpegher 47 UNE TRADUCTION COMMENTÉE (FRANÇAIS – ANGLAIS) D’UN TEXTE SPORTIF Marie Therese Teibowie 56 METAPHOR AND COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE: A STUDY OF SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS’ CAMPAIGN TEXTS Agbo, Joseph Odo 65 ASPECT OF THE PHONOLOGY OF THE EREI LANGUAGE Ochiagha Ijeoma Sandra 72 A PRAGMATIC INTEPRETATION OF TELLING A LIE AND ITS IMPLICATURE IN OKPEWHO’S THE LAST DUTY: LESSONS FOR UNDERGRADUATES OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES IN NIGERIA Awobi Amos Made 82 RECONNECTING WITH THE AMERICAN WILDERNESS TRADITION: THE VALUES OF WILDERNESS IN NGUGI’S WIZARD OF THE CROW Timi Oyabara 93 iv CC BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies (JOLLS) Http://www.jolls.com.ng Vol. 10. No. 1. January 2021 ISSN : 2636-7149-6300 (online & print) SOUCHE DE LA MISÈRE EN AFRIQUE LUSOPHONE : UNE ÉTUDE DE WIRRIYAMU DE WILLIAMS SASSINE DAMI Emmanuel Naancin Department of Foreign Languages, University of Jos, Nigeria Résumé « Parmi les régions sous-développées, l’Afrique est encore le parent pauvre quant au développement socio- économique » (Pitshandenge 306). Cette assertion partagée par plusieurs critiques et amateurs du continent n’est qu’un ‘cri-à-l’aide’ vis-à-vis de la misère des Africains. Mais à quoi peut-on attribuer cette situation malheureuse d’un continent si riche et pourtant si pauvre ? Ce travail est une réflexion sur l’origine du problème tel que le rapporte Williams Sassine. Wirriyamu (1976), son deuxième roman, a servi de texte de base dans l’analyse historico-thématique. La zone de focalisation est l’Afrique lusophone où sont situés les faits et les actions peints par l’écrivain. D’après les faits et les témoignages dans le corpus, il a été conclu que la venue en contact de l’Afrique avec l’Occident, en l’occurrence, les Portugais, est certes le phénomène le plus coupable. Pour conclure, l’article a recensé l’expropriation et l’exploitation comme les deux facteurs étant à la base de la misère de l’Afrique du romancier. Mots clés : Souche, Misère, Exploitation, Expropriation, Portugais, Afrique Introduction Les dynamiques historiques Le sujet de développement ou de sous- occupent une place de choix, développement est certes devenu un cheval de notamment celles qui ont réduit le batail dans le roman africain, et surtout continent à une position de d’expression française. Si ces thèmes persistent et dominé. L’histoire du font toujours école chez un bon nombre de développement de l’Afrique est critiques et d’écrivains littéraires ainsi que les irrémédiablement liée à la sociologues et ethnologues du continent colonisé colonisation dont les conséquences même un demi-siècle après avoir atteint le ‘self- les plus évidentes sont : la rule’, c’est que le problème ait ébranlé le fragmentation du continent, le fondement de son existence, badiné avec son bouleversement des dynamiques destin et ait comme retombée, la misère palpable socioculturelles, causes de de son peuple. Moussa Mohamed Koné en atteste nombreux conflits, et la faiblesse ainsi : « Les réalités socio-économiques des pays des institutions mises en place au africains sont aujourd’hui marquées par les lendemain des indépendances guerres, des crises politico-ethniques et la misère. (Notice publicitaire). Le sous-développement caractérise depuis un Ainsi, qu’il soit l’école de Koné ou celle de demi-siècle environ l'économie des pays africains N’galadjo et al,. le bref de l’histoire est que » (8). l’intervention de l’Occident sur le continent Alors que Koné dans « L’échec du constitue plus de la moitié du nœud du problème. développement en Afrique, une responsabilité à Koné ne l’a pas démenti. Et si tel est le cas, cet partager, le cas du Mali (1960 - 1997) », semble article cherche à faire la part des choses. La postuler que la souche du sous-développement, et mission ici est de sonder les écrits de Williams donc la misère des Africains, se partage et entre Sassine afin de faire sortir des indices qui l’intervention de l’Europe sur le continent et la soutiennent la thèse que la colonisation ait mauvaise gestion de l’état par l’élite autochtone, apporté sa pierre à la présente misère des d’aucuns sont plus acerbes envers la colonisation.
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