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Item AUX PLUMES DE FÉES: UNE ÉTUDE DU STYLE DE MYRIAM WARNER-VEIYRA(UNIVERSITY FRENCH TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA, 2011) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeTwo novels of Myriam Warner-Vieyra have been studied, they are: Le Quimboiseur l’avait dit published in 1980 and Juletane in 1982. She is married to a Senegalese; being Guadeloupian, she represents a middle ground between two cultures and the Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures. Her style is simple presenting existential realities as she places premium on dreams, fantasies and the subconscious in order to create psychological explanations of the characters in her novels. Further, her style may not be reduced to simple linear narration of events but a complicated knot of imagination that ties with the experiences of jealousy, failed love, broken marriage, manic rage, suicide and related themes.Item A Case for Gender Education and Instruction in Feminist Issues in Nigerin Institution of Learning(Gender Theories and Dialectics, 2012) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeAbstract This paper underscores the prevalent issues of gender discrimination, sexist traditions and practices that inhibit female physical and mental health and economy empowerment in Nigeria. It reviews some cultural practices across Nigeria and of international opinions and researches on gender disparity. Family life is fraught with domestic violence, female genital mutilation, oppression of widows and violation of human rights. Most religious practices and cultures in Nigeria do not accord women equal status with men, and it is the inequality in their roles, and conflict with societal expectation, that create tension in individuals, families and by extension the society. It is proposed that our educational policy should take into cognisance the need for gender education. And this should be incorporated into the curriculum for all levels of the educational system. It would take instruction in behaviour modification to change the thought pattern of people, so that they can choose to renounce inhumane cultural practices that have often caused women pain and death. Even though the Human Rights Charter adopted by the United Nations Organisation in 1948 accorded equal rights to both men and women, the -e is no equality in all facets of life till date. It is a monumental struggle to change the worldwide patrocentric culture. Key words used are: patriarchal traditions, gender and feminism.Item De-masking Institutionalised Mental Disorder in Male/Female Relationship: An Analysis of Some Female Novelists' Works(Ife Centre for Psychological Studies/Services, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and The Network of Psychological Studies of Women Studies Department of Psychology University of Ibadan, 2014-06) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeThis article considers that male-female relationship is often the cause of most mental ailments that might be diagnosed in women. Issues of traditions and patriarchal attitudes occasioned by biological differences between men and women have been considered reasons for circumscribing women, so also patrocentric cultures all over the world have tended to consider the man as superior to the woman. Though over the years fights for human and women's rights have improved the status of women, the real grind still remains the intractable patriarchal paradigm that finds expression in religious and traditional beliefs and practices and also in the socio-political fabric of our modern societies. The women novelists cited in this article have drawn on their imagination and of course real life situations to create female characters who provide down-to-earth cases for study.Item Feminist Discourse as Paradigm of Gendered Worldview: An Analysis of Social Comment of Ama Ata Aidoo and Calixthe Beyala(Department of European Languages, University of Ibadan, 2010) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeThe purpose of this article has been to explore the way African women writers have risen up to their subordination by the patriarchal culture. The African woman is still grappling with issues of emancipation, which means that she is far behind her Western counterpart even though they might be equally educated. Since the first female writings in the 1970s, there has been large profusion in the literary production by women. Their discourse is basically committed to improving the lot of women, children and in fact the society at large. They have expressed dissatisfaction about phallocentric language that underscores the inferiority and dependence of women and the male hegemony. Through their peculiar "écriture féminine" they are able to express the repressed emotions of frustration, anger and hatred against the repressive order of patriarchal culture. Two female writers were studied, Ama Ata Aidoo, a Ghanaian and Calixthe Beyala, a Cameroonian. They both express pointed criticism of African leadership that could not provide development and a better life for the people, particularly women and children. Their works indict the culpable leaders, who enrich themselves while the masses remain indigent.Item Gender Parity in a Degrading Economy and Its Implications for Gender Education and Moral Counselling in Nigeria(Department of Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education, University of Ibadan, 2016-07) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeAbstract Since the 1970s, gender issues have emerged on the international scene and they currently occupy the centre of women activism particularly in African and Asian countries where sexual discrimination is still a crucial factor in social integration and peaceful coexistence. Gender inequality is the fundamental cause of the generic problems in virtually all sectors of life: family, work place, cultural and religious settings to mention a few key areas. Evidently, a sustainable behavior change would no doubt require counselling and psychotherapy of both the prey and the predator. In this paper, the issues are immemorial; it has a physiological, cultural and religious undertone; it has its tentacles deeply entwined in all fabrics of human endeavours and finally it is the cause of most deaths in women and the reason for most criminal acts against women. Recommendations for a way forward are made. It will require programmed gender education by which all pupils and students are taught mutual respect, National constitution and its provision for the rights of the individual so that they may know that violating the rights of a woman is violating the rights of a nation as it's corollary has been widely accepted that when you educate a woman you educate a whole nation. Nevertheless, it is only a concerted effort and the goodwill of the populace that will engender a sustainable behavior change in gender relations.Item Gendered Culture and Feminist Discourse: An Overview(Presses Scolaires et Universitaires du Benin (PSUB), 2004) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeThis article explores how discourse is entrenched in culture. Culture is used in many domains of human endeavours : arts, literature, music, science and linguistic concepts. When it is used in gender matters, it connotes discrimination against the female gender considered inferior to the male. Therefore, feminists in their struggle for emancipation have advocated that sexist words should be abandoned while references should be made to humanity rather than the gender dichotomies that have often caused debates.Item La folie et le psychisme infantiles: le cas d'Anna Claude et Camilla dans Tun t'appelleras Tanga.(NIGERIA FRENCH LANGUAGE VILLAGE, BADAGRY, 2006-06) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeThis article is about two characters: Anna Claude a Jewish lady and Camilla, a French woman, in the novel Tu t’appelleras Tanga by Calixthe Beyala. The two of them symbolize broken dreams, because they expected to find happiness in Africa with the men who pretended to love them but abandoned them. As consequence of their failed relationship, they succumbed to madness. This article inquires if their mental weakness and behaviours as adults were due to childhood conflicts like Sigmund Freud postulates in his psychoanalytic theories, in which personality, variance in the use of sensory organs and socialization as adult cannot be dissociated from childhood. According to Malinowski, social institutions structure personality. In reality, the author does not only propose pathological causes, but she makes use of expressions like “paranoia, psychosis” that connote sickness. The analysis of the novels reveals the diagnosis of the illness of the characters, which has been caused by deception, desertion, poverty, abject misery and lack of visionary leaders who by their influence could salvage the situation. The approach adopted has prompted the propositions that could modify behaviours and also lead to a sane society.Item LA MÉTAMORPHOSE ET L’ITINÉRAIRE MÉTAPHYSIQUE DE CLARENCE DANS LE REGARD DU ROI DE CAMARA LAYE(School of Humanities, Imo State University, Owerri, 2007-11) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeCamara Laye in his novel Le Regard du Roi (The Radiance of the King) puts the Whiteman (Clarence) in a role that contradicts his privileged status in the Colonial Administration. The Colonialists were the masters who ruled the Blacks and had the ultimate power in their colonies in Africa. What would then be the intention of Camara Laye for reducing the master to the subordinate role in the novel? Clarence loses his dignity because he becomes penniless and has to depend on a beggar who sells him off in a trade by barter, to a local chief, naba. The beggar gains a wife and a horse. But Clarence is turned into a stud who populates the chief’s harem with mulattoes. Would it be an attack on the colonial authority? Or would it simply mean adding value to the African culture which was rapidly giving way to the Western culture? Perhaps Camara Laye wanted to affirm his negritudinal stand of the Black Identity. The novel is liable to several interpretations. This article explores the metaphysical implications of the exposure of Clarence, the Whiteman, to the African life; and his awakening to the reality of the moral stench that emanates from his status of a stud as imposed on him by the naba.Item Le mariage et la dot dans les œuvres de Buchi Emecheta et de Calixthe Beyala(African Journals Online, 2020-03-17) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeThe realist context that inspired the works of the two novelists is the basis for the study of the female characters that they created in their works. The two authors belong to different cultures and linguistic traditions: Buchi Emecheta, an Anglophone from Nigeria and Calixthe Beyala, a Francophone from the Cameroun. Though it is a popular opinion that Africans share similar cultures, this article aims at concretising this opinion by highlighting the convergent and divergent points in the perspectives of the two authors. The characters have been studied in the patriarchal setting that determined their reactions and psychological dispositions. This article lays emphasis on some patriarchal constraints that alienate and relegate the woman to the second place thereby stifling her existence. It discusses the practices of marriage and bride price that control the body and sexuality of the woman. The authors enlist the readers in a narration of real events with which they can identify.Item LITERARY CREATION AS A TOOL IN THE TEACHING OF VALUES CLARIFICATION FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD IN SCHOOL SETTING: AN APPROACH TO COMMUNITY COUNSELLING(Department of Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education, University of Ibadan, 2014-07-04) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeA human is a social being influenced by his/her environment, contacts and relationships, hence s/he is made by the immediate environment. Personality development has become more complex in the 21st century because of the unprecedented influence of the social media on individual and collective psyche. If in the past so much was said about the influence of peer relationships on children and adult alike, the whole human race is now subject to the impersonal Cable Network that determines the emotions, attitudes, values, beliefs and subsequently actions of subscribers. This article focuses on how literary creation can be deployed in teaching values clarification, choices and responsibilities from childhood to adulthood. Artistic creation broadly refers to anecdotes, stories, fables plays, poems, films and music. These artistic expressions are often developed for a target audience by facilitators of learning. As learners are exposed to the implications of making good and responsible choices they are able to confront the tyranny of negative stimuli from social media and personal contacts and relationships. It is hoped that the finding will enhance the use of literary texts in teaching values clarification and impacting behaviour modification in school setting and by extension the world at large.Item SELECTED WOMEN NOVELISTS' REACTION TO POLYGAMY AND LOVE(DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, 2006-04) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo Foluke; Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeAbstract Polygamy is defined by the The New English Dictionary and Thesaurus (Gedess and Grosset, 2000) "as the practice of being married to more than one person at a time. Other related notions are polyandry which is " the practice of having more than one husband at the same time; biqarnv is defined as "the act of marrying a second time when one is already legally married". In some cultures of the world some of these acts are defined as criminal while in others they are considered integral aspects of cultural heritage that should be preserved or still as religious practices that might or might nor be observed. The Christian religion teaches a one-man-one-woman marriage whereas Islam approves of a one-man-four-women marriage. It is the second marriage type that is referred to as polygamy; it is legally acceptable in the Islamic culture. This article is about the effects of the marriage types and how women are adversely affected when such relationships are devoid of love and the pain of hypocrisy when a clandestine love affair is discovered. In actual fact, both men and women suffer, but it may not be an understatement to say that women are more hard hit by the disappointment.Item Un labyrinthe sentimental : Étude de l'inconscient féminin dans l'œuvre de Calixthe Beyala(NEOHELICON ACTA COMPARATIONIS LITTERARUM UNIVERSARUM Institute of Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences NEOHELICON Budapest, Menesi ut 11-13 H-1118 Hungary Fax: (36 J) 385 3876 E-mail: neohelicon@iti.mta.hu, 2005) Siwoku-Awi, Omotayo FolukeCalixthe Beyala was born in Douala, Cameroon in 1958 (61) and would be the first African woman to focus on the sexual violence to which the African woman is subjected. She is resident in France with her two children. She studied in Cameroon, Spain and France. Thus, she got equipped to speak against traditional constraints placed on the woman. In a corrupt society where people live only to satisfy their sexual desires, Beyala adopts a biting and piercing language to exploit the crude, violent and evil reality in which the African woman lives. She postulates that the African woman should emancipate herself in order to find serenity, peace and true love in France. Beyala imagines the African woman in the shanties and low income quarters of Paris. But the suicide committed by Sorraya and Ngaremba, her main characters, at the peak of their success underscores the alienation of African women, the failed love life and the resulting traumatic neurosis. Love for most of them is only a mirage and an unfulfilled hope. The novelist assumes that the option of cooperation would be useful in consoling the abandoned and disoriented African woman by the demeaning culture. The mutual love of women would assist them in their struggle for “Feminitude” (a variant of feminism). Nevertheless, the cooperation of women in Calixthe Beyala’s works does not prevent their humiliation and sorrowful death.