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Tropes of Disabilities, Motifs of Survival in John Maxwell Coetzee’s Age of Iron (1990) and Disgrace (2011)
(SJOLLL: Department of English Language and Linguistics, Sokoto State University, Sokoto, 2022-11-14) Afolayan, Kayode Niyi; Akanmode, Olushola Ayodeji
Readers and critics of South African Literature, until 1990, are very familiar with the literature of that country which gave due attention to the malaises of chronic racial abuses and other vices that prevailed while the apartheid system subsisted. With the official closure of that regime in 1994, the engagement naturally diverts to the survival of a nation that was coming out of decades of social injuries and strife. This paper, in an intertextuality study of Age of Iron (1990) and Disgrace (1999) picks out John Maxwell Coetzee as one of the writers of South Africa descent that has responded to the experiences of the Nation in the aftermath of the apartheid experience. The paper interrogates Coetzee’s uses of tropes and motifs in his concern about the survival of his nation in the nascent post-apartheid era as reflected in his mirroring of the crimes of apartheid and its ramified consequences. After isolating the diverse tropes deployed by the novelist to objectify the inhuman experience and the consequent personal and national traumas of that era, the paper concludes by aggregating the tenets of acceptance, forgiveness, and atonement as core indispensable values for a nation in search of healing.
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COVID-19 DEATHS AND VACCINATION: a comparative analysis
(2024-06-26) Okoro, Emmanuel O. , MB;B.Ch; Nehemiah A. Ikoba, PhD; Ayuba O. Giwa, LLB(Hons) , BL, LLM ,PhD; Boluwatife E Okoro, LLB (Hons.), BL, LLM; Azibagnigha S. Akpila, MB; B.Ch, BAO; Mumeen O. Salihu, MB.BS, FWACP
Purpose: COVID-19 deaths before and in the vaccination era across countries of interest in Africa and other regions were compared to observe how vaccination impacted the trajectory of COVID-19 deaths in selected jurisdictions. Method: COVID-19 cases, deaths and vaccination rates in World Health Organization database up to 07 June 2023 were extracted for countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America that included China, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, United States, and the United Kingdom, selected based on their COVID-19 trajectory. Case fatality rate (CFR) per 1,000 was computed for the period prior to vaccination (CFR1) and the period after vaccination commenced (CFR2). Tests of correlation between the vaccination rate per 100 persons and variables of interest were undertaken and examined. Result: COVID-19 mortality increased in all countries ranging from 112.35% in South Africa to 2304.43% in China during vaccination era except in Nigeria where this decreased 38.3% relative to pre-vaccination figure. The percentage (%) change in COVID-19 deaths rose with increasing vaccination rates; correlation coefficients for primary vaccination being r=0.564 (p=0.05), booster 1 with positive correlation r=0.612 (p=0.04); booster2, r=0.678 (p=0.03) coverage respectively. In contrast, CFR per 1,000 in vaccinated areas declined as vaccination rates increased; with negative correlation, r=-0.740 (p=0.011), r=-0.746 (p=0.011), r=-0.814 (p=0.007) for primary, first booster, second booster rates respectively. Conclusion: COVID-19 deaths occurred more with vaccination and appears to increase as vaccination expands across the entire sample.
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The Failure of Success
(Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, 2024) Oloyede, Is-haq
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Resurgence of Islam and the Implications for Spirituality and Dialogue
(L.W.F, Geneva, Switzerland, 1990) Oloyede, Is-haq