GVU Journal of Language, Literature and African Studies

L'humanisme Culturel Africain et son Développement

Adisa Akinkorede SOMANA — 2023-09-19

À notre époque contemporaine, il y a la reconnaissance de la conception erronée du développement en Afrique. C'est que le développement est loin de la vie culturelle traditionnelle pour laquelle l'humanité africaine est connue. L'article explique la considération philosophique de l'humanisme culturel qui se situe dans la valorisation sociologique et communautaire du développement humain en Afrique comme un remède au développement sectoriel qui ne considère pas le développement de la personne humaine conformément à ses héritages culturels et à son identité. L'humanisme culturel africain concerne l'harmonisation emphatique des intérêts humains dans le respect de son éthique culturelle et de son développement. L'article conclut que pour que les Africains atteignent un développement et une paix significatifs et intégraux, il devrait y avoir une étreinte contemporaine de leur humanisme culturel qui rayonne le possible de services désintéressés, d'une saine solidarité et d'une coexistence symbiotique d'ingénieurs à travers le respect de la vie humaine, des droits et dignité.

The Socio-Economic Development Achievements of Women in Nigeria

Oladapo Johnson OLAYANJU — 2024-03-01

Women make up a considerable proportion of Nigeria's population. They are known around the world as the primary supporters of Nigeria's socioeconomic progress, yet they have long been sidelined in many aspects of life due to a lack of education, financial empowerment, and cultural standards. This is evidenced by the country's evident socioeconomic and political disparities. Although substantial progress has been made in the previous decade in efforts to address the persistent obstacles that women face in Nigeria's socioeconomic development, much more has to be done in the struggle for women's empowerment and inclusion in critical decision-making processes. This has frequently spurred interesting conversations across Nigeria, including several advocates for the engagement of more women in the country's socioeconomic development.

Gender Role Schemas: Emasculation as Men’s Nightmare in Barcley’s Dance on His Grave

Francis Olabisi JEGEDE — 2024-03-01

The paper examines gender role schemas and the plight of men as socially constructed by the socio-cultural environment that makes him a real man. Man is a product of his social milieu because the society where he grows up to become a man has carved out for him roles he is expected to perform even before he is conceived in his mother’s womb. In the schemas are social conventions and orientation that dictates to him the expectations of his society of him in order to fit into the social construction that guarantees for him a place in the social strata of his society as a real man. With Psychoanalysis and Bem’s Gender Role schemas as a frameworks, the study employs a literary text analysis of Barcley’s Dance on His Grave to reveal the plight of heterosexual men who become effeminate as a result of their inabilities to enact the roles constructed for them as men. It was therefore discovered that male characters become frustrated and feel less of men because of their failure to enact the roles of providers and caring fathers in their homes. Again, the study discovered that men who occupied honourable positions became effeminate when challenged by strong women who were determined to alter the status quo ante in a society supposedly dominated by men. Finding also revealed the indispensability of women in the scheme of things as dependable stakeholders in growth and developmental effort of the society. It was therefore suggested that social construction for men where traditional roles are spelt out should be deemphasized. Rather, profeminist orientation should be encouraged in parenting such that the line of divide between the boy and the girl child is deliberately blurred to relieve the boy child of the pressure to measure up to his traditional sex role.