President of Nigeria

at the conception of their works, both talk in depth on the effects that the colonialists and missionaries had on Nigeria, and the complementary gender roles that were ingrained in Nigerian Ibo culture. Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” was greatly influenced by his upbringing and the unique position that he found himself in during the writing process. Achebe was born in Nigeria 1930 to a protestant missionary and was…

the mass media, business leaders, trade unions, youth and women movement, schools, colleges in the activities for AIDS prevention. National AIDS and STD control programme should provide simple, clear and accurate information about AIDS in order to create public awareness and understanding of the dangers of the disease. Put more effort in the use of newspaper, radio, television, posters, roadside billboards, drama and songs contests to disseminate information about HIV and AIDS to the general…

Many people believe that Colonization was a very productive and inspiring part of history. In reality, it had a very negative impact on certain cultures. It caused a lot of grief and heartache. Colonization also destroyed the way people lived and how they viewed life. Overall, Colonization caused more damage to cultures than it helped them. The culture we are taught as children is the basis of our lives. Once we are old enough, it is our duty to pass that culture onto the next generation.…

But he is discovered by explorers plundering an ancient treasure, and escapes just in the nick of time. The sequence ends as an adult claps a battered fedora down on Indiana's head, and then we flash forward to the era of World War II. The opening sequence of this third Indiana Jones movie is the only one that seems truly original - or perhaps I should say, it recycles images from 1940s pulps and serials that Spielberg has not borrowed before. The rest of the movie will not come as a surprise…

story from their perspective. "Things Fall Apart" has now sold over 11 million copies and is translated into 50 different languages which shows just how big of an impact it made. Achebe, born Albert Chinualumogo Achebe, comes from Ogidi in Igboland Nigeria. He was born to two Christian convert parents…

biography project because I enjoyed reading his book “Things Fall Apart.” I thought that this book was a very interesting read and hoped, in the future, that I would read some more of his books. • Chinua Achebe lived during the post-colonial period in Nigeria when Britain granted Africa its independence. Achebe’s works were associated with the decolonization of Africa. In addition to this period, Achebe is also associated with the Negritude movement, which was created alongside Africa’s…

Chinua Achebe reveals the faults within the Ibo society in his novel, Things Fall Apart. The Ibo community is located in Southern Nigeria with “low-lying deltas and riverbank areas [that] are heavily inundated during the rainy season, and are very fertile” (Countries and Their Cultures 1). Okonkwo, the main protagonist in the novel, is obsessed with many things, but specifically the growing of his yams. The reader later discovers that the number of yams a man grows reflects their rank in the…

PROBLEM/OPPORTUNITY In Nigeria, high schools do not focus on the core subjects of sciences; this has resulted in a lack of science-focused students. This is an issue because a study conducted by Scidev.net has concluded that basic science has links to economic development (Usher, 2013). Data from UNESCO dated year 2005 shows that, there are only 203 researchers per million people in Nigeria, against 4,663 in the United States. Nigeria as a developing country could shift it’s focus on…

Chinua Achebe once said, “It’s not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What’s more difficult is to identify with someone you don’t see, who’s very far away, who’s a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that, then literature is really performing wonders.” This is what Achebe succeeded in doing when he wrote Things Fall Apart, a historical fiction novel that explores Nigerian culture during the Age of…

New Dawn Baptist Church is a daughter church of New Estate Baptist Church, Surulere, Lagos. In 1983, New Estate Baptist Church implemented a cell church system under the leadership of the then pastor, Dr. Sola Aworinde. Several cells were created in different parts of the city of Lagos. Each of them became fellowship centers meeting primarily on Sunday evenings. They were called Home Fellowships. In due time, the Church decided on a policy of planting new churches using the Home Cells as the…