Hausa language

Boko Haram, a group from Nigeria, invades towns throughout the night, killing thousands of people by shooting or beheading them all. Adam Nossiter, a journalist for the New York Times, points out, “They came in the dead of the night… riding on motorcycles and in pickup trucks, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.” (1) Boko Haram captured many young girls and women and imprisoning them until they were old enough to marry, which by then they would be forced into marriage by the group. They had forced 450 girls and young women into 4 small houses when they captured them. In some cases, they would imprison the girls by making them slaves and then be forced into marriage in their womanhood. In other circumstances, Boko Haram have captured men and tied their hands together and bagged their heads, leading them to their deaths, where they would, on camera, shout “Allahu Akbar!” and cut their heads off. People flee to this country, though, because they do not want to be in the surrounding cities that are being attacked. The city that these attacks are taking place at this point in time in is Maiduguri. This city “has sustained three Boko Haram attacks in the past week and explosions can be heard here every night”, (9) adds Nossiter. This assembly of men is killing thousands of innocent people every single day, taking their money and killing them right in front of loved ones, just because they are infuriated. The Nigerian government has been in a six-year fight against Boko Haram and will not…

In 2014 more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their school by a that is group self identified by boko haram (Jacqueline). Boko haram is a islamic terrorist group that is against western ideas ,and everything to do with the west. Many people have suffered from boko haram, while no one knows how many they've killed in their insurgency, the number is higher than 17,000 (Ogunlesi). I’m recommending to deal with boko haram by supporting the nigerian army with supplies and anything they need,…

globalisation and the development of local languages. The objectives of his study include 1. To establish if languages are parasitic. 2. To find out the factors that lead to language extinction.3. To see how globalisation has endangered most languages in the world and Africa in particular. Some of the works used for this deep study include:Mualdhuster (1996),Crystal (2000),Dixon(1997),Brenziger, (1998),Renard (2001).These works he uses content analysis and observation to study the ecology of…

Cameroon is a country between Nigeria, Chad and the Central African Republic. The Cameroons colonial name comes from the cameros (prawns) that the 15th Century explores found in the Wouri River. South Cameroon supplied the Atlantic slave and commodity trades. North Cameroon people were Muslim and the economy of the Fulani and Hausa south of the Sahara. Between 1884 and 1916 Germany united the south and the north into a colony. The French ruled the east from the capital, Yaoundé. The British had…

Some of the consequences of English language being dominant were identified in an article by Mustapha (2014). They are the linguistic and communicative inequality. English Language has created a barrier or hierarchy amongst citizens of Nigeria. We have the elite group who speak “queen’s English”, some who speak “Nigerian English – pidgin” and others who cannot speak English at all. It now becomes difficult to interact with people who are not in your class thereby making English fail at its role…

the most influential language globally, with more non-native speakers around the world than native speakers (Park and Wee, 2012). There are over 400 million speakers of English, and although there are a few languages with more speakers in the world, those languages owe their numbers to mother-tongue speakers. Whereas, English owes its prominence to how widely adopted it is in other countries, and the special status it enjoys in global affairs. Since the introduction of English Language into the…

The novel helped enact him as part of the literary canon. Things fall apart expressed his rejection for the pessimistic point of view he had already accepted before the independence of Nigeria. In his book, he demonstrated comeliness and the unequaled characteristics of African culture. The colonization of Africa really made the locals adopt the western culture, neglecting their own. He urged Africans to embrace and value their culture as the whites were. “Things fall apart has been translated…

lacking their native tongue in the color of their innovative vibrant language (Ebonics). In her use of Ebonics, Hurston promotes the value of African American language while adequately displaying the complexity of African American cultural. In doing so, Hurston exerts intimacy (to be interpreted by the reader) throughout the story, narration, and dialogue of her characters and highlights the uniqueness of Black fiction. In order to effectively argue the essentialness…

The Power of Language in Shakespeare 's Othello In Othello, the contamination of linguistic matter (whether through verbal or human associations, through deliberate perversion, or by senseless mouthing of meaninglessness) ultimately destroys the ordered control of normal behaviour patterns, personal or social (Shaw 306). In one of the finest play written by William Shakespeare, language is not only the medium that conveys the drama but also the action. For example, talking about an event will…

Communication between International and American students. Nowadays society is very split, especially in big countries such as America. This diversity based on people’s culture, language, religion, ethnic group or race. Colossal number of different cultures represented in the United States. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles are the cities with the biggest population in America and also cities with the biggest cultural diversity. People from Asia to Europe to Africa to Latin America live there.…