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Grace Alele Williams was born December sixteenth in the year nine-teen thirty-two. She grew up in a town named Warri, Delta State in the country of Nigeria. She has no known siblings and her parents are unheard of as well. She was married to the late Professor Babatunde Williams with whom she had five beautiful children that blessed her with nine beautiful grandchildren later on in life. Williams attended government school in her home town of Warri before moving on to attend Queens college, Lagos and the University College of Ibadan which is now formally known as the University of Ibadan. After the completion of her undergraduates program, Williams became a master in mathematics at Queen's school in Ede Osun state during the years of nineteen fifty-four to nineteen fifty-seven. In nineteen sixty-three at the University of Chicago, she earned her Ph.D in mathematics education with an essay on "Dynamics of Education in the Birth of a New Nation: Case study of Nigeria". After completing her undergraduate…

urban community. From the Victorian period, emphasis on entertainment of a western nature was a prominent feature of the Lagos social life. Such entertainment included operatic productions known as Christian cantatas and film shows. Towards the late 90’s they have converted the Cinemas then to places of worship and lockup shops e.g. the pen Cinema Agege and The Queen Cinema in Dugbe Adamasingba, Ibadan. Internet-google The cinema in Nigeria from the pre-colonial…

enrolled in Christian Mission School in Ogidi. Years later, he won a scholarship to the Government College Umuahia and in 1948 he was admitted as one of the first students of the University of Ibadan again on a scholarship. With no doubt, anyone can make an inference that Achebe was very intelligent. (www.gradesaver.com) Achebe had his turning point at Ibadan University. He was admitted to study medicine but he switched to literature. Owing to this, Achebe lost his…

from what their people believed. The Yoruba people believed that one made the people out of clay, while the other became their first king. From history, they say that Odudwa sons spread out from Ife to create and found the other Yoruba states. Different from its neighboring empire Oyo. Ife was most known for its artists who would create sculptures from bronze, stone, and terracotta. But this slowly became less and less as political power and money started to change with their neighboring…

For the students, we want to find individuals who are hungry to learn, individuals who have the passion but don’t have the necessary resources to pursue their love for science. For the teachers, we aim to target individuals who want to improve their teaching abilities and share their love for science to the world. We plan to achieve this be creating a pilot program with a pilot program in Ibadan, where we feel a focus on science would be good for the students. Upon the success of the program we…

Achebe discovered his passion for writing while in a tertiary institution. He was admitted to the university to Ibadan after meeting the cut-off mark. He was placed to study medicine and surgery as a result of his high grades in the entrance examination as the school normally does. He rejected the offer and requested to study literature which he had loved since childhood. His request for opting to liberal arts was accepted by the school. During his course of study, he found literature even more…

interdependence between poor and rich nations. CONCLUSION: Privatization and commercialization is a key ingredient of globalization, limited government, and Bretton woods prescription of non-subsidy economy and activities of multi-national companies. Etc. The answer is Nigeria should not swallow the pill of globalization, secure, line and sinker but understand the dynamics that will help evolve measures that will reduce it devastating effects. REFERENCES: Abimbola J. O (2002), Globalization…

Ogbomosho migrate for social reasons in other to interact with different people and enjoy them. According to Ademola Ajayi, Ogbomosho people migrate to replenish their empowerment that portrayed in search for modernity, family bread winners, patrons of local development and role models in fact they do take migration as pleasure. However, in recent times migration propensity is common among youths of school age, these youth were seeking higher education. It should be…

Meredith, helped by the United States government, was going to be the first black student to enroll at the university. Meredith graduated with a degree in political science in 1963. He wrote an account of his experience, named Three Years in Mississippi, which was published in 1966. That June, he was in Memphis, Tennessee, on a solo march through the South to encourage black voters Known as the “March Against Fear” where he was shot and wounded by a white unemployed hardware clerk named…

His novel, “things fall apart” led to his being called the "patriarch of the African novel". Achebe was born in Nigeria and raised in a large village of Ogidi. He attended the University of Ibadan. His ground-breaking novel sold over 12 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages. In the 1950s, he had witnessed “a flourishing” of new literature. He believed that “any good story, any good novel, should have a message…”. He was able to avoid imitating English trends and embrace…