Re-performing African Literature: A Review of Owonibi’s Translation of three Yoruba Literary works into English – Chief Gaa, Delusion of Grandeur and The Tight Game by Titilope Oluwaseun Oriola

“…It featured prominently the use of structural simple sentences, functional declarative and interrogative sentences. Proverbs, witty sayings, eulogy and figures of speech which were translated to have a contextual equivalence with the original texts. …”
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La fabrique de l’homme objet dans Lolita de Stanley Kubrick by Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun

“…Still, the character’s progressive dispossession also appears as the condition of his humanistic re-evaluation, in a motion that is characteristic of Kubrick’s constant exploration of the multiple tensions that shape the very definition of humanity, in a paradoxical approach where distance bridges moral, emotional and intellectual gaps, where reiterated contradictions testify to a consistent body of interrogations, where tension, in the end, features as the main condition of humanity.…”
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Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure by Dorothée Delacroix

“…Based on several observations of this ceremony, supplemented by interviews with the artist and human rights activists, this article aims to interrogate the process of ethnicization of victims and the way in which it has guided an essential component of symbolic reparation programs: commemorations of the war. …”
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Dispersion of the Yorùbá to the Americas: A Fatalist Hermeneutics of Orí in the Yorùbá Cosmos – Reading from Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen by Emmanuel Adeniyi

“…I used metaphysical fatalism as a theoretical model to interrogate prognostications about dispersion of the Yorùbá from their matrix as expressed in their mythology. …”
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Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Specifically, it is grounded on the urgency of interrogating Nigeria’s postcolonial realities in the light of Yorùbá philosophical insights that, among other things, enable a rethinking of postcolonial social practices especially as sites of identity, agency, knowledge, objectivity, and even of resistance and power. …”
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I am hated, therefore I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary by Abimbola Adelakun

“…The enemy, I argue, is the way the Yorùbá metaphorize all kinds of antagonism—material and immaterial ones—into an imaginative texture that gives it the tangibility they need to triumph against those situations. This essay will interrogate how this personification of antagonism is achieved by studying Ifá texts, Yorùbá popular music of a period, and contemporary Pentecostal prayers. …”
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An Archaeological Study of Early Farming Settlements on Iresi Hills by Olusegun Akanni Opadeji

“…Tis paper reports the occupation in Iresi, in southwest Nigeria with a view to fill the gap in the chronology and to interrogate the evidence for Late Stone Age in terms of the culture that existed in between 12000YBP of Iwo Eleru and 2000YBP of Itaakpa and the influence of a change in environment of southwest Nigeria and West Africa in general.   …”
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Louis H. Sullivan: that Object He Became by Dan Snyder

“…Through a close reading of his writings with particular attention paid to his often-encrypted references to Walt Whitman, together with a close reading of selected sources from his library, this essay interrogates his understanding. Sensitive to the question of ‘queering’, it focuses on his conception of fused identities and its effects on gender and sexuality. …”
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CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLICY AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION IN BENUE STATE by CHRIS S. ORNGU

“…The paper uses a conceptual and theoretical exploration to interrogate the problematic of policy formulation and programme implementation in the state over the period. …”
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"The Truth lies in Black and White." The Language of Truth and the Search for Coloured Identity in Zoe Wicomb’s David’s Story by Fiona Mc Cann

“…Par le biais de jeux narratifs et langagiers, Wicomb problématise la notion de vérité et, créant au sein de ce roman des relations intertextuelles avec des textes sud-africains et internationaux, interroge la notion de l’hybridité, proposant ainsi une vision anti-essentialiste de la "Nouvelle" Afrique du Sud…”
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Syntactic Analysis of Movement Transformation in Bahasa Indonesia by Ruly Adha

“…Some types of movement transformation that were applied in Bahasa Indonesia were Affix Hopping, Interrogative (Aux Movement), Wh-Movement, Passive Transformation, Dative Movement, Topicalization, Particle Movement, and Relative Movement. …”
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Crack Detection of Reinforced Concrete Member Using Rayleigh-Based Distributed Optic Fiber Strain Sensing System by Tingjin Liu, Honghao Huang, Yubing Yang

“…With the aid of a high space resolution (up to 1 mm) and measurement accuracy (±1 micro strain) interrogator (OSI-S by Semicon), continuous strain measurements inside of the RC member are elaborately implemented. …”
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Indirection argumentative et mythologie grecque dans l’essai d’Albert Camus by Bahia Zemni, Jihene Beji, Zoubeir Chaouch

“…Si on considère que le recours à la mythologie est une espèce d’expression indirecte, il y a lieu également de s’interroger sur la portée d’une parole directe. Quelle efficacité (ou inefficacité) peut avoir dans ce cas l’une et l’autre ? …”
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Challenging power through social media by Rodwell Makombe, Grace Temiloluwa Agbede

“…Firstly, the study reads internet memes of the Mugabe fall as forms of resistance to the regime. Secondly, it interrogates the methods that internet memes use to challenge official discourse. …”
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Endothelial Progenitors as Tools to Study Vascular Disease by Reinhold J. Medina, Christina L. O'Neill, T. Michelle O'Doherty, Sarah E. J. Wilson, Alan W. Stitt

“…However, EPCs also have an additional research value in vascular disease modelling to interrogate human disease mechanisms. The term EPC is used to describe a diverse variety of cells, and we have identified a specific EPC subtype called outgrowth endothelial cell (OEC) as the best candidate for vascular disease modelling because of its high-proliferative potential and unambiguous endothelial commitment. …”
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Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“…Based on original archival documents, the essay interrogates these resistances to universalist ideas of technology and ontological assumptions embedded and perpetuated through the architecture of post-colonial “development” projects. …”
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Video Assemblages: ‘Machinic Animism’ and ‘Asignifying Semiotics’ in the Work of Melitopoulos and Lazzarato by Jay Hetrick

“…I will argue that, in order to fully understand this work, we must interrogate the incredibly dense theoretical context it inhabits. …”
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Ọmọ Tí A Kò Kọ́: Globalization and Cultural Education among New Generation Nigerian Yorùbá by Michael O. Afolayan

“…I will read the concept behind the sound as a multi-layered, multi-semantic meta-philosophical building block which not only showcases a serious aspect of indigenous epistemology and serving as a note of caution on Yorùbá education and its sociology of filial responsibilities, but could also be deployed to interrogate the emerging youth culture of the new generation Nigerian Yorùbá in the age of globalization. …”
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The Illicit Production and Consumption of Ògógóró in Coastal Yorùbáland and the Niger Delta by Dọlápọ` Z. Olúpàyímọ´

“… This article interrogates the production and sale of illicit gin variously called Káí-káí, Ro`ḅ ì`ṛobì, Bàbá èrìn, Etonto, Wuru, Push-me-I-push-you, Saepele water, Craze-man-for-bottle, Ògógóró, and Pàrágà in many places including the coastal Yorùbá areas. …”
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The Elusiveness of Welfare-State Specificity by Tahl Kaminer

“…This review article will interrogate the relation of architecture to society via the recently published anthology Architecture and the Welfare State, edited by Mark Swenarton, Tom Avermaete and Dirk van den Heuvel. …”
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