Preliminaries and Contents

Abstract

Contents  The Adult Learner of French in an Anglophone Setting 1 Emmanuel N Kwofie The Tag Question Problem in Nigerian English Usage:  Methodical Steps Out of the Gamble for Acceptability 18 Mabel Osakwe  Analyzing Yorùbá Bare Nouns as DP 30 Oládiípọ̀ Ajíbóyè  Africa and Africans in the Linguistic Worldview of Russians (From the Results of the ‘Associative’ Experiment) 56 Friday Emenka Ude The Conditional Clause in Igbo 66 Oko Okoro Wearing a Mask. Voluntary Depigmentation among  Continental Africans: An Aesthetic Revolution or a  Post-Colonial Traumatism?  87 Mariam Konate Deme Homosexual Tendencies and Unconscious Determinants:  A Lacanian Reading of Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy: Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint  118 Onuora Benedict Nweke Rites of Passage in Ọgbalu’s Novel, Obiefuna:  An Archetypal Analysis 138 Iwu Ikwubuzo Language, Identity and the Black Diaspora: Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me By My Rightful Name 159 Christopher Anyokwu ‘Prohibited Migrants’: Nigerian Labour Diasporas in Liberia  in the 1930s 192 Omon M. Osiki Historical Consciousness and Sustainable Development  in Nigeria: The Experience of Niger Delta Communities 208 Kingdom E. Orji Nigerian Poetry since 1990: History, Disillusionment and Regenerative Praxis 223 Sunny Awhefeada The Humanities and the Challenges of National Development in Nigeria: A Literary Perspective 241 Akachi T. Ezeigbo