: Cinema as a medium of communication is an influential source or enhancer of national unity. Like other media of communication, films can shape behaviours negatively or positively, which is achieved through the texts, images and portrayals of characters that make up the content of films. The study discussed the reflection of national integration in Nigeria through films. Anchored on the theory of Hermeneutic, the study adopted the content analysis method. To this end, the movie Up North was critically appraised to ascertain to which it encourages national integration in Nigeria. Findings showed that the movie portrayed the Nigerian culture positively significantly encouraged national integration through focus on good morals, mutual respect among individuals, promotion of hard-work, and respect for and tolerance of our cultural diversity. The study concluded that films is a veritable means of social reengineering and nation building, and suggested that through greater synergy between the stakeholders in the culture industry, Nigerian films should be made to reflect mainly the positive cultural ethos of the nation while promoting peace in the society as depicted in the movie Up North.

Drawing its theoretical underpinnings from Systemic Functional Linguistics, this study analyzes theme patterns in Tony Onamade Jejuri’s Bed at a Crossroad. Using sampling method, three extracts have been selected from the novel. The focus on textual meaning aims at unveiling the hidden linguistic resources or codes incorporated in this novel. It also aims at bringing out how Tony Onamade Jejuri organized and established themes to construct clauses in order to convey his message. Using mixed research method (quantitative and qualitative research methods), the findings reveal different linguistic features pertaining to the characteristics of the discourse. It is then realized the overtopicalizing of the three selected extracts.

Manufar wannan bincike ita ce zaƙulowa tare da faɗaɗa nazari a kan salon tsattsafi a cikin waƙa. Binciken ya mayar da hankali kan salon tsattsafin haliya. An ɗora nazarin bisa ra’ayin Yahya na “Salon Tsattsafi.” An keɓance nazarin kan zaɓaɓɓun waƙoƙin Aminu Ladan Abubakar (ALA) guda bakwai (7) waɗanda suke mazaunin samfurin binciken. An ɗauki waɗannan waƙoƙi a matsayin tushen bayani na farko. Tushen bayani na biyu da binciken ya yi aiki da shi, shi ne rubuce-rubucen masana da suka gabaci wannan. Binciken ya tabbatar da cewa, lallai mawaƙi na tsattsafin haliya ko haliyoyi a cikin waƙa. Haka kuma, yana iya tsattsafin haliya guda a cikin waƙoƙi daban-daban da ya shirya yayin da yake cikin yanayi iri guda. A bisa haka, binciken na ganin za a iya amfani da wannan salon nazari a matsayin matakin bincike kan halaye da ɗabi’u.

Whether it is the pre-colonial, colonial, or post-colonial era, the problems of the indigenous tribal women of North-East India have not changed much. The same scenario is reflected in Mamang Dai’s Legends of Pensam as the women on margin have always retained in the same shape and misery. The gendered subalterns have been suffering in silence accepting their fate or restricting themselves amid their limited demarcated territory in order to survive. Over the years, these fair sexes are not only being ignored and exploited, under the hands of the colonial or elitist masses but also by the patriarchal structure designed in the Indian society. Various types of changes and uncertainties have touched the premises in the land of the Adi tribes, placing the women somewhere inbetween tradition and modernity. Dai in her work has tried to portray the scuffling situations of the Adi women, how they have resisted and quietly tackled those changes, uniquely sculpting their own identity. Keeping those silences and muted existences of the indigenous women in mind, this paper is an earnest attempt to hear the voices of those women or give them a chance to bring their survival complexities in the eyes of mainland India and the world.

Published in 1999, Cassandra is a remarquable novel through which Violet Barungi pinpoints various questions related to feminism and femalism. To delve into the issue of feminism and glass the idea on femocracy, the perspective of femism and kink has been developed and elaborated. Indeed, in a critical perspective, the paper has spotlighted the degree of the Ugandan women’s failure in the struggle against patriarchy in their society. An analysis of probate pertinency has shown up the resolution of the female character to overthrow the social and cultural female status cushioned by so much domesticated vagrancies. However, confronted with pugnant realities, the female actant steps back to fall into the trap of sex and sexuality. A path to freedom is then cut short, a dream shattered on the erotic wall of venial pleasures. Emancipation is then wedged apart into the glooming splinters of masculinity and patriarchy.

Manufar wannan maƙala ita ce bitar ma’anar kishi da yanaye-yanayensa, musamman a tunanin Bahaushe. Maƙalar ta bi matakin nazartar waƙoƙin makaɗan baka a matsayin hanyar gudanar da bincike. A cikin waƙoƙin ne ta zaƙule yanaye-yanayen kishi a farfajiyar tunanin Bahaushe. An ɗora akalar nazarin kan tunanin Bahaushe cewa “So so ne, amma son kai ya fi.” A bisa wannan ra’ayin Bahaushe ne takardar ke da hasashen cewa, kowane mutum na da zummar samun ɗaukaka da fice sama da dukkannin tsaransa. Sakamakon binciken ya nuna cewa, ba kamar yadda mutanen da dama ke tunani ba, al’amarin kishi bai taƙaita ga abin da ake samu tsakanin masoya ba kawai. Ya shafi dukkannin ɓangarorin rayuwa. Sannan dalilai da dama na sa a bayyana kishi. Daga ƙarshe takardar ta ba da shawarar bin matakan da za su tabbatar da giyar kishi ba ta kai ga janyo aikata abin da ya saɓa wa hankali da kyakkyawar al’ada da zamantakewar lumana ba.

This research article finds out same letters / groups of same letters in different words of English language beginning with alphabets ‘A’ and ‘B’ having different pronunciations. Same letters / groups of same letters in different words of English language beginning with alphabet ‘A’ having different pronunciations are five in numbers which are: a, ae, aeo, ai and au. Same letters / groups of same letters in different words of English language beginning with alphabet ‘B’ having different pronunciations are twenty-five in numbers which are: ba, bbi, be, bea, bee, bei, bi, bio, bla, blea, bli, blo, bloo, bo, boa, bou, bow, bra, brea, bri, bro, broa, broo, bru and bu. These thirty same letters / groups of same letters in different words of English language beginning with the select alphabets of ‘A’ and ‘B’ having different pronunciations have been detailed with two hundred and six examples including words and phonetic transcriptions which will fully assist the learners of English language in making them competent in the select topic of research. The conclusion and reference list have been added.