In this paper, the critical analysis and interpretation of one of the prestigious poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley will demonstrate that it is really a metaphor on some realistic Truths about the trickeries used by Europeans in history both in their contact with Africans and in their relationships with black people. Due to the importance and value of each verse of this very short poem, we have proceed by a linear analysis in order to grasp the main content and meaning of each verse which sheds light on the very important trickeries (methods, processes, lies, hypocrisies and actions) used by white people. And to attain this goal, the analysis turns around theories such as hermeneutics, stylistics and Marxism due to the white man hegemony and feeling of superiority over the black man. As a result one may discover as principal trickeries and in order of denunciation by Phillis Wheatley, the trickery of “Paganism”, the trickeries of civilization and colonization, the trickeries of Religion and Christianity, the trickery of acculturation, the trickery of Racism, and the trickery of the color of skin.

People recognize repentance التوبة as the most powerful religious practice for the preservation and enhancement of man's moral health. Repentance التوبة serves the apparent function of warning people to avoid b sins and crimes. It is a sort of an ethical principle which entails returning to Allah after a period of disobedience. Pragmatically, the speech act of التوبة repentance implies committing a sin and repenting by confessing and seeking forgiveness of the mercy of Almighty Allah. Thus, this study endeavors to investigate the pragmatic analysis of the speech act of repentance as observed in Prophetic Hadiths. Based on Austin (1962), Searle (1969, 1976) and Bach and Harnish (1979) treatments of speech acts, twenty prophetic extracts implying are selected to be pragmatically analyzed. The paper concludes that pragmatically التوبه is indirectly performed in all extracts and that it is felicitously achieved when the speaker confesses his sin before Allah and asks Him forgiveness.

The story of the church in Africa reveals how God is working a miracle of grace in the lives of His people. This paper examined the significant phases in the development of Anglican Church in Ogbakiri (Wezina) clan in Ikwerre of Niger Delta, Nigeria. It covered a period of 125 years from 1895 when Christian presence was noticed in the area to 2020. Answer to the question of how the Anglican Church was organised in Ogbakiri clan, and what is the impact of church in the Diocese of Ikwerre, Niger Delta of Nigeria? The historical and participant observation approaches were adopted in data collection and analysis. The paper revealed that the churches were organised as a Group in 1933, attained District status in 1950 under Niger Delta Pastorate, and in 1995 became Ikwerre South Archdeaconry. St Paul’s Ogbakiri provided rallying point for churches in Wezina, Odegu, Rundele, and Emohua clans as headquarters. The Archdeaconry was downsized in 2007 to comprise of Ogbakiri churches with the creation of Ikwerre Diocese. Ogbakiri faithful have entered the three Anglican Houses of Bishop, Clergy and Laity holding various positions of trust. The study revealed that Ogbakiri Anglican church is dynamic, self-supporting, youth friendly, and visionary. We recommend the opening of new congregations in the area, investment in welfare as well as income generating ventures for the sustenance and continuity of the church.

Translation studies has gradually established itself as an independent field of study over the past three decades or so, and in this relatively short period of time we have witnessed an overwhelming increase in publications on translation. Besides, the voice of a good translation is as distinctive in English as the author’s voice in the original language, also when compared to other authors translated by the same translator. A good translation accepts the gifts English offers and is not an endless procession of compromise and loss. A good translation is something to aspire to and, in this perfectionist’s profession, a good translation is never good enough. In the article, I surveyed the adverb "always" in the work' Harry Potter and the half-blood prince' written by J. K. Rowling compared with the Vietnamese translation by Ly Lan. As a result, I thoroughly understand the people, culture, critical thinking and social fundamentals in both English and Vietnam.

This article sought to understand the representations, appropriations and practices of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers towards the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in their classes in secondary schools of the Littoral Region. The methodology used was qualitative and administered through the application of questionnaires with closed and open questions administered to 50 participants randomly selected from five secondary schools located in the said region. The return rate was 96 percent. The results highlight the need of participant teachers, for a transformative pedagogical practice based on the use of digital technologies. The lack of theoretical, technical and pedagogical contributions, necessary to the teaching training process for the use of new technologies in school, was one of the aspects that shaped the difficulties in assimilating new pedagogical practices in schools.

Contemporary poets are often observed to use foregrounding to appeal their readers and to give their newly-born works their distinctive and unusual identity. Foregrounding is the professional sureness and furtive element that poets resort to attain their purposes. With a literary consciousness and sensibility peculiar to the modernist school of poets, foregrounding is the indispensable characteristic of contemporary poems. Thus, this paper tends to examine various linguistic techniques exploited to highlight foregrounded deviations in some contemporary poems. The paper utilizes five levels of foregrounded deviations: graphological, phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic as suggested by Gibbons and Whiteley (2018). The paper concludes that selected poems foreground their themes by resorting to at least one of the five mentioned levels. Moreover, foregrounding in each poem crystalizes the poem's theme and give rise to strikingness and inducement: It enhances defamiliarization which evokes influence leading to ‘refamiliarizing’ informative exertions.

The study was designed to ascertain the use of library information services, resources and research productivity effectiveness of agricultural scientists in Nigeria specifically; the study determined whether there is different between research productivity effectiveness of agricultural scientists in the universities of agriculture and that of agricultural research institute. The study was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses. The researchers employed a descriptive survey research design and questionnaire was used for data collection. 701 respondents (460 and 241) from universities of agriculture and agricultural research institutes respectively were sampled out from a population of 1465 for the study. Data were analyzed using mean, and standard deviation, while t-test was used to test the hypotheses. The finding showed that library information services were utilized to a large extent while most library information resources also had 2.50 and above mean score of utilization. The finding also indicated that there was no significant difference in the research productivity for agricultural scientists in the universities of agriculture and agricultural research institutes in Nigeria. It was recommended that agricultural scientists should effectively utilize library information services and resources especially e-resources and e-services to enhance their resource productivity.