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Modern African Poetry Modern African poetry, or literature, is not only modern in terms of being recent. It is termed modern because it is not traditional African poetry, or literature, and because it is pro and post independence in some region, and because it is recent. Moreover, certain uniform traits exists among poems, and literature, in this era. Some of these traits, features, characteristics or attributes are evident in their forms and contents. Examples of them are: syntactic jugglery, imagism, fragmentation, neologism, allusiveness, among others. They are also termed Modernist poetry because most of these poets imitates the techniques of the European Modernist poets too. From North Africa down to South Africa, poems in the early 19th century were mostly either written against oppression, imperialism, colonialism and apartheid. The poets who wrote against colonialism and imperialism, the first set, are regarded as the pioneer poets. Examples are Wole Soyinka, Christo...

Perlocutionary Acts The perlocutionary acts here will be considered according to the effect the data have on the readers. This therefore will prompt one to consider if a datum is a promise, order, bet, persuading, encouragement and so on. These are examples of some of the elements that will be examined in the data below. Datum 1: Discover scented skin that turns heads! One can suggest that this datum depicts order due to the fact that it instructs the reader to behave in a certain. This simple clause is written in a such a way that it is used to compel the reader to choose the product. Another thing one can deduce is that the word 'discover' and the exclamation help one to deduce that this cause is giving order. Datum 2: Keep your braids or weaves neat everyday within 3weeks of use. This datum can be asserted to have a promise a perlocutionary acts. The writer promises the reader  that the product will help to keep the weaves and braids if the reader neat up to three we...

FANTASY VERSUS REALITY: SOME MISCONCEPTIONS IN SOCIAL MEDIA Fantasies are thoughts that spawn from one’s imagination that is they are not real, material or concrete. Reality forms the existential events and surroundings around us; this simply puts means that reality deals with what we feel, embrace and what we can get. Fantasy dwells on living in one’s head or thought. Fantasy relies on fictitious events that one may want to happen but is not taking place. It is a shift from reality and as such tends to dull the senses of a person due to its intriguing aspect. It can be suggested that fantasy is the same thing like drugs; this is due to the fact like drugs releases dopamine (the pleasure hormone to the brain).  Reality which dwells on actual events tends to pass information of what is really happening.  Let us begin with a story in Chuang Tzu’s For the All Things. “Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and p...

Words are added to the English dictionary constantly, everyday, due to writers giving themselves freedom to capture their thoughts; thus, they take liberty in creating new words. This is due to the fact that the English language is the most spoken language in the world. As a common language used among humans, therefore it calls for users to make words to convey or reveal their meaning so as to express themselves evenly. Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society  (as cited in Salzmann, 1993, p. 153). Thus, one can sense the importance why new words need to be created. This attitude easily gives English the advantage to have more lexicons than some other languages. There are four different levels of linguistics, and these levels are: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The bra...

Words are added to the English dictionary constantly, everyday, due to writers giving themselves freedom to capture their thoughts; thus, they take liberty in creating new words. This is due to the fact that the English language is the most spoken language in the world. As a common language used among humans, therefore it calls for users to make words to convey or reveal their meaning so as to express themselves evenly. Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society  (as cited in Salzmann, 1993, p. 153). Thus, one can sense the importance why new words need to be created. This attitude easily gives English the advantage to have more lexicons than some other languages. There are four different levels of linguistics, and these levels are: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The bra...