Nigerian literary artists and protection of African values in the presentage of urbanization: the Igbo example
The work is a survey on the part which literary artists can play in protecting the much cherished African values from the influence of urbanization and modernity.The African, in their traditional life, see certain things as valuable. Obviously, it is these valuable things that make life worth living...
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Department of Religion and Human Relations, Nnamdi Azikiwe Univ.
[2016]
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Journal of religion and human relations
Year: 2016, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 185-202 |
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Nigeria
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/ Africa
/ Philosophy
/ Value
/ Urbanization
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