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Peters, Jonathan

Spring 2021

Iregbu, Sandra, Chinwe

Background: Studies show that most people living with diabetes in Nigeria have inadequate knowledge of their condition, poor self-management, and poor glycemic control. Many of these studies focused on patients who were often blamed by healthcare providers (HCPs) for their situation. There is a...

Spring 2020

Alonge, Funmi

This study examines the negative impacts of climate change on the rights to life and health of marginalized communities by using as cases studies, rural Niger-Delta and Indigenous communities in oil producing areas of Nigeria and Canada. The case studies reveal that marginalization and inequality...

Spring 2018

Okpanachi, Eyene

How does federalism affect oil conflict between governments in federations? Systematic theory-driven answers to this question are scarce, both in the comparative federalism and resource curse literatures. My dissertation bridges this research gap by comparing intergovernmental conflicts over oil...

Spring 2015

Ogundipe, Olumide P

This dissertation examines representations of post-independence disillusionment in five contemporary Nigerian novels: Waiting for an Angel (2003) by Helon Habila, Graceland (2004) by Chris Abani, Everything Good Will Come (2005) by Sefi Atta, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) by Chimamanda Ngozi...

Fall 2016

Amodu,Oluwakemi C

Obstetric fistula continues to affect women in Nigeria in spite of the existence of a policy to eliminate obstetric fistula in Nigeria. First I discussed the socio-cultural issues related to obstetric in Northern Nigeria. I used a critical discourse analysis to explore the obstetric fistula (OF)...

Fall 2011

Otiono, Nduka

This study unravels the curious politicization of everyday life in Nigeria. It tracks and redefines a seemingly simple and commonplace but peripheralized genre of everyday life, “street stories,” that is taken for granted as rumours, gossip, and myths, and examines its interrelation to...

Spring 2019

Ige, Abiodun Fiwajoye

Paper 1 Although recent scholarship had faulted the constraining views of prior categories studies, there is no systematic theoretical analysis of how category membership influences the actions and reactions of categorized firms and their audiences. While previous arguments suggested that...

Spring 2003

Akpan, Patience Idaraesit

Spring 2010

Badejo, Ifueko

Nigeria has a huge natural gas reserve, but to date this resource has been largely under-developed. This state of affair has impacted negatively on Nigeria’s economic potential. In contrast, Alberta has benefitted immensely from its natural gas resource because it has effectively developed same....