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Papers by Ngozi Iloh

International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, 2018

This article is a critical evaluation and analysis of the disparity between male and female stude... more This article is a critical evaluation and analysis of the disparity between male and female students' awareness, participation and representation in leadership positions or students' governance. The analysis is based on a panoramic view of the existing leadership positions among students, especially undergraduate students across some Nigerian public universities. Data collected from the Students Affairs Divisions of the

Voix Plurielles, 2013

Entretien avec Yvonne Mété-Nguemeu, auteur de Femmes de Centrafrique, âmes vaillantes au cœur brisé

Meta: Journal des traducteurs, 1992

Effort was made to identify some specific problems involved in translating Nigerian authors, with... more Effort was made to identify some specific problems involved in translating Nigerian authors, with Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease as a case study. It was discovered that the translation of some terms or phrases were inadequately rendered in French due to the problem of creating a suitably Africanized French stylistically, semantically, and pragmatically equivalent to its Anglophone counterpart. Hence, the problems encountered and identified were the peculiarity of Nigerian English, aspectual problems and non-uniformity in the orthography of Nigerian Pidgin and of course the existence of regionalized and africanized terms or Africanisms which have not found their ways into the dictionaries.

Cet article explore l’eco-feminisme dans Madame la presidente de Fatou Fanny-Cisse (Abidjan, 2015... more Cet article explore l’eco-feminisme dans Madame la presidente de Fatou Fanny-Cisse (Abidjan, 2015) et rapporte l’observation originale d’une critique de l’idealisation du role politique de la femme. La recherche presentee est une etude exploratoire dudit roman. L’objectif en est de savoir si, pour ce roman, l’environnement politique africain est convenable pour la femme africaine, pourquoi on le considere difficile pour elle et de voir si le syndicalisme feministe convient a une etudiante africaine, enfin quel est le resultat de cette presence feminine et feministe. L’analyse recourt au concept d’eco-feminisme definit en 2017 par le groupe Femmes prevoyantes socialistes (FPS) comme l’affirmation que les femmes sont mieux placees que les hommes pour etablir les rapports harmonieux avec la nature, parce qu’elles sont naturellement plus proches de la vie. La demarche met en œuvre une narratologie eco-stylistique. Ainsi arrive-t-on a distinguer quatre types d’environnement dans le roman...

An Idea We must not Forget: Essays and Tributes in Celebration of Festus Iyayi. , 2016

AN IDEA WE MUST NOT FORGET Essays and Tributes in Celebration of Festus Iyayi, 2016

This paper discusses female protagonists in Festus Iyayi’s writings namely Violence (1979), The C... more This paper discusses female protagonists in Festus Iyayi’s writings namely Violence (1979), The Contract (1982), Heroes (1986) and Awaiting Court Martial (1996). The discussion is based on a feminist’s perspective of a masculine discourse on gender. The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2000), defines the word “woman” as a general term for any “adult female human being”. The women in Festus Iyayi’s writings therefore consist of single girls, married and unmarried women, women separated from their husbands, and women of different backgrounds and classes.

Ethiopiques, 2014

Cette étude porte sur la féminitude de la négritude senghorienne à travers son poème « Femme noir... more Cette étude porte sur la féminitude de la négritude senghorienne à travers son poème « Femme noire » [2] tiré de son premier recueil, Chants d'ombres. La féminitude selon le dictionnaire Le Nouveau Petit Robert [3] est « d'après négritude caractère propre à l'ensemble des femmes ». On peut donc voir que la féminitude trouve sa dérivation et sa composition de la négritude. Il s'agit de « femme » ou « féminine » et « tude » comme « nègre » et « tude ». La négritude, mot qui remonte à Aimé Césaire, est exprimée et développée par les trois mousquetaires précurseurs-Aimé Césaire, Léon Gontran Damas et Léopold Sédar Senghor. La féminitude a affaire avec la femme. Ce mot, considéré comme un néologisme, remonte à Simone de Beauvoir. Selon Abiola Abrams, féminitude c'est « reactive feminism » ou « exalting femaleness ». La négritude est l'ensemble des valeurs de civilisation du monde noir, telles qu'elles s'expriment dans la vie et dans les oeuvres des Noirs [4].

Neohelicon

This article discusses the Ivorian writer, Fatou Fanny-Cissé’s novel, Madame la présidente, publi... more This article discusses the Ivorian writer, Fatou Fanny-Cissé’s novel, Madame la présidente, published in 2015. The novel offers a fundamental critique of African democracy and the contemporary politics in Africa. The Republic of Louma is an imaginary country that show-cases electoral crises in an imaginary contemporary continent. The plot about a female dictator has a strong feminist inclination. The feminisation of presidential elections is a caricature of the dictatorial tendencies of African leaders. The themes discussed are true to contemporary political events in Africa as well as other parts of the world. The presentation reveals a lucid picture of feminine dictatorial politics.

This article discusses some practical challenges encountered in the course of translating Yvonne ... more This article discusses some practical challenges encountered in the course of translating Yvonne Mété-Nguemeu's novel, Femmes de Centrafrique, âmes vaillantes au coeur brisé (2008) into English from a feminist perspective. To effectively tackle these challenges, the approach taken is that of a feminist translation because Mété-Nguemeu is a feminist writer. The grammatical differences between the two languages are major sources of challenge in translating Mété-Nguemeu's feminist discourse. The peculiarity of the African women's experiences is easily understood and immediately translated from, not only, an empathized perspective as a woman, but also as an African feminist translator in particular. A feminist translator translates better a feminist novel or a feminist author.