Describes efforts to promote the desire to read and the availability of materials for Nigerians who have already been introduced to reading. (FL)

Discusses some of the problems associated with implementing a local radio station, and indicates that the local radio strategy for rural community education should be based on full scale coordination and cooperation among broadcasting, government departments, and voluntary agencies responsible for rural education and development. (Author/JEG)

Comparison of university student attitudes (n=305) in Kenya, Nigeria, India, and Singapore found some consumer discontent regardless of the economic status of the country. Singaporeans were most skeptical of business, Indians the least. Results show how consumerism is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. (SK)

Describes forms of semantic reinvestment of occupational lexis items in Nigerian English. Three categories and two subcategories of reinvestment are identified: shift, generalization, narrowing, reassignment, and analogy. These types of semantic reinvestment are considered within a sociocultural and linguistic setting of Nigeria as a developing…

A free and pluralistic society is maintained by constitutional guarantees and an educated populace. Nigeria, like other nations in West Africa, spent billions of dollars and embarked on a program of mass educational improvement in the 1960's and 1970's. While secondary school enrollment increased eleven times between 1962 and 1975, over half the…

The International Extension College (IEC), which exists to make knowledge available to the Third World about distance teaching and its relevance, is discussed. So far most of the work of the IEC has been in Africa. By setting up three colleges, and working with others it has begun to show how distance teaching with the use of print materials,…

Attempts to draw a line between the functions of metropolitan universities and those of African universities, and formulates university library objectives in both contexts, with special emphasis on Nigerian university libraries. (VT)

Provides the background to the present trends in Nigerian education, comments on the expediency of the current moves, analyzes the issue in light of C. E. Beeby's (1966) hypothesis of educational stages and raises some questions relevant to the Universal Primary Education program in Nigeria, vis-a-vis the present level of social and economic…

Examines cultural dependence in Nigeria and the manner in which university education enhances such dependancy by promoting the process of elite formation. Concludes by suggesting an alternative model of university education and cultural development. (BSR)

Argues that community development is an appropriate arena for using participatory research techniques, since community development depends strongly on citizen involvement. Features a case study of use of the participatory research technique in a project aimed at attacking rural poverty in Nigeria. (CH)

Drawing from examples in Nigerian junior novels, explains how didacticism is an integral part of Nigerian juvenile literature. (HOD)

Assessed the attitudes of Nigerian college students (N=570) on human rights issues. Results indicated that university students in Nigeria seem to have a fairly positive assessment of the institutional, political, and legal opportunities for the enjoyment and defense of human rights in Nigeria. (LLL)

To help the people in villages and rural areas in their efforts to become literate, librarians should, if necessary, conduct adult education classes, employ audio-visual aids, and even sell adult education materials in the library. (2 references) (Author)

Author reports on an attempt at a measurement of innovativeness of farmers in two villages whose members took part in a program devised to make them receptive to, and convinced of, modern practices in farming, health, socio-political relations over traditional ones. (Editor/LF)