Kogi State University

Digital literacy skills of lecturers as a correlate of Generation Z students online learning academic achievement in Nigeria universities

Abstract This study examines the impact of instructors' digital literacy on the academic performance of Generation Z students in Nigerian universities through online learning. The study uses a correlational survey research approach and gathers data from 215 undergraduate students...

Correcting Misrepresentation: Igala Names as Evidence Against External Narratives of Negative Meaning

Abstract Names are never neutral; they carry the weight of a people's culture, history, and self-understanding, yet unfamiliar names are routinely misread, diminished, or dismissed by those standing outside the culture that produced them. It is this problem that motivates this pa...

Intergenerational Transmission of Igala Naming Practices amid Religious and Educational Change

Abstract Personal naming among the Igala people of Kogi State has long functioned as a repository of ancestral memory, theological conviction and linguistic artistry, yet this inheritance now confronts the twin pressures of religious conversion and Western-style schooling, a tens...

Personal Names as Repositories of Communal History and Circumstance among the Igala People of Kogi State

Abstract Personal names among African communities function as durable instruments of memory, holding within a single word the conflict, migration, reconciliation and communal occurrence that shaped the moment of a child's birth; this premise underlies the paper, Personal Names as...

Correcting Misrepresentation: Igala Names as Evidence Against External Narratives of Negative Meaning

Abstract Names are never neutral; they carry the weight of a people's culture, history, and self-understanding, yet unfamiliar names are routinely misread, diminished, or dismissed by those standing outside the culture that produced them. It is this problem that motivates this pa...

Intergenerational Transmission of Igala Naming Practices amid Religious and Educational Change

Abstract Personal naming among the Igala people of Kogi State has long functioned as a repository of ancestral memory, theological conviction and linguistic artistry, yet this inheritance now confronts the twin pressures of religious conversion and Western-style schooling, a tens...

Personal Names as Repositories of Communal History and Circumstance among the Igala People of Kogi State

Abstract Personal names among African communities function as durable instruments of memory, holding within a single word the conflict, migration, reconciliation and communal occurrence that shaped the moment of a child's birth; this premise underlies the paper, Personal Names as...