The International Teacher

MALCOLM X vs. MARTIN LUTHER KING by RAMSEES7on JANUARY 20, 2013 Everything has its opposite. Black has white. Night has day. Hard, soft. Hot, cold. If there was a Martin Luther King Jr., there had to be a Malcolm X. Martin Luther King, history remembers. Malcolm X, history tries to forget. But each man in his own way dominated the times in which he lived. . . Malcolm’s earliest memory is that of waking in the middle of the night in a burning house. His mother and father fought to get the children out as the blazing walls came crashing down. They coughed and stumbled their way out into the night as his father fired at the fleeing men on horseback dressed in white. . . Martin Luther King, Sr. was a prominent minister in Atlanta, Georgia. The family lived in the middle class Black section of the largest city in the South. Everyone here was a professional: a doctor, a lawyer or a teacher, or they owned their own business. Martin attended the local Black high school graduating at the ag...

AN ABSTRUSE CONSCIOUSNESS                  by BLESSING OTABOR I was travelling. I had to board a plane in Lagos. This was the first time I was going to fly in an aeroplane. The plane took off and settled very quickly and gently in the air. Everyone on board the plane or myself per se was relaxed to watch the film on the screen of the television in the plane. Whatever this film was watched at all, I cannot actually beat my chest about it even as I am writing right now. What I can still remember for sure is that we or I was started by the greeting of a thunderous and cracking sound of an obvious explosion which threw everyone into an immeasurable pandemonium. I found myself in the other half of the plane and my consciousness was at this juncture put to an abrupt dark full stop. All of a sudden, I found what I first thought was my ghost in a very thick forest of an unfathomable diameter. I soon discovered that I was the one and not a ghost ...

A REPORT ON OZA-NOGOGO BEFORE THE ADVENT OF THE EUROPEANS with specific reference to POLITICAL STRUCTURE MARRIAGE SYSTEM SELECTION OF RULERS by OTABOR BLESSING INTRODUCTION It is difficult to talk about OZA-NOGOGO without talking about the greater OZA community, a part and parcel of the Benin Kingdom. The name OZA-NOGOGO is a mere geographical expression of the OZA community on the east bank of River Orhiowmon, whereas the OZA on the west bank is known as OZA-ABIOKUNLA(OZA-NISI). Like the country Israel which is located at the heart of the world, OZA was located at the heart of the defunct Bendel State. The OZA-NOGOGO town is just a part of the greater OZA community that became split between two local governments. Today, a part of OZA(OZA-NOGOGO) is in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. The other part(OZA-NISI) is in Orhiowmon Local Government Area of Edo State. Presently, OZA-NOGOGO is a constituent part of the Agbor Kingdom. It is an Edo speaking part of Ag...

THE LANGUAGE OF OZA-NOGOGO Today, the people of Oza-nogogo speak a language called “Oza”. Oza-nogogo is one of the communities in Agbor in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State in Nigeria. The origin of the language “Oza” is more recent than the history of the Oza-nogogo people. Earlier in history, the people of Oza-nogogo spoke Edo –the language of the Benin people. As they continued to interact with other neighbouring communities in the Agbor Kingdom, certain serious linguistic changes took place. The language ”Oza” emerged. Oza is a hybrid of two languages –Edo and Ika. Edo is the language of the Benin people,while Ika is the language of Agbor and Ika people. Sometimes, people refer to Oza as a dialect of Edo. Although there is no gainsaying the fact that Oza is “Edoic”, it is also true that it is “Ikaic”. See for example, the word “person”. The Oza word for “person” is a hybrid of Edo and Ika. English- person Edo- ovwan Ika- ihian Oza- ovwan-ihian(now rendered avwin...

THE BLACK SHEEP OF NIGERIA AND THE NIGERIAN DREAM . The dream of every Nigerian boy, girl, man or woman of every culture, tribe and religion is to be a stakeholder of success. This is an enviable dream. But, to every Dick and Harry who would wait until wishes become horses so that beggars could ride, this dream would remain a fantasy. The great people of the United States of America do not only share this dream but, do “work it out with fear and trembling,” and call it the “American Dream”. In contemporary times, the name “America” is, to say the obvious fact, synonymous with ‘the land that flows with milk and honey.’  “God’s own country”, as it is often called, gradually climbed, became and remained an epitome of success and prosperity, leadership and power. In the psyche of the average American concerning this realistic and tangible El Dorado of a dream is deeply rooted a philosophy, that with hard work, courage and determination one can prosper and achieve success. Thi...

THE PROBLEM OF TEACHING ORAL ENGLISH IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: A CASE STUDY OF UVWIE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF DELTA STATE By OTABOR BLESSING AIFUWA OCTOBER, 2013                                                                                                     DEDICATION I wish to dedicate this work to God Almighty ACKNOWLEDGMENT              I wish to acknowledge the following persons who have positively affected my life in one way or the other: Mrs. Roseline Otabor, Mr. Bright Otabor, Dr and Mrs Hycinth Nduka, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Manawa, Mr. and Mrs Felix Lodio, Mr Lucky Ogierikhi, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Ovbiye, Miss Mabel Ohonba and so many others. ABSTRACT      Th...