... incidental to reproduce some of the assertions of Chinweizu in book tellingly titled Anatomy of Female Power. ... apparent in this situation. However, I here reproduce Chinweizu's distinctions in the nature of male and ...
Tópico(s): African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
2007 - | Forum on public policy
Ememobong Gideon Asuquo, Chinweizu Ejikeme Udobi,
The ethanol extract of the leaf of Musa paradisiaca and its aqueous fraction were investigated for antibacterial potentials against Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms of clinical importance. Phytochemical screenings showed the presence of secondary metabolites namely tannin, flavonoids, alkaloids among others. When the extracts were subjected to susceptibility test, results showed that while both the ethanol extract and its aqueous fraction showed activity against the test organisms, the ...
Tópico(s): Phytochemistry and biological activities of Ficus species
2016 - Cogent OA | Cogent Biology
... contemporary Nigerian poets, including Niyi Osundare, Tanure Ojaide, Chinweizu, Femi Fatoba, Odia Ofeimun, Ezenwa Ohaeto, Obiora Udechukwu ...
Tópico(s): Humor Studies and Applications
2014 - Brill | AVRUG-bulletin/Afrika Focus
Chinweizu Ejikeme Udobi, A. F. Obajuluwa, Josiah Ademola Onaolapo,
Patients with surgical wounds have been reported to be at high risk of MRSA carriage and infection. The prevalence and antibiotic resistance pattern of this organism in the orthopaedic ward of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria-Nigeria, a 547-bed Nigerian hospital, were thus studied. A total of 185 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus were confirmed from 217 samples taken from the orthopaedic wards of the hospital using standard isolation methods. Out of these, 44 (23.8%) were from ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
2013 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | BioMed Research International
Peace Mayen Edwin Ubulom, Ekaete I. Akpabio, Chinweizu Ejikeme, Ruth Mbon,
Aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Picralima nitida seeds were tested for their antifungal activities using Aspergillus flavus, Candida albicans and Microsporum canis as test organisms. Phytochemical analysis revealed the presence of some plant metabolites which have been reported to have antimicrobial effects. Assays were performed using extract concentrations of 25, 50, 100 and 200 mg/ml and the agar well diffusion technique was employed. Results obtained, revealed a significant difference (P 0. ...
Tópico(s): Moringa oleifera research and applications
2011 - Academic Journals | Research in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Maneju Haruna, Chinweizu Ejikeme Udobi, Joel Ndife,
Bread samples were baked using wheat flour substituted with milled brewers' dry grain (BDG) at levels of 5, 10, 15 and 25%.The bread produced from wheat flour without BDG substitution served as control.The chemical composition, functional characteristics, microbial content and sensory attributes of the products were determined to ascertain their general acceptability.Results obtained showed an increase in the range of 8% for moisture, 3.5% for fat, 1.7% for Ash, 5.45% for crude fibre, 3.07% for protein ...
Tópico(s): Phytase and its Applications
2011 - | American Journal of Food and Nutrition
... Africa, p 54. 42 Ibid, p 56. 43 Chinweizu, The West and the Rest of Us: White ...
Tópico(s): African cultural and philosophical studies
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Third World Quarterly
Joel Ndife, Udobi, Chinweizu Ejikeme, Nuria Amaechi,
The effect of oven drying on the functional and nutritional properties of whole egg and its components viz; emulsification capacity and stability, foam capacity and stability, water and oil adsorption capacity, coagulation temperatures, solubility and nutritional composition was studied using standard methods. Obtained results showed that egg yolk powder had better emulsification capacity (74%) and stability (72.4%) compared to whole egg (55 and 44.86%) and egg white powder (17.77 and 14.70%). While ...
Tópico(s): Food composition and properties
2010 - Academic Journals | African Journal of Food Science
Chinweizu Ejikeme Udobi, J. A. Onaolapo,
Antibacterial evaluation of the methanolic extract and aqueous fractions of the Leaf, Stem Bark and root of the African locust bean tree, Parkia biglobosa was carried out using the agar- well diffusion method. The extracts and their fractions were tested against two gram positive organisms – Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 and Bacillus subtilis NCTC 8326B76 and two gram negative organisms–Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC-27853. Results obtained confirmed a broad spectrum ...
Tópico(s): Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
2009 - Academic Journals | Journal of Medicinal Plants Research
... s England. The third group, comprized of Obiechina, Chinweizu et al., Robert Wren, and Nnolim, explores the ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
2002 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Callaloo
Matthew S. Seligmann, Alí A. Mazrui,
... in world affairs: Africa and the capitalist countries, Chinweizu Africa and the socialist countries, I.D. Thiam, ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
2000 - Boston University | The International Journal of African Historical Studies
Jennifer Seymour Whitaker, Chinweizu,
Tópico(s): African cultural and philosophical studies
1988 - Council on Foreign Relations | Foreign Affairs
Robert E. Morsberger, Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, Ihechukwu Madubuike,
In this illuminating analysis of African literature and the African writer's responsibility to society, the authors critique the dominant trends in contemporary African literature and literary criticism by highlighting the aims and techniques of such pan-African writers as Achebe, Senghor, Sembene, Maran, and Langston Hughes.
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
1984 - University of Oklahoma | World Literature Today
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
1977 - Boston University | The International Journal of African Historical Studies
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
1976 - Cambridge University Press | ASA Review of Books
... emergence of African fiction" in 1971 led to Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, and Ihechukwu Madubuike's denunciation, in ... early work no doubt earns the condemnation of Chinweizu and his colleagues by defining African literature's ...
Tópico(s): Comparative and World Literature
2017 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Modernism/modernity
... informed by African aesthetics, vocal African critics like Chinweizu, Jemie, and Madubuike have persistently condemned the encouragement ... to be based on a seemingly incontrovertible evidence (Chinweizu, 1973: 8): There was a specific burden of ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
1984 - Cambridge University Press | African Studies Review
... contemporary Nigerian poets, including Niyi Osundare, Tanure Ojaide, Chinweizu, Femi Fatoba, Odia Ofeimun, Ezenwa Ohaeto, Obiora Udechukwu ...
Tópico(s): Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
2014 - Brill | AVRUG-bulletin/Afrika Focus
... alien, metropolitan medium of communication. A Nigerian critic, Chinweizu, has already ridiculed the conceit that a gaggle ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
1988 - University of Oklahoma | World Literature Today
Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie and Ihechukwu Madubuike close their book, Toward the Decolonization of African Literature, by stating ... the indisputable canon of African literature (308). For Chinweizu et. al. the kinship system in question begins ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
1992 - Duke University Press | Social Text
... liberation. Against this background, this study critically assesses Chinweizu’s assumptions of female power in Anatomy of ... or nature of female power that exists through Chinweizu’s evaluation of women’s role in their ...
Tópico(s): Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2021 - Brill | African and Asian Studies
Chinweizu (nascido Chinweizu Ibekwe) é um crítico, poeta e jornalista nigeriano. A sua educação iniciou-se na Government Secondary School (em ...
Tópico(s): Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2015 - University of Minho | Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais
... Nigerian poets such as Niyi Osundare, Tanure Ojaide, Chinweizu, Femi Fatoba, Odia Ofeimun, Ezenwa Ohaeto, Obiora Udechukwu, ...
Tópico(s): Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
2014 - Kyoto University | African study monographs
Phytochemical screening and Antimicrobial activity of the leaves of Memecylon umbellatum burm. F.Subban Murugesan, Annamalai Pannerselvam, Arumugame Chanemougame Tangavelou
Tópico(s): Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
2012 - Open Science Publishers LLP | Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science
... idea of bolekaja criticism was originally intended by Chinweizu et al. to be a productive but outraged ...
Tópico(s): Samuel Beckett and Modernism
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Pamela Olubunmi Smith, Chinweizu,
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
1990 - University of Oklahoma | World Literature Today
... significant percentage of their national budgets on military. Chinweizu has for a long time argued that Africa ... which the article was researched. In line with Chinweizu’s observation, the article argues that without serious ...
Tópico(s): International Relations and Foreign Policy
2021 - Brill | African and Asian Studies
Udobi Chinweizu Ejikeme, Onaolapo Josiah Ademola,
51 different samples from 5 different manufacturers of ampicillin and ampicillin/cloxacillin suspensions were tested for their levels of active components of ampicillin using the microbiological assay method. Bacillus megathariumNCTC10342A76 was selected from amongst a wide range of organisms screened for this purpose because of its detected suitability. Thin layer chromatography and infra red spectrophotometric analysis confirmed the presence of ampicillin in all the samples and the results obtained ...
Tópico(s): Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
2010 - Academic Journals | African Journal of Microbiology Research
Robert Staples, C. Taylor, Chinweizu, Chuck Stone, Robert Chrisman,
Tópico(s): Plant tissue culture and regeneration
1977 - Taylor & Francis | The Black Scholar
Tópico(s): African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
2021 - Bridgewater State University | Journal of international women's studies