Mark Ighile

This paper seeks to investigate concepts such as folk and popular song, music, noise, speech and sound and their relevance or place in the socio-cultural, economic, moral and even psychological setting of the Benin world.

This paper provides a guide to the understanding and enjoyment of literature. It is aimed at assisting students at undergraduate level to interpret works of art and thereby add to the value of literary production

This paper attempts to examine what literature is, what makes the Bible fit for a literary enquiry and how a literary criticism of the Bible can be sustained.

The article argues that literature and the Bible, in their truest sense, find expression in a given traditional African setting. Using the African proverb as indicator of "inculturation" hermeneutics, the essay attempts a contextualization of the African ideology within the literary and biblical framework.

At the core of human existence is language. And this phenomenon exists basically as spoken and heard – in the domain of sound. Ong (1982:6) has also observed that despite the richness of gestures, elaborated sign languages are substitute for speech and dependent on oral speech system. This paper explores the dynamic implications of words .