This paper aims at exploring the ways the authority designs English Textbooks of Primary School with the roles, profession, social status of men and women and shows how the process of this setting causes gender discrimination, and promotes unjust treatments between men and women in Bangladesh. This paper scrutinizes the primary school's English textbooks from class 1 to class 5 and brings out all the aspects of them by using the lenses of feminism. To achieve the goal of this study, a mixed-method approach is followed. As language is a prime source of exercising power, the uses of languages in these books are also taken to be considered as a focused point of this paper. Using Lazar (2007)'s four key theoretical framework, this paper critically analyses the collected data. It discovers a little gender discrimination, and patriarchal mentality of the book writers. A large number of gender imbalanced tools that were present in the previous texts are not found in present revised texts in 2026. The authors use a conscious attempt to represent a discrimination free atmosphere that can shape the children's mentality in a positive way. Here, besides male, female characters are also visible and play different roles in the society. But some gender stereotypical ideas are presented by the repeated representation of women with household activities and by the commodification of them. The conclusion of the paper hopes for the textbooks written in a more balanced and equal way making both the male and female students feel equal.

This study examines the challenges and prospects of the cultural industry in promoting Nigeria's economy through a qualitative case study of Nike Art Gallery, Abuja. The research investigates the gallery's contributions to employment generation, cultural preservation, entrepreneurship, tourism, and economic diversification, while identifying the constraints limiting its developmental potential. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with purposively selected staff and artists and were analysed using thematic analysis. The findings reveal that Nike Art Gallery serves as a vital platform for artistic training, cultural heritage preservation, market access, and income generation, thereby supporting the growth of Nigeria's creative economy. However, inadequate funding, high production costs, unreliable infrastructure, weak institutional support, limited market access, and intellectual property concerns continue to hinder the sector's expansion. The study concludes that strategic investment, stronger cultural policies, improved digital infrastructure, and enhanced public-private partnerships are essential for unlocking the full economic potential of Nigeria's cultural industry and ensuring sustainable national development.

Tamil cinema occupies a distinctive position in the political, cultural and social history of Tamil Nadu. Unlike the conventional understanding of cinema as primarily a form of entertainment, Tamil cinema has historically functioned as a powerful medium of ideological communication, identity formation, social criticism, celebrity construction and political mobilisation. The relationship became particularly significant with the rise of the Dravidian movement, which recognised the potential of theatre, literature, film scripts, dialogue and popular culture for reaching mass audiences. Political figures such as C. N. Annadurai and M. Karunanidhi used cinema as a vehicle for disseminating ideological messages, while M. G. Ramachandran (MGR) and J. Jayalalithaa demonstrated how cinematic celebrity could be converted into political authority. The contemporary emergence of actor Vijay as Chief Minister further demonstrates the continuing relevance of the cinema-politics nexus. This thematic article examines the relationship through interconnected themes of Dravidian ideology, cinematic constructions of leadership, Tamil identity, caste and social justice, fan culture, celebrity politics and digital communication. It argues that Tamil cinema and politics should not be understood as two independent spheres that occasionally intersect, but as mutually reinforcing institutions that have shaped political imagination and popular culture in Tamil Nadu. At the same time, the article critically examines the limitations of celebrity politics, particularly the assumption that cinematic popularity necessarily translates into political competence. The article concludes that the movement from the silver screen to the Secretariat represents not simply the political careers of individual film personalities but a deeper transformation of popular culture into an arena of political power.

This study is a corpus-based lexico-semantic analysis of digital Pentecostal sermons mainly from YouTube and Instagram. It investigates how Pentecostal preachers use lexical items and semantic fields to establish their spiritual authority, mobilise influence, and negotiate faith identity within the platforms. The study relies on Corpus Linguistics, Lexical Semantics, and Digital Discourse Analysis, for the analysis of word frequencies, their collocational patterns, keyness, and semantic domains. Emphasis is given to how the YouTube long-form video and Instagram short-form reel shape lexical density, semantic compression, and the recurrence of key words such as ‘breakthrough’, ‘anointing’, ‘fire’, ‘dominion’, ‘favour’, and ‘destiny’. The analysis also locates the sermons in the wider socio-religious context of contemporary Pentecostalism, by highlighting how digital intervention rearranges religious discourse into short, quotable, algorithm-friendly units of belief. The findings reveal that digital Pentecostal discourse is summarily condensed into a noticeable lexicon of not just prosperity, but spiritual warfare accompanied with miracle. The semantic patterns vary systematically between the two platforms reflecting their communicative logics. The study submits that corpus-based lexico-semantic approach provides a route for the understanding the way digital Pentecostalism is linguistically constructed and circulated.

This study examines the willingness of teachers and students to adopt the English-only instruction method in public secondary schools in the Western Senatorial Zone of Zamfara State, Nigeria. The study is motivated by concerns about the effectiveness of English-only instruction in a multilingual environment where many learners have limited exposure to English outside the classroom. A mixed-methods research design was adopted, involving two hundred (200) students and twenty (20) teachers selected from twenty (20) public secondary schools, comprising ten (10) rural and ten (10) urban schools. Data were collected through questionnaires containing closed-ended questions and opportunities for respondents to provide reasons for their responses. The quantitative data were analysed using frequencies and percentages, while the qualitative responses were examined thematically. The findings show that students recorded 1,399 “yes” responses compared with 640 “no” responses, while teachers recorded 208 “yes” responses compared with 147 “no” responses. The findings therefore indicate a generally positive attitude towards English-only instruction among the respondents. However, the responses also reveal challenges relating to students’ comprehension, limited English proficiency, inadequate teacher training, insufficient instructional materials, and the need for alternative teaching strategies. The study concludes that although English-only instruction is generally supported by teachers and students, its effective implementation requires adequate pedagogical support and sensitivity to learners’ linguistic backgrounds. It recommends regular teacher training, provision of adequate teaching and learning materials, and appropriate instructional strategies to support students with different levels of English proficiency.

This study examines HBO's Generation Kill (2008) as a contemporary war drama that interrogates the intersection of oil politics, imperial warfare, and the suffering of ordinary people within the Global South. Based on the 2003 United States-led invasion of Iraq, the series moves beyond conventional representations of battlefield heroism to expose the political, economic, and ideological forces that shape modern warfare. The paper argues that oil functions as the invisible catalyst driving military intervention, while civilians become expendable casualties of geopolitical ambitions. Drawing on Postcolonial Theory, Political Economy, and Achille Mbembe's concept of Necropolitics, the study explores how Generation Kill represents violence, occupation, propaganda, and the dehumanization of resource-rich societies. It further extends the analysis to Africa by comparing Iraq's wartime experiences with the realities of oil-producing communities in the Niger Delta and other conflict-ridden regions where resource wealth has generated militarization, environmental degradation, and mass displacement. The study adopts a qualitative textual analysis of selected episodes, characters, dialogues, and visual symbolism to demonstrate how contemporary television drama critiques the relationship between petroleum interests and global power. It concludes that Generation Kill transforms the Iraq War into a broader postcolonial narrative whose echoes resonate across Africa, revealing war as both a military conflict and an instrument of economic domination and social dispossession.

Migration and Identity discourses have attracted the interest of Nigerian female writers across literary generations. Over the years, studies on migration and women’s identities have focused on patriarchal, racial, and gendered discourses. Most recently, scholarly interest has shifted to portrayals and constructs of women’s identities not just from the hegemonic, traditional or racial contexts but to the focus on fragmentations and dualities. Focusing on Homi Bahbah’s theory of hybridity this paper attempts to capture the complexities of identities in the consciousness of migrants especially adolescent females. Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl demonstrate multiple and multilayered identities as realities of women from multi-cultural roots to reinforce the author’s perspectives on the complexities of global and local cultures. The paper concludes that Oyeyemi’s novel captures multicultural and racial consciousness of females portrayed in modern and global settings. In The Icarus Girl, Jessamy suffers frustrations, anxieties and psychological stress as a British Nigerian owing to double consciousness and the entaglements of being a twin in the African melieu.