Category: Vol.2/No.4/2020

Martins Aondona Iorliam
Department of Fine and Applied Arts,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Email: [email protected]

Abstract

“Chris Afuba: The Sculptor and his AKA Exhibition Years” is a narrative that seeks to examine Afuba’s oeuvre of artistic sensibilities and participation in AKA Exhibitions. AKA is a group of artists, who for two decades held sway in the arena of visual artistic exhibitions East and West of the Niger, beginning in the mid-eighties and going up to the 2000s. This study, therefore, intends to critically analyze the formalistic and stylistic changes that occasioned Afuba’s participation in the AKA group shows and how it has shaped his practice as a multifaceted sculptor, painter and educator. Afuba’s sculptures anchor man’s social-cultural dialectics, and an introspection of his art-forms leads one to navigate between synthesis of satires and socio-political nuances of the complex dynamics of transformations in contemporary Nigerian art. This study on Afuba, will not only add to the existing literature on his person and practice, but also enrich the historical discourse of contemporary Nigerian art history.

KEY WORDS:         CHRIS AFUBA, AKA EXHIBITIONS, FORMALISTIC/STYLISTIC CHANGES, HISTORICAL DISCOURSE

Philip Iorheghem Iorja
Department of Home and Rural Economics,
Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture,
Yandev, Benue State, Nigeria.
Email: [email protected]

Dorcas Doorumun Iorgyer
Department of Home and Rural Economics,
Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture,
Yandev, Benue State, Nigeria.

Nguumbur Clara Atsehe
ISIEN Rock Innovation Institute,
Km 4, Yandev- Gboko Bye Pass,
Gboko North, Benue State, Nigeria.

Abstract

This study looks at the role of Home Economics in poverty alleviation in Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State. The main objective of this work is to determine the extent to which Home Economics has contributed to poverty alleviation in the study area. The specific objectives include: to identify the various skills Home Economics has used to alleviate poverty in the study are; to identify the impact of Home Economics in alleviating poverty in the study area; to determine the extent to which Home Economics has contributed to poverty alleviation in Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State. The population was made up of 250 people who engaged in different Home Economics activities. A sample size of 160 respondents was selected from the population. Purposive sampling method was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire. Simple frequency and percentages were used for data analysis. The paper concludes that home economic activities such as catering services, restaurant management, bakery – bread making, snacks, cake making, fast food business, ice cream and yoghurt business, preparation of soya milk and other food drinks and decoration all contribute to poverty alleviation. It recommends that Economic Extension Agents should train people in various Home Economics skills while government, banks and micro finance institutions should give loans to the trainees in various skills to establish their businesses to help alleviate poverty.

KEY WORDS:  HOME ECONOMICS, POVERTY, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, SKILLS, INCOME, VOCATION