Vol 03 No. 01 Paper Title Author/s Name/s Link Auditory Perception and Comprehensibility Among Selected Hard of Hearing English as Second Language Speakers in Kano State, Nigeria . Sulaiman Muhammad Isa and Nasiru Musa. Download. A Pragmatic Analysis of

Vol 03 No. 01 Paper Title Author/s Name/s Link Auditory Perception and Comprehensibility Among Selected Hard of Hearing English as Second Language Speakers in Kano State, Nigeria . Sulaiman Muhammad Isa and Nasiru Musa. Download. A Pragmatic Analysis of Prophet Muhammad's Last Sermon . Rukayyat Idris and Nafiu Abubakar. Download. Language Choice in a Multilingual Obudu Community . Joseph Olabode Fatoba. Download. The Application of the Stress Maxima Theory to Selected Poems From Nwoga's WEST AFRICAN VERSE . Keziah Zirra Kim. Download. A Contrastive Analysis of English and Pero Mophemes: Implication for Pero Speakers of English as Second Language (ESL) . Malata Andrew Zakayo and Hannatu Samaila. Download. Oral Literature as Repository for National Security Intelligence Gathering .

Abstract

Oral literature is a repository of folk wisdom, knowledge, philosophy,
worldview, culture, norms and values. It is a verbal art that is not only found
in traditional societies but also in modern societies. In traditional society,
folktale, myths, legends, dirges, proverbs, riddles, jokes, ethnic slur among
other sub-genres of folklore constitute oral literature. In modern society,
especially in the urban centres, contemporary legends; that is, stories formed
around individuals or current social happenings thought to be factual by those
circulating them, are increasingly gaining traction. Nevertheless, this
subgenre, to a large extent, is understudied vis-à-vis its import on issues of
national security. This study therefore, examined contemporary legend
narratives on the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria with a view to
highlighting the possibility of the narratives serving as a repository for
national security intelligence. The data (narratives) were obtained during
unscheduled conversation with some internally displaced persons (IDPs) in
Maiduguri, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency. The study used Fine
and Freudian theorizations of contemporary legend and psychoanalysis as a
conceptual premise to contend that contemporary legends have functional
propensity for useful reservoir as well as open source of security intelligence
that could solve the problem of crime and criminality in the society. The study
adapted Heuer (1999) model of analytical judgement in intelligence gathering
to examine the useful security information embedded in contemporary legends
on Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. In the end, the study discovered that
contemporary legends on Boko Haram are an open source of security
intelligence available to security intelligence experts.