ŃDUÑỌDE: ISSN: 1117-5621 Calabar Journal of the Humanities Volume 17, Number 1 January, 2020 Ndunode Journal of the Humanities This number and volume of ŃDUÑỌDE is the second in the series of the journal in my tenure. The articles in this volume are predominantly from five different disciplines which does not represent the totality of Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar in particular and/or other schools. The reason has been traced to the university's insistence for journals indexed in web of science. I encourage you to patronize the journal as the next administration will fulfil the plans my administration could not fulfil due to circumstances of the pandemic and strike action that marred 2020. I am profoundly grateful to Dr Chinyere Lilian Okam for the eagerness to work and the voluntary manner in which she offered to serve. Many were consulted and given letter for the faculty journal, but they respectively failed to deliver. I have suggested the use of a APA 6th edition referencing style to enable us meet indexing standard. It is my desire to see our faculty journals- CAJOLIS and ŃDUÑỌDE meeting the desired status. I wish to thank all our contributors to this volume and members of the faculty- you are all appreciated Prof. Offiong Ani Offiong Dean Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar Editor-in-Chief ŃDUÑỌDE: Vol.17, N0.1 January, 2020 v Editorial This edition of Ndunode has fourteen well-researched articles spread across many areas of the Humanities contributed by both seasoned and young academics from Nigeria’s intellectual spectrum. Four of the articles are in French language. Okam and Ozumba's paper delineates the administrative and communication issues in handling the pandemic and created a scenario of a post-pandemic Nigeria if the situation is not well handled in a paper titled ―…Wish we had tried harder‖: Post Pandemic Nigeria, Administrative and Communication frugality on Covid-19. Iyorza, Onah and Okoro write on the theme of the 2017 Carnival Calabar which was African Human Migration dissecting the implications of this on Africans with pictorial interpretation for the event. And within the same communication parlance Enendu exposes the values and roles of Media Information and Communication in global. Okpeki’s ―A Study of the Influence of Television Music Broadcast on the Society‖ presents music as a platform for social communication and information that promotes significant positive influences on listeners. Using Ibezute’s Rediscovering my Mission, Onuoha and Olufunwa reveal that memory gleaning engenders creativity in the artist. Ibezute’s autobiography recapitulating the writer’s Civil War memories is an initiation of his craft. Edem and Otosi’s paper is an interrogation of magical realism in the assertion of the black man’s identity, particularly the female. The objective is to deconstruct the myths around African witchcraft to bring out its virtues. The propaganda rhetoric of the Nigerian Army and Boko Haram terrorists is the concern of Ebim and Tanyi’s paper. While Ellah and Uwen’s paper is instructive in treating the strategies adopted in writing medical case notes (MCNs). The explicatural strategies facilitate appropriate diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the paper concludes. Uwen's second article deals with collocational choices in the discourse activities of select paramilitary agencies Atim and Tyoh’s paper dwell on a very topical issue in their paper on Twitter and Instagram as impediments to reading among undergraduates in some universities in North Central Nigeria. They declare that the social media platforms have impacted negatively on the already poor reading habits of undergraduates and recommend a reorientation on the use of the platforms for positive ends. Tyoh and Ushupule's article study the interaction between noun phrases or prepositional phrases and the predicate in a sentence. The researcher used their intuitive knowledge of Tiv to describe the theta role assignment in Tiv. ŃDUÑỌDE: Vol.17, N0.1 January, 2020 vi Ohanyere dwells on the thorny issue of trans-Saharan nomadic movement and its economic impact on Nigeria. Written in French, the paper highlights the pros and cons of the cross-border movement. Her second article is on how African female writers, through their creative works of art, focus on the need to challenge and overcome oppression, suppression and marginalization associated with women in the past. Ajimase and Acha, writing in French too, renew reflections on the content of Beti’s novels in post-independence African literature of French expression. Essentially, Beti’s works are seen to lampoon the activities of colonialists and their African collaborators at independence. Yong, Ogbodo and Kris-Ogbodo dwell on how to dissect the importance of fidelity in the translation of an African novel titled The Last of the Strong Ones by Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. Their study advances the opinion that a translator should exercise his creative freedom through equivalence without changing the meaning. In this valecdictory volume, I appreciate Professors: Godfrey Okechukwu Ozumba, Offiong Ani Offiong, Grace Okereke, Francis Ibe Mogu, Drs: Columba Apeh, Austin Agantiem and Misters: Daniel Ekoro, Jude Tyoh and Waliya J.Yohanna. My gratitude forever. Chinyere Lilian Okam Editor