Book Review> Speech Making and English Pronunciation by Dele Omojuigbe

Speech Making and English pronunciation by Dele Omojuigbe is a must read for everyone who want learn proper way of speech making and English pronunciation.

The book attempted to simplify English pronunciation for students and at the same time, teach them the processes of effective public speaking.

Speech making and English Pronunciation is a resource material topics which students, and other users should be able to understand easily and thereafter put into practice.

Chapter five of this book described the understanding of the English Vowel chart which help the reader to understand easily the pure vowels of English. The pure vowels is been described from three perspectives. The tongue height. frontness or backness of the tongue, and the shape of the lips. Having those cateria in mind, an attempt was made to describe the pure vowels, using Daniel Jones description as a guide.

Speech Making and English pronunciation is quite voluminous with enough information that will glue your eyes to the book until you finish it without realising how much time you have spent reading the book.

The author wise choice for the cover page is the first attraction to the book. The two colours that was used for cover page is ox blood and cream colour attract the eyes in a very special way,before an individual get to the title which is quite captivating, it is a must read for everyone both young and old, there is whole lot of information to learn from the book.

Be inspired by Tu-Face creativity

Have you ever wondered why Tu-face (Innocent Idibia) is so internationally acclaimed? Have you ever stopped to reason and brain-storm on why, against all obstacles, storms and controversies, he was unstoppable?

Well, in case you don't know, Tu-face is so etra-ordinary talented in music and he is a perfect example of a creative mind!

Tu-face who was born some three decades ago is some who has exploite his creativity to the extent of acquring money and fame (locally and internationally) with it. He is at a stage of his life right now that if he sneezes into a compact disc, people will buy it just for the love of Tu-face. But, he didn't just acheieve this recognition over-night, he worked and fought hard for for his destiny.

In 1997, Tony tetuilla, a member of a group that held us spell-bound with beautiful musical renditions, "Omode meta". The song came spoke about his percieved maltreatment in his musical group and the song featured another group which was just entering the entertainment world. This grroup, which had Tu-face, Faze and black-face as members, was called "the plantashun boys"

The plantashun boys, who were appearing on air for the first time with that song, further went ahead to release more songs that endeared them to the hearts of millions of people world-wide. Their fan-base included: the young, the young at heart, the old and the old at heart. Songs like: Plantashun boys, baby don't you, tell me why and others, became anthems to the listening ears of the public until 2002.

In 2002, the group split up and every member of the group went solo and this gave Tu-face an opportunity to do his thing, in his own way.

Kennis Music, a leading music record label in Nigeria nay Africa, saw the talent in Tu-face and without delay, they signed him on. This new partnership between Kennis and Tu-face only helped in elevating Tu-face to the height where his creativity was suppoed to get him to as he churned out tracks after tracks, singles after singles and albums after albums.

With adequate publicity, songs like: Ifeni bawa, Get the vibes, African queen, Odiya, enjoyed enough air-time and like a man whose work speaks for him, his songs started earning him the wages that was due to him.

From the Kora awards for African talent of the year 2004, to A.M.E.N awards, Tu-face won them all. He was and is still a king to other musiciand of except P-Square (Another Creative minded duo to be reviewed another).

Tu-face has won a lot of local and international awards, he has performed in virtually every part of the world and he has fame and money in abundance simply because he allowed his creativity to work for him.

People of this world, please give it up for this multi-talented and creative art, Tu-face Idibia!!!

Meditation

A stage in my life brought forth moment of imagination and thoughts whereas unknown but came to be deep thoughts and dreams gave insight of little wonder, big wonder, my heart open forth my mind and dreams of an endless journey which looks so uncertain with fears of failure and hardship and here came voices all over the four walls of my rooms echoing "You have failed! You have failed!! You have failed!!!". And swiftly, I look around my small room and the only thing that captured my attention was my reading table with heaps of books as I calculate my gradepoints because I was a graduating student.

I found out that I was still struggling to maintain upper credit not to talk of distinction which has always been my wish becuase my environment made me to understand that it is only when I graduate with distinction that I can have a good touch of happiness of my life. I began to cry, I cried and cried until I almost lost my breathe. I wish the hands of the clock would move backward to when I gained admission into the school in order for me to toil like the great souls with great zeal of accomplishment who pays no attention to the burning candles of the night in order to attain accademic excellence.

And again, another voice came in a voice just above a whisper and said, life is an endless struggle where only the strongest survive and the strongest of the strong rules. "You have not failed yet" the voice said. "You are on your way to greatness if only you can visualize your thoughts, imagination and dreams". And for you to visualize your thoughts, imaginations and dreams, you have to be creative. Think of an idea that does not exist and bring it into existence.

Creativity is using your imagination to produce new ideas that no one has ever produced. You must not be an artist, fashion designers or make-up artist to be creative. No matter the field you find yourself, add value to that environment. Don't waste your time beacuse no body might have that same dream as you have.

You don't need to have all the qualification in life before you can make an impact in the society and this brings to the fact which says "whatever you find yourself doing, give the best you can to it". A very good example is william Eugene smith, an american photojournalist who was known for his refusal to compromise professional standard. He began his career at the age of 18, he had a passion to be the best and not merely to be the best but to be recognised as the best. Not merely to be recognised but to be recognised over and over and over again.

The most influential person in Eugene's life was himself. He recorded human condition. No one could really succeed at such a job yet Eugene did with his creativity, recording human condition with his photographs. He created at least 50 images so powerful that they have altered the perception of photojournalism.

Creativity takes process to grow but when it has grown, it explores and dominate the world. Success takes a gradual process because success does not come at a platter of gold. And success can never replace failure over night. It takes a process and the process is for you to plan your life. It is never too late...there is always a new begining!!!

Take a step and join the creative minds!

Sustaining African Communication system

Creativity they say is the mother of invention. This could best be described the recently held traditional African communication system forum in the New Nigerian Institute of Journalism Ikeja Lagos by the graduating students of National Diploma. A thorough scrutiny of traditonal means of communication was the key motive of the assesment as different group of students displayed an effective means of information dissemination in an African setting. Though some people believe that Africans do not have a traditional media before the advent of modern day Mass communication such as radio, TV, internet, newspaper etc.

Students of NIJ proved the above claim wrong as they made use of African Commuication forms such as the Masqurade, town crier, praise-singer, market women, village square to educate their audience.