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Career Profile

Started my career as an education Officer II (French language) with the Federal Ministry of Education and rose to the rank of Assistant Director of Education (French Language). Joined the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) as an Assistant Lecturer (2013); promoted to Lecturer II (2015); Lecturer I (2018) and currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, Foreign and Nigerian Languages in NOUN

Dr Iorvaa Peverga SAI

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Linguistics, Foreign and Nigerian Languages

Senior Lecturer

isai@noun.edu.ng

BA (French);

M.SC (International Relations and Strategic Studies);

MA (French);

PhD (French)

– Education Officer II (French language) Federal Ministry of Education (1990)
– Education Officer I (French language) Federal Ministry of Education (1993)
– Senior Education Officer (French language) Federal Ministry of Education (1996)
– Assist Chief Education Officer (French language) Federal Ministry of Education (2000)
– Chief Education Officer (French language) Federal Ministry of Education (2003)
– Assistant Director of Education (French Language) Federal Ministry of Education (2012)

– Assistant Lecturer (National Open University of Nigeria) 2013
– Lecturer II (National Open University of Nigeria) 2015
– Lecturer I (National Open University of Nigeria) 2018
– Senior Lecturer (National Open University of Nigeri)2023

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS: IORVAA PEVERGA SAI (PhD)
1. Bai, M. and Sai, I.P. (2015). “Towards the Integration of Gender Research in National Development: A Case for Nigeria.” African Journal of Modern Society, Vol. 4 No.1, 189-235 pp. ISSN 2141-3878 (Nigeria) (Contribution 50%).

2. Sai, I. P (2016). “The Challenge of Armed Conflict in Literature and the Prospect of ECOWAS” Humanity: Jos Journal of General Studies VOL. 8 Number 1, 134-143 pp. ISSN 1595-4072 (Nigeria).

3. Sai, I. P (2016). “Literary Expressions, Gender and Human Development” in Journal of Education in Development Areas. Vol. 24. No 1, 91-99 pp. ISSN 0189420X (Nigeria).

4. Sai, I. P. (2019). “Language Subversion and Hybridism: An Exploration of Pidgin French in selected novels of Ahmadou Kourouma””. KASUJOF Vol. 4. 73-81 pp. ISSN 2276-9609 (Nigeria).

5. Sai, I. P. (2019). “Rehaussement des valeurs traditionnelles africaines dans En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages et Allah n’est pas obligé d’Ahmadou Kourouma’’. ABUDoF Journal of Humanities Vol. 2 No 8. (Nigeria).

6. Sai, I. P (2020). “Le regroupement du roman africain contemporain à travers le genres de «l’histoire romancée.» in Le Littéraire Vol.1, N0 3. 108-120pp. ISSN 1840-748X (Nigeria).

7. Sai, I. P (2020). “”Les rites culturels, les dimensions artistiques et esthétiques d’Argugu Fishing Fesival au Nigéria.”” In Literature, Criticism and the Humanities. Abuja: DonAfrique Publishers, 218-228pp, ISBN978-978-982-276-8 (Nigeria).

8. Sai, I. P (2021). “La migration des femmes: une etudes marxiste de Trois femmes puissantes de Marie Ndiaye”. In The NOUN Scholar. Vol. 1, No. 2. 77-89.

9. Sai, I. P & Shija, T. (2022). “Lagos Landscape and the Shifting Discourses of Aesthetics in Sefi Attah’s Swallow.” In Veritas Journal of Humanities. Vol. 4, No 1 & 2.

10. Sai, I. P. (2022). “L’oxymore de la fiction et la réalité des référentielles éthnographique dans Quand on refuse on dit non D’Ahmadou Kourouma.” In Journal of French and Related Studies. Vol. 4, No 7.

11. Sai, I. P (2022). “Assujetissement et résistance ethno-raciale: une étude ethnographique d’Allah n’est pas obligé d’Khmadou kourouma.”” In Le Bronze No. 13. 262-276pp. ISSN20408-560X.

12. Sai, I. P (2022). “Les faits historiques narrativisés dand Quand on refuse on dit non d’Ahmadou Kourouma: une lecture intertextuelle.” In The NOUN Scholar. Vol. 2, No. 2. 60 – 76pp.

13. Sai, I. P. (2015). INR 251: Evolution of Modern International System (A 2-Credit Units Course Material at Nation Open University of Nigeria).

Areas of interest include literary engagement with African development, migration and diaspora studies, war and trauma in fiction, as well as the realist traditions in the African novel (with special focus the fictionalisation of the realities of the post-independent Africa.

Orcid Number: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9320-6052

Google Scholar: isai@noun.edu.ng

University Senate Research Grant 2024 (CO-Investigator), awarded by National Open University of Nigeria

Prospective/Returning Students