Dr. Abdulmalik Ismail

@unilorin.edu.ng

Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Dr. Abdulmalik Ismail
Ismail ABDULMALIK (PhD) is a Senior lecturer and a researcher in the Department of French, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria since 2014. He obtained his first degree in 2007 and his master degree in 2012 from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He obtained his Ph.D in 2021 from the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. His domain of research is French literature with emphasis on style of “Le Nouveau Roman”. He is also interested in Methodology of Teaching and Learning French literature, African Francophone literature and the use of Communication and Information Technology in the teaching and learning of French Literature. He has published a number of articles in reputable national and international journals.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
University of Benin, Benin City 2015 - 2021
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria 2009 - 2012
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria 2002 - 2007

SECONDARY OR TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Okene Secondary School, (OSS) Okene 1997- 2001
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND DIPLOMAS

Ph.D University of Benin, Benin City 2021
M.A French, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria 2012
B.A. (Hons) French, Second Class Upper Division, Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria 2007
Senior Secondary School Certificate, Okene Secondary School, Okene 2001

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities

FUTURE PROJECTS

Mitigating Conflict Resolutions in Sub-Saran Region" The role of French Language

To solve the myriad of problems in Nigeria, the role of French language cannot be over-emphasized.


Applications Invited
Grant/Sponsorship

Spelling Bee in French Among Junior and Senior Secondary School Students' in Ilorin Metropolis

To build lexical grade in French language, the need for continuous spelling bee exercise in French from some selected senior and junior secondary schools in Ilorin, Nigeria.


Applications Invited
Grant/Sponsorship

Methodology of Teaching French Literature: in Nigerian universities to make it more interesting.

French literature is often considered as a difficult subject especially among the student in the Nigerian (an Anglophone country) university partly due to the methodology of teaching the French literature.


Applications Invited
Collaboration/Grant
5

Scholar Citations

1

Scholar h-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Intertextualité et polémique du Nouveau Roman: Etude des romans de Michel Butor.(Intertextuality and polemic of the New Novel: A study of the novels of Michel Butor.)
    I Abdulmalik
    Benin: Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Benin … , 2025
    2025
  • ESTHÉTIQUE DE LA VIOLENCE ET LECTURE DES IMAGINAIRES SOCIAUX DE LA GUERRE DANS L'ETAT Z'HEROS OU LA GUERRE DES GAOUS DE MAURICE BANDAMAN
    JO OYETUNDE, AK DONGMO, I ABDULMALIK
    Revue de l'Association Nigériane des Enseignants Universitaires de Français … , 2025
    2025
  • UNE DÉCONSTRUCTION PSYCHOANALYTIQUE DE L’ÉTAT Z’HÉROS OU LA GUERRE DES GAOUS DE MAURICE BANDAMAN
    JO OYETUNDE, AK DONGMO, I ABDULMALIK
    Beyond Babel: BU Journal of Language, Literature and Humanities 9 (2), 30-41 , 2025
    2025
  • UNE DÉCONSTRUCTION PSYCHOANALYTIQUE DE L’ÉTAT Z’HÉROS OU LA GUERRE DES GAOUS DE MAURICE BANDAMAN
    DAK OYETUNDE Julius Oluwafemi, I ABDULMALIK
    Beyond Babel: Journal of Language, Literature and Humanities , 2025
    2025
  • Une déconstruction psychoanalytique de L’Etat z’héros ou la guerre des gaous de Maurice Bandaman.(A Psychoanalytic Deconstruction of Maurice Bandaman’s L’Etat z’héros ou la …
    JO Oyetunde, AK Dongmo, I Abdulmalik
    Babcock University , 2025
    2025
  • LA COMPLÉMENTARITÉ DES GENRES COMME SOLUTION DANS CRÉPUSCULE DU TOURMENT I: MÉLANCOLIE
    SBM Babatunde
    JOURNAL OF MODERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES [JMEL]. VOLUME 19 ISSUE … , 2025
    2025
  • Une Etude Mythocritique de L’Emploi du temps et de Degrés de Michel (A Mythocratic Studies of Michel Butors’s L’Emploi du temps and Degrés de Michel Butor
    I Abdulmalik, PA Nnabuike
    Les Cahiers DE L’ACAREF, Université Montaigne, Bordeaux, France , 2023
    2023
  • Curriculm Innovation in French Language Teaching and learing in Nigeria
    SS Afsat, I Abdulmalik, A Zeinab
    2023
  • Curriculum Innovation in French Language Teaching and Learning in Nigeria
    A Sanni-Suleiman, AIZAA Ph.D)
    Trends and Perspectives on Translation, Language and Literary Studies 2 (160 … , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • A New Historicist Review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
    AK Dongmo, I Abdulmalik
    Acaref (Académie Africaine d’Etudes et de Recherches Francophones/African … , 2022
    2022
  • L’ART DE COURTISER: ÉTUDE DE COMMENT AIMER UNE FEMME AFRICAINE ET COMMENT AIMER UN HOMME AFRICAIN D’ISAÏE BITON KOULIBALY
    PA NNABUIKE, I ABDULMALIK
    Revue de l'Association Nigériane des Enseignants Universitaires de Français … , 2021
    2021
  • Action-Oriented Approach with ICT in Teaching and Learning of French in Some Nigerian Universities
    A Ismail
    Department of Literature, Linguistics & Foreign Languages, Kenyatta … , 2021
    2021
  • RANEUF 2021 Soft Copy 13 NNABUIKE Pauline Akunna and ABDULMALIK Ismail pages 217 to 236
    NP Akunna, A Ismail
    Revue de l'Association Nigériane des Enseignants Universitaires de Français , 2021
    2021
  • Au-delà du parler urbain le camfranglais: Une identité du théâtre comique camerounais
    KA Dongmo, I Abdulmalik
    Les parlers urbains africains au prisme du plurilinguisme: description … , 2020
    2020
  • Educational and Cultural Exchange within the ECOWAS: The University of Ilorin experience
    B ISA, I ABDULMALIK
    Department of French, Kaduna State University (KASU), Kaduna State, Nigeria , 2020
    2020
  • DE L’INQUIETUDE VERS L’AUTOEVALUATION: ETUDE DE LA MODIFICATION DE MICHEL BUTOR
    I Abdulmalik, AK DONGMO
    Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin. , 2019
    2019
  • Les parlers urbains africains au prisme du plurilinguisme: description sociolinguistique Tome I
    I Abdulmalik, A Dongmo
    LA REVUE DE L’OBSERVATOIRE DU PLURILINGUISME EUROPÉEN , 2019
    2019
  • La perspective de la femme africaine dans l'optique de Ken Bugul: Etude de Riwan ou Le chemin de sable
    I Abdulmalik, PA Nnabuike
    Paschal communication Nsukka , 2019
    2019
  • Discours littéraire et enjeu politique dans Le Roman de Pauline de Calixthe Beyala (Literary Discourse and Political Stakes in Calixthe Beyala’s Le Roman de Pauline. In …
    AK Dongmo, I Abdulmalik, L Ogonye
    Department of French, University of Ilorin, Nigeria & Department of French … , 2019
    2019
  • Fiction et nouchi: Une lecture sociolinguistique de La carte d’identité de Jean Marie Adiaffi
    I Abdulmalik, KA Dongmo
    Les parlers urbains africains au prisme du plurilinguisme: description … , 2019
    2019

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • L’excision et ses effets néfastes dans rebelle de Fatou keita
    A ISMAIL, OG Iheanacho
    Journal of Modern European Languages And Literatures 9, 142-154 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 3
  • Curriculum Innovation in French Language Teaching and Learning in Nigeria
    A Sanni-Suleiman, AIZAA Ph.D)
    Trends and Perspectives on Translation, Language and Literary Studies 2 (160 … , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • LE POSITIVISME DANS FESTINS DE LA DETRESSE D’AMINATA SOW FALL
    I Abdulmalik
    RANEUF, Revue de l’Association Nigériane des Enseignants Universitaires de … , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 1
  • Intertextualité et polémique du Nouveau Roman: Etude des romans de Michel Butor.(Intertextuality and polemic of the New Novel: A study of the novels of Michel Butor.)
    I Abdulmalik
    Benin: Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Benin … , 2025
    2025
  • ESTHÉTIQUE DE LA VIOLENCE ET LECTURE DES IMAGINAIRES SOCIAUX DE LA GUERRE DANS L'ETAT Z'HEROS OU LA GUERRE DES GAOUS DE MAURICE BANDAMAN
    JO OYETUNDE, AK DONGMO, I ABDULMALIK
    Revue de l'Association Nigériane des Enseignants Universitaires de Français … , 2025
    2025
  • UNE DÉCONSTRUCTION PSYCHOANALYTIQUE DE L’ÉTAT Z’HÉROS OU LA GUERRE DES GAOUS DE MAURICE BANDAMAN
    JO OYETUNDE, AK DONGMO, I ABDULMALIK
    Beyond Babel: BU Journal of Language, Literature and Humanities 9 (2), 30-41 , 2025
    2025
  • UNE DÉCONSTRUCTION PSYCHOANALYTIQUE DE L’ÉTAT Z’HÉROS OU LA GUERRE DES GAOUS DE MAURICE BANDAMAN
    DAK OYETUNDE Julius Oluwafemi, I ABDULMALIK
    Beyond Babel: Journal of Language, Literature and Humanities , 2025
    2025
  • Une déconstruction psychoanalytique de L’Etat z’héros ou la guerre des gaous de Maurice Bandaman.(A Psychoanalytic Deconstruction of Maurice Bandaman’s L’Etat z’héros ou la …
    JO Oyetunde, AK Dongmo, I Abdulmalik
    Babcock University , 2025
    2025
  • LA COMPLÉMENTARITÉ DES GENRES COMME SOLUTION DANS CRÉPUSCULE DU TOURMENT I: MÉLANCOLIE
    SBM Babatunde
    JOURNAL OF MODERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES [JMEL]. VOLUME 19 ISSUE … , 2025
    2025
  • Une Etude Mythocritique de L’Emploi du temps et de Degrés de Michel (A Mythocratic Studies of Michel Butors’s L’Emploi du temps and Degrés de Michel Butor
    I Abdulmalik, PA Nnabuike
    Les Cahiers DE L’ACAREF, Université Montaigne, Bordeaux, France , 2023
    2023
  • Curriculm Innovation in French Language Teaching and learing in Nigeria
    SS Afsat, I Abdulmalik, A Zeinab
    2023
  • A New Historicist Review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
    AK Dongmo, I Abdulmalik
    Acaref (Académie Africaine d’Etudes et de Recherches Francophones/African … , 2022
    2022
  • L’ART DE COURTISER: ÉTUDE DE COMMENT AIMER UNE FEMME AFRICAINE ET COMMENT AIMER UN HOMME AFRICAIN D’ISAÏE BITON KOULIBALY
    PA NNABUIKE, I ABDULMALIK
    Revue de l'Association Nigériane des Enseignants Universitaires de Français … , 2021
    2021
  • Action-Oriented Approach with ICT in Teaching and Learning of French in Some Nigerian Universities
    A Ismail
    Department of Literature, Linguistics & Foreign Languages, Kenyatta … , 2021
    2021
  • RANEUF 2021 Soft Copy 13 NNABUIKE Pauline Akunna and ABDULMALIK Ismail pages 217 to 236
    NP Akunna, A Ismail
    Revue de l'Association Nigériane des Enseignants Universitaires de Français , 2021
    2021
  • Au-delà du parler urbain le camfranglais: Une identité du théâtre comique camerounais
    KA Dongmo, I Abdulmalik
    Les parlers urbains africains au prisme du plurilinguisme: description … , 2020
    2020
  • Educational and Cultural Exchange within the ECOWAS: The University of Ilorin experience
    B ISA, I ABDULMALIK
    Department of French, Kaduna State University (KASU), Kaduna State, Nigeria , 2020
    2020
  • DE L’INQUIETUDE VERS L’AUTOEVALUATION: ETUDE DE LA MODIFICATION DE MICHEL BUTOR
    I Abdulmalik, AK DONGMO
    Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin. , 2019
    2019
  • Les parlers urbains africains au prisme du plurilinguisme: description sociolinguistique Tome I
    I Abdulmalik, A Dongmo
    LA REVUE DE L’OBSERVATOIRE DU PLURILINGUISME EUROPÉEN , 2019
    2019
  • La perspective de la femme africaine dans l'optique de Ken Bugul: Etude de Riwan ou Le chemin de sable
    I Abdulmalik, PA Nnabuike
    Paschal communication Nsukka , 2019
    2019

Publications

Home-Based Publications

Journals
1. Adelaide D. K. & Abdulmalik, I. (2018). Calixthe Beyala et l’éducation traditionnelle : Etude de La petite fille du réverbère. (Calixthe Beyala and Traditional Education : A Study of La petite fille du réverbère). Alore, Ilorin Journal of the Humanities. 27, 127-140. Published by Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin. Available @ http://uilspace.
2. Abdulmalik, I. & Adelaide, D. K. (2019). De l’inquiétude vers l’autoévaluation: Etude de La modification de Michel Butor. (From Anxiety to Self-Evaluation: A Study of Michel Butor’s La modification). Alore, Ilorin Journal of the Humanities. 28, 162-175. Published by Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin. Available @ http://uilspace.
(ii) National
Journal Articles
3. Abdulmalik, I. (2010). Tradition et modernité dans Le respect des morts d’Amadou Koné. (Tradition and Modernity in Amadou Koné’s Le respect des morts). KASUJOF. Kaduna State University Journal of French, 1 (1); 121-133. Published by Department of French, Kaduna State University. Available @ http://uilspace.

4. Abdulmalik, I. (2013). La relation symbiotique entre deux villes dans La Modification de Michel Butor. (Symbiotic Relation between two Cities in Michel Butor’s La Modification). ABUDoF. Ahmadu Bello University Journal of French. 2 (2); 225-239. Published by the Department of French, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Avail