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30 published articles matching "Power"

Gender & Identity Studies

Patterns of Women Protest in the Niger Delta Environmental Struggle from 1925 to 2012

Ekine Euphemia Dumeayam — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 33, No. 2 · 08 September 2026

Mfon Umoren Ekpootu University of Port Harcourt

Women have always participated in local environmental and social struggles. In the colonial era, one of the most notable protests by women was the protest by Ibibio and Igbo women in 1929 against the British colonial adm...

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African Literature

Unravelling Environmental Narratives in Selected Poems of Ebi Yeibo's A Song for Tomorrow and Wellington Nwogu's The Yawning Earth

Ebidenyefa Charity Nikade — Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island · Vol. 33, No. 2 · 08 September 2026

For several decades, the Niger Delta region has stood as a global emblem of environmental injustice and ecological fraud, a consequence of its fabled wealth in oil and gas—a paradox where the benefactor of golden riches...

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African Literature

Spatial Negotiations: Anthropomorphism and the Niger Delta Landscape in Ebi Yeibo’s Poetry

Oziomachukwu Ejechi — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria · Vol. 33, No. 2 · 08 September 2026

Psalms Chinaka University of Port Harcourt Oyeh Otu University of Port Harcourt

While much of the existing scholarship on the Niger Delta focuses on ecological degradation and environmental injustice, the role of anthropomorphism in shaping the region’s literary landscapes remains underexplored. Ant...

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African Literature

Mimetic Designs in Chimeka Garricks’ Representation of Oil, Environment, and Coloniality of Power in Tomorrow Died Yesterday

Okwudiri Anasiudu — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria · Vol. 33, No. 2 · 08 September 2026

Principles of mimesis play crucial roles in the narrative design in Chimeka Garricks’ Tomorrow Died Yesterday. Garricks deploys them to create a fictive world in which images of oil, the environment, and coloniality of p...

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African Literature

Introduction: The Niger Delta in the Environmental Humanities

A. Chukwudumebi Obute — AFREXTRACT Project, University of Groningen, The Netherlands · Vol. 33, No. 2 · 08 September 2026

Iva Peša AFREXTRACT Project Jackson Tamunosaki Jack AFREXTRACT Project

Since the evolution of the Nigerian literary tradition in the 1950s, itself a successor to orature, numerous writers have consistently opted to make society the epicentre of their enterprise. In fact, a handful have even...

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Language & Linguistics

Pragmatic Contradiction, Precarious Citizenship and Structural Resistance: A Comparative Pragma-Linguistic Analysis of the Nigerian and Ghanaian Constitutions

Solomon Osuokam Ogbeh — University of Benin · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Globally, the credibility of electoral processes is largely predicated on Constitutions promise democratic inclusion while simultaneously creating unequal experiences of citizenship through the language of authority, rig...

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Art, Music & Performance

Visualising Youth Precarity: Field Photography, Oral Testimony, and the Archive of State Surveillance

Onyemachi Nwabueze — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Cornelius Ebeobari Ngalaka - University of Port Harcourt Magnus Ndubuisi Attah - Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education

A photograph can expose an encounter without settling what that encounter means. What becomes visible, remembered and contested depends on how an image is framed, interpreted and circulated. This article examines photogr...

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Religion & Spirituality

The Big Man of God: Power Dynamics, Status Symbols, and Financial Negotiations in Neo-Pentecostalism

Chigozie Samuel Nwaka — Covenant Theological Academy, Umunam-Atta Njaba LGA Imo State, Nigeria · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

In the context of widening socio-economic inequalities, weakened state institutions, and growing conditions of global precarity, Nigerian Neo-Pentecostalism has emerged as a significant arena for negotiating religious au...

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Sociology & Anthropology

Digital Frontiers, Structural Precarity, and Corporate Peacebuilding: Assessing Chevron's PIND Initiative in the Niger Delta, 2010-2024

Igbani, Robbins Owede — Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Scholarly literature on the Presidential Amnesty Programme as peacebuilding strategy abounds, leaving institutionalized corporate peacebuilding comparatively underexplored. Thus, this study examined the Partnership Initi...

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Art, Music & Performance

Materiality, Gendered Precarity and Structural Resistance in Contemporary Nigerian Art

Obiora Anamaleze — Department of Fine Arts and Design, Wigwe University, Isiokpo, Rivers State, Nigeria1 · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Anaele Lucky - Department of Fine Arts and Design

Visual culture is a critical site where power, identity, and knowledge are negotiated. Within contemporary African art, materiality has emerged as a powerful means of challenging colonial and patriarchal constructions of...

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Political Thought

From Anti-colonial Revolutions to Postcolonial Implosions: Oil Politics, Discontent and Militancy in Niger Delta Drama

Oyeh O. Otu — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 23, No. 1 · 01 July 2026

Obumneme F. Anasi

In our essay entitled “Oil Politics and Violence in Postcolonial Niger Delta Drama” we examined oil politics and violence in selected Niger Delta plays such as Ola Rotimi’s Ovoramwen Nogbaisi, and Akassa You Mi; Miesoin...

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Religion & Spirituality

Social Costs and Benefits of Atonement: A Sociological Study of Catholic, Aladura, and Pentecostal Churches in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Gloria Njideka Ayantayo — Ajayi Crowther University · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

This study investigates the social costs and benefits of atonement within Nigerian Christianity, focusing on Catholic, Aladura (Christ Apostolic Church, CAC), and Pentecostal (Living Faith Church, Winners’ Chapel) con...

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