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AFTER DECOLONISATION: WHOSE KNOWLEDGE, WHOSE FUTURE? Power, Technology and the Making of African Thought
Political independence did not erase the intellectual structures established under colonia...
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Call For Papers
AFTER DECOLONISATION: WHOSE KNOWLEDGE, WHOSE FUTURE? Power, Technology and the Making of African Thought
Political independence did not erase the intellectual structures established under colonia...
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Adaobi Ejechi — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Dominant narratives often frame revolution, particularly insurgency, as chaotic, irrational, and destructive. In the Niger Delta, this framing continues to obscure the historical, political, and ecological contexts that...
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...
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...
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...
Favour Obirinma Nwanne — Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State.
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
The ways Africa is represented shape how its histories, cultures and identities are understood. The contemporary African graphic novel provides a space where such representations can be questioned, recovered and reimagin...
Chibuike Chidi Egbua — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Maureen Wubi Worlu Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Wubi.maureen@iaue.edu.ng
The persistence of indigenous knowledge systems in postcolonial Africa continues to expose unresolved tensions between state-centred legal systems and locally grounded traditions of knowing. These tensions have become mo...
Sunday Abayiga Needam — Hassan Odukale Methodist Theological Institute
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Why do some societies build resilient institutions while others falter under the weight of concentrated power? The answer may lie not only in constitutional reforms but also in enduring governance traditions that distrib...
Ene Eric Igbifa — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 July 2026
This paper attempts to establish a connection between the seemingly disparate disciplines of literature and psychiatry. It argues that the causes of the neuroses and nervous breakdown suffered by some of the leading char...
Lotachukwu Cynthia Ononaiwu — Rivers State University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Adagogo C. Brown
This study critically examines Yoruba symbolism in Amos Tutuola’s
The Palm Wine Drinkard as a repository of indigenous knowledge,
challenging readings that categorise the narrative as mere folklore or
fantasy. The stu...
Kolade Samuel Oluwasegun — Glorious Vision University, Ogwa
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
The global environmental crisis has renewed interest in religious
resources for ecological ethics. While biblical eco-theology has largely
focused on Genesis, Psalms, and the Prophets, the Book of Proverbs
(despite it...
Abinye Titus-Green — Rivers State University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Oluchi Stephanie Onuabuobi
This paper employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to interrogate
how Achebe, Habila, and Nwabueze deploy narrative language and
symbolic representations to expose ideological contradictions within
postcolonial Nige...
Emmanuel Chijioke Agoha — Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Grace C. Kokey
This paper investigates how the ethical teachings of Old Testament
Wisdom Literature—particularly from Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and
selected Psalms—can inform models of ethical leadership relevant to
the challenges fac...
Samson Osariemen Eguavoen — University of Benin, PMB 1154, Benin City.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
This paper explores how poetry functions as a form of social therapy by examining the poetics of collective resistance in the works of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Idris Amali. Drawing on psychoanalytic criticism and criti...
Hopeful Honesty Bafamodei — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
How do sacred forests—long revered as the dwelling places of ancestors and spirits—sustain both ecological integrity and human wellbeing in the Niger Delta? Can indigenous custodial practices survive the pressures of ext...
Abubakre Samiat Olúbùnmi — University of Ilorin, Ilorin. Nigeria
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Oyekulehin
Abubakre
This study employs feminist stylistics and critical discourse analysis to examine the construction of gender identities in Olú Ọbáfẹmí's Wheels (2000). It investigates how the female characters, Àbẹkẹ and Kẹmi, are repre...
