Articles — Kiabara Journal of Humanities

African Literature

Ecopoetic Representations of the Anthropocene in Ebi Yeibo’s Petro Poetry

Clement Eloghosa Odia — University of Benin · Vol. 26, No. 1 · 19 June 2020

Ecopoetic discourse foregrounds a new interpretive approach to the study of environment, especially in the humanities which treats it as a cultural phenomenon. This notion has inspired the ecopoetical treatment of the ea...

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African Literature

Grappling with Slow Violence in Isidore Okpewho’s Tides

Uchenna Ohagwam — Rivers State University · Vol. 26, No. 1 · 18 June 2020

Augustine Nwanyanwu

In the epigraph to Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and Environmentalism of the Poor are two very incisive statements. One of such statements is by Arundhati Roy which reveals the negative influences of globalization and how it...

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Cultural Studies

Oil Politics and Nationhood in Peter Omoko’s Crude Nightmen And Stephen Kekeghe’s Pond of Leeches

Kennedy O. Edegbe — College of Education, Ekiadolor- Benin · Vol. 25, No. 1 · 03 July 2019

Patience E. Urhiofe Effurun

This paper seeks to interrogate the problem of oil politics and nationhood in the Niger Delta leveraging on the subaltern strand of postcolonial theory. Peter Omoko’s Crude Nightmen (2015) and Stephen Kekeghe’s Pond of L...

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