Articles — Kiabara Journal of Humanities

African Literature

Rereading Living Water: African Cultural Symbolism in John 4:13–14.

Blessing Uenosen Okoh — University of Delta, Agbor, Delta State · Vol. 31, No. 2 · 01 October 2025

This study explores John 4:13–14 through African cultural perspectives on water, emphasizing its significance for both individual spirituality and communal life. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theologi...

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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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African Literature

Innovations towards the Representation of the Other than-Human in African Literature

Laurel Chikwado Madumere — Imo State Polytechnic · Vol. 25, No. 1 · 03 July 2019

African modern literature is fraught with protests. At first it was the protests against imperialism; later it became a protest against African postcolonial elites and neo-colonialism. The literature, at the stages above...

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History & Memory

Aporia and Ambivalence in Armah’s and Kourouma’s Novels: A Deconstructive Study

Anthony Njoku — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 25, No. 1 · 03 July 2019

Judith Ezeamaka

This paper discusses the digression of two postcolonial African novelists from their avowed philosophy of disillusionment which dominates almost all their writings. The novelists’ treatment of the precolonial African soc...

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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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