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African Literature

Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow as Narrative of Kenyan Post-colonial Power Contestations

Bernard Otonye Stephen — Niger Delta University · Vol. 26, No. 1 · 18 June 2020

Chinyelu Florence Ojukwu

From Weep Not, Child (1964) to Wizard of the Crow (2007), Ngugi wa Thiong’o has remained deeply preoccupied with the fate of the Kenyan society in its transitions through different historical epochs. His interest in the...

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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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African Literature

Poetry, Gravitas, and Society

Obari Gomba — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 24, No. 1 · 05 July 2018

This paper examines the relationship between poetry and society as indicated by the creativity of poets. Poetry is an age-long form of art; it has existed across communities and cultures. Through its capacity to combine...

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African Literature

Gender as a Social Construct. A Study of Women’s Language Use in Selected Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nneka Umera-Okeke — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 23, No. 1 · 02 July 2017

Various approaches have been used to describe how women use language in the society. They range from the deficit approach, dominance and difference approaches to the modern social constructionist approach. This study obs...

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Gender & Identity Studies

Challenging Patriarchy: The Feminist Perspective in Stella Oyedepo’s Brain Has No Gender

John Ebimobowei Yeseibo — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 23, No. 1 · 01 July 2017

The feminist goal is to usher in an integrated human society, one that is free of gender imbalance. The primary aim of feminism is to expunge from society all forms of male dominance, oppression, subjugation and marginal...

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Sociology & Anthropology

An Ethical Appraisal of Neil Manson’s Formulation of the Precautionary Principle

Chinedu B. Ajuruchi — Imo State Polytechnic · Vol. 22, No. 2 · 20 June 2016

Harm to human life and the environment has been identified as a recurrent concomitance of many developmental projects in human society. Hence, to safeguard human life and the environment from development-induced harm, th...

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Cultural Studies

‘Palmwine is as good as St Rémy’: Leke Ogunfeyimi’s example in Weaker Sex

Lekan Balogun — Victoria University · Vol. 22, No. 2 · 19 June 2016

In this paper, I examine the tension between traditional African value-system on marriage and gender relations and Western perception and its interrogation often described as feminism. Since the contact with the European...

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