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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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Adagogo C. Brown — Rivers State University, Nkpolu -Orowurukwo
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Damilare Kuku’s “Òdè-Pus Complex” explores the psychological and emotional struggles of Uchenna, a young man caught between two powerful relationships — with his possessive mother, Mrs. Umeh, and his girlfriend, Jide. Th...
Chukwudinma O. Ezuoke
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Nkechinyere O. Chidi-Mbah
Conference interpreting remains an essential yet relatively underexplored dimension of translation studies, despite its centrality to international communication. This paper examines the psychological factors that influe...
Dean Odeh — Niger Delta University
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 19 June 2020
Language is an integral part of culture. It expresses a cultural reality and speakers identify themselves and others through their use of language which is the index or symbol of their social or cultural identity. Human...
Baridisi Hope Isaac — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 18 June 2020
This paper discusses word order in the object position of basic sentence constructions in Gokana. The paper adopts a descriptive analysis. Given the level of relatedness between Kana and Gokana, it is often assumed that...
Salem Ochala Ejeba — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 03 July 2019
Certain segments and tones in Igala are better viewed as phonologically underspecified for an appropriate account of the surface phonetic specification. This paper establishes the phenomenon of phonological underspecific...
Demola Lewis — University of Ibadan
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 03 July 2019
Sulaiman Ayegboka
AGREEment and ALIGNment approaches have been deployed in mutual exclusivity to evaluate total, opaque and transparent vowel harmony patterns in language, with problems arguably associated with each approach. The AGREEmen...
Baridisi Hope Isaac — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 05 July 2018
This paper discusses word order in the object position of basic sentence constructions in Gokana. The paper adopts a descriptive analysis. Given the level of relatedness between Kana and Gokana, it is often assumed that...
Ikwor Ibe Afiauwa — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 18 May 2018
This paper examined the concern of the limitations of human language, which create a confusion of ideas and impairment of meaning, through a qualitative analysis of Willian Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The Ideational The...
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...
Michael Alozie Nwala — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
Ijeoma Chidinma Cookey
This paper examines the semantic relations at the sentence level in two of Patience Jonathan’s 2015 Campaign Speeches. The meaning of a sentence can be altered by a word, a sentence or a previously uttered word or senten...
Akpofure Oduaran — Delta State University
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 February 2017
Pidgin and creoles, mixed languages and code-switching are some of the main outcomes of language contact. In Nigeria, as well as other ex-colonial countries in sub-saharan Africa, code-switching between the ex-colonial...
Goke A. Akinboye — University of Ibadan
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
Gill Oluwatosin Adekannbi
The idea of ‘the other’ and ‘otherness’ often relates to the state of a group being
different from certain individuals, groups or peoples. Over and over again, a
greater or superior group, using certain social distin...
