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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...
Submit Now
Achibi Samuel Dede — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
This paper critically examines Night of a Thousand Laughs (NTL), the landmark comedy platform created by Opa Williams, as a cultural and economic phenomenon that shaped contemporary Nigerian entertainment. Using a qualit...
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...
Innocent Karibo — University of Port Harcourt, Choba. Port Harcourt.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Ndidi Justice Gbule (University of Port Harcourt
This article revisits the revivalist ministry of Garrick Sokari Braide (1882–1918) as a lens for critically engaging the development of contemporary African Pentecostalism. Braide’s campaigns against charms, moral corrup...
Chibuike Chidi Egbua — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
This study investigates the ontological symbolism of ritual objects among the Elele-Alimini people of the Ikwerre ethnic group in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. Employing historical and phenomenological approaches, it explores h...
George Esebameh — University of Benin, Benin City.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
This paper investigates the key elements that contribute to visual impact in poster design, emphasizing the roles of typography, imagery, colour, composition, and time management in achieving communicative effectiveness....
Emimeke H. Dienye — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 15 May 2023
The paper sets out to examine the underpinnings of diplomacy in resolving conflicts globally, especially those in the African continent. The content is anchored in most literature as portraying a hotbed of conflicts, wit...
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...
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...
Imomitimi Armstrong — Niger Delta University
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 07 July 2018
This paper begins on the contention that scholars of African oral literature have exhibited a “best avoided” approach towards formula, the most important aspect of the oral-formulaic theory of Milman Parry and Albert Lor...
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...
Adiele, Chidi — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 03 July 2017
The initiation ceremony involves elaborate dances. Lifestyle after the initiation process is what matters most in men’s initiation ceremony. This research aims at documenting men’s initiation process and songs used in Ig...
Ime Usen — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
The emergence of feminist filmmaking in the Nigerian Video Film Industry collaborates with feminist literature to champion the cause of women in
Nigeria. The focus of this paper is to examine how women are presented an...
