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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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Innocent Hayford Kasarachi — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Ekwuluo Precious Uche
Globally, the credibility of electoral processes is largely predicated on
the level of independence of the electoral umpire. Again, the level to
which the electorate perceive the electoral umpire as being credible
det...
Lily Chimuanya — Covenant University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Ehioghae Esther Esohe
Oremire Judith Ehibor
The phrase “No gree for anybody” emerged in early 2024 as a widely
circulating slogan in Nigerian digital spaces. Rooted in Nigerian Pidgin, the
expression extends beyond its literal meaning to index defiance, self-ass...
Oni Idris Ajani — Crescent University, Abeokuta
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Nigeria’s special education system faces significant challenges, including
inadequate funding, untrained educators, and societal stigma, limiting access
for 15 million people with disabilities, with only 2% of disabled...
Kolade Samuel Oluwasegun — Glorious Vision University, Ogwa
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
The global environmental crisis has renewed interest in religious
resources for ecological ethics. While biblical eco-theology has largely
focused on Genesis, Psalms, and the Prophets, the Book of Proverbs
(despite it...
Abinye Titus-Green — Rivers State University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Oluchi Stephanie Onuabuobi
This paper employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to interrogate
how Achebe, Habila, and Nwabueze deploy narrative language and
symbolic representations to expose ideological contradictions within
postcolonial Nige...
Emmanuel Chijioke Agoha — Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Grace C. Kokey
This paper investigates how the ethical teachings of Old Testament
Wisdom Literature—particularly from Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and
selected Psalms—can inform models of ethical leadership relevant to
the challenges fac...
Achibi Samuel Dede — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
David Nnanna Udeli
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into global cinema is
reshaping how stories are created, distributed, and received.
Nollywood, as one of the world’s largest film industries, faces unique
ethical and cu...
Nsikak Effiong Okon — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 03 June 2026
John O. Obineche
Ben O. Onu
This article examines how prosperity theology shapes women’s religious agency within Assemblies of God churches in rural Rivers State, Nigeria. Rather than treating the prosperity gospel as either purely liberative or ex...
Tajudeen Odebode Ishola — Lagos state university
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 07 January 2026
This paper explores the underlying factors for separatist agitations in
Nigeria. It is an exploratory study that used qualitative method of
secondary source of data collection from text book, peer review
journals with...
Eddy Azanor — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 07 January 2026
The seventeenth-century Jansenist controversy over grace and free will
is often framed as a closed European Catholic episode. Yet, its theological questions—human agency, divine sovereignty, moral rigor, and institution...
Lily Chimuanya — Covenant University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 07 January 2026
Language is central to constructing presidential legitimacy. This study xamines how legitimacy is discursively established in inaugural speeches from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi, drawing on van Leeuwen’s (2007) and...
Ebere Celina Krisagbedo — University of Nigeria Nsukka-Nigeria
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 02 October 2025
Chris Uchenna Agbedo (University of Nigeria Nsukka-Nigeria)
Walter Ugwagbo (University of Nigeria Nsukka-Nigeria)
This study examines the pragmatic imports of the recurrent catchphrase “go to court” within the Nigerian sociopolitical context. Drawing on Mey’s Pragmatic Acts Theory (2001) to analyse eight media excerpts selected from...
Lola Akande — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Nzube Nlebedim (University of Port Harcourt)
Most postcolonial African novels depict the city space in relation to smaller, less gentrified fields such as towns and villages. Such schemata unveil a wide range of complexities that lend themselves to spatial analysis...
Samson Osariemen Eguavoen — University of Benin, PMB 1154, Benin City.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
This paper explores how poetry functions as a form of social therapy by examining the poetics of collective resistance in the works of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Idris Amali. Drawing on psychoanalytic criticism and criti...
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...
