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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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Raphael Baribela Kpeden — University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Port Harcourt.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Christianity in Nigeria has undergone rapid expansion, diversification, and fragmentation, with denominational switching emerging as a prominent feature of urban religious life. Contrary to expectations that modernizatio...
Ndidi Justice Gbule — University of Port Harcourt. Nigeria.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
The centenary of Frantz Fanon provides an opportunity to revisit his call for a “new humanism” against the backdrop of Africa’s contemporary religious and political landscape. Fanon’s vision of liberation as a radical ru...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Okoronkwo, Ikechukwu Francis — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 01 June 2023
Ogunleye Abimbola
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This study examines ‘Dignity in Sports’ (1997) by Ikeme Sunday Udoka and ‘The Encounter in Sports’ (1998) by Okoronkwo Chukwuemeka, two sculptures installed at the University of Port Harcourt’s sports complex. Despite th...
Anietie Ntuk Esitoho — College of Arts and Science, Nnung Ukim, Ikono
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 17 May 2023
This study examines the transformation of the Offiong dance from its traditional village performances in Ibibio communities to modern adaptations for stage and screen. Motivated by the need to preserve and promote indige...
Daniel Olisa Iweze — University of Benin
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 17 May 2023
This paper focuses on Col. Samuel O. Ogbemudia`s military career and soldiering exploits during the Nigerian Civil War as well as his role in the post-civil war reconstruction programme of the Midwest State, especially W...
Anthony Umoh — University of Uyo
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 17 May 2023
Barinaadaa Nwinkol
The right of members of the public to access information held by public institutions is the fundamental prerequisite for the enthronement of good governance, advancement of human rights and consolidation of democratic no...
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...
Onyemaechi Udumukwu — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 12 May 2023
Kenedy Enesha
Americanah (2013) interrogates the discourse of stereotypes in the new African diasporan experience in the United States. It does this because stereotypes produce fixed statements of reality that conceal underlying polit...
Clement Eloghosa Odia — University of Benin
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 19 June 2020
Ecopoetic discourse foregrounds a new interpretive approach to the study of environment, especially in the humanities which treats it as a cultural phenomenon. This notion has inspired the ecopoetical treatment of the ea...
