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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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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...
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...
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...
Ikwor Ibe Afiauwa — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 19 June 2020
The paper examined Oshiomhole’s and Wike’s speeches describing them as cases of image laundering, face threatening and battering instances. Brown and Levinson’s Face Theory was used to establish how both speakers’ used i...
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...
Uchenna Ohagwam — Rivers State University
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 18 June 2020
Augustine Nwanyanwu
In the epigraph to Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and Environmentalism of the Poor are two very incisive statements. One of such statements is by Arundhati Roy which reveals the negative influences of globalization and how it...
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...
ThankGod Bekweri Amadi — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 12 June 2020
This paper critically examines the roles and theories of prayer in human existence. It raises questions on the logicality of some theories of prayer such as petition, confession and thanksgiving; since according to some...
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...
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...
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...
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...
