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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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Onyewuchi Christopher Opara — University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Amaechi Goodwin Chukwuma Heart University of Port Harcourt
Contemporary scholarship has explained the remarkable growth of African Pentecostalism through prosperity theology, charismatic leadership, public religion, and the social consequences of economic insecurity. While these...
Nsikak Effiong Okon — Department of Religious & Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Digital technologies have become part of everyday Christian life, but their growing influence continues to provoke debate about the nature of Christian presence and communal worship. As more churches move across physical...
Paul Adedotun Adesupo — Department of Christian Religious Studies, Faculty of Education, Emmanuel Alayande of Education, Oyo, Oyo State. Nigeria.
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Christian marriage continues to be framed theologically through covenant, yet it is increasingly practised within social environments marked by uncertainty, mobility, and structural precarity rather than stability and pe...
Henry Eshiole Matthew — Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Violence has become one of the defining historical realities shaping the trajectory of Christianity in contemporary Nigeria. While existing scholarship has extensively documented insurgency, communal conflicts, attacks o...
Gloria Njideka Ayantayo — Ajayi Crowther University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
This study investigates the social costs and benefits of atonement
within Nigerian Christianity, focusing on Catholic, Aladura (Christ
Apostolic Church, CAC), and Pentecostal (Living Faith Church,
Winners’ Chapel) con...
Lily Chimuanya — Covenant University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Onogbeye Vera Iruoghene
This study investigates socio-semiotic persuasion in political cartoons
published in selected Nigerian newspapers during the 2023 fuel subsidy
removal. Drawing on a socio-semiotic approach to multimodality, the study...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jones U. Odili — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
Adeline Iwo Lawson-Jack
Christian women associations in the 21st century are leading hundreds of community development programmes in line with the social gospel. Inherent in their style is their dedication in getting residents of their communit...
