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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
Ekine Euphemia Dumeayam — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Mfon Umoren Ekpootu University of Port Harcourt
Women have always participated in local environmental and social struggles. In the colonial era, one of the most notable protests by women was the protest by Ibibio and Igbo women in 1929 against the British colonial adm...
Joyce Onoromhenre Agofure — Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
This paper explores the complex interplay between oil, gender dynamics, and environmental security as depicted in Jeta Amata’s film Black November (2012). While prior research has examined the environmental impacts of oi...
A. Chukwudumebi Obute — AFREXTRACT Project, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Iva Peša AFREXTRACT Project
Jackson Tamunosaki Jack AFREXTRACT Project
Since the evolution of the Nigerian literary tradition in the 1950s, itself a successor to orature, numerous writers have consistently opted to make society the epicentre of their enterprise. In fact, a handful have even...
Chisom Paula Ogamba — Babcock University, Illlisan Remo, Ogun, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Blessing Chidinma Aaron - Babcock University aaronb@hs.babcock.edu.ng
Olubunmi Idowu - Babcock University idowuo@babcock.edu.ng
Goodseed Ochulor - Babcock University ochulorg@babcock.edu.ng
This study interrogates how Nigerian newspaper reportage linguistically constructs the “perfect victim” and produces a hierarchical representation of rape victims. While prior studies have examined rape narratives throug...
Obiora Anamaleze — Department of Fine Arts and Design, Wigwe University, Isiokpo, Rivers State, Nigeria1
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Anaele Lucky - Department of Fine Arts and Design
Visual culture is a critical site where power, identity, and knowledge are negotiated. Within contemporary African art, materiality has emerged as a powerful means of challenging colonial and patriarchal constructions of...
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...
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...
Church-Hill Amadi-Nche — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Rivers State
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Wokama
Feminist theology critiques biblical texts as historically androcentric, privileging men’s status while marginalizing women. However, such critiques often overlook the active and transformative roles that women played in...
Wotogbe-Ozuzuma — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Rivers State
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Igwechi Hope (Ignatius Ajuru University of Education
This paper examines the burden of reproductive expectation on women in Ikwerre culture, highlighting the interplay between religious narratives, patriarchal traditions, and gendered reproductive responsibilities. It crit...
Sydney Chigonum Imoh — University of Port Harcourt, Choba. Port Harcourt.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global human rights crisis that disproportionately affects women and girls, with severe physical, psychological, and socio-economic consequences. In Nigeria, GBV persists despite legal re...
John Ebimobowei Yeseibo — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 July 2017
The feminist goal is to usher in an integrated human society, one that is free of gender imbalance. The primary aim of feminism is to expunge from society all forms of male dominance, oppression, subjugation and marginal...
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...
Lekan Balogun — Victoria University
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 19 June 2016
In this paper, I examine the tension between traditional African value-system on marriage and gender relations and Western perception and its interrogation often described as feminism. Since the contact with the European...
