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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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Ebidenyefa Charity Nikade — Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
For several decades, the Niger Delta region has stood as a global emblem of environmental injustice and ecological fraud, a consequence of its fabled wealth in oil and gas—a paradox where the benefactor of golden riches...
Wellington Onyebuchi Nwogu — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
A vast number of Tanure Ojaide’s poetry ventilates the painful experience of the Niger Delta people. This paper investigates the past and present conditions of the Niger Delta environment in selected poems of Tanure Ojai...
Adaobi Ejechi — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Dominant narratives often frame revolution, particularly insurgency, as chaotic, irrational, and destructive. In the Niger Delta, this framing continues to obscure the historical, political, and ecological contexts that...
Oziomachukwu Ejechi — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Psalms Chinaka University of Port Harcourt
Oyeh Otu University of Port Harcourt
While much of the existing scholarship on the Niger Delta focuses on ecological degradation and environmental injustice, the role of anthropomorphism in shaping the region’s literary landscapes remains underexplored. Ant...
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...
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...
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...
Imomitimi Armstrong — Niger Delta University
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 07 July 2018
This paper begins on the contention that scholars of African oral literature have exhibited a “best avoided” approach towards formula, the most important aspect of the oral-formulaic theory of Milman Parry and Albert Lor...
Obari Gomba — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 05 July 2018
This paper examines the relationship between poetry and society as indicated by the creativity of poets. Poetry is an age-long form of art; it has existed across communities and cultures. Through its capacity to combine...
