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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
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...
Okwudiri Anasiudu — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Principles of mimesis play crucial roles in the narrative design in Chimeka Garricks’ Tomorrow Died Yesterday. Garricks deploys them to create a fictive world in which images of oil, the environment, and coloniality of p...
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...
Solomon Osuokam Ogbeh — University of Benin
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Globally, the credibility of electoral processes is largely predicated on Constitutions promise democratic inclusion while simultaneously creating unequal experiences of citizenship through the language of authority, rig...
Favour Obirinma Nwanne — Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State.
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
The ways Africa is represented shape how its histories, cultures and identities are understood. The contemporary African graphic novel provides a space where such representations can be questioned, recovered and reimagin...
Lilian Nwobiandu Maxwell-Akani — University of Africa, Toru-Orua
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
This article examines how seven works of contemporary Nigerian fiction encode precarity as a master condition that produces linguistic fragmentation, mediated through digital aesthetics and ecological collapse, generatin...
Chibuike Chidi Egbua — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Maureen Wubi Worlu Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Wubi.maureen@iaue.edu.ng
The persistence of indigenous knowledge systems in postcolonial Africa continues to expose unresolved tensions between state-centred legal systems and locally grounded traditions of knowing. These tensions have become mo...
Oyeh O. Otu — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 July 2026
Obumneme F. Anasi
In our essay entitled “Oil Politics and Violence in Postcolonial Niger Delta Drama” we examined oil politics and violence in selected Niger Delta plays such as Ola Rotimi’s Ovoramwen Nogbaisi, and Akassa You Mi; Miesoin...
Abinye Titus-Green — Rivers State University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Oluchi Stephanie Onuabuobi
This paper employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to interrogate
how Achebe, Habila, and Nwabueze deploy narrative language and
symbolic representations to expose ideological contradictions within
postcolonial Nige...
Lola Akande — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Nzube Nlebedim (University of Port Harcourt)
Most postcolonial African novels depict the city space in relation to smaller, less gentrified fields such as towns and villages. Such schemata unveil a wide range of complexities that lend themselves to spatial analysis...
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...
Obiora Anamaleze — Department of Fine Arts and Design, Wigwe University, Isiokpo, Rivers State, Nigeria1
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Njoku Ken Iheukwumere (Wigwe University
The female body has remained a central motif in Nigerian art, symbolizing ideals of beauty, cultural identity, and social values from the traditional to the contemporary period. However, its representation continues to g...
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...
Mbadiwe Jeremiah — University of Port Harcourt, Choba. Port Harcourt.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Luke-Omenihu Esther (University of Port Harcourt
Since Nigeria’s independence in 1960, aviation has embodied the nation’s aspirations for modernity, progress, and global integration. Yet, the participation and recognition of women and ethnic minorities within this sect...
