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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...
Faosat Biola Olagunju - Al-Hikmah University
Balqis Olabisi Popoola - Al-Hikmah University
Abdullateef Babatunde Oseni - Al-Hikmah University
This study examines how popular social stereotype of female materialism is reinforced and legitimated in Afrobeats songs. It draws on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as its theoretical framework to investigate how Afro...
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...
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...
Julius Nsirim Akani — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 09 June 2026
Between Here and Nowhere: Migration, Belonging, and Nationality
in Segun Afolabi’s Goodbye Lucille” interrogates the complex realities of
Nigerian migrants in Europe, exploring the interplay of history,
identity, and...
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...
Tajudeen Odebode Ishola — Lagos state university
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 07 January 2026
This paper explores the underlying factors for separatist agitations in
Nigeria. It is an exploratory study that used qualitative method of
secondary source of data collection from text book, peer review
journals with...
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...
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...
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...
