Articles — Kiabara Journal of Humanities

African Literature

Introduction: The Niger Delta in the Environmental Humanities

A. Chukwudumebi Obute — AFREXTRACT Project, University of Groningen, The Netherlands · Vol. 33, No. 2 · 08 September 2026

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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...

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Religion & Spirituality

From Martyrdom to Mission: The Dynamics of Violence and the Reconstruction of Christian Identity in Nigeria

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...

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African Literature

Trauma and Narrative: A Reading of Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives

Ene Eric Igbifa — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 23, No. 1 · 01 July 2026

This paper attempts to establish a connection between the seemingly disparate disciplines of literature and psychiatry. It argues that the causes of the neuroses and nervous breakdown suffered by some of the leading char...

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