George Chidiebere Umeh — Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 09 September 2026
Ikenna Kamalu (Walter Sisulu University
Previous scholarship on ritual oath-taking in Africa has largely been from the perspective of anthropology, history, religion and philosophy, whereas its linguistic representation in African literary discourse and imagin...
Christian Tuotamuno Diri — Federal University, Otuoke
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
This study employs media framing analysis and six (6) empirical studies on environmental communication, reporting, and coverage on different aspects of the Niger Delta were analysed. These empirical studies were purposiv...
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...
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...
Sophia Obi — Ministry of Information, Orientation and Strategy, Bayelsa State
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Oil was first discovered in commercial quantities in Oloibiri, in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria (then Rivers State, currently in Bayelsa State) and was exported in 1958. It was followed by Ogoni (Rivers State) in 195...
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...
Emmanuel Ikechukwu Woji — Hensard University, Toru-Orua, Bayelsa State
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Ntiense James Usua - University of Port Harcourt
Kenneth Chigozie Osunwa - Hensard University
Streaming has transformed how films are accessed, but it has not eliminated the social reasons audiences still gather in cinemas. The cinema remains a cultural space where films are collectively experienced, discussed, a...
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...
Oremire Judith Ehibor — Edo State University
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Salome Hosea Achi - Covenant University salome.achipgs@stu.cu.edu.ng
Theresa Adetola Adewumi - Covenant University adetola.adewumipgs@stu.cu.edu.ng
C. U. C. Ugorji - University of Benin ugorjicuc@uniben.edu
Navigating between two distinct language systems often subjects bilingual speakers to a form of communicative vulnerability, an instability that defines the experience of linguistic precarity. This precarity manifests cl...
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...
