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...
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...
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...
Victory Ogochukwu Okpala — University of Nigeria, Nsukka
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Akogwu James Abah - University of Nigeria
This paper attempts a review of the novel, Kintu, by Makumbi Jennifer Nansubuga. The review employs the descriptive review technique to explore the African cultural traditions captured in the Ugandan traditional society....
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...
Lotachukwu Cynthia Ononaiwu — Rivers State University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Adagogo C. Brown
This study critically examines Yoruba symbolism in Amos Tutuola’s
The Palm Wine Drinkard as a repository of indigenous knowledge,
challenging readings that categorise the narrative as mere folklore or
fantasy. The stu...
Kolade Samuel Oluwasegun — Glorious Vision University, Ogwa
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
The global environmental crisis has renewed interest in religious
resources for ecological ethics. While biblical eco-theology has largely
focused on Genesis, Psalms, and the Prophets, the Book of Proverbs
(despite it...
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...
Uchenna Ohagwam — Rivers State University
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 18 June 2020
Augustine Nwanyanwu
In the epigraph to Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and Environmentalism of the Poor are two very incisive statements. One of such statements is by Arundhati Roy which reveals the negative influences of globalization and how it...
Bernard Otonye Stephen — Niger Delta University
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 18 June 2020
Chinyelu Florence Ojukwu
From Weep Not, Child (1964) to Wizard of the Crow (2007), Ngugi wa Thiong’o has remained deeply preoccupied with the fate of the Kenyan society in its transitions through different historical epochs. His interest in the...
Laurel Chikwado Madumere — Imo State Polytechnic
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 03 July 2019
African modern literature is fraught with protests. At first it was the protests against imperialism; later it became a protest against African postcolonial elites and neo-colonialism. The literature, at the stages above...
