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...
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...
Jeremiah Felix Nwachukwu — Rivers State University, Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Ibinabo Samuel Igonikon - University of Port Harcourt ibinabosamuel98@gmail.com
Political transitions generate democratic precarity when governments seek legitimacy through communication while citizens confront institutional uncertainty. Under Ibrahim Babangida’s military administration, Nigeria’s t...
Onyemachi Nwabueze — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Cornelius Ebeobari Ngalaka - University of Port Harcourt
Magnus Ndubuisi Attah - Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education
A photograph can expose an encounter without settling what that encounter means. What becomes visible, remembered and contested depends on how an image is framed, interpreted and circulated. This article examines photogr...
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...
Christian Uchegbu — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Madiode Fortune Walter - University of Port Harcourt
Disability raises questions that extend far beyond the body. It reveals how communities construct personhood, negotiate belonging, and affirm or deny human dignity through their cultural and religious worldviews. Despite...
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...
In the context of widening socio-economic inequalities, weakened state institutions, and growing conditions of global precarity, Nigerian Neo-Pentecostalism has emerged as a significant arena for negotiating religious au...
Onyewuchi Christopher Opara — University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Amaechi Goodwin Chukwuma Heart University of Port Harcourt
Contemporary scholarship has explained the remarkable growth of African Pentecostalism through prosperity theology, charismatic leadership, public religion, and the social consequences of economic insecurity. While these...
Igbani, Robbins Owede — Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Scholarly literature on the Presidential Amnesty Programme as peacebuilding strategy abounds, leaving institutionalized corporate peacebuilding comparatively underexplored. Thus, this study examined the Partnership Initi...
Prof. Ndidi Justice Gbule — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Where access to public infrastructure is uneven or unreliable, religious institutions may become part of the arrangements through which everyday participation is sustained. In Nigeria, Pentecostal churches increasingly c...
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...
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...
Gloria Njideka Ayantayo — Ajayi Crowther University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
This study investigates the social costs and benefits of atonement
within Nigerian Christianity, focusing on Catholic, Aladura (Christ
Apostolic Church, CAC), and Pentecostal (Living Faith Church,
Winners’ Chapel) con...
