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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
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...
Oni Idris Ajani — Crescent University, Abeokuta
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Nigeria’s special education system faces significant challenges, including
inadequate funding, untrained educators, and societal stigma, limiting access
for 15 million people with disabilities, with only 2% of disabled...
Emmanuel Chijioke Agoha — Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Grace C. Kokey
This paper investigates how the ethical teachings of Old Testament
Wisdom Literature—particularly from Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and
selected Psalms—can inform models of ethical leadership relevant to
the challenges fac...
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...
Ebere Celina Krisagbedo — University of Nigeria Nsukka-Nigeria
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 02 October 2025
Chris Uchenna Agbedo (University of Nigeria Nsukka-Nigeria)
Walter Ugwagbo (University of Nigeria Nsukka-Nigeria)
This study examines the pragmatic imports of the recurrent catchphrase “go to court” within the Nigerian sociopolitical context. Drawing on Mey’s Pragmatic Acts Theory (2001) to analyse eight media excerpts selected from...
Sydney Chigonum Imoh — University of Port Harcourt, Choba. Port Harcourt.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global human rights crisis that disproportionately affects women and girls, with severe physical, psychological, and socio-economic consequences. In Nigeria, GBV persists despite legal re...
Ndidi Justice Gbule — University of Port Harcourt. Nigeria.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
The centenary of Frantz Fanon provides an opportunity to revisit his call for a “new humanism” against the backdrop of Africa’s contemporary religious and political landscape. Fanon’s vision of liberation as a radical ru...
Innocent Karibo — University of Port Harcourt, Choba. Port Harcourt.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Ndidi Justice Gbule (University of Port Harcourt
This article revisits the revivalist ministry of Garrick Sokari Braide (1882–1918) as a lens for critically engaging the development of contemporary African Pentecostalism. Braide’s campaigns against charms, moral corrup...
Emimeke H. Dienye — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 15 May 2023
The paper sets out to examine the underpinnings of diplomacy in resolving conflicts globally, especially those in the African continent. The content is anchored in most literature as portraying a hotbed of conflicts, wit...
Clement Eloghosa Odia — University of Benin
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 19 June 2020
Ecopoetic discourse foregrounds a new interpretive approach to the study of environment, especially in the humanities which treats it as a cultural phenomenon. This notion has inspired the ecopoetical treatment of the ea...
John Ebimobowei Yeseibo — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 July 2017
The feminist goal is to usher in an integrated human society, one that is free of gender imbalance. The primary aim of feminism is to expunge from society all forms of male dominance, oppression, subjugation and marginal...
Diana-Abasi I. Francis — University of Calabar
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 20 June 2016
The paper analyzes the trend and nature of electoral violence in Nigeria. It places electoral violence in the context of Merton’s strain theory, Vold’s conflict theory and Hirschi’s social control theory in order to dete...
