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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...
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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...
Achibi Samuel Dede — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
David Nnanna Udeli
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into global cinema is
reshaping how stories are created, distributed, and received.
Nollywood, as one of the world’s largest film industries, faces unique
ethical and cu...
Nsikak Effiong Okon — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 03 June 2026
John O. Obineche
Ben O. Onu
This article examines how prosperity theology shapes women’s religious agency within Assemblies of God churches in rural Rivers State, Nigeria. Rather than treating the prosperity gospel as either purely liberative or ex...
Eddy Azanor — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 07 January 2026
The seventeenth-century Jansenist controversy over grace and free will
is often framed as a closed European Catholic episode. Yet, its theological questions—human agency, divine sovereignty, moral rigor, and institution...
Lily Chimuanya — Covenant University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 07 January 2026
Language is central to constructing presidential legitimacy. This study xamines how legitimacy is discursively established in inaugural speeches from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi, drawing on van Leeuwen’s (2007) and...
Lola Akande — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Nzube Nlebedim (University of Port Harcourt)
Most postcolonial African novels depict the city space in relation to smaller, less gentrified fields such as towns and villages. Such schemata unveil a wide range of complexities that lend themselves to spatial analysis...
Samson Osariemen Eguavoen — University of Benin, PMB 1154, Benin City.
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
This paper explores how poetry functions as a form of social therapy by examining the poetics of collective resistance in the works of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Idris Amali. Drawing on psychoanalytic criticism and criti...
Achibi Samuel Dede — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
This paper critically examines Night of a Thousand Laughs (NTL), the landmark comedy platform created by Opa Williams, as a cultural and economic phenomenon that shaped contemporary Nigerian entertainment. Using a qualit...
Hopeful Honesty Bafamodei — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
How do sacred forests—long revered as the dwelling places of ancestors and spirits—sustain both ecological integrity and human wellbeing in the Niger Delta? Can indigenous custodial practices survive the pressures of ext...
Obiora Anamaleze — Department of Fine Arts and Design, Wigwe University, Isiokpo, Rivers State, Nigeria1
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Njoku Ken Iheukwumere (Wigwe University
The female body has remained a central motif in Nigerian art, symbolizing ideals of beauty, cultural identity, and social values from the traditional to the contemporary period. However, its representation continues to g...
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...
Chibuike Chidi Egbua — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
This study investigates the ontological symbolism of ritual objects among the Elele-Alimini people of the Ikwerre ethnic group in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. Employing historical and phenomenological approaches, it explores h...
Anthony Njoku — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 03 July 2019
Judith Ezeamaka
This paper discusses the digression of two postcolonial African novelists from their avowed philosophy of disillusionment which dominates almost all their writings. The novelists’ treatment of the precolonial African soc...
Tamunosiki V. Ogan — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the rational foundation of utilitarianism and the place of minorities in pursuance of their overall happiness. To this end, the paper juxtaposes the assumption of utilitarian princ...
