Religion & Spirituality
Nimi Wariboko
— Boston University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 07 January 2026
Bringing Richard Kearney’s anatheisti philosophy into conversation with Nimi Wariboko’s account of African Pentecostal praxis, the paper argues that Pentecostal spirituality harbors a radical theological grammar beneath...
Religion & Spirituality
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...
Political Thought
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...
Art, Music & Performance
Okoronkwo, Ikechukwu Francis
— University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 01 June 2023
This study examines ‘Dignity in Sports’ (1997) by Ikeme Sunday Udoka and ‘The Encounter in Sports’ (1998) by Okoronkwo Chukwuemeka, two sculptures installed at the University of Port Harcourt’s sports complex. Despite th...
Cultural Studies
Anietie Ntuk Esitoho
— College of Arts and Science, Nnung Ukim, Ikono
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 17 May 2023
This study examines the transformation of the Offiong dance from its traditional village performances in Ibibio communities to modern adaptations for stage and screen. Motivated by the need to preserve and promote indige...
History & Memory
Daniel Olisa Iweze
— University of Benin
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 17 May 2023
This paper focuses on Col. Samuel O. Ogbemudia`s military career and soldiering exploits during the Nigerian Civil War as well as his role in the post-civil war reconstruction programme of the Midwest State, especially W...
Political Thought
Anthony Umoh
— University of Uyo
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 17 May 2023
The right of members of the public to access information held by public institutions is the fundamental prerequisite for the enthronement of good governance, advancement of human rights and consolidation of democratic no...
Sociology & Anthropology
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...
African Literature
Onyemaechi Udumukwu
— University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 29, No. 1
· 12 May 2023
Americanah (2013) interrogates the discourse of stereotypes in the new African diasporan experience in the United States. It does this because stereotypes produce fixed statements of reality that conceal underlying polit...
African Literature
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...
African Literature
Dean Odeh
— Niger Delta University
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 19 June 2020
Language is an integral part of culture. It expresses a cultural reality and speakers identify themselves and others through their use of language which is the index or symbol of their social or cultural identity. Human...
Political Thought
Ikwor Ibe Afiauwa
— University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 19 June 2020
The paper examined Oshiomhole’s and Wike’s speeches describing them as cases of image laundering, face threatening and battering instances. Brown and Levinson’s Face Theory was used to establish how both speakers’ used i...
Language & Linguistics
Baridisi Hope Isaac
— University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 18 June 2020
This paper discusses word order in the object position of basic sentence constructions in Gokana. The paper adopts a descriptive analysis. Given the level of relatedness between Kana and Gokana, it is often assumed that...
African Literature
Uchenna Ohagwam
— Rivers State University
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 18 June 2020
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...
African Literature
Bernard Otonye Stephen
— Niger Delta University
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 18 June 2020
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...
