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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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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...
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...
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...
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...
ThankGod Bekweri Amadi — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 12 June 2020
This paper critically examines the roles and theories of prayer in human existence. It raises questions on the logicality of some theories of prayer such as petition, confession and thanksgiving; since according to some...
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...
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...
Kennedy O. Edegbe — College of Education, Ekiadolor- Benin
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 03 July 2019
Patience E. Urhiofe
Effurun
This paper seeks to interrogate the problem of oil politics and nationhood in the Niger Delta leveraging on the subaltern strand of postcolonial theory. Peter Omoko’s Crude Nightmen (2015) and Stephen Kekeghe’s Pond of L...
Salem Ochala Ejeba — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 03 July 2019
Certain segments and tones in Igala are better viewed as phonologically underspecified for an appropriate account of the surface phonetic specification. This paper establishes the phenomenon of phonological underspecific...
Demola Lewis — University of Ibadan
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 03 July 2019
Sulaiman Ayegboka
AGREEment and ALIGNment approaches have been deployed in mutual exclusivity to evaluate total, opaque and transparent vowel harmony patterns in language, with problems arguably associated with each approach. The AGREEmen...
Kialee Nyiayaana — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 02 July 2019
The minority question has been an important issue in Nigerian politics, dating back to the colonial era. This article takes a look at the historical and social basis of the minority question in Nigeria. It analyzes how t...
Imomitimi Armstrong — Niger Delta University
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 07 July 2018
This paper begins on the contention that scholars of African oral literature have exhibited a “best avoided” approach towards formula, the most important aspect of the oral-formulaic theory of Milman Parry and Albert Lor...
Baridisi Hope Isaac — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 05 July 2018
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...
Obari Gomba — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 05 July 2018
This paper examines the relationship between poetry and society as indicated by the creativity of poets. Poetry is an age-long form of art; it has existed across communities and cultures. Through its capacity to combine...
