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Language & Linguistics

Narrating Precarity: Linguistic Fragmentation and Digital Aesthetics in Modern Nigerian Fiction

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...

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African Literature

Adichie’s Americanah and the Discourse of Stereotypes in the New African Diaspora

Onyemaechi Udumukwu — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 29, No. 1 · 12 May 2023

Kenedy Enesha

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...

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African Literature

Gender as a Social Construct. A Study of Women’s Language Use in Selected Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nneka Umera-Okeke — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 23, No. 1 · 02 July 2017

Various approaches have been used to describe how women use language in the society. They range from the deficit approach, dominance and difference approaches to the modern social constructionist approach. This study obs...

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