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Gender & Identity Studies

From Stereotype to Cliché: Class, Gender Views, and the Cultural Archive of Modern Afrobeats

Abdullahi Tunde Ishola — Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Faosat Biola Olagunju - Al-Hikmah University Balqis Olabisi Popoola - Al-Hikmah University Abdullateef Babatunde Oseni - Al-Hikmah University

This study examines how popular social stereotype of female materialism is reinforced and legitimated in Afrobeats songs. It draws on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as its theoretical framework to investigate how Afro...

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African Literature

Constructing the 'Perfect Victim': Media Language, Headlines, and Hierarchies of Justice in Newspaper Rape Reports

Chisom Paula Ogamba — Babcock University, Illlisan Remo, Ogun, Nigeria · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Blessing Chidinma Aaron - Babcock University aaronb@hs.babcock.edu.ng Olubunmi Idowu - Babcock University idowuo@babcock.edu.ng Goodseed Ochulor - Babcock University ochulorg@babcock.edu.ng

This study interrogates how Nigerian newspaper reportage linguistically constructs the “perfect victim” and produces a hierarchical representation of rape victims. While prior studies have examined rape narratives throug...

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Language & Linguistics

Pragmatic Contradiction, Precarious Citizenship and Structural Resistance: A Comparative Pragma-Linguistic Analysis of the Nigerian and Ghanaian Constitutions

Solomon Osuokam Ogbeh — University of Benin · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Globally, the credibility of electoral processes is largely predicated on Constitutions promise democratic inclusion while simultaneously creating unequal experiences of citizenship through the language of authority, rig...

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Political Thought

Face-Saving Strategies and Context Collapse in Nigerian Socio-Political Social Media Discourse

Marcillina Chidinma Ibe — University of Nigeria Nsukka · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 16 June 2026

Oluchi Esther Ifeanyi Walter Ugwuagbor

Public discourse in Nigeria’s digital sphere has increasingly become a site of political contestation and identity struggle. As social media users engage in critique of governance, they often confront the dual challen...

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