Wellington Onyebuchi Nwogu — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
A vast number of Tanure Ojaide’s poetry ventilates the painful experience of the Niger Delta people. This paper investigates the past and present conditions of the Niger Delta environment in selected poems of Tanure Ojai...
Sophia Obi — Ministry of Information, Orientation and Strategy, Bayelsa State
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Oil was first discovered in commercial quantities in Oloibiri, in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria (then Rivers State, currently in Bayelsa State) and was exported in 1958. It was followed by Ogoni (Rivers State) in 195...
Adaobi Ejechi — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Dominant narratives often frame revolution, particularly insurgency, as chaotic, irrational, and destructive. In the Niger Delta, this framing continues to obscure the historical, political, and ecological contexts that...
Oziomachukwu Ejechi — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Psalms Chinaka University of Port Harcourt
Oyeh Otu University of Port Harcourt
While much of the existing scholarship on the Niger Delta focuses on ecological degradation and environmental injustice, the role of anthropomorphism in shaping the region’s literary landscapes remains underexplored. Ant...
A. Chukwudumebi Obute — AFREXTRACT Project, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Iva Peša AFREXTRACT Project
Jackson Tamunosaki Jack AFREXTRACT Project
Since the evolution of the Nigerian literary tradition in the 1950s, itself a successor to orature, numerous writers have consistently opted to make society the epicentre of their enterprise. In fact, a handful have even...
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...
