Articles — Kiabara Journal of Humanities

African Literature

Introduction: The Niger Delta in the Environmental Humanities

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...

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Cultural Studies

Ritual, Resistance and Epistemic Sovereignty: The Practice of Ngígé Ówhór in Modern Indigenous Jurisprudence

Chibuike Chidi Egbua — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Maureen Wubi Worlu Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Wubi.maureen@iaue.edu.ng

The persistence of indigenous knowledge systems in postcolonial Africa continues to expose unresolved tensions between state-centred legal systems and locally grounded traditions of knowing. These tensions have become mo...

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Religion & Spirituality

Divine Panegyric: Unveiling Yahweh’s Origins in Deuteronomy 33:2 to 3

Elkanah Oluwaseun Grillo — Osun State University · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

Deuteronomy 33:2 to 3 presents one of the most enigmatic and revealing texts in the Hebrew Bible. Often read as a poetic prelude to Moses’ blessing of Israel, it functions less as simple hymnody and more as a panegyri...

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Religion & Spirituality

Divided by Grace, United in Experience: Rethinking Jansenism for African Christianity Today

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...

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Political Thought

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) As A Tool for The Protection and Advancement of Human Rights in Nigeria

Anthony Umoh — University of Uyo · Vol. 29, No. 1 · 17 May 2023

Barinaadaa Nwinkol

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...

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Cultural Studies

‘Palmwine is as good as St Rémy’: Leke Ogunfeyimi’s example in Weaker Sex

Lekan Balogun — Victoria University · Vol. 22, No. 2 · 19 June 2016

In this paper, I examine the tension between traditional African value-system on marriage and gender relations and Western perception and its interrogation often described as feminism. Since the contact with the European...

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