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African Literature

Unravelling Environmental Narratives in Selected Poems of Ebi Yeibo's A Song for Tomorrow and Wellington Nwogu's The Yawning Earth

Ebidenyefa Charity Nikade — Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island · Vol. 33, No. 2 · 08 September 2026

For several decades, the Niger Delta region has stood as a global emblem of environmental injustice and ecological fraud, a consequence of its fabled wealth in oil and gas—a paradox where the benefactor of golden riches...

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Spatial Negotiations: Anthropomorphism and the Niger Delta Landscape in Ebi Yeibo’s Poetry

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...

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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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