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Gender & Identity Studies

Oil, Gender, and Environmental Security in Black November: An Ecofeminist Perspective

Joyce Onoromhenre Agofure — Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria · Vol. 33, No. 2 · 08 September 2026

This paper explores the complex interplay between oil, gender dynamics, and environmental security as depicted in Jeta Amata’s film Black November (2012). While prior research has examined the environmental impacts of oi...

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African Literature

Formula in the Praise-Chants of Chief Adolphus Munamuna, Ọụbẹbẹ Kẹnị Ịzọn Ibe (The Chief Oral Poet of the Ịzọn Nation)

Imomitimi Armstrong — Niger Delta University · Vol. 24, No. 1 · 07 July 2018

This paper begins on the contention that scholars of African oral literature have exhibited a “best avoided” approach towards formula, the most important aspect of the oral-formulaic theory of Milman Parry and Albert Lor...

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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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Gender & Identity Studies

Challenging Patriarchy: The Feminist Perspective in Stella Oyedepo’s Brain Has No Gender

John Ebimobowei Yeseibo — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 23, No. 1 · 01 July 2017

The feminist goal is to usher in an integrated human society, one that is free of gender imbalance. The primary aim of feminism is to expunge from society all forms of male dominance, oppression, subjugation and marginal...

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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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