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African Literature

From Historical Memory to African Futurity: Visual Culture and Epistemic Resistance in Roye Okupe's Graphic Novels

Favour Obirinma Nwanne — Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State. · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

The ways Africa is represented shape how its histories, cultures and identities are understood. The contemporary African graphic novel provides a space where such representations can be questioned, recovered and reimagin...

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Cultural Studies

Disability and Dignity: Relational Ethics and Bodily Difference in Ikwerre Religious Thought

Christian Uchegbu — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Madiode Fortune Walter - University of Port Harcourt

Disability raises questions that extend far beyond the body. It reveals how communities construct personhood, negotiate belonging, and affirm or deny human dignity through their cultural and religious worldviews. Despite...

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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

The Big Man of God: Power Dynamics, Status Symbols, and Financial Negotiations in Neo-Pentecostalism

Chigozie Samuel Nwaka — Covenant Theological Academy, Umunam-Atta Njaba LGA Imo State, Nigeria · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

In the context of widening socio-economic inequalities, weakened state institutions, and growing conditions of global precarity, Nigerian Neo-Pentecostalism has emerged as a significant arena for negotiating religious au...

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African Literature

Yoruba Symbolism as Indigenous Knowledge in Amos Tutuola’s The Palm Wine Drinkard

Lotachukwu Cynthia Ononaiwu — Rivers State University · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

Adagogo C. Brown

This study critically examines Yoruba symbolism in Amos Tutuola’s The Palm Wine Drinkard as a repository of indigenous knowledge, challenging readings that categorise the narrative as mere folklore or fantasy. The stu...

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