Christian Tuotamuno Diri — Federal University, Otuoke
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
This study employs media framing analysis and six (6) empirical studies on environmental communication, reporting, and coverage on different aspects of the Niger Delta were analysed. These empirical studies were purposiv...
Ekine Euphemia Dumeayam — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Mfon Umoren Ekpootu University of Port Harcourt
Women have always participated in local environmental and social struggles. In the colonial era, one of the most notable protests by women was the protest by Ibibio and Igbo women in 1929 against the British colonial adm...
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...
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...
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...
Okwudiri Anasiudu — University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Principles of mimesis play crucial roles in the narrative design in Chimeka Garricks’ Tomorrow Died Yesterday. Garricks deploys them to create a fictive world in which images of oil, the environment, and coloniality of p...
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...
Igbani, Robbins Owede — Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Scholarly literature on the Presidential Amnesty Programme as peacebuilding strategy abounds, leaving institutionalized corporate peacebuilding comparatively underexplored. Thus, this study examined the Partnership Initi...
Oyeh O. Otu — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 July 2026
Obumneme F. Anasi
In our essay entitled “Oil Politics and Violence in Postcolonial Niger Delta Drama” we examined oil politics and violence in selected Niger Delta plays such as Ola Rotimi’s Ovoramwen Nogbaisi, and Akassa You Mi; Miesoin...
Clement Eloghosa Odia — University of Benin
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 19 June 2020
Ecopoetic discourse foregrounds a new interpretive approach to the study of environment, especially in the humanities which treats it as a cultural phenomenon. This notion has inspired the ecopoetical treatment of the ea...
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...
Kennedy O. Edegbe — College of Education, Ekiadolor- Benin
· Vol. 25, No. 1
· 03 July 2019
Patience E. Urhiofe
Effurun
This paper seeks to interrogate the problem of oil politics and nationhood in the Niger Delta leveraging on the subaltern strand of postcolonial theory. Peter Omoko’s Crude Nightmen (2015) and Stephen Kekeghe’s Pond of L...
