Articles — Kiabara Journal of Humanities

Political Thought

Depicting Failed Governance in Postcolonial Nigeria: A Critical Reading of Achebe, Habila and Nwabueze

Abinye Titus-Green — Rivers State University · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

Oluchi Stephanie Onuabuobi

This paper employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to interrogate how Achebe, Habila, and Nwabueze deploy narrative language and symbolic representations to expose ideological contradictions within postcolonial Nige...

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African Literature

Negotiating Female Agency in Olú Ọbáfẹmí’s Wheels: A Critical Discourse and Stylistic Approach

Abubakre Samiat Olúbùnmi — University of Ilorin, Ilorin. Nigeria · Vol. 31, No. 2 · 01 October 2025

Oyekulehin Abubakre

This study employs feminist stylistics and critical discourse analysis to examine the construction of gender identities in Olú Ọbáfẹmí's Wheels (2000). It investigates how the female characters, Àbẹkẹ and Kẹmi, are repre...

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