Articles — Kiabara Journal of Humanities

African Literature

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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African Literature

Innovations towards the Representation of the Other than-Human in African Literature

Laurel Chikwado Madumere — Imo State Polytechnic · Vol. 25, No. 1 · 03 July 2019

African modern literature is fraught with protests. At first it was the protests against imperialism; later it became a protest against African postcolonial elites and neo-colonialism. The literature, at the stages above...

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Cultural Studies

Oil Politics and Nationhood in Peter Omoko’s Crude Nightmen And Stephen Kekeghe’s Pond of Leeches

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...

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