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

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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Cultural Studies

From the Village Moonlight to Stage and Screen: A Choreographic Study of the Offiong Dance of Eastern Ibibio Ikono, Akwa Ibom State

Anietie Ntuk Esitoho — College of Arts and Science, Nnung Ukim, Ikono · Vol. 29, No. 1 · 17 May 2023

This study examines the transformation of the Offiong dance from its traditional village performances in Ibibio communities to modern adaptations for stage and screen. Motivated by the need to preserve and promote indige...

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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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