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...
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...
Emmanuel Ikechukwu Woji — Hensard University, Toru-Orua, Bayelsa State
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Ntiense James Usua - University of Port Harcourt
Kenneth Chigozie Osunwa - Hensard University
Streaming has transformed how films are accessed, but it has not eliminated the social reasons audiences still gather in cinemas. The cinema remains a cultural space where films are collectively experienced, discussed, a...
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...
Obiora Anamaleze — Department of Fine Arts and Design, Wigwe University, Isiokpo, Rivers State, Nigeria1
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Anaele Lucky - Department of Fine Arts and Design
Visual culture is a critical site where power, identity, and knowledge are negotiated. Within contemporary African art, materiality has emerged as a powerful means of challenging colonial and patriarchal constructions of...
Henry Eshiole Matthew — Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Violence has become one of the defining historical realities shaping the trajectory of Christianity in contemporary Nigeria. While existing scholarship has extensively documented insurgency, communal conflicts, attacks o...
Marcillina Chidinma Ibe — University of Nigeria Nsukka
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 16 June 2026
Oluchi Esther Ifeanyi
Walter Ugwuagbor
Public discourse in Nigeria’s digital sphere has increasingly become a
site of political contestation and identity struggle. As social media users
engage in critique of governance, they often confront the dual
challen...
Eunice Chidinma Osuagwu — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Olaide Deborah Brown
This study presents a phonological analysis of the tonal system of
Opobo-Igbo, an under-documented variety within the Igbo dialect
continuum. Although Igbo is widely described as a two-tone language
with downstep, exi...
Elkanah Oluwaseun Grillo — Osun State University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Deuteronomy 33:2 to 3 presents one of the most enigmatic and revealing
texts in the Hebrew Bible. Often read as a poetic prelude to Moses’
blessing of Israel, it functions less as simple hymnody and more as a
panegyri...
Julius Nsirim Akani — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 09 June 2026
Between Here and Nowhere: Migration, Belonging, and Nationality
in Segun Afolabi’s Goodbye Lucille” interrogates the complex realities of
Nigerian migrants in Europe, exploring the interplay of history,
identity, and...
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...
Dean Odeh — Niger Delta University
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 19 June 2020
Language is an integral part of culture. It expresses a cultural reality and speakers identify themselves and others through their use of language which is the index or symbol of their social or cultural identity. Human...
Jude Chinweuba Asike — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 01 July 2018
One of the most important areas of philosophy is that of the relationship the life after death. Quite often this has become a very important issue in the life of Igala people. They have an allowed interest in the concept...
