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Religion & Spirituality

Christian Ethics and the Paradox of Economic Development in Nigeria: A Moral Economy Perspective

Eunice Chidinma Osuagwu — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

Onuegbu Isaac Ameme

Nigeria presents a striking paradox: despite being one of the most Christian-populated countries in Africa, the nation continues to experience persistent economic underdevelopment, systemic corruption, deep inequality...

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Religion & Spirituality

Divine Panegyric: Unveiling Yahweh’s Origins in Deuteronomy 33:2 to 3

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...

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Religion & Spirituality

The Pentecostal Art of Anatheism: Response to Richard Kearney’s “God Making: Theopoetics and Anatheism”

Nimi Wariboko — Boston University · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 07 January 2026

Bringing Richard Kearney’s anatheisti philosophy into conversation with Nimi Wariboko’s account of African Pentecostal praxis, the paper argues that Pentecostal spirituality harbors a radical theological grammar beneath...

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Political Thought

(Im)politeness in Political Speeches in Nigeria: The Oshiomhole’s and Wike’s Speeches

Ikwor Ibe Afiauwa — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 26, No. 1 · 19 June 2020

The paper examined Oshiomhole’s and Wike’s speeches describing them as cases of image laundering, face threatening and battering instances. Brown and Levinson’s Face Theory was used to establish how both speakers’ used i...

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Language & Linguistics

The Semantics of Rhetoric in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Ikwor Ibe Afiauwa — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 24, No. 1 · 18 May 2018

This paper examined the concern of the limitations of human language, which create a confusion of ideas and impairment of meaning, through a qualitative analysis of Willian Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The Ideational The...

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