Articles — Kiabara Journal of Humanities

Language & Linguistics

Negotiating Linguistic Precarity: Phonological Interference in the English Speech of Hausa–English Bilinguals

Oremire Judith Ehibor — Edo State University · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Salome Hosea Achi - Covenant University salome.achipgs@stu.cu.edu.ng Theresa Adetola Adewumi - Covenant University adetola.adewumipgs@stu.cu.edu.ng C. U. C. Ugorji - University of Benin ugorjicuc@uniben.edu

Navigating between two distinct language systems often subjects bilingual speakers to a form of communicative vulnerability, an instability that defines the experience of linguistic precarity. This precarity manifests cl...

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Cultural Studies

An Analysis of the Tonal System of Opobo-Igbo

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...

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African Literature

Language and Cultural Identity: The Izonization of English in Gabriel Okara’s The Voice

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...

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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

A Preliminary Description of Phonological Underspecification in Igala

Salem Ochala Ejeba — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 25, No. 1 · 03 July 2019

Certain segments and tones in Igala are better viewed as phonologically underspecified for an appropriate account of the surface phonetic specification. This paper establishes the phenomenon of phonological underspecific...

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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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Gender & Identity Studies

What was the Notion of ‘The Other’ in Antiquity? An Examination from the Perspective of the Ancient Greeks

Goke A. Akinboye — University of Ibadan · Vol. 22, No. 2 · 20 June 2016

Gill Oluwatosin Adekannbi

The idea of ‘the other’ and ‘otherness’ often relates to the state of a group being different from certain individuals, groups or peoples. Over and over again, a greater or superior group, using certain social distin...

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