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Isaac Ojo Atere and Chukwunomsue Juliana Nwazodoni
initiation rites, and communal identity; and Nwapa’s treatment of Igbo marriage, motherhood, religion, gender expectations and women’s economic agency. The analysis is grounded in Frantz Fanon’s theory … novels preserve cultural knowledge while critically interrogating traditions that generate exclusion, conflict and gendered oppression. The paper concludes that the African novel functions as a cultural artefact through which African
Onyema Anyanwu Uzoamaka and Christopher E. Nwabudike
Using a qualitative, descriptive methodology, this research analyses the purposive selection of Ten (10) gendered images that represent African cultural heritage to adequately explore the semiotic ensembles deployed by these … fashion, colour, and accessories interlock to construct cultural identities of African celebrities. Additionally, female gender is concerned with self-assertion rather societal valuation. This research contributes to the understanding
Mathias Okey Chukwu and Favour Raphael Ntor
unhealthy patriarchal norms and exploit anxieties for commercial gain, ultimately promoting distorted understandings of gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships
Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke
Existing scholarship on Maya Angelou has examined her poetry in relation to racial and gender identity, resilience, liberation, autobiography, orality, and the representation of Black womanhood, while studies of Kamau
Chiagozie Eburuaja
other-representation, comparison, polarisation, negotiation and resistance. These strategies construct and negotiate social, religious, gendered, and national identities. The study concludes that identity is not fixed, but emerges through discursive
Eze Nnaemeka Richard and Obasi Ngozika Linda
Existing scholarship on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah has examined racism, racial identity, diaspora, gender, hair, language, and immigrant experiences. However, the specific ways racial microaggressions shape the negotiation
Bukola Alfred, Morenike, Elizabeth Kolapo and Beke-ere Mienbi Singer
social tensions: parental control versus youthful resistance, religious ideals versus moral lapses, and shifting gender expectations within the Nigerian household. The research therefore positions her skits as significant multimodal texts
Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke
Critical studies of Gwendolyn Brooks’s poetry have extensively examined questions of race, gender, identity, marginalisation, urban experience, and Black social life. Less attention, however, has been given
Mary J. N. Okolie and Anya Ude Egwu
connection that studies of the war’s ecological toll and studies of its gendered violence have so far treated separately. Extending “ecobordering,” a term developed for petrofiction and resource extraction
Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Kenneth Ahaiwe C., Chinasa Abonyi, Henrietta Okafor and Chidimma Irene Odoh
close textual and comparative analysis. It argues that Faceless portrays urban poverty, environmental degradation, gender inequality and institutional neglect as conditions that expose Fofo and Baby T to homelessness, exploitation