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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 116–140PDF of African And Global Crises In Wale Okediran’s Strange Encounters And Emmanuel Ojukwu’s Sunset For Mr Goodman

   African And Global Crises In Wale Okediran’s Strange Encounters And Emmanuel Ojukwu’s Sunset For Mr Goodman

   Philip Umaru and Esther Temitayo Adelana

   African literature has consistently served as a medium for interrogating social, political, economic and moral challenges confronting society. It is not merely a means for entertainment, but an instrument … social force capable of provoking critical consciousness and inspiring societal transformation. It concludes that African literature remains relevant in addressing contemporary global crises, by serving as a voice of resistance

2. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 269–289PDF of Decolonial Ecology, Linguistic Hegemony and Indigenous Environmental Epistemologies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness

   Decolonial Ecology, Linguistic Hegemony and Indigenous Environmental Epistemologies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness

   Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie, Kenneth Ahaiwe C., Chinasa Abonyi and Henrietta Okafor

   This study investigates the relationship between linguistic hegemony and environmental consciousness in

3. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 85–101PDF of Titles as Conceptual Metaphors of Coloniality in Selected African Novels

   Titles as Conceptual Metaphors of Coloniality in Selected African Novels

   Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze and Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie

   Titles often provide condensed representations of the thematic and ideological concerns of

4. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 23, Issue 1 (September 2023)pp. 57–79PDF of Eco-Social Oppression and the Marginalised Child in Amma Darko’s Faceless and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

   Eco-Social Oppression and the Marginalised Child in Amma Darko’s Faceless and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

   Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Kenneth Ahaiwe C., Chinasa Abonyi, Henrietta Okafor and Chidimma Irene Odoh

   This study examines eco-social oppression and the marginalised child in Amma

5. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)pp. 1–19PDF of Non-Human Agency and Ecological Resistance in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King

   Non-Human Agency and Ecological Resistance in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King

   Vivien Bello-Osagie

   In The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste presents war as more than a

6. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)PDF of Non-Human Agency and Ecological Resistance in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King

   Non-Human Agency and Ecological Resistance in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King

   Vivien Bello-Osagie

   Abstract In The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste presents war as more than

7. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 23, Issue 2 (September 2023)pp. 80–93PDF of Foregrounded Margin in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees

   Foregrounded Margin in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees

   Henrietta Ifeoma Okafor and Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze

   result of the atrocities, mayhem, and bloodbath that come with war. War narratives in African literature, particularly those written by Nigerian writers, navigate around the struggle for survival of heterosexual

8. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 23, Issue 1 (September 2023)pp. 21–37PDF of Gender Coloniality: Patriarchy and Feminist Resistance in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero

   Gender Coloniality: Patriarchy and Feminist Resistance in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero

   Chinasa Abonyi

   Gender coloniality in African literature is characterized by feminist identity, which is twisted into uncertainties and continued abuse. Just as women are unduly subjected to masculinist and socio-economic

9. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 22, Issue 1 (September 2022)pp. 1–15PDF of Ambiguity and the Modernist Question: Characterising Estrangement in Selected African Novels

   Ambiguity and the Modernist Question: Characterising Estrangement in Selected African Novels

   Chinasa Abonyi

   Modern African literature since its inception explores several modernist tensions such as ambiguity, alienation, solitude, and estrangement, these foreground the uncanny and the defamiliarization experienced by Africans as a result