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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 62–84PDF of Scavengers of Democracy: Political Satire and Poetic Resistance in Tanure Ojaide’s Democratic Warlords and The Fate of Vultures

   Scavengers of Democracy: Political Satire and Poetic Resistance in Tanure Ojaide’s Democratic Warlords and The Fate of Vultures

   Adaobi Constance Muonagor and Rhema F. E. Oguche

   This study critically explores the intersection of political satire and poetic resistance in Tanure Ojaide’s Democratic Warlords and The Fate of Vultures. Through a close reading of both poems … paper interrogates how Ojaide uses satire as a stylistic and ideological weapon to critique the failures of postcolonial African leadership, particularly in the Nigerian democratic landscape. The analysis draws

2. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 141–156PDF of Postcolonial Alienation and The Search for Self in Selected Nigerian Novels

   Postcolonial Alienation and The Search for Self in Selected Nigerian Novels

   Ogheneruemu Akpore and Ndukwe, Desmond Azoma

   This study interrogates postcolonial alienation and the search for self in Tanure Ojaide’sThe Activist and Helon Habila Oil on Water. The study employs Femi Osofisan’spost-Negritude variant … represented through marginalization of individuals and communities in the Niger Delta. In The Activist, Ojaide presents a landscape of ecological devastation and social injustice where characters are estranged from their

3. 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

   which comes with the detachment of characters in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Tanre Ojaide’s The Activist, and Nawal El’ Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero. It is discovered