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1. 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 … postcolonialism to show how alienation is represented through marginalization of individuals and communities in the Niger Delta. In The Activist, Ojaide presents a landscape of ecological devastation and social injustice

2. 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

3. 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

   from ancestral ecological knowledge. The findings show that colonial discourse normalizes environmental degradation, cultural alienation and neo-colonial dependency. However, the novels also present indigenous languages, oral traditions, cultural memory

4. Volume 22, Issue 2 (September 2022)pp. 1–24PDF of Colonial Othering, Fractured Identity, and the Ethics of Reconciliation, A Re-reading of Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Hearts of Rwanda.

   Colonial Othering, Fractured Identity, and the Ethics of Reconciliation, A Re-reading of Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Hearts of Rwanda.

   Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke, Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Goodluck Chinenye Kadiri

   Edward Said’s account of colonial representation, Frantz Fanon’s analysis of psychological alienation, and Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics, the article examines how colonial categories of difference became