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Fater VANGER and Chika O. OSE-AGBO
most African countries as in Nigeria, colonialism introduced an exploitative system in which the people and their lands were subjected to intensive extraction. This exploitation of the environment has continued … colonial residue, with natural elements constantly destroyed decades after formal colonialism ended. Postcolonial writers, particularly Eco-poets, have foregrounded environmental destruction as one of the most devastating colonial outcomes. This
Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze and Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie
postcolonial fiction, ordinary words, objects, colours and structures can acquire metaphorical meanings that illuminate colonial legacies, cultural conflict, social hierarchy and struggles over identity. This study examines the titles … Redness and Alaa Al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building as conceptual metaphors of coloniality. The study adopts George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory as its principal analytical
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 … political dominance, colonial intrusion situates them more at the margin than indigenous culture does. Thus, gender coloniality is a continued domination of women in postcolonial Africa. From postcolonial feminist theory
Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke, Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Goodluck Chinenye Kadiri
Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda through the interconnected concepts of colonial Othering, fractured identity, dehumanisation, memory, and reconciliation. It argues that Tadjo’s representation … violence to primordial ethnic antagonism by drawing attention to the historical processes through which colonial administration racialised and institutionalised distinctions between Hutu and Tutsi. Drawing principally on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze, Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie, Kenneth Ahaiwe C., Chinasa Abonyi and Henrietta Okafor
Heart of Redness. Drawing from Anibal Quijano’s theory of the coloniality of power, the study argues that language functions as an instrument through which colonial and neo-colonial systems … emphasized religion, politics and identity, the ecological implications of linguistic dominance remain underexplored. Integrating coloniality of power with decolonial ecology, the study demonstrates how colonial-modern concepts such as development
Ndukwe, Desmond Azoma and Ogheneruemu Akpore
This study examines how religious plurality, ordinarily a supposed asset, has produced
Pascal Iheanacho OHANMA and Onwuamaeze S. ALI
contemporary Anglophone Caribbean writers articulate environmental degradation, resource extraction, and climatic vulnerability alongside colonial historical trajectories. The primary text corpus comprises Diana McCaulay’s novel Dog-Heart (2010), Sharon Millar … trauma; and Roffey deploys indigenous mythology to foreground human-nonhuman relationality and resist neo-colonial ecocide. Together, these texts re-conceptualize Caribbean environments not as passive backdrops to catastrophe
Chinasa Abonyi
these foreground the uncanny and the defamiliarization experienced by Africans as a result of colonial conquest and political disillusionment. Consequently, it can be said that there is a detachment, whereby … people no longer recognize themselves from the existing coloniality that interferes with their indigenous way of life. Scholarship shows that this estrangement is mostly felt in the isolation that comes
Vivien Bello-Osagie
force in resistance rather than a mere backdrop. This also complicates conventional understandings of colonial violence, which becomes not just domination of human bodies but an attempt to reduce land … participates in meaning-making about human survival, more-than-human participation, and freedom from colonial control
Vivien Bello-Osagie
force in resistance rather than a mere backdrop. This also complicates conventional understandings of colonial violence, which becomes not just domination of human bodies but an attempt to reduce land … participates in meaning-making about human survival, more-than-human participation, and freedom from colonial control