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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 107–128PDF of The Novel as a Cultural Artefact in Africa

   The Novel as a Cultural Artefact in Africa

   Isaac Ojo Atere and Chukwunomsue Juliana Nwazodoni

   social structures and worldviews of African communities. Drawing on literature as a repository of cultural memory, the study examines Achebe’s representation of Igbo communal life, oral traditions, religious beliefs … Frantz Fanon’s theory of national culture and Jan Assmann’s theory of cultural memory. Using qualitative textual analysis, the study demonstrates that these representations are neither static nor merely

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 442–462PDF of Psychosomatic Expressions in Selected Poems of Maya Angelou and Kamau Brathwaite

   Psychosomatic Expressions in Selected Poems of Maya Angelou and Kamau Brathwaite

   Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke

   Black womanhood, while studies of Kamau Brathwaite have largely focused on Caribbean history, African cultural memory, colonialism, diaspora, nation language, rhythm, and formal experimentation. However, the relationship between psychological experience

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

   alienation and neo-colonial dependency. However, the novels also present indigenous languages, oral traditions, cultural memory and hybrid speech as forms of epistemic resistance that restore communal and sustainable relationships