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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 168–187PDF of Environmental Destruction as a Colonial Residue in Nnimmo Bassey’s I Will Not Dance to Your Beat and Richard Inya’s Katakata

   Environmental Destruction as a Colonial Residue in Nnimmo Bassey’s I Will Not Dance to Your Beat and Richard Inya’s Katakata

   Fater VANGER and Chika O. OSE-AGBO

   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 paper examines Nnimmo Bassey … mechanisation of nature as colonial patterns of exploitation that still dictate Nigeria’s environmental destruction. By revealing these ongoing systems of environmental damage, the paper concludes that both Bassey