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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 248–268PDF of Yoruba Epistemology: A Holistic System of Knowledge Acquisition

   Yoruba Epistemology: A Holistic System of Knowledge Acquisition

   Olugbenga Seminapa Okesola

   This paper argues that Yoruba epistemology constitutes a sophisticated, internally coherent system of knowledge acquisition that fundamentally resists reductionist methodologies characteristic of modern Western philosophy of science. Where reductionism operative … classical physics seeks to explain phenomena by decomposing them into their constituent parts, Yoruba epistemology proceeds from the ontological conviction that reality is irreducibly relational. Within the Yoruba intellectual tradition

2. 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

   relationships with the land. The study concludes that sustainable ecological futures require prioritizing indigenous epistemologies over colonial-modern paradigms that commodify nature

3. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 22, Issue 1 (September 2022)pp. 16–32PDF of The Losing Argument: Jocasta’s Empirical Epistemology and the Limits of Skepticism in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

   The Losing Argument: Jocasta’s Empirical Epistemology and the Limits of Skepticism in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

   Obiorah Ekwueme and John Uche Ngonadi

   extreme stance - that chance reigns and nothing can be clearly predicted is a separate epistemology from her first, and that the true arc of her thinking is the shift from

4. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 129–146PDF of Oral Tradition in the Age of TikTok: Rethinking Performance, Audience, and the Griot in Nigerian Digital Culture

   Oral Tradition in the Age of TikTok: Rethinking Performance, Audience, and the Griot in Nigerian Digital Culture

   Eden Benefit Jooda

   tends to preserve the performative surfaces of oral tradition whilst foreclosing its structural and epistemological depths. The paper identifies three structural foreclosures: the abolition of live co-presence, temporal compression