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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 153–175PDF of "We Are All Infidels": Discursive De-Othering And The Politics Of Religious Identity In Nigeria

   "We Are All Infidels": Discursive De-Othering And The Politics Of Religious Identity In Nigeria

   Chinaguh, Emmanuel C.

   social boundaries and polarisation. This study examines how the category infidel functions as religious othering and how its contestation reconfigures identity and belonging in Nigerian political discourse. Guided mainly … Nairaland comments and 80 Facebook comments. The analysis traced three interconnected processes: religious othering, discursive de-othering, and identity/belonging reconfiguration. Findings show that infidel initially constructed a religious Other that

2. 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

   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 of the 1994 Rwandan … historical truth, the preservation of collective memory, and the rejection of inherited structures of Othering. The article therefore presents The Shadow of Imana as a text that connects the historical

3. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 43–55PDF of Religious Difference in Nigeria-Reappearing Shadows of Colonial “Us” Versus “Them”: A Reflection on Selected Novels

   Religious Difference in Nigeria-Reappearing Shadows of Colonial “Us” Versus “Them”: A Reflection on Selected Novels

   Ndukwe, Desmond Azoma and Ogheneruemu Akpore

   This study examines how religious plurality, ordinarily a supposed asset, has produced

4. 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

5. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 22–44PDF of The Use of Lamentation as Discursive Construction of Insecurity and Economic Crises in Opposition Manifestoes in Nigeria

   The Use of Lamentation as Discursive Construction of Insecurity and Economic Crises in Opposition Manifestoes in Nigeria

   Arilesere R. Mustapha and Funke J. Oni

   political manifestoes have concentrated on the analysis of modals, lexical verbs, transitivity, among others. However, the use of lamentation as discursive strategy to construct insecurity and economic crises has gained