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Joy I. Nwiyi and Esther M. Ibi
This paper explores the (re)construction of postcolonial identity in Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference, emphasising how language, imitation, and cultural reality interact to shape Nigerians' identities … linguistic performance and accent, which become both a site of internal conflict for the postcolonial subject and a survival strategy. To counter Western acculturation, migrants strategically affirm, challenge, and recreate
Pascal Iheanacho OHANMA and Onwuamaeze S. ALI
This study employs a postcolonial ecocritical framework, drawing upon Rob Nixon’s concept of "slow violence," Elizabeth DeLoughrey’s theorization of island ecologies, and Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation … Through close textual analysis, comparative literary criticism and the creation and adoption of postcolonial Caribbean Ecologies literary analysis framework, the article investigates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean writers articulate environmental degradation
Ogheneruemu Akpore and Ndukwe, Desmond Azoma
This study interrogates postcolonial alienation and the search for self in Tanure Ojaide’sThe Activist and Helon Habila Oil on Water. The study employs Femi Osofisan’spost-Negritude variant … postcolonialism to show how alienation is represented through marginalization of individuals and communities in the Niger Delta. In The Activist, Ojaide presents a landscape of ecological devastation and social injustice
Adaobi Constance Muonagor and Rhema F. E. Oguche
Ojaide uses satire as a stylistic and ideological weapon to critique the failures of postcolonial African leadership, particularly in the Nigerian democratic landscape. The analysis draws on postcolonial theory … study employs the qualitative approach for textual analysis, in order to foreground the postcolonial theory and sociopolitical criticism that the study is anchored on. The paper thus, argues that Ojaide
Fater VANGER and Chika O. OSE-AGBO
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 … both poets portray the continued existence of colonial systems of environmental exploitation. It employs postcolonial ecocriticism as its guiding framework, drawing particularly on Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin’s tenets
Chinasa Abonyi
than indigenous culture does. Thus, gender coloniality is a continued domination of women in postcolonial Africa. From postcolonial feminist theory, this paper explores the coloniality of women in Nawal
Chidiebere Chukwuemeka Eze and Thomas-Michael Emeka Chukwumezie
often provide condensed representations of the thematic and ideological concerns of literary works. In postcolonial fiction, ordinary words, objects, colours and structures can acquire metaphorical meanings that illuminate colonial legacies
Ndukwe, Desmond Azoma and Ogheneruemu Akpore
versus Them” divisions that manifest as dehumanization and stereotyping across religious communities. Drawing on Postcolonial theory, the research uses a qualitative, text-analytic approach to identify portrayals of religious alterity … verus Them” relations among religious groups that enthrones hatred and violence in the postcolony. The study argues that harmonized practice of religious pluralism can be reconceived as transformative social practice
Isaac Ojo Atere and Chukwunomsue Juliana Nwazodoni
This paper examines the novel as a cultural artefact in Africa through
Mary J. N. Okolie and Anya Ude Egwu
This paper reads Flora Nwapa’s Never Again (1975) and Buchi Emecheta