Volume 1
Published in UTUENIKANG - December, 2021

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• Social Realism, Didacticism and Aesthetics in African Children’s Prose Fiction
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  Social Realism Didacticism Aesthetics African Children's Prose

  Ayobami Kehinde — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 1-17

• Food and African Proverbs
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  African proverbs food/foodways cultural cosmology digital manifestations

  James T. Tsaaior — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 18-33

• Gendered Dimensions and Coping Strategies in War Situations in Ada Okere Agbasimalo’s The Forest Dames
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  Gendered Dimensions Coping Strategies War Situations The Forest Dames

  Mobolanle E. Sotunsa & Afolabi A. Oni — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 34-46

• Re-constructing the Theory and Practice of Oral Performance in Africa
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  Oral performance traditional paradigms contested theory Africa

  Mark O. Ighile — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 47-59

• A Minimalist Study of the Grammatical Requirements of Functional Heads in Second Language Learning
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  Minimalist Grammatical Requirements Functional Heads Second Language

  Otobong Umoh & Susan Udoka — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 60-79

• “I don dey crase?” – Code-alternation, Humour and Identity in Barclay Ayakoroma’s Dramatic Texts
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  Identity Social constructionism Code alternation Nigerian pidgin in dramatic literature Humour

  James Okpiliya & Romanus Aboh — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 80-98

• ‘Old Wine in the New Wineskin’: A Womanist Interrogation of Ękún Ìyàwó Yorùbá Bridal Chant
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  Womanist ideology cultural artifacts Yorùbá Ękún Ìyàwó [bridal chants] postmodernist society

  Olúwafúnminíyì Mábàwònkú & David E. Udoinwang — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 99-117

• Carnival Calabar: Articulating Africa’s Indigenous Theatre
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  Carnival Calabar Indigenous Drama African Theatre Performance

  Offiong A. Ene — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 118-132

• LANGUAGE AND HEALTHCARE: Argumentation and Paralinguistic Strategies in HIV/AIDS Counselling
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  HIV/AIDS Discourse Counselling Critical Discourse Analysis Adherence

  Kilian G. Tameh — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 133-149

• Queer Childhood, Gender Panic and Homophobia in Unoma Azuah’s Blessed Body
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  Childhood Queer Sex-gender panic Homophobia Sexuality

  Kufre A. Akpan — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 150-162

• “The Return of the Repressed”: A Critique of Wimsatt and Beardsley’s The Intentional Fallacy
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  Ideological grid literary theory text author reader

  Ibrahim S. Chinade — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 163-171

• Word Order Variation: the Case of the Possessive and the Noun in Limbum Nominal Construction
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  Possessive Determiner contrastive focus Heavy Pied-piping Word Order

  Gratiana L. Ndamsah — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 172-191

• Symbols and Meaning in Tiv Oral Poetry: Amee Yôngo in Performance
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  Symbols Meaning Oral Poetry Amee Yongo Performance

  Baba J. Azan, Terver P. Kunde & Grace Adokwe — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 192-205

• The Application of Stylistics in the Identification of Participants’ Relationships in Wole Soyinka’s “Abiku”
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  stylistic analysis literary criticism synergy participants' relationship abiku

  Alexis A. Tsavmbu & Eventus Edem — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 206-223

• Afropolitanism and the Making of New African Writers: A Postcolonial Study of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
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  Afropolitanism afropolitan avantgarde colonialism transnationalism trans-culture migrant paradigm-shift

  Murtala Lawal — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 224-240

• Ecocentric Paradox in Ojaide’s The Endless Song
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  Ecocentric paradox Ecology Ojaide Niger Delta

  Mishael C. Nwaiwu — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 241-254

• Syntacto-mantic Analysis of Transliteration in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru and Okara’s The Voice
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  Outstanding Identification Marks Multitlingualism Multiculturalism Transliteration Metropolitan Standard English

  Edenowo P. Enang & Iniobong Utin — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 255-269

• Reading Culture, Intellectual Development and the Knowledge Sector: A Case Study of Selected Students of Mountain Top University
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  Reading Culture Intellectual Curriculum Sustainable

  Oladejo T. Odunayo — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 270-281

• A Critical Discourse Analysis of Narrative Processes in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
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  CDA Narrative Processes Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

  Matthew A. Ebim — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 282-298

• The Other Side to the Genre of Resistance: Toni Morrison’s Beloved
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  Resistance Oppression Violence Slavery Culture Freedom

  Ngantu J. Go'oh — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 299-313

• Portrait of Lacanian Hero in Terhemba Shijas the Siege the Saga
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  Targema Lacanian Hero Terhemba Shija The Siege The Saga

  Baba J. Azan & Adokwe Grace — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 314-320

• Diasporic Experience, Gender Dialogue and the Dynamics of Cultural Encounter in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah and Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference
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  Nigerian Diaspora Diasporic Literature Gender Imbalance cultural encounters

  Chika R. Nwaedozie & Edet I. Onukak — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 321-335

• Women’s Oppression of Women: The Case of Jụọchi in Tagbo Nzeako’s Jụọchi
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  Womanhood Oppression Leadership Analysis Men's domination

  Ujubonu J. Okide — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 336-347

• Renaissance versus Modernism: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Poetry of John Donne and T.S. Eliot
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  Renaissance John Donne Modernism T.S. Eliot Continuities discontinuities

  Babatunde E. Adigun — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 348-358

• Recurring Self in Selected Haruna Daniel’s Facebook Memoirs
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  Recurring Self Facebook Memoir Psychoanalysis Remediation Haruna Daniel

  Onyekachi P. Onuoha & Frank C. Clinton — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 359-375

• Matrimonial Institution as Site of Contest in Aliyu Kamal’s Novels: The Blaming Soul and Somewhere Somehow
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  Marital conflict disobedience divorce irresponsibility loyalty

  Inuwa Mahmud — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 376-391

• Utopia, Dystopia and Exilic Experience in Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways
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  utopia dystopia migration displacement trauma

  Micah O. Asukwo — volume 1, issue 1 — pp. 392-408

• BOOK REVIEW - Humanities As Curative Prognosis for the Nigerian State: Culture and Communication, Literature, Theatre, Dance and Film
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  Olu Obafemi Humanities Curative Prognosis Culture and Communication

  Gbemisola Adeoti

• BOOK REVIEW - We’re Fish
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  Ahmed Maiwada hegemony extinction artistic energy creative vision

  David E. Udoinwang