Volume 3
Published in UTUENIKANG - March, 2026
A Pragma-Stylistic Study of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Acceptance and Inaugural Speeches
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Language Pragma-Stylistics Linguistic Politeness Strategies Politeness Markers
Rowland S. Noah & Esther E. Robert — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 1-21Pragmatic Acts in the Conversational Discourses in Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi
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Pragmatic acts Kurunmi War Ibadan Ijaiye Ola Rotimi Conversation
Samaila Yakubu — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 22-34Naming, Historiography, and the Making of a Pasquinade in Wole Soyinka’s A Play of Giants
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A Play of Giants Historiography Naming Satire Soyinka
Mulikah A. Lawal — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 35-46Food Symbolism and Cultural Identity in Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s I Do Not Come to You by Chance
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Food scarcity poverty moral decay culture
Isaac M. Udoh — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 47-60‘Greener Pastures’ and the Ambivalence of Migrant Encounters in Effiong Edeke’s The Migrants’ Advocate
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Migration Greener Pastures Diaspora Dialectics Displacement
Micah O. Asukwo & Dele M. Ugwanyi — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 61-72Women Oppression and Toxic Relationships in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon
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African novel Radical feminism Women oppression Toxic relationships
Oso Olusola — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 73-84‘The Herd’ as a Filmic Narrative of Banditry and the Poetics of Trauma in Nigerian Cinema
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Banditry Trauma Kidnapping Nigerian Cinema Narrative
Yvonne I. Ewedemi — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 85-97Transforming Ene Henshaw’s Medicine for Love into a Theatrical Spectacle
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Theatrical Performance Spectacle Stage Transformation Live Theatre
Godswill B. Edet & Ekaette B. Edem — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 98-116From Disillusionment to Defiance Citizens Resistance in Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Ngugi Wa Miriis I Will Marry When I Want
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Post-independent Domination Disillusionment Resistance Liberation
Chukwuka E. Ofie — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 117-127Historical Re-Memories and Postcolonial Reality in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Early Novels
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Colonialism Postcolonial Discourse Ngugi Early Novels
Nasir U. Abdullahi, Ado M. Mansur & Fatima Abdullahi — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 128-142Niger Delta Literature as Echoes of Grand Dystopian
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Dystopia Niger Delta Literature Grand Villain Niger Delta
Ebimobode A. Amabebe, Deghinmotei Alred-Ugbenbo & Grace E. Owota — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 143-153Parenting, Cultural Values and Emotional Development in Damilare Kuku’s Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
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Attachment Theory Female Writers African Parenting Modern
Ogbuonye C. Deborah & Ezinwanyi E. Adam — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 154-169Narrating Memories: The Non-fictional Context of Helon Habila’s The Chibok Girls
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Memories Chibok Girls Creative non-fiction Habila Postcolonial Nigeria
Wandama Wadinga — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 170-181Intertextuality, Afropolitanism, and the Humanitarian Gaze in Selasi’s Ghana Must Go and Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
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intertextuality African diaspora Afropolitanism humanitarian discourse contemporary African fiction
Olakiitan A. Oladipupo & Ezinwanyi E. Adam — volume 3, issue 1 — pp. 182-192