Vol. 1, 1997

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• Linguistic Parallelism in Mariama Ba's So Long A Letter

  Oby Nnamani None Sep 16, 2025

  So Long a Letter as the title implies is a letter written by Ramatoulaye to a bosom friend, Aissatou. In the novel, Ramatoulaye recounts the sad details of her unsuccessful marriage to Modou Fall and ...

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• The Journey as Trope for Female Growth in Zaynab Alkali's The Virtuous Woman

  Grace Eche Okereke None Sep 16, 2025

  Zaynab Alkali has published two novels - The Stillborn and The Virtuous Woman. Both novels reconstruct female experience in the journey to consciousness in sexist society. Alkali's is a welcome n...

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• Eros, Psyche and Society: Narrative Continuity in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song

  Emelia Oko None Sep 16, 2025

  So Long a letter had its centre on the romantic pull of erotic impulses on the psyche. It seemed there that romantic love is the central human impulse. So Long a Letter therefore celebrates the pull b...

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• Post-colonial Discourse: The Case of Ben Okri's Famished Road

  Abubakar Raliyu Liman None Sep 16, 2025

  Until recently, Eurocentricism has turned its attention to the gathering storm surging in the identify politics, gender debates and cultural reassertions. The ensuing polemics trace identify and cultu...

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• The Rhetoric of Negation in Osofisan's Who's Afraid of Solarin

  N.J. Udoeyop None Sep 16, 2025

  Let me start by admitting the obvious, that drama is not primarily an art of discourse. If that is so, then what has it to do with rhetoric to justify the title of this essay? Now rhetoric is the body...

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