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adulthood, reliving moments of rootedness and experiences of home, which ramify not only the Delta space but the national space ...

Current interest in memory has largely been driven by a desire to explore the various ways in which people remember the past and ...

could only be pride to the godless! The fleet that devoured captives could only be libated by torturers! The piracy of conquista ...

millions over a period of about four centuries. But in specific terms, there is also a sense in which the poem, especially in th ...

urban degradation and economic emasculation that results in the experience of exile as being discussed in this work is also sign ...

goes completely unacknowledged as people bask in the infrastructural wonders that the cities provide. It accounts for why the pe ...

“narratives of cosmopolitan self-aggrandizement” (Paul Zeleza 2003:16). If the reality does not catch up with him in his Western ...

The land will continue to suffer for a long time, Even if it survives this spate of bloodshot eyes. (40)^60 But if the above spe ...

images of motion and movement to drive home the point about the dystopian state of an oil-rich cityscape: I wandered into Igbudu ...

wholesale transformation in transnational division of labour that, in turn, has put into motion new urban dynamics on a world sc ...

mood and the images invoked in this poem are reminiscent of T.S. Eliot’s depiction of western cities in his poetry, pointing ult ...

cities also shows the exponential threat of globalization in dynamics of the cities and how the dystopian condition that results ...

In the second part of the poem, the “theatre of the absurd” that had characterized the nation since independence, climaxed in th ...

every institution involved”, be it in Port Harcourt, or Ughelli, Yenagoa, Bonny or Warri or “all the other urban centres in the ...

The above may then be summoned as the basis for making a beeline for one form of exile or the other. And because this is usually ...

reception of cosmopolitan ideals by the poet. From another angle, Terhemba Shija in his essay “Exile and globalization in the po ...

After all, Africa’s resistance to Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade paid off only when various machines took over manual labour on the ...

Utopia] is not what is said, but what cannot be said, what does not register on the narrative apparatus?” (Fredric Jameson 2005: ...

This explains why in place of the sight of “all the fine things”, all that the persona sees on daily basis is “wilderness”. At a ...

colonialism and other subsequent forms of imperialism may have given centrality to English, but the domestication of English and ...