This rigorous study examines the integration of postmodern narrative techniques in recent Nigerian literature, exploring how authors navigate global literary trends while maintaining indigenous storytelling traditions.

Tracing the phonological and syntactical evolution of Nigerian Pidgin over the last three decades, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of how the language adapts to changing social and technological landscapes.

This paper investigates the emergence of ecocritical consciousness in contemporary African poetry, analysing how poets from Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya engage with environmental degradation, climate change, and the politics of natural resource extraction through verse.

Drawing on narrative theory and cultural studies, this article examines how Nollywood films construct and negotiate Nigerian national identity, focusing on the interplay between indigenous storytelling conventions and global cinematic aesthetics in selected films from 2018 to 2025.

This study employs trauma theory to analyse the representation of personal and collective memory in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's post-2015 fiction, arguing that her narrative strategies create a distinctive literary space for processing historical and contemporary Nigerian trauma.

This sociolinguistic investigation analyses code-switching patterns among young Lagosians on social media platforms, revealing how multilingual practices in digital communication reflect broader shifts in language attitudes, identity performance, and urban cultural production.

Examining the migration of oral storytelling traditions into digital media formats, this paper traces how West African griots, folktale narrators, and spoken word artists adapt indigenous narrative forms for podcasts, YouTube channels, and streaming platforms.

Applying feminist literary criticism to a corpus of over three hundred Igbo proverbs, this article interrogates the gendered assumptions embedded in proverbial discourse and explores how contemporary Igbo women writers subvert and reclaim these traditional rhetorical forms.

This paper maps the rise of Afrofuturist speculative fiction across Anglophone Africa, analysing how writers such as Nnedi Okofor, Tade Thompson, and Wole Talabi deploy science fiction and fantasy tropes to interrogate postcolonial realities and envision alternative African futures.

Focusing on the translation of selected Yoruba praise poems (oriki) and incantatory verse into English, this study examines the theoretical and practical challenges of preserving tonal semantics, cultural allusions, and performative dimensions in cross-linguistic literary transfer.

Applying disability studies frameworks to a selection of contemporary African novels and short stories, this article critiques the persistent marginalisation of disabled characters in African literary production and highlights emerging counter-narratives that centre disability experience with nuance and agency.

This interdisciplinary study analyses the rhetorical and performative strategies of leading Nigerian stand-up comedians, arguing that comedy performances function as a vital form of public discourse that critiques political corruption, ethnic tensions, and socioeconomic inequality through humour and satire.

This article analyses the rhetorical devices employed in Nigerian presidential campaign speeches and policy addresses between 2015 and 2023, demonstrating how politicians deploy classical and culturally specific persuasive strategies to construct legitimacy and mobilise public sentiment.

Investigating the emergence of social media platforms as spaces for literary criticism and book culture in Africa, this paper analyses how Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok communities shape reading practices, canonisation processes, and the reception of African literature.

Revisiting Wole Soyinka's dramatic output from 2000 onwards, this study offers a close linguistic and stylistic analysis of his later plays, arguing that Soyinka's dramatic language has evolved toward a more compressed, allusive mode that intensifies the ritual dimensions of his theatre.

Employing multimodal discourse analysis, this paper examines how Nigerian television advertisements combine verbal, visual, and auditory rhetorical strategies to construct consumer desire, drawing on a corpus of fifty prime-time commercials broadcast between 2020 and 2023.

This article explores the literary construction of diasporic identity in fiction by third-generation Nigerian-American writers, analysing how themes of belonging, cultural dislocation, and transnational memory are negotiated through narrative form and linguistic code-mixing.

Analysing a dataset of over five thousand social media posts from Nigerian political and ethnic discourse communities, this study identifies the rhetorical mechanisms through which hate speech is produced, amplified, and normalised in digital spaces, proposing a framework for counter-rhetorical intervention.

This paper theorises the postcolonial gothic as a distinct literary mode in contemporary African fiction, reading novels by Ayobami Adebayo, Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Namwali Serpell to show how gothic conventions are repurposed to articulate the spectral legacies of colonialism and ongoing structural violence.

Using a purpose-built corpus of Nigerian English drawn from newspapers, blogs, and literary texts published between 2010 and 2023, this study documents patterns of lexical innovation, semantic extension, and borrowing that distinguish Nigerian English as a dynamic and creative variety.