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READING CHINUA ACHEBE’S ARROW OF GOD AS IGBO SPECULATIVE FICTION
By Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
May 10, 2026
The second quarter of the twenty-first century, moving forward towards a viable African future repositioned on its traditional foundations, calls for a speculative approach in African literature discourse. It is …
Buchi Emecheta’s Feminism of Selfhood: Self-Concept, Gender, Marriage, and Sexuality
By Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
November 22, 2021
Today, there is a multiplicity of intriguing, complicated and complex feminisms in the globe that has resulted from individual women’s search for answers to their peculiar experiences, advocacy for general …
The Psycho-Spiritual Journey of an Igbo Androgyny: Efuru’s Quest for Her Higher Self in Efuru, Flora Nwapa’s Eponymous Novel
By Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
May 21, 2020
Efuru’s1 Psycho-Spiritual Journey in Flora Nwapa’s eponymous novel, Efuru, retraces Maureen Murdoch’s The Heroine’s Journey, a gendered modification of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey,2 which is a cyclical and archetypal …
Payback and Other Stories: An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Short Stories. Tomi Adeaga, Sarah Udoh-Grossfurthner, eds. Vienna: Vienna African Languages and Literatures (VALL) Series, Number 1, 2018.
By Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
May 21, 2020