1. Critical Journal Essays
2. Book Reviews
4. Other researches awaiting publication
5. Published journals
CRITICAL JOURNAL ESSAYS
1. “The Relevance of Chinua Achebe, Langston Hughes and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to the African
Renaissance,” for the 3rd University of Botswana International Conference on Language &
Literature, Gaborone – Botswana, June 2005, in The Study and Use of English in Africa – Chapter
16 (London: CSP publishers, 2006)
2. DIALOGUE AND OUTRAGE IN THE LITERATURE OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: LANGSTON
HUGHES’S NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER, LORRAINE HANSBERRY’S A RAISIN IN THE SUN, AND
RICHARD WRIGHT’S BLACK BOY.
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3. Foreword to Eyes of a Dreamer by Karen Zamberia
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4. Literary Models for National Enlightenment: Langston Hughes's Not Without Laughter and
Zaynab Alkali's The Virtuous Woman
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5. Unfettered Expression and Human Dignity: Langston Hughes's Not Without Laughter, The Big
Sea and Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah
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6. Amaryllis - Gender as a Sign post to Identity: Feminist Impulse in Lucy Dlamini's The Amaryllis
and Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood
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7. The Problem of Representation of Characters in Black Male Authored Texts: Womanism as
Antidote (Journal of Cultural Studies)
8. The Nigerian Response to American Democracy: A Review of Chinua Achebe's A Man of the
People, Anthills of the Savannah and Richard Wright's Native Son and Black Boy
9. Religion as a Vehicle for Cultural Cohesion: James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain and
Zaynab Alkali's The Virtuous Woman and The Still Born view here 10. Democracy and Ethno-
racism: Citizens Under Bondage in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Timothy Aluko's Wrong
Ones in the Dock
11. The African Response to American Feminism: A Reading of Flora Nwapa and Alice Walker
12. The Conflict of the West and the Center in Chukwuemeka Ike's The Bottled Leopard
13. The Struggle for Inclusion in the Scheme of Things: Femi Osofisan's Morountodun, James
Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
14. Beyond the Igbo Cosmos: Achebe's Things Fall Apart as a Cross Cultural Novel
15. Corruption as a Repellent of Democracy: Achebe as the Conscience of the Nigerian Nation
16. Things Fall Apart Across Cultures: The Universal Significance of of Achebe's 1958
Reconstruction of the African Heritage
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BOOK REVIEWS
1. Daughters of Hauwa by Mujidah T. A. A. Olaifa. Lagos: Malt-house Press, 1999 (Review
Published in “The Guardian” Newspaper (Nigeria), Monday, May 10 1999, Lagos, Page 69.)
2. Basic English for Higher Education (Part One): Structure and Composition by Richard Agbo
Awubi. Calabar: University of Calabar Press, 1998.
3. The Amaryllis by Lucy Zodwa Dlamini. Manzini-Swaziland: MacMillan Boleswa Publishers Ltd.,
2001.
OTHER RESEARCHES AWAITING PUBLICATION:
1. “Literary Models for National Enlightenment: Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter and
Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman,” for the International Reading Association 4th Pan-African
Reading for All Conference, Ezulwini – Swaziland, August 2005.
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PUBLISHED JOURNALS
LWATI: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH
Email: LWATIJO@YAHOO.COM
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 1, June 2004 View here
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 2, June 2005 View here
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol 3, June 2006 View here
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 4, June 2007 View here
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 5, June 2008 View here
All Books read Extracts here
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2. Book Reviews
4. Other researches awaiting publication
5. Published journals
CRITICAL JOURNAL ESSAYS
1. “The Relevance of Chinua Achebe, Langston Hughes and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to the African
Renaissance,” for the 3rd University of Botswana International Conference on Language &
Literature, Gaborone – Botswana, June 2005, in The Study and Use of English in Africa – Chapter
16 (London: CSP publishers, 2006)
2. DIALOGUE AND OUTRAGE IN THE LITERATURE OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: LANGSTON
HUGHES’S NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER, LORRAINE HANSBERRY’S A RAISIN IN THE SUN, AND
RICHARD WRIGHT’S BLACK BOY.
Click here to view Essay
3. Foreword to Eyes of a Dreamer by Karen Zamberia
Click here
4. Literary Models for National Enlightenment: Langston Hughes's Not Without Laughter and
Zaynab Alkali's The Virtuous Woman
Click here
5. Unfettered Expression and Human Dignity: Langston Hughes's Not Without Laughter, The Big
Sea and Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah
Click here
6. Amaryllis - Gender as a Sign post to Identity: Feminist Impulse in Lucy Dlamini's The Amaryllis
and Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood
Click here
7. The Problem of Representation of Characters in Black Male Authored Texts: Womanism as
Antidote (Journal of Cultural Studies)
8. The Nigerian Response to American Democracy: A Review of Chinua Achebe's A Man of the
People, Anthills of the Savannah and Richard Wright's Native Son and Black Boy
9. Religion as a Vehicle for Cultural Cohesion: James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain and
Zaynab Alkali's The Virtuous Woman and The Still Born view here 10. Democracy and Ethno-
racism: Citizens Under Bondage in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Timothy Aluko's Wrong
Ones in the Dock
11. The African Response to American Feminism: A Reading of Flora Nwapa and Alice Walker
12. The Conflict of the West and the Center in Chukwuemeka Ike's The Bottled Leopard
13. The Struggle for Inclusion in the Scheme of Things: Femi Osofisan's Morountodun, James
Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
14. Beyond the Igbo Cosmos: Achebe's Things Fall Apart as a Cross Cultural Novel
15. Corruption as a Repellent of Democracy: Achebe as the Conscience of the Nigerian Nation
16. Things Fall Apart Across Cultures: The Universal Significance of of Achebe's 1958
Reconstruction of the African Heritage
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BOOK REVIEWS
1. Daughters of Hauwa by Mujidah T. A. A. Olaifa. Lagos: Malt-house Press, 1999 (Review
Published in “The Guardian” Newspaper (Nigeria), Monday, May 10 1999, Lagos, Page 69.)
2. Basic English for Higher Education (Part One): Structure and Composition by Richard Agbo
Awubi. Calabar: University of Calabar Press, 1998.
3. The Amaryllis by Lucy Zodwa Dlamini. Manzini-Swaziland: MacMillan Boleswa Publishers Ltd.,
2001.
OTHER RESEARCHES AWAITING PUBLICATION:
1. “Literary Models for National Enlightenment: Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter and
Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman,” for the International Reading Association 4th Pan-African
Reading for All Conference, Ezulwini – Swaziland, August 2005.
Back to the top
PUBLISHED JOURNALS
LWATI: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH
Email: LWATIJO@YAHOO.COM
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 1, June 2004 View here
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 2, June 2005 View here
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol 3, June 2006 View here
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 4, June 2007 View here
LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 5, June 2008 View here
All Books read Extracts here
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