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1. “Literacy as a Tool for Cultural Independence: Female Aspirations and Achievements

   in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde,” for the 6th Pan-

   African Reading for All Conference, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, August

   10-14, 2009 in Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2010

   (Pp. 125-134). Beijing, China: Universal Academic Services (ISSN 1813-2227).

2. “Mother as a Survival Strategy in Maya Angelou’s I Know why the Cage Bird Sings and The Heart of a

Woman, in CALEL - Currents in African Literature and the English Language, Vol. 6, May 2009 (Pp.10-22). Calabar, Nigeria:

Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Calabar, 2009 (ISSN 1597-3611).

4. “Things Fall Apart Across Cultures: The Universal Significance of Chinua Achebe’s Reconstruction of the African

Heritage,” for the 34th Annual African Literature Association Conference, Western Illinois University, Macomb,

Illinois, IL. 61455, USA (April 22-27, 2008) in Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2009 (182-190).

Kwaluseni: Lwati Swaziland (ISSN 1813-2227).

5. “Unfettered Expression and Human Dignity: Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter, The Big Sea and Chinua Achebe’s

Anthills of the Savannah,” in Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 4, June 2007 (Pp.).

Kwaluseni: Lwati Swaziland (ISSN 1813-2227).

5.  “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,” in Lwati: A Journal Of Contemporary Research, Vol. 3, June 2006 (Pp.98-108).

Kwaluseni: Lwati Swaziland (ISSN 1813-2227).

6.  “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).

7.  “Gender as a Sign-Post to Identity: Feminist Impulse in Lucy Dlamini’s The Amaryllis and Sembéne Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood,

” in The African Literature Journal (Enugu: Nigeria: Chin-Ce Press, 2005).

8. “The Conflict of the West and the Centre in Chukwuemeka Ike’s The Bottled Leopard,” in Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research,

Vol. 1, No.1, Pp.14-19, Manzini – Swaziland: TTI Publishing /Contemporary theory Group, June 2004.

9. “Democracy and Ethno-Racism: Citizens under Bondage in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Timothy Aluko’s Wrong Ones in the Dock,”

in Ethnicity, Citizenship and Democracy in the United States of America, ed. Shamsudeen O. Amali, et al. 

(Ibadan: Humanities Publishers 2003).

10.  “Beyond the Igbo Cosmos:  Achebe’s Things Fall Apart as a Cross-Cultural Novel,” in Isi Nka: The Artistic Purpose –

Chinua Achebe and the Theory of African Literature: A Millennium Text (Chapter Four).  Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, Inc., 2002.

11. “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,” in Consolidation and Sustenance of Democracy:

The United States of America and Nigeria, ed.

S. O. O. Amali, et al. Ibadan: Hope Publications Ltd., 2002, (ISBN 978-35981-9-8).

12. “Religion as a Vehicle for Cultural Cohesion:  Zaynab Alkali’s The Virtuous Woman, The Still Born

and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain,

” in Religion in the United States of America, ed. S. O. O. Amali et al. Ibadan: Hope Publications Ltd., 2002.

13.  “Corruption as a Repellant of Democracy:  Achebe as the Conscience of the Nigerian Nation,

” in Twentieth Century Major African Authors,

ed. Ernest Emenyonu. New York: Africa World Press, 2002.

14. “The African Response to American Feminism – A Reading of Flora Nwapa and Alice Walker,

” in Black Women Writers Across Cultures,

Chapter Five, pp. 89 – 120, ed. Valentine James & James S. Etim, Baltimore, MD.: International Scholars Pub., 2001.

15.  “The Struggle for Conclusion 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,” in The Empowerment of the Civil Society in a Democracy: Nigeria and

the United States, ed. Oyin Ogunba.  Ife: Anchor Print Ltd., 2000.

16.  “Womanism as an Antidote to the Problem of Representation of Female Characters in Works of Black Male Writers,” in

Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1, ed. Joseph Yakubu and Patrick Oloko (pp. 69 – 86),

Ago-Iwoye: Ogun State University, 1999.

17. “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- A Pan African Reading for All Text, Vol. 3, 2005.