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Aesthetics of place in contemporary Nigerian poetry: An ecocritical reading of Joe Ushie’s Hill Songs
(Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria (JSLN), 2013) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Agitations for Justice in Saro-Wiwa's A Month and a Day
(Mountain Top Journal of Humanities, Management and Social Sciences, MTU-JHUMASS, 2019) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Constraints to womanhood in northern Nigeria: A feminist reading of Hilary Rouse-Amadi’s Amina
(Kraft Books, 2012) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Cultural environmentalism in Ogunyemi’s Langbodo and Osofisan’s Many Colours make the Thunder-King
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Ecocritical analysis of Ifowodo’s the oil lamp
(The Springboard Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, Al-Hikmah University, 2014) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
): Ecopoetics and contemporary Nigerian poetry: A study of Bassey’s We Thought it was Oil but it was Blood
(Gombe Papers on Nigerian Literature (GOPANLI): A Journal of the Department of English, Gombe State University, 2011) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Environmental sustainability: African womanist response in Ojaide’s The Activist
(Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 2016) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
FICTIONING IN CYBERSPACE: IDEOLOGY AND ARTISTRY IN LOLA OPATAYO'S THE ATTENDANT AND THE FAMILY
(KWASU Journal of Humanities, 2021) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Globalisation and neo-colonialism: political activism in Ibiwari Ikiriko’s oily tears of the Delta
(ACU Journal of Humanities, 2018) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Indigenous Consciousness
(Dutsin-Ma Journal of English and Literature, 2022) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Interrogating place and ideology in AbdulRasheed Na’Allah’s poetry
(Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria (JSLN) Special Edition in Honour of Professor AbdulRasheed Na’Allah, 2019) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Ken Saro-Wiwa as Symbol of Environmental Activisn in Niger Delta Poetry
(International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics, 2022) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Since the martyrdom of prominent Nigerian writer and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa by the then military government of Nigeria, the slain activist has attained the status of a symbol of activism in literary works. This paper seeks to explore how selected Nigerian poets engage the name and actions of Ken Saro-Wiwa in representing resistance and in sensitising and rallying the people to demand their rights to basic amenities and safer environments to live in. This is the cause for which Saro-Wiwa lost his life. Three collections of poems have been purposively selected for a qualitative and sociological investigation of the deployment of Ken Saro-Wiwa as a symbol of environmental struggle and of selflessness for the advancement of the common good. The collections are Ojaide’s Delta Blues and Homesongs, Ibiwari Ikiriko’s Oily Tears of the Delta, and Ogaga Ifowodo’s The Oil Lamp. This study finds that while Ken Saro-Wiwa is deployed as a symbol of environmental activism, poets extend what his life and name represent to advance the agitation against the mismanagement of the environment and people of the Niger-Delta region. The study also reveals that Saro-Wiwa is an inspiration for writers to critically commit to advocacy that advances not just the good of society, but their art. This paper concludes that Ken Saro-Wiwa has become a source of inspiration for writers’ commitment to the Niger-Delta environment and a symbol to encourage activism against the continued despoliation of the region.
Narrative constructions of eco-disharmony in Niger Delta novels
(Routledge Contemporary Africa Series, 2021) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Negotiating Patrilineal Structures: A Feminist Reading of Ahmed Yerima’s Akuabata and Odenigbo
(Journal of Studies in the English Language, 19(1), Thamassat University, Thailand, 2024) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Nigerian Popular Music: Social Mediation Amid Musicality
(International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), 2022) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Music is a fundamental feature of the African society. One of its indispensable values is its entertainment function. Music has also been used overtime to engender positive social changes in the society. Using this popular medium, traditional African musicians and poets have used their composing ingenuity not only to please their audience but also to lampoon, satirize, moralize, preach and call for individual and collective changes or conformity to established social, religious, or cultural norms, as the circumstances dictate. In Nigeria’s recent past, the late Fela Anikulapo- Kuti, Sunny Okosun, Ebenezer Obey, and Osita Osadebe are examples of musicians who used their music to comment on the challenges of life in Nigeria and elsewhere. They also gained popularity from the entertainment value of their various kinds of music. However, commercialisation brought about by the realities of the socio-political and economic conditions of life seems to have made the music of emerging Nigerian musicians lose social relevance. This article studies via document analysis the thematic trends in some of the songs of Asa, a popular Nigerian musician who has received wide acclaim across the world. This paper concludes that social relevance and commercial success are two states which can be achieved simultaneously by emerging Nigerian musicians without apprehension, especially in a world which rates commercial success as a parameter for popularity.
Nostalgia as aesthetic in Tanure Ojaide’s In the House of Words
(Cissus World Press USA., 2019) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
ORAL TRADITION AND AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTALISM IN WASIU ABIMBOLA’S YORUBA MOVIE, IKOKO EBORA
(International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics, 2022) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Re-Reading Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in the Context of African Environmentalism
(Journal of Studies in the English Language, 12(2), 26–44, Thamassat University, Thailand, 2017) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Responding from the fringe: Women, Islam, and patriarchy in Nigerian Muslim Women’s Novels
(Routledge, 2020) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
Rhetorical anthropomorphism in selected Niger Delta poetry
(Alore: Ilorin Journal of the Humanities, 2018) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko

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