Various themes such as grief, trauma, coping with love and loss, political unrest, insecurity, oppression and instability are tackled in the novel.
NigerDelta LitThe Simple Life of Uncertainties
Life in a dystopian Niger Delta community illuminates community life and the failures of governance.
Environmental Consciousness, Bi-raciality and Female Bonding in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow: A Chat With Kaine Agary
An interview with Kaine Agary, author of Yellow-Yellow
Kufre FriesenhanProtest as Environmental Stewardship
What Mama Said resounds as a rallying cry for women's liberation and collective protest against the despoliation of the Niger Delta's environment. Onwueme's insistence on unity among women as they confront the negative...
We Did Not Inherit Her
Then came strangers with talk of oil beneath our feet. The proof was there, though the oil was murky. The proof was dark; this was no red oil. We thought they too would borrow her, mother Earth, pregnant with enough...
adminNo Honey Flows Here
Where oil streams rich in some villages, while the indigenes languish in soot and in sickness
To Love The Planet
The nine-chapter narrative revolves around Toundi, a young girl whose profound affection for the Earth is palpable. As an archetypal ecofeminist figure, Toundi navigates the myriad environmental tribulations afflicting...
No More Muffled Voices
In Muffled Voices, Declan Umege engages with the Niger Delta oil condition amidst instances of Indigenous agitations and aspirations.
Did Tomorrow Die Yesterday?
This novel sheds light on the intricacies of kidnapping in the Niger Delta oil zone. It unveils the deep-seated corruption ...
Slow violence and disaster capitalism in the Niger Delta region
Radio Sunrise might be the first contemporary Nigerian novel to challenge and demand professional integrity from the media in this age of alternate truths and fake news.
Fictionalizing the Niger Delta gory infiltration
Written in two parts of twenty-one chapters, Habila's Oil on Water interrogates themes of oil pollution and its ecological, societal, and political repercussions in the Deltascape.
