section B. Beyond gender allegory : a postcolonial reading of Lola Shoneyin's poetry / The Literary Enhancement and Achievement Project (LEAP) and the pioneering role of Professor Toyin Jegede / Gabriel Bámgbósẹ́. -- section B. Postcolonial and feminist orientations. Relevance and prospects of feminism in Africa / V.O. Adefarasin -- Theorising Nigerian feminisms : a reflection on the controversies surrounding the (ir)relevance of mainstream feminism to cultures other than the West / Sandra Chinyeaka Nwokocha -- Negotiating war, trauma and the banality of evil : narrative aesthetics and the representation of PTSD in Beasts of No Nation / Emmanuel Babatunde Omobowale & Sakiru Damilare Adebayo -- Male other, female self and post-feminist consciousness in Sembène Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood and Flora Nwapa's Efuru / Idowu Emmanuel Adeniyi -- Family disintegration in selected female writers' novels / Akinbimpe Akintayo Akinyele - Feminist echoes and change in Wumi Raji's Another Life / Taiwo Austin Stanley Osanyemi -- Traditionally-inclined tales and ecological issues in African prose narratives for children / Helen Idowu Adhuze -- A universe of conflict and travailing humanity in the poetry of Uwemedimo Enobong Iwoketok / David Ekanem Udoinwang & Ima Usen Immanuel -- Representation of female migrants in selected Nigerian migrant narratives / Opeyemi Ajibola -- Neocolonialism and kleptocracy in contemporary Nigeria : the example of Tunde Fatunde's No More Oil Boom / Nurudeen Lawal -- Beyond gender allegory : a postcolonial reading of Lola Shoneyin's poetry / Gabriel Bámgbósẹ́. -- section C. Let us make woman in our image : preliminary notes on beauty and its industry in Nigeria / Culture shift and Simisola Ogunleye's (Simi's) conception of the millennial African woman in Love Don't Care and Joromi / Ayo Adeduntan & Fadekemi Olawoye. -- Causes, effects, and feminist antidotes to trafficking in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon / Mary B. Aiyetoro & Valentine Chimenem Owhorodu -- Ikwọ Ibaan Ibibio : expression of womanhood among Offot people of Akwa Ibom State / Rebecca Okon Usoro -- Patriarchy and illusion of women empowerment in Ahmed Yerima's Jakadiya / Abigail Obiageli Eruaga -- Voice of liberation : a womanist reading of Lynn Chukura's Archetyping / Chizoba Bartholomew Akpah -- Let us make woman in our image : preliminary notes on beauty and its industry in Nigeria / Ayo Adeduntan & Fadekemi Olawoye. -- section D. Orature in the digital world / Yoruba folktale as literary expression of dissent against repression / Joseph Bankola Ola-Koyi. -- A critique of the cultural, linguistic and religious symbolism of oríkì among the Yorùbá of Nigeria / Òkéwándé Olúwọlé Tẹ́wọ́gboyè -- A didactic adaptation of varying tunes of Ere Olomoba and Yungba chants / Reuben Kehinde Akano -- Transformative themes in Hausa lullabies : the case of Hausa speakers in Wukari, Taraba State / Maryam Yusuf Magaji -- Oral cultural narratives and the challenges before Nigerian women writers / Rotimi Anne Olatunji -- African folklore : cultural heritage for sustainable development in the contemporary society / Sikiru Adeyemi Ogundokun -- The folkloric tradition and the female characters in Efua T. Sutherland's and Ama Ata Aidoo's plays / Nureni Oyewole Fadare -- Oral performance techniques in the works of D. O. Fágúnwà / Olanike Olaleru -- Orature in the digital world / Joseph Bankola Ola-Koyi. -- section E. Re-inforcing traditional models of masculinities in selected Nigerian Pidgin adverts / Sex, sexuality and power relation in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents and the Quiet Violence of Dreams / Adebisi A. Ogungbesan. -- Surveying sexuality(ies) representation in African writings : version, subversion, and conversion / Saliou Dione -- The portrayal of homosexuality in Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows / Ebunoluwa Mobolanle Sotunsa & Festus Alabi -- Sexuality, morality and identity construction in Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows / Azeez Akinwumi Sesan -- Continuity and discontinuity : masculinity and power blocs in Tunde Kelani's Saworoide / Sunday Joseph Ayodabo -- The illusion of male archetype : a comparative study of Irene's More Than Dancing and Pearl's Flyin' West / Francis O. Jegede & Ebunoluwa M. Sotunsa -- Negotiating patriarchal structures : polygamy and female agency in Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives / Emmanuel Abiola -- Re-inforcing traditional models of masculinities in selected Nigerian Pidgin adverts / Adebisi A. Ogungbesan. -- section G. A tip from the honouree's academic fecundity. Subversive (re)writing and poetics in Lola Shoneyin's So All the Time I Was Sitting on an Egg / Expressions of political consciousness in Wole Soyinka's Alapata Apata and Femi Osofisan's Morountodun : a pragma-stylistic analysis / Oluwatoyin Jegede. Discursive construction of sexuality and sexual orientations in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah / Akinleye Ayinuola Ojo -- Linguistic strategies in the translation of proverbs in literary texts : Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Akinwumi Isola's Ikú Olókùn-Ẹṣin / Omotola Latifat Okunlola -- Politeness in political contest : the 2015 Oyo State gubernatorial debate / Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose. -- section G. A tip from the honouree's academic fecundity. Subversive (re)writing and poetics in Lola Shoneyin's So All the Time I Was Sitting on an Egg / Oluwatoyin Jegede.
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