Emeka Aniago

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• BA, MA, PhD
• Senior Lecturer at University of Nigeria

In Nigeria and other nations with their territory being part of the Lake Chad Basin, anxiety is high and growing because Boko Haram’s “strident messages exacerbate intra-Muslim tensions and worsen Muslim Christian relations in the region” (Thurston 2016: 5). In addition, because the agenda of Boko Haram appear jumbled and its sponsors indistinct, c...

Studies on self-construal indicate that man is propelled by what happens around him to react in a certain manner and this reaction, we suggest is a human universal common and a representation of conscious purposive response to concomitant environmental and circumstantial realities. This purposive response encapsulates messages, which an observer...

This study interpretively discusses two characters in Wole Soyinka's play The Lion and the Jewel to ascertain how their behaviours and idiosyncrasies reflect the established theoretical understanding elucidating self-presentation and impression management as human day-today realities propelled by phenomenon of nature and dynamics of nurture. Specif...

In many climes, witchcraft is designated a paranormal phenomenon because its manifestations lack empirical evidence, interpretation, and clarity. In Nigeria, the acknowledgment of the efficacy of witchcraft as an abiding and pervasive reality reflects a culture-specific worldview. Stories of witchcraft manifestations abound in Nigeria and in Nollyw...

Journal of Performance, Media and Humanities is an international journal that encourages multidisciplinary studies from diverse inclinations and subjects.

The study is an interpretive discourse of creative vision nuances in Kareem Olamilekan and Alex Idoko's select hyperrealism arts. It presents a theoretical assessment and fresh articulation of key cognitive or information-processing approaches detailing the mechanisms underlying an interpretive reading of art. In addition, it illuminates the metaph...

Focused on eco-drama decrying polemics of conflicts between elders and youths, government and inhabitants, because of the subsisting environmental degradation in Niger Delta, the article exposes dimensions of frightening inhumanity, wastage, and monumental governance failure. Eco-literati such as Ahmed Yerima and Barclays Ayakoroma objurgate a repu...

The need to proffer solutions to the consequences of girl-child forced marriages in Nigeria has continued to draw scholarly attention within the ambits of sociology, history, law and human-right, women and gender studies, health, and psychology studies. However, studies examining the application of Nollywood films as advocacy texts in this regard a...

Presented in seven chapters, Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries is an ethnography of creative labor, derived from extensive participation-observation and interviews, conducted from 2013 through 2018 by the sociologist Michael L. Siciliano.

This paper examines the social interventions, inclinations and paradigms in Temsula Ao’s poem “My Hills” and Tanure Ojaide’s poem “Delta Blues” as reflections and interrogation of deplorable human actions propelling the degradation eco-heritage in Nagaland Northeast India, and Niger Delta south-south Nigeria. Thus, our focus will be on how both poe...

Artistic symbols in many ways act as complimentary narrative tools that elevate and define the message from the artist, which can help to generate efficacious consciousness and mood aggregation in the beholders. The purpose of this study is to deepen the appreciation of the embedded significances of keys as symbolic objects in selected symbolist ar...

We learn from history that some consequences of abysmal government policies and dysfunctional tactics include socioeconomic retrogression, increased deprivation ideology, victimhood, rebellion, war and revolution; and theorists have provided several plausible contextualizations for elucidation. One of such conceptualizations is Ted Robert Gurr's th...

This book contain 42 chapters variously exploring the literary polemics of Emeka Nwabueze. It provides practical, conceptual and theoretical insights for clearer understanding of dramatic compositions and trajectories of Nwabueze which will be useful in exploring similar creative literature by other playwrights.

This study examines the aesthetics, efficacy, and propriety of the embedded metaphors in characterization, music, and colour application as creative vision in projecting victimhood atmosphere around traumatized Niger-Deltans due to many years of deprivation in Blood and Oil. Thus, this study explains how Blood and Oil represents a credible narrativ...

The purpose of this study is to extend scholarly reading of the contributions of Michael Soi’s politics paintings to social debates as a means of deepening our understanding of the complex relationship between art and politics. Thus, this study assesses relevant variables indicating how Soi’s selected paintings are effectively his means of projecti...

Poor leadership has unarguably been recognized as a major national question around which many socioeconomic and political problems revolve in Nigeria. It has led to decadence and a squandermania mentality which breeds all sort of vices, mass poverty, absent and decaying infrastructure, kidnapping, agitations, banditry, and all kinds of insurgency....

Abstract Poor leadership has unarguably been recognized as a major national question around which many socioeconomic and political problems revolve in Nigeria. It has led to decadence and a squandermania mentality which breeds all sort of vices, mass poverty, absent and decaying infrastructure, kidnapping, agitations, banditry, and all kinds of ins...

This paper analytically discusses the efficacy of Obiora Udechukwu's eight paintings particularly their commonality in projecting humanity universal common, pervading melancholy consciousness, and their propensity to activate effectual catharsis. This paper also discusses how these eight paintings provide cognitive channels through which plausible...

This paper examines the politics and didactic nuances of authorial projection of rational choice behavior in Emeka Nwabueze's 1 Rainstorm in the Desert in relation to social burden of concealment. Thus, this paper analyzes the playwright's portrayal of the multiple effects of devious concealment to individuals and the society. To this end, this pap...

The study examines The Prime Minister's Son written by Greg Mbajiorgu 1 as a drama of social criticism by discussing the trajectories of social construction of depravity and the apparent destructive re-calibration of psychical disposition of the concerned individuals. Thus, the study analytically looks at the playwright's authorial perspectives on...

The paper examines the didactic values embedded in The Trials of Afonja, a drama created through a combination of history and imaginative resourcefulness, which projects lack of foresight and progressivism as hubris as well as the key variables responsible for the socioeconomic downturn of individuals, empires and nations. Thus, these contexts form...

This study presents an interdisciplinary approach towards a critical analysis of some impacts of crude-oil exploration in Niger Delta and polemics of viable conflict resolution framework. This approach involves analysis of Ahmed Yerima's creative portrayal in Hard Ground which revolves around the variables activating conflicting emotional interests...

This paper critically discusses the realities of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria, the attendant consequences, the polemics of casualties, and how portrayal of disenchantment in Ahmed Yerima's drama Pari projects nuances of instigating factors and variables. Thus this paper reviews critically the heart-rending questions that regularly pervade the va...

The paper examines Alex Asigbo's Once upon a School as a drama of social criticism through an interpretive analysis of embedded metaphors as forms of behaviour intrigues, twists and turns that characterize humans in quest to achieving their aspirations. The play evaluates behavioural tendencies as products of social construction of reality, which r...

This study examines the application language and speech for the purpose of deception as a means of achieving concealment of information as portrayed in two plays of a Nigerian playwright Emeka Nwabueze. Thus, this study attempts to discuss some typologies of deception and concealment of information as a means of understanding better, the reasons an...

This study examines the aesthetics and shades of portrayals of ghosts as supernatural and metaphysical realities in two Nollywood films Heart of a Ghost and A Ghost Story as representations of Igbo worldviews on ghosts' realities. Our aim is to present an analytical explanation of the filmic attributions in relation to historical as well as the sub...

This study examines the nuances of Sam Ukala’s2 contextualization of African social worldviews on mystical realism and the shades of social class conflicts in The Placenta of Death. The focal aim is to discus and come up with plausible appreciation of the perspectives projected in the play as regards to the contexts and application of mysticism in...

Background and Aim. This study critically examines the culture specific social functions and performance realities of some flogging-meets that existed or exists in regions of Africa. Thus, this study applies Aniago’s Theory of Vicious Performance and Geertz’s Thick Description of culture and interpretive contextualization as the preferred conceptua...

This paper evaluates the nuances of magical realism and philosophical conceptualization of destiny in Inua Ellams’ Untitled through a critical analysis of the character and environment compositions. The focus of interest includes the assessment of the logic in Ellams’ intertwining of destiny with a person’s name, and how he applies character and en...

This paper examines, from a culture-specific perspective, the shades of metaphors and innuendos subsumed in labyrinths of victimhood in Akpos K’ro Adesi’s mono-drama Whose Daughter Am I. Thus our major focus is to critically analyze the embedded ideological webs extrapolating the import of natural and socio-cultural forces in creation of victims an...

One of the major topical concerns that have taken the centre stage in scholarly as well as pedestrian discourses in Nigeria in recent time is the apparent intractable web of Nigeria's socio-political woes. However, the nuances and shades of opinions on the topic are in many ways interesting and at the same time disturbing. A common essence in relat...

This study examines some social realities of the dramatization of the supernatural in Ernest Obi's Idemili and Afam Okereke's Billionaire's Club, and how these portrayals relate to the subsisting social worldview on supernatural in Nigeria. Thus, this study aims to illuminate on the nuances of the dramatization of mysticism and the ethereal as mani...

Nature and nurture both present a depiction of humans as puppets controlled by a manipulative gene pool or by an environmental puppeteer (Austin D. Miller). Abstract This paper examines analytically Emeka Nwabueze's illustration of the political predisposition of some politicians in A Parliament of Vultures. Primarily, the focus of analysis in this...

This study attempts an interpretive analysis of Chukwuemeka Ike’s The Potter’s Wheel as a didactic narrative which projects the social reality of attribution, within the praxis of social construction of reality. Thus, our purview includes the contextualization of Igbo philosophy and worldview on magical realism in line with Ike’s projections in The...

This paper evaluates the multiplex nature of the dramatized decadence and the nuances of salvation prescribed by Ifechi Jane Odoe as encapsulated in her positivist polemics in Edge of the Brink. Primarily this study’s discussion revolves around interpretive reading of her shades of representation to extrapolate on the attributions subsumed in her p...

This study is an analytical contextualization of the Igbo trado-cultural and Christian perspectives on the context of prayer as a mystical reality and experience. Thus, this study examines the interplay of faith and testimonies in the validation of the efficacy of prayer, as well as the relationship between fate and prayer from the dominant Igbo so...

This paper analytically evaluates Ezenwanebe’s conceptualization in her presentation of categories of familial plights as consequences of socio-evolutionary trends, as well as clash of modern-cosmopolitan and trado-cultural ideologies in Adaugo. Specifically, this paper looks at how Adaugo represents the consequences of insufficient and ineffectual...

This study examines the dimensions of faith and efficacy of mysticism in Cyprian Ekwensi’s novel, Burning Grass which largely relates the travail of an elderly nomadic Fulani man named Mai Sunsaye. Supposedly, Mai Sunsaye was afflicted by his foes with an unfriendly mystical influence known as sokugo, literally defined as wanderlust or wondering sp...

Production of video films in Nigeria have risen fast to become a vital and dynamic medium of entertainment and education. Evident is its palpable capacity to enhance the preservation and strengthening of Nigeria's advantages in her socio-cultural diversity. Hence, the view that the boom in Nigeria film industry, popularly referred to as Nollywood h...

This paper analytically looks at Emeka Nwabueze's 1 attempt at a dramatic representation of a major historical reality, widely referred to as the Aba Women's Riot, which occurred during colonial Nigeria. The primary interest is to examine the contexts of some layers of pertinent didactic metaphors embedded in the play, The Dragon's Funeral, which a...

This study critically examines available literature on soro starting with the earliest publication to the most recent literature accessible, to underscore the level of growth in soro scholarship, the existing gaps and instances of convergence in analysis in studies under-review. It analytically reviews all available data in order to highlight major...

This paper examines the typologies Grass. Particularly, this paper's focus will be on represented in Burning Grass, (like classified either as 'actual' or 'typical aims to elucidate on what informs this realities. In a bid to attain a plausible Burning Grass, and applies the researcher's field experience from culture-specific perspectives.

Soro is a male-youth ceremonial flogging-meet of some Fulbe ladde clans in northern Nigeria, such as the Jafun, which, according to the occasion, is practiced either as a rite-of-passage (furtuki danki in Fulfulde) or as a sport (fijirde in Fulfulde). To the Jafun Fulbe ladde, soro is a ritual as well as a cultural entertainment which offers the op...

In the process of researching the Fulani cultural performance of soro (flogging contest) in Nigeria, I discovered that this performance presents certain contextual elements that quality it as a participatory performance; as an example of cultural theatrical practice; as a form of extreme and gruelling performance in which spectators enthusiasticall...