Yohanna Joseph Waliya

University of Calabar | unical · Department of Modern Language and Translation Studies

AELAIWC2023 is the third annual conference of the African Electronic Literature Alliance and African Diasporic Electronic Literature (AELA & ADELI). It was initiated in 2021 by Mr. Yohanna Joseph Waliya from the University of Calabar, Nigeria in collaboration with Prof. Mourad El Fhali from Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco, Prof. Rich...

Inflammation, a characteristic physiological response to infections and tissue damage, commences with processes involving tissue repair and pathogen elimination, contributing to the restoration of homeostasis at affected sites. Hence, this study presents a comprehensive analysis addressing diverse aspects associated with this phenomenon. The invest...

Résumé Dès les années écoulées, les humains tentent de se faire une machine ou une technologie fonctionnelle dans le but de se soulager, se divertir et s’exprimer facilement. C'est de cette détermination est née l'avis d'engager les Twitterbots dans la création procédurale twittéraire. L'objectif de cet essai c'est de recenser les Twitterbots...

With the aid of VR lenses, VR headsets as well as VR joypads, text in virtual reality (VR) blends itself immersively with its readers because both of them are datafied to be virtual embodiments, noticeably, in the Metaverse. Thus, virtual reality technologies (henceforth VRTechs) turn such text into experiences that make readers to interactively...

Social media affordances prioritize automatic interactive digital narrative about the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic to counteract misinformation and fake news in Nigeria. To engage the public about their health risk, WhatsApp chatbot was launched by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in collaboration with UNICEF on the U-Report platform. I...

Ecocriticism is a reaction to the increase in environmental consciousness. It is a kind of literary criticism that focuses on how literary writings contribute to ecology. Ecological theory is used to examine the interaction between the biological environment and the text. It looks at the aesthetics of literature and the philosophical connections...

Le rapport entre l’Intelligence Artificielle (IA) et la création littéraire continue à exister depuis des millénaires Av. J.-C. jusqu'au point que la machine écrivaine des textes littéraires est reconnue récemment comme auteur indépendant grâce aux certains artistes-programmeurs et mathématiciens tels qu'Arthur Frankel de Marburg, Alan Turing, Chri...

AELAIWC 2022: Call for Participation The Centre for Digital Humanities University of Lagos (CEDHUL), Nigeria in conjunction with African Electronic Literature Alliance & African Diasporic Electronic Alliance (AELA&ADELI) Organises The 2nd African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC2022) Theme: E-Literary Pro...

A Post-Digital Text (PDT) reads the readers instead of the readers reading it. This is because these texts, integrated into new media or built using Artificial Intelligence, display based on the mood and consciousness of the readers. PDT techniques include botification, datafication, predictive modelling, adversarial and physiognomic facial recogni...

@Protestitas is a protest/TwitterArt bot that generates Spanish visual Twitterpoetry called “Protestitas,” meaning TinyProtests. These poetic protestistas denounce socio-economic injustices caused by U.S. neoliberal and rightwing policies. In other words, the Twitterbot defends the human rights of African-Americans, Latinxs, LGBTQ people, women, sc...

The book is part of the UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair’s book series, published under the patronage of the Polish Commission for UNESCO, as an outcome and a resource for the International Summer Schools, organized since 2006, at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw, the city of Korczak. This newly edited volume is dedicated to Janusz Korczak’s...

This is an artist’s declaration essay that explains the processes of making universal Twitterbot, @TinyKorczak, loaded with Janusz Korczak’s education philosophy. The Twitterbot protests in favor of children and their ecosystem in English, Spanish, French, Polish and Hebrew languages. It tweets and posts updates every three hours on the timeline of...

To a large extent, the world has come to embrace digitalization which currently permeates all human endeavors and life. However, the process of digitalizing human beings themselves, making them Transhuman and allowing the integration of the digital into every aspect of our daily life has made life both paradoxically appreciative and problematic as...

Climatophosis is inspired by the current climatic change in the world. In fact, the title of the poem is coined from Climate and metamorphosis. It is all about who is to be blamed for the climate change? -It is the same humanity that refuses to respect the nature. On the other hand, nature is renewing itself because it is tired. It is a call for ma...

Young rappers use a secret language or cryptolect to shield themselves from public criticism but share persuading hidden messages that influence their communities. Some of these young musicians are Nigerian University students and their special use of language gives birth to this type of hidden language. In this article, I highlighted the cryptolec...

Niger is a country of Sub-Saharan Africa bordering the Sahara Desert. Nigerien society boasts a richly multicultural setting. It is part of a region of sociopolitical entities that have been highly influenced by Islamic Arabic cultural norms. The regions and countries surrounding Niger are Central West Africa (Nigeria and Mali to the south, Ghana,...

La numérisation de la poésie livresque en poésie visuelle donne un autre regard esthétique et herméneutique à la poésie contemporaine. Cet effet a mis au monde un nouveau sousgenre de la cyberlittérature en général. La présente étude se penche sur l’analyse textuelle et pictographique du poème visuel, « C’est tout bon ! »deCorinne Albaut dans le se...

Africa does not guarantee the freedom of transgender people, still, this practice is spread-ing across regions, traditional cults and cultures within the continent (Kwame & Aderin-to, 2009, p. 125). This sexual revolution is acknowledged as clandestine. It is also viewed more than ever in Nigeria and some sub-Saharan African countries as being agai...

Ever since antiquities, theatre has been a medium of provoking sentimental reaction and an entertainment of the populace especially the elite. Authors of this genre do present active noble characters in their works making as if it is real. We do learn in Greco-Roman Empire how amphitheatre hosted Caesars, their officials and empiric subjects watchi...

Résumé La traduction est un métier technique qui nécessite la compétence professionnelle et le don naturel. L’enfant noir de Camara Laye est le premier roman négro-africain d’expression française paru pendant la période de la colonisation. Il vise à valoriser les beautés de l’Afrique traditionnelle. Ayant été rongé par la nostalgie en France, l’aut...

Les œuvres d’esprit du classicisme sont bien imprégnées par des règles strictes qui les rendent esthétiques dans leurs temps. À ce moment-là, il y avait trois grands genres littéraires qui étaient à la mode, à savoir : le roman, la poésie et le théâtre. Dans notre dissertation, nous voulons parler d’une partie du théâtre dite « tragédie : c’est une...

Préalablement, au fil des siècles, la traduction a été connue pour ses apports très pertinents d’internationalisation de connaissance, d’interpénétration des cultures et civilisations et de popularisation de sciences et technologies. La traduction est le deuxième métier le plus vieux dans les domaines d’études comme le dit J.-R. Ladmiral cité dans...