The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta

Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega is an Associate Professor of African Literature and Chair of the Department of English and Literary Studies at Delta State University, Nigeria.

The Background 1. Introduction 2. Towards a Bioregional, Politico-Historical, and Sociocultural Identity of the Niger Delta Oratures and Traditional Festivals 3. Form and Content of Ibibiod Traditional Festivals: Ekpo, Ekpe and Mbopo 4. Traditional Ijo Poetry 5. The Cultural Aesthetics of Benin Traditional Festival Performances 6. Urhobo Udje: An Indigenous Satiric Genre Visual Arts 7. Benin Art: Changes Through Time and Space 8. Urhobo Culture and Modernism: Configuring Mutual Reinforcements in the Art of Bruce Onobrakpeya 9. Art for Land and Water: Notes on Urhobo and Their Neighbors Popular Culture 10. Cosmopolitans at One with Homeland: Niger Delta Popular Musicians from Rex Lawson and Victor Uwaifo to Omawumi and Burna Boy 11. Explorations in Pidgin Poetry from the Niger Delta 12. "Warri No Dey Carry Last": The Niger Delta in Nigeria’s Stand-Up Comedy Imaginary Environmentalism 13. Environmentalism in Modern Poetry of the Niger Delta 14. Nature’s Animism and its Appropriation in Niger Delta Poetry 15. Narrative Constructions of Eco-disharmony in Selected Niger Delta Novels Conflict Literature 16. "The perfection of chaos": Heeding the nostalgic imperative in selected works by Ben Okri 17. From the Niger Delta’s Viewpoint: The Nigerian Civil War Literature 18. Bearing Witness: A Taxonomy of Dissent in J.P. Clark-Bekederemo’s Plays 19. Exploitation, Corruption and Agency in Three Niger Delta Movies Of Writers and Personages 20. Literature, Eco-activism and the Saro-Wiwa Imaginary 21. The Poetics of Place and the Niger Delta Minority Discourse in Festus Iyayi’s Fiction 22. Passivity and Agency: The Dilemma of Female Characters in Works of Zulu Sofola, Buchi Emecheta, and Tess Onwueme