Enajite Ojaruega
Biographic Data
| ID | 5637675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Enajite Ojaruega |
| GIVEN NAMES | Enajite |
| FAMILY NAME | Ojaruega |
| SIGNATURE | OJARUEGA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delta State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0887-4899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Representation of Female Mental Ill Health in the African Novel
This study examines the depiction of female mental ill health in selected African novels. We intend to explore some causes and manifestations of, as well as responses to women’s emotional disorders. Through the prism of psychoanalytical feminism, our paper identifies those socio-cultural and environmental factors that are drivers of female mental ailments as represented in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervo…
Beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Nigerian Civil War Novels
Enajite E. Ojaruega discusses in her “Beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Nigerian Civil War Novels” the agential roles women played during the Nigeria-Biafra war as reflected in selected fictional narratives. Female characters are generally impacted negatively by their individual and collective war-time experiences. However, there is another important aspect of women's war-time experiences that has largely been underplayed in most historical or …
One Text, Many Literary Traditions: The Multidimensionality of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
Death and the King’s Horseman , published in 1975, is undoubtedly Wole Soyinka’s most acclaimed play. When awarding the playwright the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 1986, the Committee specifically cited it as a “drama of existence”. Many literary critics have written about the play from multifarious perspectives. However, the dramatic text is still open to multidimensional interpretations that can further illuminate the rich texture of th…
The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta
Introduction / Tanure Ojaide and Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega -- Towards a Bio-regional, Politico-Historical, and Socio-Cultural Identity of the Niger Delta / Tanure Ojaide -- Form and Content of Ibibio Traditional Festivals: Ekpo, Ekpe and Mbopo / Effiok Bassey Uwatt -- Traditional Ijo Poetry / Imomotimi Armstrong -- The Cultural Aesthetics of Benin Traditional Festival Performances / Josephine Ebiuwa Abbe -- Urhobo Udje: An Indigenous Satiric Gen…
Tradition and subjectivities: Warri-related comedians and their art
By some coincidence, many Nigerian stand-up comedians were born, raised, live in, or are associated with Warri and its environs. By Warri, as understood in the area, we mean Warri and its surroundings and, to a large extent, what is called the ‘core Delta’ of Nigeria’s Delta State. The comedians include Gordons, I Go Dye, AY and Real Warri Pikin. We investigate what is possibly responsible for the natural talent of these comedians. We relate the …
Outgoing and Incoming Africans: Migration and Reverse Migration in Contemporary African Narratives
Feminist Perspectives And Intra-gender Conflict In Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women
Feminist Perspectives And Intra-gender Conflict In Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women.." Journal of the African Literature Association, 6(2), pp. 197–206
The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta
Introduction / Tanure Ojaide and Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega -- Towards a Bio-regional, Politico-Historical, and Socio-Cultural Identity of the Niger Delta / Tanure Ojaide -- Form and Content of Ibibio Traditional Festivals: Ekpo, Ekpe and Mbopo / Effiok Bassey Uwatt -- Traditional Ijo Poetry / Imomotimi Armstrong -- The Cultural Aesthetics of Benin Traditional Festival Performances / Josephine Ebiuwa Abbe -- Urhobo Udje: An Indigenous Satiric Gen…
Tradition and subjectivities: Warri-related comedians and their art
By some coincidence, many Nigerian stand-up comedians were born, raised, live in, or are associated with Warri and its environs. By Warri, as understood in the area, we mean Warri and its surroundings and, to a large extent, what is called the ‘core Delta’ of Nigeria’s Delta State. The comedians include Gordons, I Go Dye, AY and Real Warri Pikin. We investigate what is possibly responsible for the natural talent of these comedians. We relate the …
Feminist Perspectives And Intra-gender Conflict In Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women
Feminist Perspectives And Intra-gender Conflict In Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women.." Journal of the African Literature Association, 6(2), pp. 197–206
Outgoing and Incoming Africans: Migration and Reverse Migration in Contemporary African Narratives
Tradition and subjectivities: Warri-related comedians and their art
By some coincidence, many Nigerian stand-up comedians were born, raised, live in, or are associated with Warri and its environs. By Warri, as understood in the area, we mean Warri and its surroundings and, to a large extent, what is called the ‘core Delta’ of Nigeria’s Delta State. The comedians include Gordons, I Go Dye, AY and Real Warri Pikin. We investigate what is possibly responsible for the natural talent of these comedians. We relate the …
One Text, Many Literary Traditions: The Multidimensionality of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
Death and the King’s Horseman , published in 1975, is undoubtedly Wole Soyinka’s most acclaimed play. When awarding the playwright the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 1986, the Committee specifically cited it as a “drama of existence”. Many literary critics have written about the play from multifarious perspectives. However, the dramatic text is still open to multidimensional interpretations that can further illuminate the rich texture of th…
The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta
Introduction / Tanure Ojaide and Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega -- Towards a Bio-regional, Politico-Historical, and Socio-Cultural Identity of the Niger Delta / Tanure Ojaide -- Form and Content of Ibibio Traditional Festivals: Ekpo, Ekpe and Mbopo / Effiok Bassey Uwatt -- Traditional Ijo Poetry / Imomotimi Armstrong -- The Cultural Aesthetics of Benin Traditional Festival Performances / Josephine Ebiuwa Abbe -- Urhobo Udje: An Indigenous Satiric Gen…
Representation of Female Mental Ill Health in the African Novel
This study examines the depiction of female mental ill health in selected African novels. We intend to explore some causes and manifestations of, as well as responses to women’s emotional disorders. Through the prism of psychoanalytical feminism, our paper identifies those socio-cultural and environmental factors that are drivers of female mental ailments as represented in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervo…
Beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Nigerian Civil War Novels
Enajite E. Ojaruega discusses in her “Beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Nigerian Civil War Novels” the agential roles women played during the Nigeria-Biafra war as reflected in selected fictional narratives. Female characters are generally impacted negatively by their individual and collective war-time experiences. However, there is another important aspect of women's war-time experiences that has largely been underplayed in most historical or …
Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works)