This article begins by pointing to the dearth of critical attention to Ben Okri’s novel, In Arcadia ([2002] 2003. London: Phoenix). Examples of the sparse but dismissive critical reviews of this novel are given, showing ...

There are possibly myriad approaches to an examination of Sir Ben Okri’s African folktale, Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021), that sings the praises of Mother Nature’s ability to transform human nature. Premised on the ...

The central premise in this article is that Ben Okri's generational protest poem, “The Incandescence of the Wind”, first published in An African Elegy (London: Jonathan Cape, 1992) and republished in Rise like Lions (London: ...

As this prize-winning short story from Ben Okri’s Incidents at the Shrine (1993) is a child’s eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, I shall begin by briefly contextualizing Biafra’s quest for freedom in the late 1960s. I ...

This paper begins with an initial justification of the chosen title and argues for the idea of The Landscapes Within effectively becoming the eponymous hero of a tale, the trajectory of which is the inner workings of the ...

The articles featured in this final issue, compiled and edited by Dr Sopelekae Maithufi, the outgoing editor-in-chief, and finalised by Professor Emerita Rosemary Gray, managing editor of English Academy Review, provide a ...

Bookended by the life of Busisiwe Mhkonto, When the Village Sleeps can be read as an “unfinished symphony”. The musicological analogy is bolstered by the harmonisation of the polyphonic voice register, coupled with the ...

Drawing on Ben Okri’s A Time for New Dreams (2011) and Wole Soyinka’s Myth, Literature and the African World ([1976]1995), this article adopts a literary aesthetics approach, explaining that mythic conjunctions are ...

This article begins with a brief discussion of the three terms: the poet, ontopoiesis and eco-phenomenology or phenomenological ecology. An explication of its thrust, viz. the significance of sowing/sewing ‘a quilt of ...

Ben Okri’s ‘The Comic Destiny’ from Tales of Freedom (2009. London: Random House) is a sobering modern fable that represents a new form of dialogue within the context of dispossession, slavery (in its broadest terms) and ...