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    DEPICTION OF PAIN AND LOSS IN SELECTED POEMS OF STELLA NYANZI AND IJEOMA UMEBINYUO
    (Covenant University Ota, 2025-09) LOKO, Olufunmilayo Janet; Covenant University Dissertation
    This research investigates depictions of pain and loss in select poems of two contemporary women writer’s, Stella Nyanzi and Ijeoma Umebinyuo. Applying reader-response and psychoanalytic theories, this qualitative study employs close textual analysis to investigate the poetic techniques, imagery, and symbolism employed to portray these experiences. The findings show that both poets question conventional narratives about African women’s lives, resulting in nuanced poetics of vulnerability and resistance. The study’s most significant contribution is its theoretical finding which is poetry has the unique ability to circumvent the unconscious obstacle to communicating trauma that is common in traditional psychoanalysis. Through its symbolic use of aesthetic languages, poetry allows for the safe expression of raw truths, facilitating a journey of catharsis and healing. This research contributes to trauma scholarship by deepening our understanding of evolving narratives of pain and loss in 21st century contemporary African women’s poetry
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    EXPLORATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND MILITANCY IN SELECTED NOVELS OF CHRISTIE WATSON AND CHIMEKA GARRICK
    (Covenant University Ota, 2025-08) Omesu, Modupeoluwa; Covenant University Dissertation
    This study critically explores the intersection of environmental degradation and militancy in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, as represented in Christie Watson‘s Tiny Sunbirds Far Away and Chimeka Garrick‘s Tomorrow Died Yesterday. The Niger Delta, though richly endowed with natural resources, has suffered years of ecological devastation and human suffering due to oil exploration and governmental neglect. Drawing on eco-critical theory, the study examines how these two literary texts represent the lived realities of pollution, poverty, and political alienation, and how these conditions give rise to various forms of resistance including militancy. The research highlights how literature is a mode of protest, capable of amplifying the voices of marginalised communities and exposing the complexities behind youth militancy not merely as criminality, but a reaction to systemic violence, economic exclusion, and environmental collapse. Through the characters‘ struggles, the novels reflect the despair, resilience, and resistance that shape life in the region. By foregrounding local voices and socio-ecological trauma, this work contributes to eco-critical and postcolonial scholarship while calling attention to the urgent need for justice both environmental and human. It affirms literature's capacity not only to document injustice but to humanise it, to bear witness, and to agitate for change.