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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.
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    REPRESENTATIONS OF OIL COMPANIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE IN CHRISTIE WATSON'S TINYSUNBIRDS FARAWAY
    (International Journal of Arts, Languages, Linguistics and Literaty Studies (JOLLS) Vol. 14 (3) 2025, 2025) Onwuka, Edwin; Omesu, Modupeoluwa
    This study explores the representation of Western oil companies and environmental degradation in Christie Watson's Tiny Su.nbirds Far Away , situating the novel within the broader discourse of environmental degradation and socio-political unrest in the Niger Delta. Through the voice of the young narrator, Blessing, Watson crafts a poignant narrative that unveils the destructive impact of oil exploitation on both the natural environment and the lived realities of local communities. The analysis foregrounds the oil company not merely as an economic actor but as a faceless embodiment of neocolonial exploitation, ecological devastation, and systemic injustice. By highlighting the loss of traditional livelihoods, the rise of militancy, and the deterioration of health and social structures, the novel underscores the deep entanglement between environmental collapse and human suffering. Drawing on ecocritical perspective, this study shows how Watson's work, despite being authored by an outsider, amplifies silenced voices and confronts global complicity in the Niger Delta crisis. Ultimately, the research affirms literature's power to humanize ecological destruction, transforming statistics of oil spills and gas flares into lived experiences of pain, resilience, and resistance