Editor’s Note

V — Les Combattants: The Origins of a Congolese Diaspora Political Protest — Patrick B. Litanga

Colonial Legacy and Environmental Degradation in Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart — Olubunmi Tayo Agboola and Abolade Inioluwa Odewusi

Oral Poems of Igbo People in Nigeria: Categories and Functions — Oluchi Eugenia Nebolisa and Ebele E. Okafor

Crisis at the Confluence: Religion, Humanity, and Conflict in Sudan — Ngozi C. Kamalu

Reflections on Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic Historical Analysis — Chukwuemeka Nwosu

A Socio-Pragmatic Investigation of Sound Communication in Ejagham Culture — Okang Ntui Ogar, Lucy Mishina Ushuple, and Jude TerkaaTyoh

Name and Naming in Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay With Me: An Onomastic Exploration — Kikelomo Adeniyi, Francis Olabisi Jedege, Peluolami Adebisi Olowofoyeku

The Paradoxical Image of Women in Soyinka’s Madmen and Specialist, Kongi’s Harvest and Death and the King’s Horseman — Ijeoma Precious Obiyor