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Item Reconceptualising home, migratory impulse and disenchantment in Helon Habila’s travellers and Chimamanda Adichie’s americanah(2021-07) Akinsete, C. T.; Ojo, I.The problematisation of home in the twenty-first century is relatable to the discourse of migration. Existing studies have conceptualised the notion of home and migration from different socio-political perspectives. This paper, while attempting a contrastive of two salient texts, Helon Habila’s Travellers and Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah, extends on these studies by re-examining the concept, place and essence of home as well as the migratory impulse as the negative force for fuelling the condition of disenchantment. Habila’s Travellers (2019) is a novel that envisions the motifs of home and migration as a double-barrel gun which aggravates immigrants’ traumatic condition. Adichie’s Americanah (2013) strongly foregrounds the subject matter of home, and migratory impulse, while further projecting double disenchantment as a reality of migration. This study adopts Homi Bhabha’s concept of Unhomely and Edward Said’s Orientalism as pivotal postcolonial tenets, while the literary texts are subjected to critical interpretations, with the view to extending the narrative of migration as a key concept in the twenty-first century.Item Modern African child and agency for decolonisation in select nigerian novels(University of Calabar Press Calabar - Nigeria, 2020) Akinsete, C. T.The paper extends beyond the portrayal of Chukwuemeka Ike’s The Bottle Leopard as the postcolonial text which describes the colonialised African society and Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus as feminist text. It interrogates the stronghold of colonial mentality and disillusionment that characterises the Modem African child in the quest for self-assertion and search for identity. Due to the colonial encounter, the indigenous identity of the African child has suffered disapproving retrogression, resulting into lack of confidence in African values. This paper, therefore, argues that the Modem African child today is still a victim of colonialism and remains at a crossroad in the unending search for self- discovery. It submits that the African child has been neglected and foregrounds Ike’s stance that Western education, as well as Adichie’s reflections on effects of Western religion, though part of the development phases of Modem African child, cannot continue to inhibit indigenous African ways of life.