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Prof. Dr. Sule Emmanuel Egya

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,African Studies
KeywordsMigration studies, African literature, Environmental humanities, African knowledge production, cultural studies
Honours and awards

2020: Akweya TV award for outstanding contribution in the field of literature

2019: Association of Nigerian Authors prose prize for Makwala, my second novel

2014: National Association of Students of English & Literary Studies (Lapai branch) award of excellence

2013: Commonwealth book prize Africa region for Sterile Sky, my first novel

2013: Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University management merit award as the most outstanding academic staff of the year

2009: Abuja Writers’ Forum Anthony Agbo prize for poetry for What the Sea Told Me, my third collection of poems

2009: Abuja Writers’ Forum Ime Ikiddeh prize for literary criticism in fiction

2009: Association of Nigerian Authors NDDC Gabriel Okara poetry prize for What the Sea Told Me, my third collection of poems

Current contact address

CountryNigeria
CityLapai
InstitutionIbrahim Badamasi Babangida University
InstituteDepartment of English

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Flora Veit-WildInstitut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Susanne GehrmannSeminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Martin ButlerFakultät III - Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2009

Programme(s)

2009Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2022 Sule E. Egya, et al: Poetry, Protest, and Environment: Human and Nonhuman Rights in Nigerian Poetry. In: Law and Humanities, 16, 2022, 59-69
2022Sule E. Egya: The Ecological Unconscious in Early African Decolonial Writing. In: Nka Oma: Journal of the Humanities, 1, 2022, 19-30
2022Sule E. Egya: The Ecopoetics of Flooding in Contemporary Nigeria.. In: Etudes Anglaises, 75, 2022, 209-225
2021Sule E. Egya: “Life-writing as Political Critique: A Study of Kunle Ajibade’s Jailed for Life: A Reporter’s Prison Notes and Chris Anyanwu’s The Days of Terror: A Journalist Eye-witness of Account of Nigeria in the Hands of Its Worst Tyrant.”. In: Postcolonial Text, 16, 2021, 1-17
2021Sule E. Egya: “‘Farmer-born peasant-bred’: Agriculture, Modernity, and Socio-ecological Vision in Niyi Osundare’s Village Voices and The Eye of the Earth.”. In: Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 24, 2021, 367-380
2021Sule E. Egya: “‘Sea-salt rides its currents to the city’: Lagos and the Poetics of Flooding.”. In: Postcolonial Studies, 24, 2021, 384-398
2020Sule E. Egya: “Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a ‘Modernizing’ City in Nigerian Poetry.”. In: African Literature Today, 38, 2020, 37-49
2020Sule E. Egya: Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature. Routledge, 2020
2020Sule E. Egya: Not Yet Season of Blossom: Writing Northern Nigeria into the Global Space. In: Tanure Ojaide & Joyce Ashuntantang, Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature. Routledge, 2020. 341-351
2020Sule E. Egya: Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a ‘Modernizing’ City in Nigerian Poetry. In: African Literature Today, 2020, 37-49
2020Sule E. Egya: “Aesthetics in Remi Raji’s Poetry.”. In: IBBUL Academic, 3, 2020, 1-32
2020Sule E. Egya: “Out of Africa: Ecocriticism beyond the Boundary of Environmental Justice.”. In: Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, 11, 2020, 66-73
2019Sule E. Egya: Exile and the Trope of Dispersal in Recent Nigerian Poetry. In: Abba A. Abba & Benedictus C. Nwachukwu, Critical Engagements on African Literature: An Offering to Professor Isidore Diala. Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2019. 132-147
2019Sule E. Egya: Power and Resistance: Literature, Regime, and the National Imaginary. SevHage Publishers, 2019
2019Sule E. Egya: Power and Resistance: Literature, Regime, and the National Imaginary. Sevhage, 2019
2019Sule E. Egya, et al: Studies in Scientific and Cultural Ecology. Sevhage, 2019
2019Sule E. Egya: “Violence, Trauma, and Dislocation: A Reading of Christine Watson’s Tiny Sunbirds Far Away and Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday.”. In: Wilberforce Island Review, 17, 2019, 1-16
2018Sule Emmanuel Egya: Diaspora Positioning, Identity Politics and the Crisis of Nigerian Literature. In: ANA Review: a Journal of the Association of Nigerian Authors, 2018, 143-158
2018Sule Emmanuel Egya: Makwala. Paressia Publishers, 2018
2018Sule Emmanuel Egya: Sexualized Body, Exploited Environment: a Feminist Ecocritical Reading of Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow and Christine Watson’s Tiny Sunbird Far Away. In: Journal of the African Literature Association, 2018, 1-13
2018Sule Emmanuel Egya: The Pristine Past, the Plundered Present: Nature as Lost Home in Tanure Ojaide’s Poetry. In: Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2018, 1-15
2017Egya, Sule Emmanuel Egya: Literary Militancy and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water. In: Research in African Literatures, 2017, 94-104
2017Egya, Sule Emmanuel: Niyi Osundare: a Literary Biography. SevHage, 2017
2016Sule Emmanuel Egya: Nature, Animism and Humanity in Anglophone Nigerian Poetry. In: F. Fiona Moolla, Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms. Wits UP, 2016. 257-275
2016Egya, Sule Emmanuel: The Excesses of Language and the Limitations of Literature in the Age of Threatened Humanity. In: Kayode Atilade, Richard Ajah, Amos Iyiola & Abosede Adeboyeku, Language and Literature in the Dis/Service of Humanity. God’s Grace Prints, 2016. 143-151
2015Dr. Sule Emmanuel Egya: Dance as Heritage among the Agatu People. In: Mbaiver Nyitse & Moses Tsenongu, The Salt of the System: Essays on Language, Literature and the Arts in Honour in Hnour of Professor Tyohdzuah Paulinius Akosu’s 60th Birthday. Bahiti & Delila Publishers, 2015. 62-73
2015Sule Emmanuel Egya: Nature and the Environmentalism of the Poor: Eco-poetry from the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. In: Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2015, 1-12
2015Sule Emmanuel Egya: Power Relation in Esiaba Irobi’s Cemetery Road. In: Wilberforce Island Review, 2015, 1-18
2014Dr. Sule Emmanuel Egya: Dialogism, African Poetics, and Contemporary Nigerian Poetry in English. In: Lapai Journal of Humanities, 2014, 25-41
2014Dr. Sule Emmanuel Egya: Ija G’Ampene’: Oral Poetics, Girl Child Education, and Cultural Values in Agatu Playground Performance. In: Lapai Journal of Languages, Literatures and Communication Studies, 2014, 224-235
2014Dr. Sule Emmanuel Egya: Nation, Power, and Dissidence in Third Generation Nigerian Poetry in English. Unisa Press, 2014
2014Dr. Sule Emmanuel Egya: The Body as Site of Trauma: Zaynab Alkali’s The Descendants and Unoma Azuah’s Sky-High Flames. In: Kolawole Gboyega, Sule E. Egya, and Sade Ifamose, Gender and Power in Contemporary Africa: Essays in Honour of Prof Sophia Obiajulu Ogwude. Bahiti & Delila Publishers, 2014. 239-250
2013Sule Emmanuel Egya: Eco-Human Engagement in Recent Nigerian Poetry in English. In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2013, 60-70
2013Dr. Sule Emmanuel Egya: Literature as Political Critique in Nigeria: Mobilisation, Dialogue, and Indictment. In: The Bridge: Journal of Language, Literature & Communication Studies, 2013, 26-45
2013Dr. Sule Emmanuel Egya: Myth and Materialism in Onookome Okome’s Poetry. In: Wilberforce Island Review, 2013, 23-35
2012Dr. Sule Emmanuel Egya: A Prolegomenon for a Cultural Analysis of Contemporary Nigerian Literature in English. In: GOPANLI: A Journal of the Department of English, Gombe State University, 2012, 43-68
2012Sule Emmanuel Egya: Contemporary Nigerian Female Poets: Toyin Adewale and Unoma Azuah. In: Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 2012, 7-18
2012Sule Emmanuel Egya: Dissident Dirge: Reading the Poetry of Joe Ushie and Nnimmo Bassey. In: AJELS: Abuja Journal of English and Literary Studies, 2012, 164-182
2012Sule Emmanuel Egya: Historicity, Power, Dissidence: the Third-Generation Poetry and Military Oppression in Nigeria. In: African Affairs, 2012, 424-441
2012Sule Emmanuel Egya: Idiom of Text: the Unwritten Novel in Recent Nigerian Fiction. In: English in Africa, 2012, 109-124
2012Dr. Sule Emmanuel Egya: Niyi Osundare’s Eco-poetry in The Eye of the Earth. In: KAJOLLS: Katsina Journal of Linguistic and Literary Studies, 2012, 147-165
2012Sule Emmanuel Egya: The Dialogic Mode in Agatu Oral Poetry. In: Ibadan Journal of European Studies, 2012, 16-32
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: Art and Outrage: A Critical Survey of Recent Nigerian Poetry in English. In: Research in African Literatures, 2011, 49-67
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: Beyond the Boundary of Age: Proverb Variation in Agatuland. In: Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, 2011, 31-43
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: Chiedu Ezeanah’s Poetry: Nation, Poetics, Outrage. In: Gege: Ogun Studies in English, 2011, 80-99
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: Imagining Beast: Images of the Oppressor in Recent Nigerian Poetry in English. In: Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2011, 345-358
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: Infraction and Change in the Nigerian Feminist Novel: Zaynab Alkali and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. In: African Identities, 2011, 101-111
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: Poetics of Rage: a Reading of Remi Raji's Poetry. Kraft Books, 2011
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: Poetry as Dialogue: a Reading of Recent Anglophone Nigerian Poetry. In: E-Cerdernos CES, 2011, 75-92
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: Poetry, Historicity, and Nationhood: Recent Nigerian Poetry in English. In: Abuja Journal of English and Literary Studies, 2011, 128-144
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: Power Interplay: Poetry as Cultural Critique in Africa. In: JOLAE: Journal of Arts and Education, 2011, 1-22
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: The Aesthetic of Rage in Recent Nigerian Poetry in English: Olu Oguibe and Ifowodo Ogaga. In: Matatu: Journal of African Culture and Society, 2011, 99-114
2011Sule Emmanuel Egya: Transcending Kitchen: Political Engagement in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come. In: Identity, Culture and Politics: An Afro-Asian Dialogue, 2011, 42-53
2010Sule Emmanuel Egya: An Exploration into the Proverbs of Selected Ethnic Groups in Nasarawa State. In: Olayemi Akinwunmi, J. M. Ayuba, Adoyi Onoja, M. A. Filaba and C. O. Iyimoga, Studies in the History and Culture of the Peoples of Nasarawa State. Ahmedu Bello University Press, 2010. 65-78
2010Sule Emmanuel Egya: Political Poetry in Recent Nigerian Writing: the Example of Abdullahi Ismaila. In: Prosopisia: an International Journal of Poetry and Creative Writing, 2010, 59-70
2010Sule Emmanuel Egya: Reconstructing Misrule and Oppression in Recent Nigerian Fiction: a Historicist Reading of Okey Ndibe’s Arrow of Rain and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. In: Idris O. O. Amali, Adebayo A. Joshua and Amina Bashir, New Studies on Language, Literature and Society: a Festschrift in Honour of Professor Aliyu Muhammad at Sixty-Five. Ahmadu Bello University Press, 2010. 341-352
2010Sule Emmanuel Egya: “European Priestess of African Divinities: a Review of Paora Caboara Luzzatto’s Susanne Wenger: Artist and Priestess”. In: Context: Journal of Social and Cultural Studies, 2010, 118-119
2010Sule Emmanuel Egya: “Indian in Nigeria: Nation and Gender in Kanchana Ugbabe’s Short Fiction.”. In: Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies, 2010, 13-24
2010Sule Emmanuel Egya: “Of Idiom and Paradox: Laughter as Therapy in Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters”. In: ISALA: Ife Studies in African Literature and the Arts, 2010, 11-19
2010Sule Emmanuel Egya: “Review of The Eaters of the Living by Idris Musa Okpanachi”. In: African Literature Today, 2010, 157-158
2010Sule Emmanuel Egya & Gboyega Kolawole: “Threnody in the Postcolonial Text: The Example of New Nigerian Poetry.”. In: James T. Tsaaior, Politics of the Postcolonial Text: Africa and Its Diaspora. Lincom GmbH, 2010.
2009Sule Emmanuel Egya: “From Chinua Achebe to Sefi Atta: The Novelist as Teacher.”. In: Joseph Ushie & Denja Abdullahi., Themes Fall Apart but the Centre Holds: 50 Seasons of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart – 1958-2008.. ANA, 2009. 196-212
2009Sule Emmanuel Egya: “Social Commitment and Individualism in Uche Nduka’s Poetry.”. In: Maiduguri Journal of Arts and Social Sciences., 2009, 44-50
2009Sule Emmanuel Egya: “Where is the Era Leopards Faced Leopards?: A Study of Idris Amali’s General Without Wars.”. In: Maiduguri Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 2009, 272-281