Igbo Studies Review Numbers 11 & 12 (2023-2024) marks a decade of publishing high-quality scholarship on Igbo history, culture, literature, language, society, and development. Edited by Chima J. Korieh, this double issue opens with the Editor’s Note “Igbo Studies Review: A Decade of Publishing Igbo Scholarship.” It features interdisciplinary articles that include Ada Uzoamaka Azodo’s reading of Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God as Igbo speculative fiction, Chidi Igwe’s examination of marriage, patriarchy, and female agency in Igbo literary criticism (with readings of Flora Nwapa and Comfort Nwabara), Mathias Ikechukwu Asadu’s study of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the development of the rice industry in southeastern Nigeria (1976–1993), and additional contributions on gender relations in Ozuitem, post-Brexit institutional policy, and critiques of mandatory impact-factor publishing in Nigerian universities. The issue closes with a book review of Ada Uzoamaka Azodo’s Literary Criticism Reevaluated: Challenging a Rigid Creative-Critical Dichotomy.
Igbo Studies Review, No 11-12
Issue Number: 11-12
Publication Date: May 10, 2026
ISSN: 3069-681X
Editor: Chima Korieh
Publisher: Goldline and Jacobs Publishing
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Articles in This Issue
IGBO STUDIES REVIEW: A DECADE OF PUBLISHING IGBO SCHOLARSHIP
By Chima J. Korieh
Published May 10, 2026
READING CHINUA ACHEBE’S ARROW OF GOD AS IGBO SPECULATIVE FICTION
By Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
Published May 10, 2026
MARRIAGE, PATRIARCHY, AND FEMALE AGENCY IN IGBO LITERARY CRITICISM: READING SELECTED AFRICAN AUTHORS THROUGH AZODO
By Chidi Igwe
Published May 10, 2026
JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY (JICA) AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF RICE INDUSTRY IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA, 1976-1993
By MATHIAS IKECHUKWU ASADU
Published May 10, 2026
INSTITUTIONAL DIVERGENCE AND POLICY EVOLUTION IN POST-BREXIT UNITED KINGDOM AND NORTHERN IRELAND: EXPLORING THE NEW INSTITUTIONALISM PERSPECTIVE
Published May 10, 2026
WHEN WOMEN REBEL: CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY IN THE GENDER RELATIONS OF OZUITEM, SOUTHEAST NIGERIA
By VICTOR UKAOGO, OGECHI UKAOGO
Published May 10, 2026
RETHINKING MANDATORY IMPACT FACTOR JOURNAL PUBLICATION IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES AS SYMBOL OF POST-COLONIAL SELF-ENSLAVEMENT
By ELIKE IKECHUKWU, NATHAN OGUCHIE
Published May 10, 2026
[Book Review] Literary Criticism Reevaluated: Challenging a Rigid Creative-Critical Dichotomy. ByAda Uzoamaka Azodo. London: GlobeEdit, 2026
By Rosemary Akpan
Published May 10, 2026