Email: ojaruega@delsu.edu.ng
- Area of Specialization: African Literature, Gender Studies/Theories & African Cultural Studies
- Department of English and Literary Studies
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega is Professor of African Literature in the Department of English and Literary Studies at the Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. She was Ag. Head of the Department between 2018 and 2023. She is currently the University's Orator and Director, Ceremonials, Information, and Public Relations. Her areas of academic interest and specialty include: Modern African Literature, Gender Studies/Theories and African Cultural Studies. She has published scholarly articles on contemporary African literature in reputable peer-reviewed journals like Comparative Literature and Culture (CLCweb), Tydskrif Ver Letterkunde, Matatu, Journal of African Literature Association and The IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She has consistently served as reviewer for quite a number of high impact journals. Enajite is co-editor of the seminal book "The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta" which was published by Routledge in 2021. Enajite spent the 2019 Fall Semester as a Senior Visiting Researcher and Fellow of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA. She is also DELSU's Coordinator on the TRaCE Transborder Project funded by SSHRC, Canada.
My Publications- Ojaruega, E. E. (2024) Chika Unigwe's Better Never than Late: Engaging the African Immigrant Experience in Belgium, Europe, The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003396697-31/chika-unigwe-better-never-late-enajite-eseoghene-ojaruega Vol. Pages: 330-341
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2023) Yabis, A Nigerian Genre of Insult, African Battle Traditions of Insult
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15617-5_13 Vol. Pages: 245-261
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2022) The Glocal Conundrum: Anthropocene, Oil and Globalization in Niger Delta Literature, Open Journal of Social Science
https://www.scirp.org/pdf/jss_2022010714390046.pdf Vol.10 (1) Pages: 15-28
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2022) They Too are Casualties: The Toll on the Ecology in Nigerian Civil War Literature , Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies”
https://doaj.org/article/ddc4e0ef3c9a4867bc054b0bd6d86268 Vol.13 (1) Pages: 33-47
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2022) “Representation of Female Mental Ill Health in the African Novel.” , International Review of Humanities Studies
https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/irhs/article/1061/&path_info=uc.pdf Vol.7 (1) Pages: 32-43
- Ojaruega, E. E. & Ojaide, T. (2021) The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta (Co-Editor), Routledge
https://www.routledge.com/The-Literature-and-Arts-of-the-Niger-Delta/Ojaide-Ojaruega/p/book/9780367682897 Vol. Pages:
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2021) From the Niger Delta Point of View: The Nigerian Civil War Literature , The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta (Routledge)
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003136750-23/niger-delta-viewpoint-enajite-eseoghene-ojaruega Vol. Pages: 206 -217
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2021) The Signification of African Spirituality in Selected Short Stories of Tanure Ojaide , Journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of "Aurel Vlaicu", University of Arad
http://www.jhss.ro/downloads/24/articles/vol%2012%20no%202%20(24)%202021-45-58.pdf Vol.12/2 (24) Pages: 45-58
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2021) “One Text, Many Literary Traditions: The Multidimensionality of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman.” , Afrika Focus
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357396360_One_Text_Many_Literary_Traditions_The_Multidimensionality_of_Wole_Soyinka's_Death_and_the_King's_Horseman Vol.34 (2) Pages: 262-282
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2021) Beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Nigerian Civil War Novels, Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture (CLCweb),
https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3619 Vol.23 (4) Pages: 1-12
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2021) “Confronting the Enemy Within: Subverting Internal Complicity in the Debacle of Oil in Two Niger Delta Plays.”, KIU Journal of Humanities
https://kampalajournals.ac.ug/ojs/index.php/kiuhums/article/view/1113/998 Vol.5 (4) Pages: 175-184
- Ojaruega, E. E. & Ojaide, T. (2020) “Tradition, and Subjectivities: Warri- Related Nigerian Comedians and Their Art.”, Tydskrif Ver Letterkunde,
https://letterkunde.africa/article/view/8321 Vol.57 (2) Pages: 81-91
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2020) Representation of Women in Udje: An Urhobo Men's - Only Poetic Performance , Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429354229-19/representation-women-udje-urhobo-men-oral-poetic-performance-genre-enajite-eseoghene-ojaruega Vol. Pages: 206 -217
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2019) Sisters at Arms: Female Misogyny and Competition in Sam Ukala's Selected Plays, UNIUYO Journal of Humanities
http://uujh.org/wp-content/uploads/vol23N2Full/SISTER1.pdf Vol. 23 Pages: 313-324
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2019) ”Conformity, Resistance, and Resolution in Gender Relationships in Traditional Urhobo Poetry., Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria
Vol. 11 Pages:
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2018) Exile, Migration and Homecoming in Nigerian and South African Fiction, Nigerian Journal of Oral Literatures
Vol. 5 Pages: 45-58
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2018) Damaged Identities and their Restoration: Patriarchy as Social and Psychological Injustice in African Women’s Novels, Scholarship and Commitment: Essays in Honour of G.G. Darah/Malthouse Press Limited
https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=FVNjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP15&lpg=PP15&dq=Enajite+Ojaruega+Damaged+Identities&source=bl&ots=0Vy8HQ7Axs&sig=ACfU3U2D4leDz41fgddzVZBQ_0dcGlcGiA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwirjPyh2ITpAhVtSxUIHWshBAwQ6AEwAnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Enajite%20Ojaruega%20Damaged%20Identities&f=false Vol. Pages: 139-148
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2017) Singing Nature: The Lyricism of Christian Otobotekere’s Poetry, Between the Crown and the Muse: Poetry, Politics and Environmentalism of Christian Otobotekere/Malthouse Press Limited
Vol. Pages: 155-164
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2017) Songs only Women Sing: Female Struggles with Identities and Roles in Traditional and Modern Urhobo Poetry, The Niger Delta Literary Review
Vol. 5 Pages: 81-112
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2016) Indigenous Knowledge and Female Participation in Sustainable Development: A Nigerian Literary Perspective., Abraka Humanities Review
Vol. 7 Pages: 67-74
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2015) The Place of Urhobo Folklore in Tanure Ojaide's Poetry, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/TVL.V52I2.10 Vol.52 Pages: 138-158
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2014) Outgoing and Incoming Africans: Migration and Reverse Migration in Contemporary African Narratives, Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, Number 45, 2014.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401211093_003 Vol.45 Pages: 21-34
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2014) Poetry as Therapy: T.J. Sallah's "Harrow Poems", Contemporary Literature of Africa: Tijan M. Sallah and Literary Works of the Gambia/Cambria Press, Amherst, New York
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/exlibris/aleph/a22_1/apache_media/267GRRCHEUTQRM6M34LNTXBCLTS3X6.pdf Vol. Pages: 189-202
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2014) Urhobo Literature in English: A Survey, Aridon: The International Journal of Urhobo Studies
Vol. 1 Pages: 87-101
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2014) Globalization and Local Variables in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction, Abraka Humanities Review
Vol. 6 Pages: 15-24
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2013) Eco-Activism in Contemporary African Literature, Eco-Critical Literature: Regreening African Landscapes/ African Heritage Press
https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=yC20qB80ZtUC&pg=PR3&lpg=PR3&dq=Enajite+Ojaruega+Eco-Activism&source=bl&ots=46k802ryxO&sig=ACfU3U1uyC-1EqsRrOvIP6z4oaEFdIbk2Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi--6mj2YTpAhWD5-AKHTQYA0EQ6AEwB3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Enajite%20Ojaruega%20Eco-Activism&f=false Vol. Pages: 31-46
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2012) Feminist Perspectives And Intra-gender Conflict In Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women., Journal of the African Literature Association
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2012.11690189 Vol.6 Pages: 197-206
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2011) Of Minstrelsy and the Niger-Delta Condition: Tanure Ojaide as Chronicler and Activist Writer, The IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2069735 Vol. III Pages: 15-31
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2011) Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 360: Contemporary African Writers/Gale Cengage Learning
http://assets.cengage.com/pdf/toc_9780787681784.pdf Vol. Pages: 104-109
- Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2010) “Gender and Resource Control as Tropes in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow, Abraka Humanities Review
Vol. 3 Pages: 96-101
- Ojaruega, E. E. (2010) "Kaine Agary's Yellow Yellow : Gender and the Niger Delta Question, ISALA: Ife Studies in African Literature and the Arts
Vol.5 Pages:
- Ojaruega, E. E, (2009) Relocating the Modern Nigerian Woman in Fictional Spaces: Voices of Debutantes , Re-Visioning Humanistic Studies
Vol. Pages:
- Sunny I. Awhefeada & Enajite E. Ojaruega (2009) Cultural Imperatives and the Evolution of Nigerian English, English in the Nigerian Environment: Emerging Patterns and New Challenges/ The Nigeria English Studies Association of Nigeria (NESA)
Vol. Pages: 72-77
