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IGBO STUDIES REVIEW

 Number 11 &12 * 2023-2024

Editor’s Note

Igbo Studies Review: A Decade of Publishing 

Igbo Scholarship

Chima J. Korieh                                                                                        1

ARTICLES

Reading Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God as 

Igbo Speculative Fiction

Ada Uzoamaka Azodo                                                                             7

Marriage, Patriarchy, and Female Agency in Igbo Literary 

Criticism: Reading Selected Authors Through 

Chidi Igwe                                                                                               23

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and 

the Development of Rice  Industry in Southeastern Nigeria, 1976-1993

Mathias Ikechukwu Asadu                                                                        34              

Institutional Divergence and Policy Evolution in Post-Brexit 

United Kingdom and Northern Ireland: Exploring the 

New Institutionalism Perspective                         

Euzebius Chinedu Ugwu                                                                             64

When Women Rebel: Critical Appraisal of Social and Political 

Authority in the Gender Relations of Ozuitem, 

Southeast, Nigeria

Victor Ukaogo and Ogechi Ukaogo                                                               85

Rethinking Mandatory Impact Factor Journal Publication in 

Nigerian Universities as Symbol of Post-Colonial 

Self-Enslavement

Elike Ikechukwu & Nathan Oguchie                                                               98

Book Review

Literary Criticism Reevaluated: Challenging a Rigid Creative-Critical Dichotomy. 

By Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. London: GlobeEdit, 2026

Rosemary Akpan                                                                                             115