Okolo-Nwakaeme, M.C: Publications
(a). Books
Fiction
- Okolo, MSC (2016), Gates of Dawn, Lagos: Beacon Books. ISBN: 978-978-955-224-5.
- Okolo, MSC (2016), Memoirs of an Exiled Girl, Lagos: Beacon Books. ISBN: 978-978-955-226-
9.
- Okolo, MSC (2016), Winds on my Mind, Revised Edition, Lagos: Beacon Books. ISBN: 978-978-
955-225-2.
Academic
- Okolo, MaryStella Chika (2018), Contesting the African Public Sphere, Mauritius: Lambert
Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-613-9-84753-2.
- Okolo, MSC (2015), Philosophy: Contemporary Concerns in Africa, Owerri: Book- Konzult.
ISBN:978-37819-8-7.
- Okesipe, Kunle and MSC Okolo (2013), Essentials of Communication in English for Nigerian
Universities, Ibadan: Rebuttal Books. ISBN:978-978-49093-6-5.
- Okolo, MSC (2007), African Literature as Political Philosophy, Dakar: CODESRIA Books:
London and New York: Zed Books. ISBN:978-1-84277-895-1.
- Chapters in Book
- Okolo, MSC (2017), The Repressive State in African Literature: A Philosophical Reading,
Adeshina Afolayan and Toyin Falola, (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy, New
York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp.431-446. ISBN: 978-1-137-59290-3.
- Okolo, MSC (2016), A Philosophical Inquiry into the Nexus between Language and
Education in Africa, in Rosalyn Mutia and Eric E. Ekembe, (eds.), Interdisciplinarity in the
21st Century Global Dispensation: Research in Language, Literature, and Education in Africa,
New York: Nova Science Publishers. Pp.147-157. ISBN:978-1-63485-691-1.
10.Okolo, M.S.C. (2006), Re-establishing the basis of social order in Africa: a reflection on
Achebe’s reformist agenda and Ngugi’s Marxist aesthetics, in Bjӧrn Beckman and Gbemisola
Adeoti, (eds.), Intellectuals and African Development: Pretension and Resistance in African
Politics, London and New York: Zed Books; Pretoria: UNISA Press. Pp. 31 – 48. ISBN: 1-84277-
765-3
- JOURNAL ARTICLES
11.Okolo, MaryStella Chika (2017), Colonial Legacy and Brittle Peace: A Philosophical
Reading of Achebe’s There was a Country, in Kizitus Mpoche and Balasubramanyam Chand
Chandramohan, (eds.), Cameroon Journal of Studies in the Commonwealth (CJSC), 4(1):189-
Published by Cameroon Journal of Studies in the Commonwealth, Cameroon, ISSN 2411
- Available at http://camerooncommonwealthjournal.com
- Nwaorgu, OGF, CC Ojukwu and MSC Okolo, (2017), Philosophy and Nation Building, OR-
CHE UMA: African Journal of Existential Philosophy, Vol.5(2):166-194.
Published by Department of Philosophy, Benue State University, Markurdi, ISSN 2276-8068.
13.Okolo, MaryStella Chika (2015), Constraints and Possibilities in Creating a Sustainable
Inclusive Society in Africa: A Philosophical Re-imaging of Coetzee’s Disgrace, OIDA
International Journal of Sustainable Development, 8(7):33-46.
Published by Ontario International Development Agency, Canada, ISSN 1923-6654 (print),
ISSN 1923-6662 (Online). Available at http://www.ssrn.com/link/OIDA-Intl-Journal-
Sustainable-Dev.html
14.Okolo, MaryStella Chika (2014), A Philosophical Reflection on Sustainable Politics in Africa:
Constraints and Possibilities, OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, 7(4): 63-
78.
Published by Ontario International Development Agency, Canada, ISSN 1923-6664 (print),
ISSN 1923-6662 (Online). Available online at the Social Sciences Research Network:
http://www.ssrn.com/link/OIDA-Intl-Journal-Sustainable-Dev.html
15.Okolo, MSC (2014), Justice and the Search for an African Political Philosophy: Mandela in
Perspective, in GMT Emezue and Maurice P. Kangel, (eds.), African International Journal
of Contemporary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2: 281-302.
Published by the International Research Council of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies
on Africa (IRCHSSSA), U.S.A, ISSN 978-978-52446-1-8. Web Site: www.studiesonafrica.com
16.Okolo, M.S.C. (2009), Contesting the African Public Sphere: A Philosophical Re-Imaging of
Power and Resistance in Ngugi’s Wizard of the Crow, Africa Development, 34(2):59- 80.
Published by Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA),
ISSN 0850-3907. Web Site: www.codesria.org
17.Okolo, M.S.C. (2005), Reassessing the impact of Colonial languages on the African identity
for African development, Africa Media Review, 13(2): 85 – 103. Published by Council for
the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), ISSN 0258-4913.
Web Site: www.codesria.org
18.Okolo, M.S.C. (2005), Ngugi’s Marxist Aesthetics: A philosophical Re-imaging of Petals of
Blood, The African Literary Journal (ALJ), Edition B5, 124 – 140. Published by International
Research Council on African Literature and Culture (IRCALC). Available online at
http://www.africaresearch.org/es 1309.htm.
- Edited Conference Proceeding
- Okolo M.S.C. (2008), Responding to the Imperatives of Decolonizing the Social Sciences in
Africa: A Philosophical Contribution. Proceedings of CODESRIAInterventions Series,
International Colloquium in Dakar, Senegal. Pp. 320 – 340.
Last Updated on February 20, 2020 by FUNAAB