Introduction
The Journal of People and Worldviews (JPW) continues its maiden volume with this second part, extending its commitment to rigorous, interdisciplinary scholarship on human experience, belief systems, and the structures through which meaning is constructed across diverse contexts. As a peer-reviewed academic platform, JPW provides a space where philosophical reflection, empirical inquiry, and cultural analysis converge to interrogate the complex realities shaping contemporary societies.
This second part of the maiden edition brings together a rich and intellectually diverse collection of articles that engage pressing questions across philosophy, literature, religion, education, technology, politics, and social life. The contributions reflect the journal’s core vision: to deepen understanding of how individuals and communities interpret their world, negotiate identity, and respond to structural and existential challenges.
A significant strand in this edition is devoted to philosophical and literary inquiry. From feminist readings of polygamy and gendered power in African literature, to decolonial engagements with Nigerian poetry as sites of epistemic resistance, the articles interrogate how narratives both reflect and reshape systems of knowledge and authority. Closely related are works exploring Afropolitan identity, diasporic belonging, and postcolonial ethics, each raising critical questions about mobility, memory, justice, and coexistence in a fractured global order.
Another cluster of papers engages religion, ethics, and intersubjective life, notably through interreligious hermeneutics, African cosmology, and the ethical reconstruction of community in pluralistic societies. These contributions highlight the enduring relevance of moral traditions while also pushing for more inclusive and dialogical frameworks of interpretation suited to contemporary African realities.
The edition also reflects strong attention to social transformation and development, with studies addressing governance, gender representation, youth behaviour, and family structures. These works reveal the tensions between tradition and modernity, imported systems and indigenous frameworks, while proposing pathways toward more culturally grounded and sustainable societal models.
In addition, there is a notable presence of applied and interdisciplinary research, ranging from technical education and curriculum integration to technological sovereignty, digital epistemology, IoT security, renewable energy innovation, and public health concerns. These studies underscore the necessity of aligning knowledge production with practical realities, especially within developing contexts where structural constraints and opportunities coexist.
Taken together, the articles in this second part of the maiden edition do more than present isolated academic arguments; they collectively map the contours of a world in transition. They reveal a persistent concern with agency, identity, justice, knowledge, and survival, while demonstrating how scholarship can serve as both critique and constructive intervention.
This volume therefore stands as an invitation, not only to read, but to think more deeply about the frameworks through which we understand our lives and societies, and to participate in the ongoing task of reimagining a more coherent, inclusive, and meaningful human world.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19387787
EDITORIAL BOARD
Prof. Emmanuel Chinedum Ibezim – Editor in Chief
European University of Nigeria, Abuja.
Dr. Emmanuel Iniobong Archibong- Editor
Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, University of Uyo, Nigeria.
Dr. Abraham Tamukum Tangwe – Editor
Faculty of Education, Department of Humanities and Sciences
Protestant Universityof Rwanda.
Hilda Afeku-Amenyo – Secretary
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Montclair State University, USA.
Richard Owusu – Editorial Assistant
Department of Education, University of Africa, Zambia.
Dr. Otasowie Ogiemwonyi – Associate Editor
Department of Educational Evaluation and Counselling Psychology,
Faculty of Education, University of Benin, Nigeria.
Dr Love Ogbeyalu Charles-Ukeagu – Associate Editor
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pharmacology.
St George’s University, St George, Grenada.
Temitope Oluwafemi Ademola – Business Manager
Department of Business Innovation
School of Business, Osiri University, Nebraska, USA
Dr. Oluchi Lucky Kingsley-Onyeulo – Production Manager
Department of Public Health, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.
Gideon Godwin Akpaidang – IT Support
Department of Philosophy, University of Uyo, Nigeria
EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS
- Prof.. Gabriel E. Idang, Department of Philosophy, University of Uyo, Nigeria
- Prof. Timothy Nottidge, Department of Orthopedics, University of Uyo, Nigeria. 3. Prof. Happiness Uduk, Department of English, University of Uyo, Nigeria
- Dr. Isaac Ikediashi, Department of Building, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
- Prof. Idorenyin Markson Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Uyo, Nigeria - Dr. Albert Kasanda, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in
Prague - Prof. Ejikemeuwa Ndubuisi. Department of Philosophy, Tansian University, Umunya Nigeria
- Prof Aniekan Brown, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of
Uyo, Nigeria - Prof. Paul Haaga, Department of Philosophy, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria. 10. Prof. Ephraim Akan-Essien Stephen Department of Philosophy, Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria, Nigeria - Prof. Lawrence Ugwuanyi, Department of Philosophy, University of Abuja, Nigeria. 12. Prof. Mark Ikike, Department of Philosophy, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria
- Prof. Chris Akpan, Department of Philosophy, University of Calabar, Nigeria