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Cajetan Iheka named director of Whitney Humanities Center

Cajetan Iheka, the new director of the Whitney Humanities Center, is known for his support of emerging scholars and his collaborative approach. ....

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Storytelling the Slow Violence of Environmental Degradation

Two works that exemplify storytelling of slow violence in the Niger Delta are Helon Habila’s novel Oil on Water and Samantha Iwowo s film, Oloibiri . ....

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Novel perspective: How literature helps us re-think environmental threats

By Susan Gonzalez
February 15, 2021
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Cajetan Iheka
Yale faculty member Cajetan Iheka was an undergraduate in his home country of Nigeria at the height of unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the 2000s. Militants were setting fire to oil installations and kidnapping oil workers in the region one of the least developed parts of the country in protest of the exploitation of their land. During his junior year, a professor introduced Iheka and his classmates to novels, poetry, and drama that depicted the Niger Delta oil crisis, igniting his interest in the environment and the ways that literature can guide or transform our thinking about it. ....

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