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Editorial PrefaceIt is with a great sense of commitment to scholarship that I present LOJEL: Lokoja Journal of English & Literature, Volume 2, 2025, a publication of the Department of English & Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts, Federal University Lokoja. We regret our inability to publish since our maiden volume 1, No.2. Now that we have bounced back again, we promise to keep up the tempo of consistency in publication.This Volume has come out with a luscious harvest of fifteen (15) scholarly essays that have passed through stringent scrutiny with the sole aim of keeping faith with sustaining a quality journal that will stand the test of time. With a bumper harvest of fifteen articles that cut across diverse areas of English Language and Literature with different approaches to the interpretation, interrogation and analyses of its epistemology, I present this journal to the reading public.I thank the Editorial Advisers, the Editorial Board, contributors and staff of the department for their steadfastness and support in making this dream a reality. We hope and pray to keep the journal afloat always even in these austere times.If, in the course of reading, any errors are detected, it is highly regretted.Happy Reading!Prof. Ayodele Bamidele,