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This article is an ecocritical reading of Remi Raji’s Sea of My Mind (2013). We argue that the collection is a fine illustration of the animist turn in ecocriticism. By engaging with the import of the natural elements that incarnate with the imagination of the sea, we discuss the various ways in which Raji’s poetic oeuvres address the environmental exigencies of the times. We also show how the centrality of natural elements in the work pinpoints the limits of human agency. We further argue that the concern of the collection serves to amplify, from the Nigerian perspective, the necessity of maintaining the delicate balance of relations between humans and the nonhuman others, while not losing sight of the imperative of mitigation to forestall catastrophes of the apocalyptic scale.

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Various epidemics in recent years have introduced myriad of challenges to the entire world. COVID-19 disease is the latest crisis with its attendant health and language issues. With its emergence, COVID-19 introduced into the global linguistic repertoire an avalanche of unknown vocabulary to the ordinary language user. In today’s world, language is not only available for communication; it is a tool that contributes to maintaining global peace and order. In bridging diverse communities of humanities in the world, shared meaning becomes a platform for mutual understanding, promoting intellectual development and collaborative research efforts. The current study aims to explore and explicate the novel language of COVID-19, thereby making meaning accessible for clarity of communication. The qualitative method of analysis which relied on secondary data from different online COVID-19 glossaries was utilised. Data collection was a total of 149 terms, out of which 34 were purposively selected for analysis. This was to examine their semantic meaning and also ascertain their word relations. The study investigates the process of developing meaning mechanisms in the use COVID-19 terms among language users. The study found that the COVID-19 has a distinct vocabulary that can be analysed linguistically. The literature review in this study highlighted past researches on COVID-19 as descriptive, others on the frequency count of words and the etymology of terms.