Niyi Akingbe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1379007 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Niyi Akingbe |
| NOMBRES | Niyi |
| APELLIDO | Akingbe |
| FIRMA | AKINGBE N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4637-131X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Tropical Eco-African Futurism in Ben Okri’s every leaf a hallelujah and Ndhlovu and Keokgale’s Zandi’s Song
This article offers a reading of Ben Okri’s every leaf a hallelujah (2021) and Zandile Ndhlovu and Katlego Keokgale’s Zandi’s Song (2023) as eco-fictional children’s books that integrate tropical futurisms, Afrofuturism, environmental consciousness, and magical realism. Situated at the interstice of children’s adventure fiction and travel writing, the two books’ folkloric resources clearly delineate ecofeminist and eco-critical campaigns against …
Queering Authoritarianism in Uganda
In this article, I argue that queering female sexualities as ‘dissident sexualities’ Stella Nyanzi in her collection of prison poems, No Roses from My Mouth (2020), harnesses the aesthetics of radical rudeness (insults) through expressions of humor, innuendo, and anecdote grounded in the Baganda cultural repertoire, to critique President Yoweri Museveni’s authoritarian regime in Uganda. Her poetry draws attention to queer sexualities grounded in …
Exploring ecofeminism, ecocriticism, aquapoetics, and environmental humanities in Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry
In this article I focus on Gabeba Baderoon’s engagement with nature and the ecological nuances in her poetry. Baderoon is an accomplished South African poet with four poetry collections to date: The Dream in the Next Body (2005), The Museum of Ordinary Life (2005), A hundred silences (2006), and The History of Intimacy (2018). These poetry collections sustain Baderoon’s ecofeminist sensibility as she engages with South Africa’s eco-environmental …
Violence Begets More Violence in The Niger Delta
Whose Lesotho? Trauma, memory, and revisiting a time of fear in Rethabile Masilo’s Poetry
This paper is focused on the analysis of the gripping narratives of Lesotho’s political terror and violence between 1972 and 1986 as captured in Rethabile Masilo’s poetry. To date, Masilo has published four poetry collections—Things That Are Silent (2012), Waslap (2015), Letter to Country (2016) Qoaling (2018) and Mbera (currently in Press). Arguably, these collections evoke a fecund poetic space to string together history and an extremely accura…
Protest, Erotism, and Subversive Innuendo
This article identifies the trope of impoliteness, otherwise called ‘radical rudeness’, in Stella Nyanzi’s collection of poetry, No Roses from My Mouth. When does impoliteness or sarcasm become radical rudeness? I argue that Nyanzi harnesses the aesthetics of radical rudeness to caricature the tyranny of Yoweri Museveni’s dictatorship in Uganda. The article argues, further, that Nyanzi took the risk of juxtaposing the individual and collective, t…
Tendering Griefs; Bemoaning a Tragedy of Postcolonial Governance in Lesotho
Has this house fallen? Fragile nationhood and the Fulani herdsmen’s genocide in Nigerian poetry
The paper evaluates the prevailing anxieties gnawing at the Nigeria nation-state, deriving from the Fulani herdsmen’s genocidal campaign. These anxieties are painstakingly reflected in insecurity, chaos, violence, banditry, and uncertainty that have built up in recent times to complicate the Nigeria nation-state’s fragile sovereignty. Embedded in the poetics of the selected poems is the repudiation of the postcolonial contradictions, which highli…
Resisting Pacification
This paper analyses the tension between subjugation and resistance as represented in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's six poetry collections, through the lens of discourse stylistics and eco-linguistic theories.Ogbowei is a prolific Nigerian poet whose work delineates anger and resistance while documenting the Niger Deltan experience.His poetry illustrates themes of emasculation in the aftermath of continued pillage and drums up support for the region's nation…
Playwright as Guerilla Warlord
This paper outlines the maturation of Robert Serumaga’s art, politics, and activism as he confronted the dilemma of totalitarianism unleashed by Idi Amin’s dictatorship on postcolonial Uganda. The paper establishes a direct link between literature, resistance, and performance of Uganda’s political failure within the context of the playwright’s individualistic disposition to art as his complicated inclination to revolt. Most obviously, the associa…
Majek Fashek (1963–2020)
In memoriam
(2020). In memoriam: Dr Victor Abimbola Olaiya (1930–2020) Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 121-124
Voicing Protest
(2020). ‘Voicing Protest’: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's ‘This is America’ and Falz's ‘This is Nigeria’. Contemporary Music Review: Vol. 39, Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu, pp. 6-36
Popular Music in Nigeria
Hip hop music on the African continent often constitutes a site for competing anxieties, just as its varied rhythms compellingly appeal to the sensibilities of its diverse audience. Evidently, hip
Reconfiguring Others’
An examination of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah reveals a mapping of exponential growth of obtrusive racial tension which leaves in its wakes prejudice, acrimony and hatred. The article argues that despite its dialogic engagement with the possibility of harmonizing the varied characters' racial/cultural backgrounds, Adichie's Americanah's experimentation with transculturalism faded in a miasma of morbid biases and despair. This failure ha…
Writing violence
Wole Soyinka’s A Shuttle in the Crypt is a distillation of deep-seated anger against what he perceived as his “unjustified confinement” of twenty-five months by the administration of General Yakubu Gowon during the Nigerian Civil War between 1967 and 1970. Nigeria’s haunting, turbulent political history is approached from ostensibly mediation of fact and fiction rendered in poetry. Poems in this collection exteriorize Soyinka’s mind as it shuttle…
Subverting Nationalism
The thematics of Femi Fatoba’s They Said I Abused the Government (2001) and Wole Soyinka’s Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (2002) demonstrate the potential of art to bear witness to the bizarre, depressing anomie bedevilling Nigeria between 1993 and 1998. This anomie was ruinously orchestrated by the power-hungry military, who annulled the free and fair presidential election won by Chief M.K.O. Abiola. This military incursion into Nigeri…
Contextualizing the contours of subjugation
This article examines the ways in which two prominent Nigerian playwrights, Wole Soyinka and Esiaba Irobi, re-envision common perceptions of the Nigerian armed forces as portrayed in literature. Despite nearly two decades of often-tumultuous democratic rule, Nigeria is yet to attain full membership of the league of democratic nations. In The Beatification of Area Boy and Cemetery Road, Soyinka and Irobi respectively look at the ways in which auth…
Fighting humiliation from the fringes
Negritude poetry is often considered the bastion of African literary engagement with the Europe and ultimate summation of the determination of people of the black race to confront racism. But if Negritude as a cultural movement serves as an enduring watershed in the decolonization process of the black Africa and the Caribbean, Negritude poetry on the other hand is incontrovertibly grounded in the committed promotion through writing of the avowed …
Resisting Christian proselytizing in song
This article focuses on the entrenchment of Gikuyu's resources of orality in metatheatre by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii, to satirise the hypocrisy of the Janus-faced Kenyan Pentecostal Christian elite's desperation to hastily convert the peasants in the postcolonial Kenya to Christianity; subsequently robbed them of their ancestral (land) inheritance; and further pauperised them through tithing/offering collection. Metatheatre is a long …
Speaking denunciation
Contemporary Nigerian poets have had to contend with the social and political problems besetting Nigeria’s landscape by using satire as a suitable medium, to distil the presentation and portrayal of these social malaises in their linguistic disposition. Arguably, contemporary Nigerian poets, in an attempt to criticize social ills, have unobtrusively evinced a mastery of language patterns that have made their poetry not only inviting but easy to r…
Speaking denunciation
Contemporary Nigerian poets have had to contend with the social and political problems besetting Nigeria’s landscape by using satire as a suitable medium, to distil the presentation and portrayal of these social malaises in their linguistic disposition. Arguably, contemporary Nigerian poets, in an attempt to criticize social ills, have unobtrusively evinced a mastery of language patterns that have made their poetry not only inviting but easy to r…
Assessing the Dilemma of a Nation at the Crossroads Protest as Landscape in Chinua Achebe's
This essay interrogates the mediation of protest and literature in Chinua Achebe's . It further evaluates the preoccupation of the novel as a veritable record of various forms of protest. Protest and literature are seen to be closely related in the way in which human beings perceive of their society and the actions that they take as a result of those perceptions. Social protest can be said to refer to those mass movements, private initiatives, de…
Voicing Protest
(2020). ‘Voicing Protest’: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's ‘This is America’ and Falz's ‘This is Nigeria’. Contemporary Music Review: Vol. 39, Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu, pp. 6-36
Popular Music in Nigeria
Hip hop music on the African continent often constitutes a site for competing anxieties, just as its varied rhythms compellingly appeal to the sensibilities of its diverse audience. Evidently, hip
Resisting Pacification
This paper analyses the tension between subjugation and resistance as represented in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's six poetry collections, through the lens of discourse stylistics and eco-linguistic theories.Ogbowei is a prolific Nigerian poet whose work delineates anger and resistance while documenting the Niger Deltan experience.His poetry illustrates themes of emasculation in the aftermath of continued pillage and drums up support for the region's nation…
Fighting humiliation from the fringes
Negritude poetry is often considered the bastion of African literary engagement with the Europe and ultimate summation of the determination of people of the black race to confront racism. But if Negritude as a cultural movement serves as an enduring watershed in the decolonization process of the black Africa and the Caribbean, Negritude poetry on the other hand is incontrovertibly grounded in the committed promotion through writing of the avowed …
Assessing the Dilemma of a Nation at the Crossroads Protest as Landscape in Chinua Achebe's
This essay interrogates the mediation of protest and literature in Chinua Achebe's . It further evaluates the preoccupation of the novel as a veritable record of various forms of protest. Protest and literature are seen to be closely related in the way in which human beings perceive of their society and the actions that they take as a result of those perceptions. Social protest can be said to refer to those mass movements, private initiatives, de…
Resisting Christian proselytizing in song
This article focuses on the entrenchment of Gikuyu's resources of orality in metatheatre by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii, to satirise the hypocrisy of the Janus-faced Kenyan Pentecostal Christian elite's desperation to hastily convert the peasants in the postcolonial Kenya to Christianity; subsequently robbed them of their ancestral (land) inheritance; and further pauperised them through tithing/offering collection. Metatheatre is a long …
Speaking denunciation
Contemporary Nigerian poets have had to contend with the social and political problems besetting Nigeria’s landscape by using satire as a suitable medium, to distil the presentation and portrayal of these social malaises in their linguistic disposition. Arguably, contemporary Nigerian poets, in an attempt to criticize social ills, have unobtrusively evinced a mastery of language patterns that have made their poetry not only inviting but easy to r…
Speaking denunciation
Contemporary Nigerian poets have had to contend with the social and political problems besetting Nigeria’s landscape by using satire as a suitable medium, to distil the presentation and portrayal of these social malaises in their linguistic disposition. Arguably, contemporary Nigerian poets, in an attempt to criticize social ills, have unobtrusively evinced a mastery of language patterns that have made their poetry not only inviting but easy to r…
Contextualizing the contours of subjugation
This article examines the ways in which two prominent Nigerian playwrights, Wole Soyinka and Esiaba Irobi, re-envision common perceptions of the Nigerian armed forces as portrayed in literature. Despite nearly two decades of often-tumultuous democratic rule, Nigeria is yet to attain full membership of the league of democratic nations. In The Beatification of Area Boy and Cemetery Road, Soyinka and Irobi respectively look at the ways in which auth…
Fighting humiliation from the fringes
Negritude poetry is often considered the bastion of African literary engagement with the Europe and ultimate summation of the determination of people of the black race to confront racism. But if Negritude as a cultural movement serves as an enduring watershed in the decolonization process of the black Africa and the Caribbean, Negritude poetry on the other hand is incontrovertibly grounded in the committed promotion through writing of the avowed …
Reconfiguring Others’
An examination of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah reveals a mapping of exponential growth of obtrusive racial tension which leaves in its wakes prejudice, acrimony and hatred. The article argues that despite its dialogic engagement with the possibility of harmonizing the varied characters' racial/cultural backgrounds, Adichie's Americanah's experimentation with transculturalism faded in a miasma of morbid biases and despair. This failure ha…
Writing violence
Wole Soyinka’s A Shuttle in the Crypt is a distillation of deep-seated anger against what he perceived as his “unjustified confinement” of twenty-five months by the administration of General Yakubu Gowon during the Nigerian Civil War between 1967 and 1970. Nigeria’s haunting, turbulent political history is approached from ostensibly mediation of fact and fiction rendered in poetry. Poems in this collection exteriorize Soyinka’s mind as it shuttle…
Subverting Nationalism
The thematics of Femi Fatoba’s They Said I Abused the Government (2001) and Wole Soyinka’s Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (2002) demonstrate the potential of art to bear witness to the bizarre, depressing anomie bedevilling Nigeria between 1993 and 1998. This anomie was ruinously orchestrated by the power-hungry military, who annulled the free and fair presidential election won by Chief M.K.O. Abiola. This military incursion into Nigeri…
In memoriam
(2020). In memoriam: Dr Victor Abimbola Olaiya (1930–2020) Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 121-124
Voicing Protest
(2020). ‘Voicing Protest’: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's ‘This is America’ and Falz's ‘This is Nigeria’. Contemporary Music Review: Vol. 39, Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu, pp. 6-36
Popular Music in Nigeria
Hip hop music on the African continent often constitutes a site for competing anxieties, just as its varied rhythms compellingly appeal to the sensibilities of its diverse audience. Evidently, hip
Resisting Pacification
This paper analyses the tension between subjugation and resistance as represented in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's six poetry collections, through the lens of discourse stylistics and eco-linguistic theories.Ogbowei is a prolific Nigerian poet whose work delineates anger and resistance while documenting the Niger Deltan experience.His poetry illustrates themes of emasculation in the aftermath of continued pillage and drums up support for the region's nation…
Playwright as Guerilla Warlord
This paper outlines the maturation of Robert Serumaga’s art, politics, and activism as he confronted the dilemma of totalitarianism unleashed by Idi Amin’s dictatorship on postcolonial Uganda. The paper establishes a direct link between literature, resistance, and performance of Uganda’s political failure within the context of the playwright’s individualistic disposition to art as his complicated inclination to revolt. Most obviously, the associa…
Majek Fashek (1963–2020)
Tendering Griefs; Bemoaning a Tragedy of Postcolonial Governance in Lesotho
Has this house fallen? Fragile nationhood and the Fulani herdsmen’s genocide in Nigerian poetry
The paper evaluates the prevailing anxieties gnawing at the Nigeria nation-state, deriving from the Fulani herdsmen’s genocidal campaign. These anxieties are painstakingly reflected in insecurity, chaos, violence, banditry, and uncertainty that have built up in recent times to complicate the Nigeria nation-state’s fragile sovereignty. Embedded in the poetics of the selected poems is the repudiation of the postcolonial contradictions, which highli…
Violence Begets More Violence in The Niger Delta
Whose Lesotho? Trauma, memory, and revisiting a time of fear in Rethabile Masilo’s Poetry
This paper is focused on the analysis of the gripping narratives of Lesotho’s political terror and violence between 1972 and 1986 as captured in Rethabile Masilo’s poetry. To date, Masilo has published four poetry collections—Things That Are Silent (2012), Waslap (2015), Letter to Country (2016) Qoaling (2018) and Mbera (currently in Press). Arguably, these collections evoke a fecund poetic space to string together history and an extremely accura…
Protest, Erotism, and Subversive Innuendo
This article identifies the trope of impoliteness, otherwise called ‘radical rudeness’, in Stella Nyanzi’s collection of poetry, No Roses from My Mouth. When does impoliteness or sarcasm become radical rudeness? I argue that Nyanzi harnesses the aesthetics of radical rudeness to caricature the tyranny of Yoweri Museveni’s dictatorship in Uganda. The article argues, further, that Nyanzi took the risk of juxtaposing the individual and collective, t…
Queering Authoritarianism in Uganda
In this article, I argue that queering female sexualities as ‘dissident sexualities’ Stella Nyanzi in her collection of prison poems, No Roses from My Mouth (2020), harnesses the aesthetics of radical rudeness (insults) through expressions of humor, innuendo, and anecdote grounded in the Baganda cultural repertoire, to critique President Yoweri Museveni’s authoritarian regime in Uganda. Her poetry draws attention to queer sexualities grounded in …
Exploring ecofeminism, ecocriticism, aquapoetics, and environmental humanities in Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry
In this article I focus on Gabeba Baderoon’s engagement with nature and the ecological nuances in her poetry. Baderoon is an accomplished South African poet with four poetry collections to date: The Dream in the Next Body (2005), The Museum of Ordinary Life (2005), A hundred silences (2006), and The History of Intimacy (2018). These poetry collections sustain Baderoon’s ecofeminist sensibility as she engages with South Africa’s eco-environmental …
Tropical Eco-African Futurism in Ben Okri’s every leaf a hallelujah and Ndhlovu and Keokgale’s Zandi’s Song
This article offers a reading of Ben Okri’s every leaf a hallelujah (2021) and Zandile Ndhlovu and Katlego Keokgale’s Zandi’s Song (2023) as eco-fictional children’s books that integrate tropical futurisms, Afrofuturism, environmental consciousness, and magical realism. Situated at the interstice of children’s adventure fiction and travel writing, the two books’ folkloric resources clearly delineate ecofeminist and eco-critical campaigns against …
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