Omotayo Jemiluyi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 161011 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Omotayo Jemiluyi |
| NOMBRES | Omotayo |
| APELLIDO | Jemiluyi |
| FIRMA | JEMILUYI O |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7573-1746 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
From Naija to the States
This study explores the lived experiences of Nigerian men in the United States, focusing on the stereotypes they encounter and the strategies they employ to navigate and resist these biases. It draws from in-depth interviews with 17 Nigerian men (n = 17) whose stay in the U.S. ranged from 1.4 to 9 years (M = 3.4 years, SD = 1.93 years). The findings reveal three prominent experiences of stereotypical attitudes faced by participants: the portrayal…
Performing Gendered Resistance
Afrobeats has become one of Africa’s most visible cultural exports, but its global ascent continues to unfold within masculinist traditions and gendered hierarchies. While scholarship on Afrobeats is expanding, far less attention has been paid to how women artistes negotiate, contest, and revise the genre’s dominant gender scripts. This article addresses that gap by examining how selected female artistes deploy lyrics, performance, and visual aes…
Performing the trenches and (re)branding poverty
Nigeria’s tumultuous colonial and postcolonial history has produced enduring structures of inequality and poverty that continue to shape the nation’s social and cultural life. Popular artists caught within these conditions have found both material and imaginative ground for expression to transform everyday struggle into creative resistance, giving rise to the cultural construct of the ‘trenches.’ Despite the prominence of the trenches in Nigerian…
Theorizing “Odogwu Masculinities”
The word Odogwu has gained significant popularity in contemporary Nigerian discourse, particularly due to its pervasive circulation within the nation’s eclectic and creative popular culture. Upon this widespread recognition, this study theorizes and examines the construction and performance of Odogwu masculinities within Nigerian popular culture, focusing specifically on music and Nollywood as key sites of gendered identity construction. Rooted i…
Queering Afrobeats
This study examines expressions of queerness, sexuality, and resistance in Afrobeats through a multimodal analysis of three significant contemporary songs; Angel Maxine’s ‘Wo Fie’ (2021), Teni’s ‘YBGFA’ (2023), and Amaarae’s ‘Co-Star’ (2023). Building on the foundational scholarship of Queer African Studies, the study conceptualizes the framework of African Queer Expressive Strategies, demonstrating how African artists employ music and visual rep…
Conceptualizing the ‘gossip genre’ in Nollywood
In Nigeria’s rapidly evolving digital ecosystem, gossip and celebrity culture modulate how stories are produced, circulated, and consumed, with viral scandals moving through the networked milieu as cultural objects that traverse social media, music, and film, braiding moral scrutiny and entertainment into the same performative logic of digital spectacle. This study, hence, critically examines the 2025 Nollywood film Truth or Dare as a cultural te…
Of barren lands and broken promises
This article examines the political and aesthetic strategies of resistance in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Suns of Independence (1981) and Allah Is Not Obliged (2006), exploring the dual dynamics of mourning and mobilization as resistance strategies in their postcolonial narratives. In Suns of Independence, physical infertility becomes a symbolic indictment of nationalist disillusionment and sociopolitical stagnation, while in Allah Is Not Obliged, the fig…
Postcolonial Passages
This study examines how the Ivoirian reggae musician Tiken Jah Fakoly critically engages with issues of African migration, displacement, and postcolonial identity through his music. Drawing on detailed analyses of five selected songs: ‘Le Descendant’ (1996), ‘Où veux-tu que j’aille?’ (2004), ‘Ouvrez les frontières’ (2007), ‘Où est-ce que tu vas?’ (2022), and ‘Africain à Paris’ (2007), the article argues that Fakoly’s artistic practice serves as a…
'Cultures Are Not Anyone’s Property'
This study explores the complex question of cultural ownership through an African perspective, challenging the view that culture should be universally accessible and free of boundaries. Prompted by Ariane Mnouchkine’s controversial stance on cultural universality in the theatre production Kanata, this paper examines the significance of cultural boundaries, the ethics of representation, and the need for authentic portrayals in artistic work. While…
Performing Power
Being African, staying African
Performing Toxic Womanhood
Nigerian Diasporic Masculinities
Àjẹ́kùnrin
Resisting Neocolonial Chains
This article explores “Illusions,” a song by Nigerian artist Brymo, as a profound critique of neocolonialism and a blueprint for African emancipation. Employing close lyrical analysis, it examines how the song confronts the enduring legacy of colonial ideologies and the pervasive reliance on Western validation within postcolonial African societies. At the centre of this analysis is the figure of “Boyi,” a symbolic character who embodies the postc…
Beyond Death and Jail
Original sufferhead
Revered as one of the principal figures of contemporary African literature and one of the greatest francophone writers, the celebrated Ivorian author; Ahmadou Kourouma, is renowned for his criticism of colonial machination, Africa's political and social structure, and satirical writings. In his selected works for this study—“Allah n’est pas obligé” and “Soleils des indépendances,” he profoundly explores and examines the arduous journey of the boy…
The Influence of Tiken Jah Fakoly's Reggae Music in Post-independence Côte d'Ivoire
Tiken Jah Fakoly, a prominent Ivoirian reggae artist, has played an important role in the social and political development of post-independence Côte d'Ivoire. This paper explores the impact and influence of Tiken Jah Fakoly's music on the socio-political dynamics of the country, especially as these relate to national unity, political awareness, and social movements. To assess Fakoly's influence on the social fabric of Côte d'Ivoire, we administer…
The palgrave handbook of African men and masculinities
Original sufferhead
Revered as one of the principal figures of contemporary African literature and one of the greatest francophone writers, the celebrated Ivorian author; Ahmadou Kourouma, is renowned for his criticism of colonial machination, Africa's political and social structure, and satirical writings. In his selected works for this study—“Allah n’est pas obligé” and “Soleils des indépendances,” he profoundly explores and examines the arduous journey of the boy…
Àjẹ́kùnrin
The Influence of Tiken Jah Fakoly's Reggae Music in Post-independence Côte d'Ivoire
Tiken Jah Fakoly, a prominent Ivoirian reggae artist, has played an important role in the social and political development of post-independence Côte d'Ivoire. This paper explores the impact and influence of Tiken Jah Fakoly's music on the socio-political dynamics of the country, especially as these relate to national unity, political awareness, and social movements. To assess Fakoly's influence on the social fabric of Côte d'Ivoire, we administer…
Resisting Neocolonial Chains
This article explores “Illusions,” a song by Nigerian artist Brymo, as a profound critique of neocolonialism and a blueprint for African emancipation. Employing close lyrical analysis, it examines how the song confronts the enduring legacy of colonial ideologies and the pervasive reliance on Western validation within postcolonial African societies. At the centre of this analysis is the figure of “Boyi,” a symbolic character who embodies the postc…
The palgrave handbook of African men and masculinities
Beyond Death and Jail
Original sufferhead
Revered as one of the principal figures of contemporary African literature and one of the greatest francophone writers, the celebrated Ivorian author; Ahmadou Kourouma, is renowned for his criticism of colonial machination, Africa's political and social structure, and satirical writings. In his selected works for this study—“Allah n’est pas obligé” and “Soleils des indépendances,” he profoundly explores and examines the arduous journey of the boy…
The Influence of Tiken Jah Fakoly's Reggae Music in Post-independence Côte d'Ivoire
Tiken Jah Fakoly, a prominent Ivoirian reggae artist, has played an important role in the social and political development of post-independence Côte d'Ivoire. This paper explores the impact and influence of Tiken Jah Fakoly's music on the socio-political dynamics of the country, especially as these relate to national unity, political awareness, and social movements. To assess Fakoly's influence on the social fabric of Côte d'Ivoire, we administer…
'Cultures Are Not Anyone’s Property'
This study explores the complex question of cultural ownership through an African perspective, challenging the view that culture should be universally accessible and free of boundaries. Prompted by Ariane Mnouchkine’s controversial stance on cultural universality in the theatre production Kanata, this paper examines the significance of cultural boundaries, the ethics of representation, and the need for authentic portrayals in artistic work. While…
Performing Power
Being African, staying African
Performing Toxic Womanhood
Nigerian Diasporic Masculinities
Àjẹ́kùnrin
From Naija to the States
This study explores the lived experiences of Nigerian men in the United States, focusing on the stereotypes they encounter and the strategies they employ to navigate and resist these biases. It draws from in-depth interviews with 17 Nigerian men (n = 17) whose stay in the U.S. ranged from 1.4 to 9 years (M = 3.4 years, SD = 1.93 years). The findings reveal three prominent experiences of stereotypical attitudes faced by participants: the portrayal…
Performing Gendered Resistance
Afrobeats has become one of Africa’s most visible cultural exports, but its global ascent continues to unfold within masculinist traditions and gendered hierarchies. While scholarship on Afrobeats is expanding, far less attention has been paid to how women artistes negotiate, contest, and revise the genre’s dominant gender scripts. This article addresses that gap by examining how selected female artistes deploy lyrics, performance, and visual aes…
Performing the trenches and (re)branding poverty
Nigeria’s tumultuous colonial and postcolonial history has produced enduring structures of inequality and poverty that continue to shape the nation’s social and cultural life. Popular artists caught within these conditions have found both material and imaginative ground for expression to transform everyday struggle into creative resistance, giving rise to the cultural construct of the ‘trenches.’ Despite the prominence of the trenches in Nigerian…
Theorizing “Odogwu Masculinities”
The word Odogwu has gained significant popularity in contemporary Nigerian discourse, particularly due to its pervasive circulation within the nation’s eclectic and creative popular culture. Upon this widespread recognition, this study theorizes and examines the construction and performance of Odogwu masculinities within Nigerian popular culture, focusing specifically on music and Nollywood as key sites of gendered identity construction. Rooted i…
Queering Afrobeats
This study examines expressions of queerness, sexuality, and resistance in Afrobeats through a multimodal analysis of three significant contemporary songs; Angel Maxine’s ‘Wo Fie’ (2021), Teni’s ‘YBGFA’ (2023), and Amaarae’s ‘Co-Star’ (2023). Building on the foundational scholarship of Queer African Studies, the study conceptualizes the framework of African Queer Expressive Strategies, demonstrating how African artists employ music and visual rep…
Conceptualizing the ‘gossip genre’ in Nollywood
In Nigeria’s rapidly evolving digital ecosystem, gossip and celebrity culture modulate how stories are produced, circulated, and consumed, with viral scandals moving through the networked milieu as cultural objects that traverse social media, music, and film, braiding moral scrutiny and entertainment into the same performative logic of digital spectacle. This study, hence, critically examines the 2025 Nollywood film Truth or Dare as a cultural te…
Of barren lands and broken promises
This article examines the political and aesthetic strategies of resistance in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Suns of Independence (1981) and Allah Is Not Obliged (2006), exploring the dual dynamics of mourning and mobilization as resistance strategies in their postcolonial narratives. In Suns of Independence, physical infertility becomes a symbolic indictment of nationalist disillusionment and sociopolitical stagnation, while in Allah Is Not Obliged, the fig…
Postcolonial Passages
This study examines how the Ivoirian reggae musician Tiken Jah Fakoly critically engages with issues of African migration, displacement, and postcolonial identity through his music. Drawing on detailed analyses of five selected songs: ‘Le Descendant’ (1996), ‘Où veux-tu que j’aille?’ (2004), ‘Ouvrez les frontières’ (2007), ‘Où est-ce que tu vas?’ (2022), and ‘Africain à Paris’ (2007), the article argues that Fakoly’s artistic practice serves as a…
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (8 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · African history and culture studies (7 obras) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (6 obras) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Art (4 obras)