Abimbola Adelakun
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 324330 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Abimbola Adelakun |
| NOMBRES | Abimbola |
| APELLIDO | Adelakun |
| FIRMA | ADELAKUN A |
| AFILIACIONES | African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Sacred Cyberspaces
Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa
Animation Theory
Animating Performances
Birth of Breaking
The untold story of how breaking – one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today – began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop dance in the world, with around one million participants in this dynamic, multifaceted artform – and, as of 2024, Olympic sport. Yet, despite its global reach and nearly 50-year history, stories of bre…
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa. It takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical reflection, vividly engaging the human agency, creativity, and resourcefulness of local Nigerians as political and social actors and shedding new light on …
The Pentecostal Hypothesis
I am hated, therefore I am
This essay will study how the Yorùbá conceptualize “ọ̀tá” or the enemy, a trope that recurs in various cultural phenomena such as music, prayers, and other social rituals. The Yorùbá worldview of the enemy has profound implications on the way they frame issues that affect their mental, physical, social, and general well-being. Health studies, religious studies, and social ethics studies and analyses have mostly tried to investigate the enemy as a…
Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora
Animating Performances
I am hated, therefore I am
This essay will study how the Yorùbá conceptualize “ọ̀tá” or the enemy, a trope that recurs in various cultural phenomena such as music, prayers, and other social rituals. The Yorùbá worldview of the enemy has profound implications on the way they frame issues that affect their mental, physical, social, and general well-being. Health studies, religious studies, and social ethics studies and analyses have mostly tried to investigate the enemy as a…
Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora
Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora
I am hated, therefore I am
This essay will study how the Yorùbá conceptualize “ọ̀tá” or the enemy, a trope that recurs in various cultural phenomena such as music, prayers, and other social rituals. The Yorùbá worldview of the enemy has profound implications on the way they frame issues that affect their mental, physical, social, and general well-being. Health studies, religious studies, and social ethics studies and analyses have mostly tried to investigate the enemy as a…
The Pentecostal Hypothesis
Birth of Breaking
The untold story of how breaking – one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today – began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop dance in the world, with around one million participants in this dynamic, multifaceted artform – and, as of 2024, Olympic sport. Yet, despite its global reach and nearly 50-year history, stories of bre…
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa. It takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical reflection, vividly engaging the human agency, creativity, and resourcefulness of local Nigerians as political and social actors and shedding new light on …
Animation Theory
Animating Performances
Sacred Cyberspaces
Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa
Sociology (6 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Art (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · African history and culture studies (2 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras) · Gender Studies (2 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 obras)