Omoniyi Afolabi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1357992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Omoniyi Afolabi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Omoniyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Afolabi |
| SIGNATURE | AFOLABI O |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9963-0931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Against Feminine Erasure in Yoruba Ritual Archives: Theorizing Oya, the Mystical Deity Across the Black Atlantic World
Ọya has enjoyed limited attention when it comes to theorization accorded other female deities such as Ọ̀ṣun and Yemọja. Characterized in the New World as a “deity of storms and winds,” her mystical capacity to unleash storms through heavy rains that can ultimately cause natural disasters such as deadly flooding and hurricanes makes her equally volatile, tempestuous, temperamental, and warmongering deity, like her male counterpart, Ogun, the warri…
Afro-Brazilian Returnee Festivals: From Brazilian Bumba-Meu-Boi to Contemporary Lagos Carnival
Drawing upon the works of Kazadi wa Mukuma, Gerhard Kubik, Carlos de Lima, Vivian Gotheim, Wilson Nogueira, Temitope Fagunwa, and Alaba Simpson, this study traced the evolution of Bumba-Meu-Boi from its regional origins in Maranhao, Brazil, to its adaptation in Lagos, Nigeria, as an Afro-Brazilian returnee festival within the context of Lagos carnival. Beyond serving as a crucible for the historical return of repatriated Africans from Brazil foll…
Gilberto Freyre: The Poetic Optics of His Lusotropicalist Imagination
Beyond being a renowned founding proponent and scholar of Brazilian miscegenation theory, not much is known about Gilberto Freyre as a poet. His unique poetic collection, Poesia Reunida[i] (1980) [Collected Poetry], provides a rare window into the journeys and reflections of the anthropologist as he travels the world. Invoking issues related to women, family, slavery, nostalgic landscapes, and an overall sensibility to Lusotropicalist fantasies, …
Relocating the Sacred: African Divinities and Brazilian Cultural Hybridities
Pierre Verger and Yoruba Ritual Altars in Brazil
Carnival in Africa and Its Diaspora
This chapter interrogates the relationship between the rituals of Carnival, the interactive myths of celebration and renewal, and the complex dynamics of inclusive exclusion that the event represents for Afro-Brazilian marginalized populations as well as for descendants of Africans on the world stage. In theorizing and mapping how this singular event serves the dual purpose of “masking” and “negotiation of power”1 for both the oppressed and the o…
Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa
Ilê Aiyê's unifying identity politics through Afro-Carnival performance, is embedded in its dialectical relationship with the rest of Brazil as it takes ownership of its oppressed status by striving f
A Welder of the Word
for Mia Couto Dream, Dream, Dream. Never cease to dream Dream on, Mia Your beginning A tale of yesterdays Your today A tale of future years And the voyager never rests Without his dancing plume Beira, Cradle of the people’s poet Maputo, Agency for the cosmic itinerant Hibernating in royal skies Rooted in earthly machambas* Questing for moçambicanidade‡ Awaiting the cessation of wars Declaring the imperative of peace And the voyager never rests Wi…
Reversing Dislocations: African Contributions to Brazil in the Works of Manuel Querino, 1890-1920
While Africa is inextricably linked to the formation of Brazilian identity in all its manifestations and ramifications, the discourses of hybridity in Latin America have minimized the significant impact of Africa in that cultural contact zone by encouraging the propaganda of racial harmony, mythological state of racelessness, and non-racism while fundamentally masking the contentious terrains of struggle for institutional, economical, and cultura…
Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship
Between the radicalism of Black Brazilian movements of the 1980s, an aftermath of the negation and rejection of the myth of “racial democracy” that denies Brazilian subtle racism, the rise of re- Africanization sensibilities among Afro-Carnival groups, and the current ambivalent co-optation that has been packaged as “affirmative action” in the new millennium, a missing link to the many quests for Afro-Brazilianness lies in the (dis)locations that…
An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City by Maxine L. Margolis
Re-envisioning the Afro-Latin American Woman
Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Toward a Legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Women Writers. By Dawn Duke. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 2008. In the field of Afro-Latin Americ
Contra-memória e violação da imaginação: Alegorias (supra)nacionais n'O eleito do sol de Arménio Vieira e n'A casa da água de Antônio Olinto
Apoiando-se em Writing history as a prophet, de Elisabeth Wesseling, este trabalho faz um estudo comparativo das similaridades e contrastes dos imaginários cabo-verdiano e afro-brasileiro através de O eleito do sol, de Arménio Vieira e A casa da água, de Antonio Olinto. De um lado, a ilha cabo-verdiana serve de alegoria supranacional no engajamento mitico-filosófico entre o intelectual e o político e do outro lado, a viagem transatlântica dos pro…
Trans-Atlantic migration: The paradoxes of exile
1. Introduction: Prospero's Ripples, Caliban's Burden Part 1: Paradoxes of (Im)Migration and Exile 2. Paradoxes of Immigrant Incorporation: High Achievement and Perceptions of Discrimination by Nigerians in Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas (USA) 3. Nigerian Exiles, Democratic Struggles and the Notion of Sacrifice: Interspatial Activism and the Proactive Discourses of Liberation 4. Immigrants' Pilgrimage and Imaginations: The Cinematic Portrayals of Afr…
Backadabush: Journey Within as ?Rattling the Cage? in Ian Strachan's God's Angry Babies
A brave postcolonial voice has just emerged from the Bahamas. And the above quote, taken from my personal interview with the author on that fascinating Island where everyone seems to know each other, reveals the complexity and urgency of this voice. It is a culturally rooted voice whose "discovery" needs to be contextualized. In December of 1997, I was attending the Modern Language Association meeting in Toronto when I suddenly ran into a modest …
A Guerra e as Igrejas: Angola 1961-1991
Postcolonial Perspectives on the Cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa
Ruinas de linhas puras: Quatro ensaios em torno a Macunaima
Beyond the Curtains: Unveiling Afro-Brazilian Women Writers
The complexity and inherent contradictions of the place of the Afro-Brazilian woman in the larger context of Brazilian "paradise" can be summed up by what Marilena Chaui, in Conformismo e Resistência, describes as the drama of the family setting through which pleasure is provided but is also a "nucleus of tension and conflicts" (145). 1 In this mixture of social conformism and resistance, the Afro-Brazilian woman is multiply burdened. Often fulfi…
A visao mitico-tragica na dramaturgia abdiasiana
Abdias do Nascimento recria em Sortilkgio Ha fragmentagdo da ess ncia do ser e da sua re-integraCdo da desintegraCdo atraves de ritos de passagem. Assim, o dramaturgo redefine o conceito de her6i afro-brasi- leiro que representa o ser fragmentado na sociedade brasileira. Por meio desta obra e pelo questionamento do mito da democracia racial brasileira, Nascimento possibilita um diallogo entre as ragas. O mito e a tragedia servem como disfarces ne…
Uma gaiola de ouro: A problemática da regeneração na literatura africana de língua portuguesa
A partir do estudo de obras representativas de Luís Bernardo Honwana, Mia Couto, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa de Moçambique e Manuel Rui de Angola, examina-se aqui o conceito da regeneração como uma arma de dois gumes. De um lado, a situação colonial imposta por Portugal é degenerativa, provocando nos colonizados dos países africanos de língua portuguesa, revolta e resposta regenerativa sob a forma de luta armada a qual que levou à independência entre 19…
A visao mitico-tragica na dramaturgia abdiasiana
Abdias do Nascimento recria em Sortilkgio Ha fragmentagdo da ess ncia do ser e da sua re-integraCdo da desintegraCdo atraves de ritos de passagem. Assim, o dramaturgo redefine o conceito de her6i afro-brasi- leiro que representa o ser fragmentado na sociedade brasileira. Por meio desta obra e pelo questionamento do mito da democracia racial brasileira, Nascimento possibilita um diallogo entre as ragas. O mito e a tragedia servem como disfarces ne…
Uma gaiola de ouro: A problemática da regeneração na literatura africana de língua portuguesa
A partir do estudo de obras representativas de Luís Bernardo Honwana, Mia Couto, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa de Moçambique e Manuel Rui de Angola, examina-se aqui o conceito da regeneração como uma arma de dois gumes. De um lado, a situação colonial imposta por Portugal é degenerativa, provocando nos colonizados dos países africanos de língua portuguesa, revolta e resposta regenerativa sob a forma de luta armada a qual que levou à independência entre 19…
Ruinas de linhas puras: Quatro ensaios em torno a Macunaima
Beyond the Curtains: Unveiling Afro-Brazilian Women Writers
The complexity and inherent contradictions of the place of the Afro-Brazilian woman in the larger context of Brazilian "paradise" can be summed up by what Marilena Chaui, in Conformismo e Resistência, describes as the drama of the family setting through which pleasure is provided but is also a "nucleus of tension and conflicts" (145). 1 In this mixture of social conformism and resistance, the Afro-Brazilian woman is multiply burdened. Often fulfi…
A Guerra e as Igrejas: Angola 1961-1991
Postcolonial Perspectives on the Cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa
Backadabush: Journey Within as ?Rattling the Cage? in Ian Strachan's God's Angry Babies
A brave postcolonial voice has just emerged from the Bahamas. And the above quote, taken from my personal interview with the author on that fascinating Island where everyone seems to know each other, reveals the complexity and urgency of this voice. It is a culturally rooted voice whose "discovery" needs to be contextualized. In December of 1997, I was attending the Modern Language Association meeting in Toronto when I suddenly ran into a modest …
Trans-Atlantic migration: The paradoxes of exile
1. Introduction: Prospero's Ripples, Caliban's Burden Part 1: Paradoxes of (Im)Migration and Exile 2. Paradoxes of Immigrant Incorporation: High Achievement and Perceptions of Discrimination by Nigerians in Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas (USA) 3. Nigerian Exiles, Democratic Struggles and the Notion of Sacrifice: Interspatial Activism and the Proactive Discourses of Liberation 4. Immigrants' Pilgrimage and Imaginations: The Cinematic Portrayals of Afr…
Contra-memória e violação da imaginação: Alegorias (supra)nacionais n'O eleito do sol de Arménio Vieira e n'A casa da água de Antônio Olinto
Apoiando-se em Writing history as a prophet, de Elisabeth Wesseling, este trabalho faz um estudo comparativo das similaridades e contrastes dos imaginários cabo-verdiano e afro-brasileiro através de O eleito do sol, de Arménio Vieira e A casa da água, de Antonio Olinto. De um lado, a ilha cabo-verdiana serve de alegoria supranacional no engajamento mitico-filosófico entre o intelectual e o político e do outro lado, a viagem transatlântica dos pro…
An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City by Maxine L. Margolis
Re-envisioning the Afro-Latin American Woman
Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Toward a Legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Women Writers. By Dawn Duke. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 2008. In the field of Afro-Latin Americ
Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship
Between the radicalism of Black Brazilian movements of the 1980s, an aftermath of the negation and rejection of the myth of “racial democracy” that denies Brazilian subtle racism, the rise of re- Africanization sensibilities among Afro-Carnival groups, and the current ambivalent co-optation that has been packaged as “affirmative action” in the new millennium, a missing link to the many quests for Afro-Brazilianness lies in the (dis)locations that…
Reversing Dislocations: African Contributions to Brazil in the Works of Manuel Querino, 1890-1920
While Africa is inextricably linked to the formation of Brazilian identity in all its manifestations and ramifications, the discourses of hybridity in Latin America have minimized the significant impact of Africa in that cultural contact zone by encouraging the propaganda of racial harmony, mythological state of racelessness, and non-racism while fundamentally masking the contentious terrains of struggle for institutional, economical, and cultura…
A Welder of the Word
for Mia Couto Dream, Dream, Dream. Never cease to dream Dream on, Mia Your beginning A tale of yesterdays Your today A tale of future years And the voyager never rests Without his dancing plume Beira, Cradle of the people’s poet Maputo, Agency for the cosmic itinerant Hibernating in royal skies Rooted in earthly machambas* Questing for moçambicanidade‡ Awaiting the cessation of wars Declaring the imperative of peace And the voyager never rests Wi…
Carnival in Africa and Its Diaspora
This chapter interrogates the relationship between the rituals of Carnival, the interactive myths of celebration and renewal, and the complex dynamics of inclusive exclusion that the event represents for Afro-Brazilian marginalized populations as well as for descendants of Africans on the world stage. In theorizing and mapping how this singular event serves the dual purpose of “masking” and “negotiation of power”1 for both the oppressed and the o…
Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa
Ilê Aiyê's unifying identity politics through Afro-Carnival performance, is embedded in its dialectical relationship with the rest of Brazil as it takes ownership of its oppressed status by striving f
Relocating the Sacred: African Divinities and Brazilian Cultural Hybridities
Pierre Verger and Yoruba Ritual Altars in Brazil
Gilberto Freyre: The Poetic Optics of His Lusotropicalist Imagination
Beyond being a renowned founding proponent and scholar of Brazilian miscegenation theory, not much is known about Gilberto Freyre as a poet. His unique poetic collection, Poesia Reunida[i] (1980) [Collected Poetry], provides a rare window into the journeys and reflections of the anthropologist as he travels the world. Invoking issues related to women, family, slavery, nostalgic landscapes, and an overall sensibility to Lusotropicalist fantasies, …
Afro-Brazilian Returnee Festivals: From Brazilian Bumba-Meu-Boi to Contemporary Lagos Carnival
Drawing upon the works of Kazadi wa Mukuma, Gerhard Kubik, Carlos de Lima, Vivian Gotheim, Wilson Nogueira, Temitope Fagunwa, and Alaba Simpson, this study traced the evolution of Bumba-Meu-Boi from its regional origins in Maranhao, Brazil, to its adaptation in Lagos, Nigeria, as an Afro-Brazilian returnee festival within the context of Lagos carnival. Beyond serving as a crucible for the historical return of repatriated Africans from Brazil foll…
Against Feminine Erasure in Yoruba Ritual Archives: Theorizing Oya, the Mystical Deity Across the Black Atlantic World
Ọya has enjoyed limited attention when it comes to theorization accorded other female deities such as Ọ̀ṣun and Yemọja. Characterized in the New World as a “deity of storms and winds,” her mystical capacity to unleash storms through heavy rains that can ultimately cause natural disasters such as deadly flooding and hurricanes makes her equally volatile, tempestuous, temperamental, and warmongering deity, like her male counterpart, Ogun, the warri…
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