Chijioke K Onah
Biographic Data
| ID | 159257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chijioke K Onah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chijioke K |
| FAMILY NAME | Onah |
| SIGNATURE | ONAH C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7375-567X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sakiru Adebayo’s Continuous Pasts and the Challenge of Postcolonizing Memory Studies: Three Musings
This article offers three musings on Sakiru Adebayo’s Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa , focusing specifically on the challenges and prospects of centering African histories, cultures, and epistemologies in mainstream memory studies. Through a reading of Continuous Pasts , the article contests the marginality of African and Afrodiasporic memory cultures in memory studies, and makes a case for the affordances of “ancest…
BringBackOurGirls: Transnational Activism and the Remediation of the 2014 Chibok Girls' Kidnapping in Nigeria
In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped almost three hundred girls attending school in Chibok, Nigeria. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign emerged as a global activist movement in the aftermath of that kidnapping. Onah's article analyzes the global mediascapes of the campaign to show the mnemonic affordances of the Chibok girls' kidnapping and the intermedial dynamics that coalesced to make it a global memory phenomenon. By foregrounding the transhistor…
BringBackOurGirls: Transnational Activism and the Remediation of the 2014 Chibok Girls' Kidnapping in Nigeria
In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped almost three hundred girls attending school in Chibok, Nigeria. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign emerged as a global activist movement in the aftermath of that kidnapping. Onah's article analyzes the global mediascapes of the campaign to show the mnemonic affordances of the Chibok girls' kidnapping and the intermedial dynamics that coalesced to make it a global memory phenomenon. By foregrounding the transhistor…
Sakiru Adebayo’s Continuous Pasts and the Challenge of Postcolonizing Memory Studies: Three Musings
This article offers three musings on Sakiru Adebayo’s Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa , focusing specifically on the challenges and prospects of centering African histories, cultures, and epistemologies in mainstream memory studies. Through a reading of Continuous Pasts , the article contests the marginality of African and Afrodiasporic memory cultures in memory studies, and makes a case for the affordances of “ancest…
BringBackOurGirls: Transnational Activism and the Remediation of the 2014 Chibok Girls' Kidnapping in Nigeria
In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped almost three hundred girls attending school in Chibok, Nigeria. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign emerged as a global activist movement in the aftermath of that kidnapping. Onah's article analyzes the global mediascapes of the campaign to show the mnemonic affordances of the Chibok girls' kidnapping and the intermedial dynamics that coalesced to make it a global memory phenomenon. By foregrounding the transhistor…
African history and culture studies (1 works) · Cognitive science (1 works) · Criminology (1 works) · Development economics (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (1 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (1 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (1 works) · History (1 works) · History (1 works)