Bimbola Akinbola
Biographic Data
| ID | 1697818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bimbola Akinbola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bimbola |
| FAMILY NAME | Akinbola |
| SIGNATURE | AKINBOLA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Performance Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
AfricanAunties
The “African aunties” hashtag has over 21 million views on the video-sharing app TikTok. Akinbola examines how African women and girls embody and perform the African auntie on TikTok, focusing on three types of videos: Deprecating auntie performances, celebratory auntie performances, and re-staged encounters with aunties. Specifically analyzing videos created by and/or featuring African women and girls, Akinbola argues that these content creators…
African Intimacy and Love with No Pretense
This article examines Zina Saro-Wiwa's documentary project and video installation Eaten by the Heart, which explores intimacy, heartbreak, and love performances among Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora. Considering the role of the erotic in how diasporic subjects conceptualize and negotiate their attachments to their homeland and host country, Akinbola argues that Saro-Wiwa marks the Black diasporic body as a site of erotic agenc…
Disbelonging and unruly return in the performance art of Wura-Natasha Ogunji
This article examines the theme of disbelonging via unruly return in the performance art of Nigerian American artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Specifically looking to Ogunji's 2012 series Mo gbo mo branch/I heard and I branched myself into the party, the essay analyzes how Ogunji uses live performance to navigate Lagos as a queer, mixed-race American national, arguing that her refusal to be denied belonging while in Lagos and “crashing the party” disr…
AfricanAunties
The “African aunties” hashtag has over 21 million views on the video-sharing app TikTok. Akinbola examines how African women and girls embody and perform the African auntie on TikTok, focusing on three types of videos: Deprecating auntie performances, celebratory auntie performances, and re-staged encounters with aunties. Specifically analyzing videos created by and/or featuring African women and girls, Akinbola argues that these content creators…
Disbelonging and unruly return in the performance art of Wura-Natasha Ogunji
This article examines the theme of disbelonging via unruly return in the performance art of Nigerian American artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Specifically looking to Ogunji's 2012 series Mo gbo mo branch/I heard and I branched myself into the party, the essay analyzes how Ogunji uses live performance to navigate Lagos as a queer, mixed-race American national, arguing that her refusal to be denied belonging while in Lagos and “crashing the party” disr…
AfricanAunties
The “African aunties” hashtag has over 21 million views on the video-sharing app TikTok. Akinbola examines how African women and girls embody and perform the African auntie on TikTok, focusing on three types of videos: Deprecating auntie performances, celebratory auntie performances, and re-staged encounters with aunties. Specifically analyzing videos created by and/or featuring African women and girls, Akinbola argues that these content creators…
African Intimacy and Love with No Pretense
This article examines Zina Saro-Wiwa's documentary project and video installation Eaten by the Heart, which explores intimacy, heartbreak, and love performances among Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora. Considering the role of the erotic in how diasporic subjects conceptualize and negotiate their attachments to their homeland and host country, Akinbola argues that Saro-Wiwa marks the Black diasporic body as a site of erotic agenc…
Art (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 work) · Computer security (1 work) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (1 work) · Diaspora (1 work) · Digital Games and Media (1 work)