Ayobami Ojebode
Biographic Data
| ID | 187059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayobami Ojebode |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayobami |
| FAMILY NAME | Ojebode |
| SIGNATURE | OJEBODE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ibadan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1158-8578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
African Music and Film Flows and Agenda 2063: Towards “the Africa we want”
The African Union Agenda 2063 has a crucial element known as Aspiration 5 which seeks an Africa with a strong cultural identity, common heritage, values and ethics. Towards this end, the Union has been promoting African arts and culture as ways of realizing “the Africa we want”. This article locates the Union’s interventions in the existing cultural production and circulation landscape pointing out that the landscape promotes a monolithism that i…
Women organising in fragility and conflict: Lessons from the #BringBackOurGirls movement, Nigeria
Public protests, including women-led struggles, are increasingly gaining a foothold in many parts of the world in response to multiple crises and growing exclusion, in a context of fragility. In the global South, most public protests involve temporary, informal coalitions where people come together and participate in a one-off event. The fluid nature of political space makes sustaining protests elusive because of protest fatigue. Yet, the #BringB…
From Google Doodles to Facebook: Nostalgia and Visual Reconstructions of the Past in Nigeria
In June 2019, Google announced plans to connect Africa to Europe through an undersea internet cable project named Equiano. As a techno-commercial platform, Google's gesture warrants scrutiny and propels this essay's analyses of the political connections of Internet spaces that also enable a visual turn in the scholarship of African history. Using the Google search engine and Facebook, Yékú and Ojebode stress the embeddedness of digital technologi…
Alan Kurdî, deaths in the desert and failed migrants’ processing of dystopic images on social media
Studies of migration emphasize the role of an imagined better world or utopia in migration intention and decision. That imaginary world is a product not so much of experience but of images conveyed through different sources, especially social media. If utopic images prod migration, do dystopic images of death and suffering en route discourage it? Through a small-N life-world ethnography, this article explores how failed migrants process dystopic …
Is Election a Disadvantage? Nigerian Local Councils and Security Provision
Deepening democracy through local elections is a major aim of decentralisation. But do elections always work to strengthen the relationship between local politicians and citizens, or can they set elected officials up for failure? This article examines security provisioning by local governments in Nigeria, understanding that some local governments are elected, while others are appointed by state governors. Our hypothesis was that elected local cou…
Ethical dilemma revisited: PBO newspapers and the professional elbowroom of the Nigerian journalist
Focusing on politician-businessperson-owned (PBO) newspapers, the study examined how loyalty to the owners’ multiple interests has reduced the professional elbowroom of the Nigerian journalist. Through in-depth interviews and textual analysis, the study found that journalists in PBO newspapers are extremely constrained on the kind of stories they write and how. Caught in the conflict between professionalism and pandering to the owners’ layers of …
Media Diversity With and Without a Policy: A Comparison of the BBC and Nigeria's DBS
Discussions of media diversity have taken for granted the assumption that diversity is properly maintained only when there is a well articulated diversity policy with human and material resources to implement it. This article seeks to find out what it is like to manage diversity where there is not a diversity policy. To do this, it compares Nigeria's Delta Broadcasting Services (DBS) which does not have a diversity policy, with the BBC which had …
Community Radio Advocacy in Democratic Nigeria: Lessons for Theory and Practice
This article describes the challenges of working toward an enabling policy and legal environment for community radio in Nigeria. Given the acute development problems it faced and years of autocracy, expectations were that when Nigeria became a democracy, it would immediately deploy all tools, including community radio, to enhance development and participation. Theorists suggest that democracy should be accompanied by enlarged opportunities for ex…
Low Patronage of Development Radio Programmes in Rural Nigeria: How to Get Beyond the Rhetoric of Participation
Although the concept of participatory development communication is decades old, many years of autocratic military rule has robbed African scholars and media practitioners of the context needed to explore the full participatory potentials of the media. With eight years of democracy and heavy development burdens, Nigeria is ripe for assessment with regard to the role of its media in engendering participatory development. From a small-scale study, t…
From Google Doodles to Facebook: Nostalgia and Visual Reconstructions of the Past in Nigeria
In June 2019, Google announced plans to connect Africa to Europe through an undersea internet cable project named Equiano. As a techno-commercial platform, Google's gesture warrants scrutiny and propels this essay's analyses of the political connections of Internet spaces that also enable a visual turn in the scholarship of African history. Using the Google search engine and Facebook, Yékú and Ojebode stress the embeddedness of digital technologi…
Low Patronage of Development Radio Programmes in Rural Nigeria: How to Get Beyond the Rhetoric of Participation
Although the concept of participatory development communication is decades old, many years of autocratic military rule has robbed African scholars and media practitioners of the context needed to explore the full participatory potentials of the media. With eight years of democracy and heavy development burdens, Nigeria is ripe for assessment with regard to the role of its media in engendering participatory development. From a small-scale study, t…
Ethical dilemma revisited: PBO newspapers and the professional elbowroom of the Nigerian journalist
Focusing on politician-businessperson-owned (PBO) newspapers, the study examined how loyalty to the owners’ multiple interests has reduced the professional elbowroom of the Nigerian journalist. Through in-depth interviews and textual analysis, the study found that journalists in PBO newspapers are extremely constrained on the kind of stories they write and how. Caught in the conflict between professionalism and pandering to the owners’ layers of …
Media Diversity With and Without a Policy: A Comparison of the BBC and Nigeria's DBS
Discussions of media diversity have taken for granted the assumption that diversity is properly maintained only when there is a well articulated diversity policy with human and material resources to implement it. This article seeks to find out what it is like to manage diversity where there is not a diversity policy. To do this, it compares Nigeria's Delta Broadcasting Services (DBS) which does not have a diversity policy, with the BBC which had …
Community Radio Advocacy in Democratic Nigeria: Lessons for Theory and Practice
This article describes the challenges of working toward an enabling policy and legal environment for community radio in Nigeria. Given the acute development problems it faced and years of autocracy, expectations were that when Nigeria became a democracy, it would immediately deploy all tools, including community radio, to enhance development and participation. Theorists suggest that democracy should be accompanied by enlarged opportunities for ex…
Low Patronage of Development Radio Programmes in Rural Nigeria: How to Get Beyond the Rhetoric of Participation
Although the concept of participatory development communication is decades old, many years of autocratic military rule has robbed African scholars and media practitioners of the context needed to explore the full participatory potentials of the media. With eight years of democracy and heavy development burdens, Nigeria is ripe for assessment with regard to the role of its media in engendering participatory development. From a small-scale study, t…
Media Diversity With and Without a Policy: A Comparison of the BBC and Nigeria's DBS
Discussions of media diversity have taken for granted the assumption that diversity is properly maintained only when there is a well articulated diversity policy with human and material resources to implement it. This article seeks to find out what it is like to manage diversity where there is not a diversity policy. To do this, it compares Nigeria's Delta Broadcasting Services (DBS) which does not have a diversity policy, with the BBC which had …
Community Radio Advocacy in Democratic Nigeria: Lessons for Theory and Practice
This article describes the challenges of working toward an enabling policy and legal environment for community radio in Nigeria. Given the acute development problems it faced and years of autocracy, expectations were that when Nigeria became a democracy, it would immediately deploy all tools, including community radio, to enhance development and participation. Theorists suggest that democracy should be accompanied by enlarged opportunities for ex…
Ethical dilemma revisited: PBO newspapers and the professional elbowroom of the Nigerian journalist
Focusing on politician-businessperson-owned (PBO) newspapers, the study examined how loyalty to the owners’ multiple interests has reduced the professional elbowroom of the Nigerian journalist. Through in-depth interviews and textual analysis, the study found that journalists in PBO newspapers are extremely constrained on the kind of stories they write and how. Caught in the conflict between professionalism and pandering to the owners’ layers of …
Alan Kurdî, deaths in the desert and failed migrants’ processing of dystopic images on social media
Studies of migration emphasize the role of an imagined better world or utopia in migration intention and decision. That imaginary world is a product not so much of experience but of images conveyed through different sources, especially social media. If utopic images prod migration, do dystopic images of death and suffering en route discourage it? Through a small-N life-world ethnography, this article explores how failed migrants process dystopic …
Is Election a Disadvantage? Nigerian Local Councils and Security Provision
Deepening democracy through local elections is a major aim of decentralisation. But do elections always work to strengthen the relationship between local politicians and citizens, or can they set elected officials up for failure? This article examines security provisioning by local governments in Nigeria, understanding that some local governments are elected, while others are appointed by state governors. Our hypothesis was that elected local cou…
Women organising in fragility and conflict: Lessons from the #BringBackOurGirls movement, Nigeria
Public protests, including women-led struggles, are increasingly gaining a foothold in many parts of the world in response to multiple crises and growing exclusion, in a context of fragility. In the global South, most public protests involve temporary, informal coalitions where people come together and participate in a one-off event. The fluid nature of political space makes sustaining protests elusive because of protest fatigue. Yet, the #BringB…
From Google Doodles to Facebook: Nostalgia and Visual Reconstructions of the Past in Nigeria
In June 2019, Google announced plans to connect Africa to Europe through an undersea internet cable project named Equiano. As a techno-commercial platform, Google's gesture warrants scrutiny and propels this essay's analyses of the political connections of Internet spaces that also enable a visual turn in the scholarship of African history. Using the Google search engine and Facebook, Yékú and Ojebode stress the embeddedness of digital technologi…
African Music and Film Flows and Agenda 2063: Towards “the Africa we want”
The African Union Agenda 2063 has a crucial element known as Aspiration 5 which seeks an Africa with a strong cultural identity, common heritage, values and ethics. Towards this end, the Union has been promoting African arts and culture as ways of realizing “the Africa we want”. This article locates the Union’s interventions in the existing cultural production and circulation landscape pointing out that the landscape promotes a monolithism that i…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Public relations (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Democracy (3 works)