Paul Ayodele Onanuga
Biographic Data
| ID | 201448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Ayodele Onanuga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul Ayodele |
| FAMILY NAME | Onanuga |
| SIGNATURE | ONANUGA P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federal University Oye Ekiti |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1207-3090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Re-imagining Afrobeat(s): Juxtaposing Fela and Falz’s social commentary and lyrical activism
Within the African setting, music serves purposes beyond entertainment. It is functional and used for documentating experiences and challenging unwholesome social structures. In the Nigerian context, the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and, more contemporarily, Falz stand out as formidable anti-establishment forces. In this article, I interrogate six purposively selected songs – three for each artiste, and identified based on their intersecting thematic…
Criminalised Bodies, Spiritualized Marginality: The Nigerian Queer in Romeo Oriogun’s Sacrament of Bodies
In contesting the persistent alterity of queerness, creative literary productions, including fictional and filmic renditions, have taken centre stage in the Nigerian environment. This emerges from the recognition that, as cultural artefacts, they represent platforms for drawing attention to the experiences of queer-identifying Nigerians and that, through their cultural capital, they become vessels for subtle incursions in stimulating a queer-posi…
Interrogating machoism, male celebrity rivalry and digital fandom practices in Nigerian Hip Hop
Beyond the glamour and paparazzi of contemporary popular music, celebrity artistes constantly negotiate intense rivalry with other artistes. This reality might be hinged on several different reasons. In this study, I interrogate Nigerian male artiste rivalry, with recourse to lyrical compositions and online engagements. This is complemented with fans' online discourses on artiste rivalry, wherein the negotiation of identities is examined. Recours…
Language, Visuality and Representation of Nigeria - China Relations in Nigerian Digital Space
Nigeria – China relationship has witnessed significant upsurge in the last decade. The budding relationship however continues to attract diverse perceptions as reflected in digital spaces. In this study, ten images – cartoons – from the Internet were subjected to Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. The depictions of Chinese influence and activities in Nigeria are engaged and representations that oscillate from financial/economic concerns to i…
Statement of Removal: Asserting identity in stifling spaces: multisemioticity in Nigerian queer-positive Instagram
Queer visibility continues to be a mirage in many African countries. Unsurprisingly, the queer community has continued its appropriation of digital spaces in the propagation of its activism for public acceptance, in view of the democratising affordance which such spaces provide. In this study, I analyse 10 purposively selected queer-positive photos from queer_nigeria, nigerianqueerarchives and queer_ng, all from Instagram. Relying on a multisemio…
Shackling (im)morality: Religious tropes, religious figures and marginalizing politics in queer Nigerian creative texts
Building on existing scholarship and debates on queer cultural production in Nigeria, and the complex representation of religious themes as they intersect with queerness, this article analyzes the novel Walking with Shadows, and the film Hell or High Water. Through this analysis, the article argues that while religious ideologies and figures continue to hinder queer agency and visibility, the religious landscape continues to be contested by queer…
Talking back: Linguistic exploration of female artistes’ ‘responses’ to patriarchy and stereotypes in Nigerian hip-hop
Patriarchal tendencies are normative in hip-hop culture, necessitating contemporary calls for gender equality and wholesome gender representations. These have encouraged a 'talking back' where the marginalised re-appropriate established norms and consciously recreate their identities. Interrogating lyrics and videos of popular female Nigerian hip-hop artistes, we explore female agency and discuss how these artistes combat patriarchy and achieve l…
A journey worth taking: Language and migration narratives in Nigerian queer X (Twitter) discourse
The demonstrative endangerment scenario of queerphobia manifests in diverse nuanced ways in Nigeria, culminating in closeting, restricted livability and, in the case of the focus of the present study, migration to queer-enabling spaces. Interests in queer-migratory trends continue to swell in existing literature, foregrounding the critical role mobilities play in queer identities, especially when situated post-2014, after the Same-Sex Marriage Pr…
Love as Trope in Nigerian Ecocritical Discourse: Analysis of Selected G’ebinyo Ogbowei’s Poems
Eco-conscious writers mitigate environmental drawbacks by not only bringing to the fore existing challenges but also by professing a love for nature and the environment. This article interrogates eco-awareness and consciousness through 10 purposively selected poems from two collections by Niger Delta poet, g’ebinyo ogbowei. I assert that to champion the restoration of ecologically degraded environments, ogbowei manipulates erotic love – which he …
Language, Literature and the Environment: Eco-Criticism from the African Perspectives
The oversubscription to anthropocentric cosmology which places humanity at the centre of the biosphere and relegates nature to the periphery of human-environment interactions has been pilloried in
Transnational Mobilities in Search of Refuge: ‘Home,’ Migration and the Queer in Nigerian Literature
Geographical considerations continue to manifest in and influence the narratives surrounding non-heteronormative sexualities. Within this context, borders become central to the politics of inclusion-exclusion. In this study, we engage Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Shivering,” and Uzondinma Iweala’s Speak No Evil in view of their engagement of the tripodal issues of homosexuality, home and migration. We interr…
E Be Like Say Dem Swear for Me!’: Identity, agency and queerness in selected Temmie Ovwasa’s songs
Spaces are central to identity-formation and public representation, and play key roles within narratives on queerness and self/other portrayal. In this study, focus is placed on popular culture with specific interests in the discography of Temmie Ovwasa, a self-outed queer-identifying non-binary Nigerian music artiste. I contend that Ovwasa’s songs represent a deconstruction of the homophobic and misogynist space that hip hop culture vaunts. Thei…
ArewaAgainstLGBTQ discourse: A vent for anti-homonationalist ideology in Nigerian twittersphere
Same-sex digital narratives usually assert homosexual agency and engender gender ideology, a progressive agenda which challenges systems of gender oppression. The representations of such usual entrenched perceptions have been the focus of many existing studies. However, in this study, I counter this ‘usual’ as I argue that anti-homosexuality ‘campaigners’ online contest gender ideology and re-present it as a negative descriptor. I do this by enga…
Popular Culture and Decolonisation: Themes, Tropes and Trajectories in Nigerian Hip Hop
Contemporarily, the drive for decolonisation following the virulence of the colonial experience on postcolonial societies has gained currency. This has been in the face of pervasive, hegemonic Global North structures that have de-centred non-Western epistemologies. This article engages Nigerian hip hop as a cultural product that has consciously or unconsciously been wielded as a tool for the contestation of (post)colonial subjugation and authorit…
Navigating homophobia and reinventing the self
Discriminatory practices against the Nigerian gay community take the form of state and non-state sponsored opposition, censorship and violence. This study investigates how gay Nigerians combat homophobia by using language agentively on social media as a semiotic resource towards self-assertion and identity construction. Data retrieved from Twitter via keyword searches suggest that in addition to harnessing agency through positive self-representat…
Policing sexuality? Corpus linguistic perspectives to 'government' in homosexuality narratives on Nigerian twitter
Governments are central to the representations and attitudes to homosexuality, since they formulate laws that ultimately shape civic engagement. In view of this, we explore the linguistic representations of ‘government’ and other discourse agents in online Nigerian homosexuality discourses. The data for the study is a self-collected corpus from ‘Nigerian’ Twitter. This was subsequently processed with Anthony’s (2019) AntConc software. The quantit…
Resisting Pacification: Locating Tension in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's Poetry
This paper analyses the tension between subjugation and resistance as represented in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's six poetry collections, through the lens of discourse stylistics and eco-linguistic theories.Ogbowei is a prolific Nigerian poet whose work delineates anger and resistance while documenting the Niger Deltan experience.His poetry illustrates themes of emasculation in the aftermath of continued pillage and drums up support for the region's nation…
A Discursive Contextualisation of Hustling in Nigerian Hip-Hop
One of the endearing qualities of the Hip-Hop genre is its penchant for crass materialism where artistes lyrically brag about their successes while unabashedly flaunting the ostentatious proceeds of their newfound fame. This resonates with the contemporary constructs of individualism and self-realisation in line with social expectations. However, beyond the photo ops, these artistes indeed go the extra mile in achieving success. In this article, …
Coming Out and Reaching Out: Linguistic Advocacy on Queer Nigerian Twitter
Anti-homosexuality and anti-LGBTQ attitudes persist in Nigeria, cutting across the activities of state and non-state actors. However, away from the hostile public physical spaces, the digital world has become a refuge where Nigerian queers attempt to exist true to their self-identities, and to take charge of the narratives about their existence. In examining how Nigerian queer males assert their agency, this study pays attention to the linguistic…
The ‘street’ construct and mass-mediated identities in Nigerian hip hop
The origins, influence and perspectivisation of American hip hop can be traced to African American locational references to the ‘hood’. The global diffusion of hip hop ensures that the ‘hood’ identity is continually localised and appropriated within emergent localities. Within Nigerian hip hop culture, the ‘street’ is a site for asserting identity, as well as for recurring locations, ideas and shared experiences of authentication and credibility.…
When hip-hop meets CMC: Digital discourse in Nigerian hip-hop
Mobile telephony and the Internet have ensured that digitized communication is a routine in which everyone engages. Since music artistes use their songs as archival tools in documenting social events and changes, we consider, in this study, the (re)presentation of Computer Mediated Communication in Nigerian Hip-hop. To this end, six purposively selected songs by six Nigerian hip-hoppers are subjected to textual analysis. It is noted that the cros…
Voicing Protest: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's 'This is America' and Falz's 'This is Nigeria
(2020). ‘Voicing Protest’: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's ‘This is America’ and Falz's ‘This is Nigeria’. Contemporary Music Review: Vol. 39, Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu, pp. 6-36
Violence, Sexuality and Youth Linguistic Behaviour: An Exploration of Contemporary Nigerian Youth Music
Most linguistic studies on Nigerian hip hop (NHH) are textual in orientation, focusing on language use in lyrics. However, the social manifestations of the genre have mainly been discussed from the sociological perspective, ignoring the linguistic influences on the youthful audience. With a focus on violence and sexuality, the present study combines qualitative and quantitative research methods in fulfilling its objectives. This involves the anal…
Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu
Hip hop music on the African continent often constitutes a site for competing anxieties, just as its varied rhythms compellingly appeal to the sensibilities of its diverse audience. Evidently, hip
Proverbs, Power and Politics: A Linguistic Analysis of Osofisan’s Yungba-Yungba and the Dance Contest
African writers represent and reflect their cultural and sociolinguistic realities in their writings in spite of the necessity of acceding to the globalising and hegemonic dictates of English. This linguistic hybridisation is asserted through the use of indigenous linguistic practices. This article studies the use of proverbs and its relationship with power and politics in Femi Osofisan's (2012) play Yungba-Yungba and the Dance Contest. While the…
Coming Out and Reaching Out: Linguistic Advocacy on Queer Nigerian Twitter
Anti-homosexuality and anti-LGBTQ attitudes persist in Nigeria, cutting across the activities of state and non-state actors. However, away from the hostile public physical spaces, the digital world has become a refuge where Nigerian queers attempt to exist true to their self-identities, and to take charge of the narratives about their existence. In examining how Nigerian queer males assert their agency, this study pays attention to the linguistic…
Navigating homophobia and reinventing the self
Discriminatory practices against the Nigerian gay community take the form of state and non-state sponsored opposition, censorship and violence. This study investigates how gay Nigerians combat homophobia by using language agentively on social media as a semiotic resource towards self-assertion and identity construction. Data retrieved from Twitter via keyword searches suggest that in addition to harnessing agency through positive self-representat…
When hip-hop meets CMC: Digital discourse in Nigerian hip-hop
Mobile telephony and the Internet have ensured that digitized communication is a routine in which everyone engages. Since music artistes use their songs as archival tools in documenting social events and changes, we consider, in this study, the (re)presentation of Computer Mediated Communication in Nigerian Hip-hop. To this end, six purposively selected songs by six Nigerian hip-hoppers are subjected to textual analysis. It is noted that the cros…
ArewaAgainstLGBTQ discourse: A vent for anti-homonationalist ideology in Nigerian twittersphere
Same-sex digital narratives usually assert homosexual agency and engender gender ideology, a progressive agenda which challenges systems of gender oppression. The representations of such usual entrenched perceptions have been the focus of many existing studies. However, in this study, I counter this ‘usual’ as I argue that anti-homosexuality ‘campaigners’ online contest gender ideology and re-present it as a negative descriptor. I do this by enga…
Policing sexuality? Corpus linguistic perspectives to 'government' in homosexuality narratives on Nigerian twitter
Governments are central to the representations and attitudes to homosexuality, since they formulate laws that ultimately shape civic engagement. In view of this, we explore the linguistic representations of ‘government’ and other discourse agents in online Nigerian homosexuality discourses. The data for the study is a self-collected corpus from ‘Nigerian’ Twitter. This was subsequently processed with Anthony’s (2019) AntConc software. The quantit…
Transnational Mobilities in Search of Refuge: ‘Home,’ Migration and the Queer in Nigerian Literature
Geographical considerations continue to manifest in and influence the narratives surrounding non-heteronormative sexualities. Within this context, borders become central to the politics of inclusion-exclusion. In this study, we engage Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Shivering,” and Uzondinma Iweala’s Speak No Evil in view of their engagement of the tripodal issues of homosexuality, home and migration. We interr…
Voicing Protest: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's 'This is America' and Falz's 'This is Nigeria
(2020). ‘Voicing Protest’: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's ‘This is America’ and Falz's ‘This is Nigeria’. Contemporary Music Review: Vol. 39, Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu, pp. 6-36
Violence, Sexuality and Youth Linguistic Behaviour: An Exploration of Contemporary Nigerian Youth Music
Most linguistic studies on Nigerian hip hop (NHH) are textual in orientation, focusing on language use in lyrics. However, the social manifestations of the genre have mainly been discussed from the sociological perspective, ignoring the linguistic influences on the youthful audience. With a focus on violence and sexuality, the present study combines qualitative and quantitative research methods in fulfilling its objectives. This involves the anal…
Shackling (im)morality: Religious tropes, religious figures and marginalizing politics in queer Nigerian creative texts
Building on existing scholarship and debates on queer cultural production in Nigeria, and the complex representation of religious themes as they intersect with queerness, this article analyzes the novel Walking with Shadows, and the film Hell or High Water. Through this analysis, the article argues that while religious ideologies and figures continue to hinder queer agency and visibility, the religious landscape continues to be contested by queer…
The enactment of ideology and self-presentation in political campaign videos of the 2015 general election in Nigeria
Popular Culture and Decolonisation: Themes, Tropes and Trajectories in Nigerian Hip Hop
Contemporarily, the drive for decolonisation following the virulence of the colonial experience on postcolonial societies has gained currency. This has been in the face of pervasive, hegemonic Global North structures that have de-centred non-Western epistemologies. This article engages Nigerian hip hop as a cultural product that has consciously or unconsciously been wielded as a tool for the contestation of (post)colonial subjugation and authorit…
Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu
Hip hop music on the African continent often constitutes a site for competing anxieties, just as its varied rhythms compellingly appeal to the sensibilities of its diverse audience. Evidently, hip
Talking back: Linguistic exploration of female artistes’ ‘responses’ to patriarchy and stereotypes in Nigerian hip-hop
Patriarchal tendencies are normative in hip-hop culture, necessitating contemporary calls for gender equality and wholesome gender representations. These have encouraged a 'talking back' where the marginalised re-appropriate established norms and consciously recreate their identities. Interrogating lyrics and videos of popular female Nigerian hip-hop artistes, we explore female agency and discuss how these artistes combat patriarchy and achieve l…
Resisting Pacification: Locating Tension in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's Poetry
This paper analyses the tension between subjugation and resistance as represented in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's six poetry collections, through the lens of discourse stylistics and eco-linguistic theories.Ogbowei is a prolific Nigerian poet whose work delineates anger and resistance while documenting the Niger Deltan experience.His poetry illustrates themes of emasculation in the aftermath of continued pillage and drums up support for the region's nation…
A Discursive Contextualisation of Hustling in Nigerian Hip-Hop
One of the endearing qualities of the Hip-Hop genre is its penchant for crass materialism where artistes lyrically brag about their successes while unabashedly flaunting the ostentatious proceeds of their newfound fame. This resonates with the contemporary constructs of individualism and self-realisation in line with social expectations. However, beyond the photo ops, these artistes indeed go the extra mile in achieving success. In this article, …
Language Use in Nigerian Spam SMSs: A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis
Digital marketing is influential to advertising businesses, with a veritable platform being SMSs. SMSs, with their widespread usage, have generated several academic enquiries. They have, however, been abused by telemarketers who inundate subscribers with spam—unsolicited and indiscriminately sent SMSs. A linguistic stylistic analysis of purposively collected spam SMS data provides insight into Nigerian spam SMSs’ unique linguistic features. Niger…
Of Commodities and Objects: Women and Their Representations in Nigerian Hip-Hop
The ubiquity of music renders it a telling reflection of the representations of the viewpoints and concerns—ethos and mores—of the milieu within which it is produced. Hip-hop as a global genre has been domesticated in every society in which it has found expression. Despite its noteworthy contributions and roles, hip-hop has gained notoriety and has been trailed by allegations of glorifying crime, materialism, violence, drugs and misogyny. In the …
Exploring Post-Colonial Leadership Crisis in Africa: A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis of Osundare’s The State Visit and Two Plays
The colonial experience in most African states alongside the attendant merger of nation-states based on administrative convenience precipitated the urgency for sustained positive leadership. However, the constant punctuations of civil democratic rule by military juntas forestalled the change envisaged by most African countries upon independence. Niyi Osundare is one of the most vocal literary activists from Nigeria whose writings, in reflecting t…
The enactment of ideology and self-presentation in political campaign videos of the 2015 general election in Nigeria
Proverbs, Power and Politics: A Linguistic Analysis of Osofisan’s Yungba-Yungba and the Dance Contest
African writers represent and reflect their cultural and sociolinguistic realities in their writings in spite of the necessity of acceding to the globalising and hegemonic dictates of English. This linguistic hybridisation is asserted through the use of indigenous linguistic practices. This article studies the use of proverbs and its relationship with power and politics in Femi Osofisan's (2012) play Yungba-Yungba and the Dance Contest. While the…
The ‘street’ construct and mass-mediated identities in Nigerian hip hop
The origins, influence and perspectivisation of American hip hop can be traced to African American locational references to the ‘hood’. The global diffusion of hip hop ensures that the ‘hood’ identity is continually localised and appropriated within emergent localities. Within Nigerian hip hop culture, the ‘street’ is a site for asserting identity, as well as for recurring locations, ideas and shared experiences of authentication and credibility.…
When hip-hop meets CMC: Digital discourse in Nigerian hip-hop
Mobile telephony and the Internet have ensured that digitized communication is a routine in which everyone engages. Since music artistes use their songs as archival tools in documenting social events and changes, we consider, in this study, the (re)presentation of Computer Mediated Communication in Nigerian Hip-hop. To this end, six purposively selected songs by six Nigerian hip-hoppers are subjected to textual analysis. It is noted that the cros…
Voicing Protest: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's 'This is America' and Falz's 'This is Nigeria
(2020). ‘Voicing Protest’: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's ‘This is America’ and Falz's ‘This is Nigeria’. Contemporary Music Review: Vol. 39, Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu, pp. 6-36
Violence, Sexuality and Youth Linguistic Behaviour: An Exploration of Contemporary Nigerian Youth Music
Most linguistic studies on Nigerian hip hop (NHH) are textual in orientation, focusing on language use in lyrics. However, the social manifestations of the genre have mainly been discussed from the sociological perspective, ignoring the linguistic influences on the youthful audience. With a focus on violence and sexuality, the present study combines qualitative and quantitative research methods in fulfilling its objectives. This involves the anal…
Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu
Hip hop music on the African continent often constitutes a site for competing anxieties, just as its varied rhythms compellingly appeal to the sensibilities of its diverse audience. Evidently, hip
Resisting Pacification: Locating Tension in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's Poetry
This paper analyses the tension between subjugation and resistance as represented in G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's six poetry collections, through the lens of discourse stylistics and eco-linguistic theories.Ogbowei is a prolific Nigerian poet whose work delineates anger and resistance while documenting the Niger Deltan experience.His poetry illustrates themes of emasculation in the aftermath of continued pillage and drums up support for the region's nation…
A Discursive Contextualisation of Hustling in Nigerian Hip-Hop
One of the endearing qualities of the Hip-Hop genre is its penchant for crass materialism where artistes lyrically brag about their successes while unabashedly flaunting the ostentatious proceeds of their newfound fame. This resonates with the contemporary constructs of individualism and self-realisation in line with social expectations. However, beyond the photo ops, these artistes indeed go the extra mile in achieving success. In this article, …
Coming Out and Reaching Out: Linguistic Advocacy on Queer Nigerian Twitter
Anti-homosexuality and anti-LGBTQ attitudes persist in Nigeria, cutting across the activities of state and non-state actors. However, away from the hostile public physical spaces, the digital world has become a refuge where Nigerian queers attempt to exist true to their self-identities, and to take charge of the narratives about their existence. In examining how Nigerian queer males assert their agency, this study pays attention to the linguistic…
Navigating homophobia and reinventing the self
Discriminatory practices against the Nigerian gay community take the form of state and non-state sponsored opposition, censorship and violence. This study investigates how gay Nigerians combat homophobia by using language agentively on social media as a semiotic resource towards self-assertion and identity construction. Data retrieved from Twitter via keyword searches suggest that in addition to harnessing agency through positive self-representat…
Policing sexuality? Corpus linguistic perspectives to 'government' in homosexuality narratives on Nigerian twitter
Governments are central to the representations and attitudes to homosexuality, since they formulate laws that ultimately shape civic engagement. In view of this, we explore the linguistic representations of ‘government’ and other discourse agents in online Nigerian homosexuality discourses. The data for the study is a self-collected corpus from ‘Nigerian’ Twitter. This was subsequently processed with Anthony’s (2019) AntConc software. The quantit…
Love as Trope in Nigerian Ecocritical Discourse: Analysis of Selected G’ebinyo Ogbowei’s Poems
Eco-conscious writers mitigate environmental drawbacks by not only bringing to the fore existing challenges but also by professing a love for nature and the environment. This article interrogates eco-awareness and consciousness through 10 purposively selected poems from two collections by Niger Delta poet, g’ebinyo ogbowei. I assert that to champion the restoration of ecologically degraded environments, ogbowei manipulates erotic love – which he …
Language, Literature and the Environment: Eco-Criticism from the African Perspectives
The oversubscription to anthropocentric cosmology which places humanity at the centre of the biosphere and relegates nature to the periphery of human-environment interactions has been pilloried in
Transnational Mobilities in Search of Refuge: ‘Home,’ Migration and the Queer in Nigerian Literature
Geographical considerations continue to manifest in and influence the narratives surrounding non-heteronormative sexualities. Within this context, borders become central to the politics of inclusion-exclusion. In this study, we engage Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Shivering,” and Uzondinma Iweala’s Speak No Evil in view of their engagement of the tripodal issues of homosexuality, home and migration. We interr…
E Be Like Say Dem Swear for Me!’: Identity, agency and queerness in selected Temmie Ovwasa’s songs
Spaces are central to identity-formation and public representation, and play key roles within narratives on queerness and self/other portrayal. In this study, focus is placed on popular culture with specific interests in the discography of Temmie Ovwasa, a self-outed queer-identifying non-binary Nigerian music artiste. I contend that Ovwasa’s songs represent a deconstruction of the homophobic and misogynist space that hip hop culture vaunts. Thei…
ArewaAgainstLGBTQ discourse: A vent for anti-homonationalist ideology in Nigerian twittersphere
Same-sex digital narratives usually assert homosexual agency and engender gender ideology, a progressive agenda which challenges systems of gender oppression. The representations of such usual entrenched perceptions have been the focus of many existing studies. However, in this study, I counter this ‘usual’ as I argue that anti-homosexuality ‘campaigners’ online contest gender ideology and re-present it as a negative descriptor. I do this by enga…
Popular Culture and Decolonisation: Themes, Tropes and Trajectories in Nigerian Hip Hop
Contemporarily, the drive for decolonisation following the virulence of the colonial experience on postcolonial societies has gained currency. This has been in the face of pervasive, hegemonic Global North structures that have de-centred non-Western epistemologies. This article engages Nigerian hip hop as a cultural product that has consciously or unconsciously been wielded as a tool for the contestation of (post)colonial subjugation and authorit…
Language, Visuality and Representation of Nigeria - China Relations in Nigerian Digital Space
Nigeria – China relationship has witnessed significant upsurge in the last decade. The budding relationship however continues to attract diverse perceptions as reflected in digital spaces. In this study, ten images – cartoons – from the Internet were subjected to Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. The depictions of Chinese influence and activities in Nigeria are engaged and representations that oscillate from financial/economic concerns to i…
Statement of Removal: Asserting identity in stifling spaces: multisemioticity in Nigerian queer-positive Instagram
Queer visibility continues to be a mirage in many African countries. Unsurprisingly, the queer community has continued its appropriation of digital spaces in the propagation of its activism for public acceptance, in view of the democratising affordance which such spaces provide. In this study, I analyse 10 purposively selected queer-positive photos from queer_nigeria, nigerianqueerarchives and queer_ng, all from Instagram. Relying on a multisemio…
Shackling (im)morality: Religious tropes, religious figures and marginalizing politics in queer Nigerian creative texts
Building on existing scholarship and debates on queer cultural production in Nigeria, and the complex representation of religious themes as they intersect with queerness, this article analyzes the novel Walking with Shadows, and the film Hell or High Water. Through this analysis, the article argues that while religious ideologies and figures continue to hinder queer agency and visibility, the religious landscape continues to be contested by queer…
Talking back: Linguistic exploration of female artistes’ ‘responses’ to patriarchy and stereotypes in Nigerian hip-hop
Patriarchal tendencies are normative in hip-hop culture, necessitating contemporary calls for gender equality and wholesome gender representations. These have encouraged a 'talking back' where the marginalised re-appropriate established norms and consciously recreate their identities. Interrogating lyrics and videos of popular female Nigerian hip-hop artistes, we explore female agency and discuss how these artistes combat patriarchy and achieve l…
Sociology (26 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Art (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Literature (11 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (9 works)