Femi Eromosele
Biographic Data
| ID | 222608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Femi Eromosele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Femi |
| FAMILY NAME | Eromosele |
| SIGNATURE | EROMOSELE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4106-9779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
African Literature in Transition: The Archive of African Literature, 1800–2000
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps…
Remembering the City: Lagos and National Time
This chapter explores the significance of Lagos as a repository of memory for Nigerian writers. It brings works of contemporary writers such as Sefi Atta and Teju Cole in conversation with older representations of Lagos. While the more recent novels destabilize earlier binaries, they institute other dualities through their relationship to time. The chapter pays attention to how versions of Lagos – past and present – are contrasted to make the cit…
Johnny Just Come: Lagos and the newcomer figure in Nigerian screen media
African urbanisms and their hinterlands: Contemporary Cultural Imaginaries of Spatial Connections
Affective Capital: Lagos and Nigerian Music Videos
Lagos is a recurrent theme in Nigerian music videos. Eromosele examines this phenomenon in relation to the objectives of the music video and the musician's star image. Various studies involving emotion and forms of capital help to reveal how Lagos is appropriated into the iconography of music stars in ways that extend the city's affective capital while serving the promotional aims of the music video. Capital is viewed chiefly as value accumulated…
HIV/Aids in Nigerian Fiction: Felix Ogoanah's The Return of Ameze and Ifeoma Theodore Jnr, E.'s Trapped in Oblivion
This article examines the representation of HIV/AIDS in Nigerian fiction. Despite the scourge of the disease in Nigeria, the most prominent fictional titles have tended to be silent on the subject. Depictions of the disease appear in fiction published and circulated chiefly within the confines of the country. This article focuses on Felix N. Ogoanah's The Return of Ameze (2007, Ibadan: Evans Brothers) and Ifeoma Theodore Jnr, E.'s Trapped in Obli…
Lagos in contemporary Nigerian music video: "Brymo's "1 Pound (The Documentary)
Scholarship on the relationship between Lagos and Nigerian cinematic practice often focuses on the video film, emphasising the city’s symbiotic relationship with Nollywood. This article is an attempt to expand the purview of the debate by arguing for the music video as a significant cinematic product capable of yielding a more complex picture about the city and the forms of cultural expression it fosters. Using Brymo’s “1 Pound (The Documentary)”…
Madness and psychiatry in K. Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams
This article analyses K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) as a novel concerned with madness and psychiatric incarceration. It aims to reposition the scholarship on the novel, which has focused largely on the exploration of same-sex intimacy. The article argues that this emphasis not only undermines Duiker’s project of contesting essentialized identities but downplays his expansive sense of social justice. Connecting the text to …
What Happens When a Music Video Goes Viral? Gastrocomedy and Prosumer Recreations of Timaya'sI Can't Kill Myself
This article analyses the circulation of Timaya’s 2019 music video I Can’t Kill Myself as a means of contemplating contemporary media consumption in Nigeria. Beginning with the premise that media forms are best understood as taking part in a complex web of interactive relationships, the article examines the form, content, and relevance of short videos uploaded on YouTube in response to Timaya’s work. The videos provide a means of charting audienc…
Frantz Fanon in the Time of Mad Studies
Amidst renewed interest in the psychiatric writings of Frantz Fanon, this article reads his work against the background of contemporary mental health advocacy and scholarship. Epitomized in the emergent field of Mad Studies, whose origins lie in anti-psychiatry and psychiatric user/survivor movements, this body of scholarship espouses a discourse of madness as identity and culture. While Fanon continues to be disassociated from or (occasionally) …
What Happens When a Music Video Goes Viral? Gastrocomedy and Prosumer Recreations of Timaya'sI Can't Kill Myself
This article analyses the circulation of Timaya’s 2019 music video I Can’t Kill Myself as a means of contemplating contemporary media consumption in Nigeria. Beginning with the premise that media forms are best understood as taking part in a complex web of interactive relationships, the article examines the form, content, and relevance of short videos uploaded on YouTube in response to Timaya’s work. The videos provide a means of charting audienc…
Affective Capital: Lagos and Nigerian Music Videos
Lagos is a recurrent theme in Nigerian music videos. Eromosele examines this phenomenon in relation to the objectives of the music video and the musician's star image. Various studies involving emotion and forms of capital help to reveal how Lagos is appropriated into the iconography of music stars in ways that extend the city's affective capital while serving the promotional aims of the music video. Capital is viewed chiefly as value accumulated…
Madness and psychiatry in K. Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams
This article analyses K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) as a novel concerned with madness and psychiatric incarceration. It aims to reposition the scholarship on the novel, which has focused largely on the exploration of same-sex intimacy. The article argues that this emphasis not only undermines Duiker’s project of contesting essentialized identities but downplays his expansive sense of social justice. Connecting the text to …
Lagos in contemporary Nigerian music video: "Brymo's "1 Pound (The Documentary)
Scholarship on the relationship between Lagos and Nigerian cinematic practice often focuses on the video film, emphasising the city’s symbiotic relationship with Nollywood. This article is an attempt to expand the purview of the debate by arguing for the music video as a significant cinematic product capable of yielding a more complex picture about the city and the forms of cultural expression it fosters. Using Brymo’s “1 Pound (The Documentary)”…
Frantz Fanon in the Time of Mad Studies
Amidst renewed interest in the psychiatric writings of Frantz Fanon, this article reads his work against the background of contemporary mental health advocacy and scholarship. Epitomized in the emergent field of Mad Studies, whose origins lie in anti-psychiatry and psychiatric user/survivor movements, this body of scholarship espouses a discourse of madness as identity and culture. While Fanon continues to be disassociated from or (occasionally) …
HIV/Aids in Nigerian Fiction: Felix Ogoanah's The Return of Ameze and Ifeoma Theodore Jnr, E.'s Trapped in Oblivion
This article examines the representation of HIV/AIDS in Nigerian fiction. Despite the scourge of the disease in Nigeria, the most prominent fictional titles have tended to be silent on the subject. Depictions of the disease appear in fiction published and circulated chiefly within the confines of the country. This article focuses on Felix N. Ogoanah's The Return of Ameze (2007, Ibadan: Evans Brothers) and Ifeoma Theodore Jnr, E.'s Trapped in Obli…
Lagos in contemporary Nigerian music video: "Brymo's "1 Pound (The Documentary)
Scholarship on the relationship between Lagos and Nigerian cinematic practice often focuses on the video film, emphasising the city’s symbiotic relationship with Nollywood. This article is an attempt to expand the purview of the debate by arguing for the music video as a significant cinematic product capable of yielding a more complex picture about the city and the forms of cultural expression it fosters. Using Brymo’s “1 Pound (The Documentary)”…
Madness and psychiatry in K. Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams
This article analyses K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) as a novel concerned with madness and psychiatric incarceration. It aims to reposition the scholarship on the novel, which has focused largely on the exploration of same-sex intimacy. The article argues that this emphasis not only undermines Duiker’s project of contesting essentialized identities but downplays his expansive sense of social justice. Connecting the text to …
What Happens When a Music Video Goes Viral? Gastrocomedy and Prosumer Recreations of Timaya'sI Can't Kill Myself
This article analyses the circulation of Timaya’s 2019 music video I Can’t Kill Myself as a means of contemplating contemporary media consumption in Nigeria. Beginning with the premise that media forms are best understood as taking part in a complex web of interactive relationships, the article examines the form, content, and relevance of short videos uploaded on YouTube in response to Timaya’s work. The videos provide a means of charting audienc…
Affective Capital: Lagos and Nigerian Music Videos
Lagos is a recurrent theme in Nigerian music videos. Eromosele examines this phenomenon in relation to the objectives of the music video and the musician's star image. Various studies involving emotion and forms of capital help to reveal how Lagos is appropriated into the iconography of music stars in ways that extend the city's affective capital while serving the promotional aims of the music video. Capital is viewed chiefly as value accumulated…
African Literature in Transition: The Archive of African Literature, 1800–2000
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps…
Remembering the City: Lagos and National Time
This chapter explores the significance of Lagos as a repository of memory for Nigerian writers. It brings works of contemporary writers such as Sefi Atta and Teju Cole in conversation with older representations of Lagos. While the more recent novels destabilize earlier binaries, they institute other dualities through their relationship to time. The chapter pays attention to how versions of Lagos – past and present – are contrasted to make the cit…
Johnny Just Come: Lagos and the newcomer figure in Nigerian screen media
African urbanisms and their hinterlands: Contemporary Cultural Imaginaries of Spatial Connections
Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)