Dotun Ayobade
Biographic Data
| ID | 222662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dotun Ayobade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dotun |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayobade |
| SIGNATURE | AYOBADE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Africana Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-0591-4935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Island in a Sea of Oppression: Pan-Africa at the Art Institute
Project a Black Planet: Art and Culture of Panafrica was co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) and MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, in collaboration with KANAL-Centre Pompidou Bruxelles. The exhibition, held at the Art Institute of Chicago, ran from December 15, 2024 to March 30, 2025 and was curated by Antawan I. Byrd, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Adom Getachew, and Matthew S. Witkovsky. It was partly funded by the National Endo…
A Phase of Concrete Action: Performance, African Studies, and Black Studies at the University of Texas, Austin
Monsters You Made ”: Burna Boy, #EndSars, and the Use of Restlessness
Introduction: Afrobeats’ Lower Frequencies
Invented Dances, Or, How Nigerian Musicians Sculpt the Body Politic
Popular dances encapsulate the aliveness of Africa's young. Radiating an Africanist aesthetic of the cool, these moves enflesh popular music, saturating mass media platforms and everyday spaces with imageries of joyful transcendence. This essay understands scriptive dance fads as textual and choreographic calls for public embodiment. I explore how three Nigerian musicians, and their dances, have wielded scriptive prompts to elicit specific moved …
We Were On Top of the World: Fela Kuti's Queens and the Poetics of Space
The Afrika Shrine, Fela Kuti's night club, and Kalakuta Republic, the urban commune over which he presided, were iconic spaces in the Nigerian postcolonial imagination. However, these spaces only acquired countercultural stature when in the early 1970s young women began inhabiting them in pursuit of a life in the performing arts. The Queens, as the women were fondly known, became indispensable symbols of the Afrobeat movement. Yet, their contribu…
We Were On Top of the World: Fela Kuti's Queens and the Poetics of Space
The Afrika Shrine, Fela Kuti's night club, and Kalakuta Republic, the urban commune over which he presided, were iconic spaces in the Nigerian postcolonial imagination. However, these spaces only acquired countercultural stature when in the early 1970s young women began inhabiting them in pursuit of a life in the performing arts. The Queens, as the women were fondly known, became indispensable symbols of the Afrobeat movement. Yet, their contribu…
Invented Dances, Or, How Nigerian Musicians Sculpt the Body Politic
Popular dances encapsulate the aliveness of Africa's young. Radiating an Africanist aesthetic of the cool, these moves enflesh popular music, saturating mass media platforms and everyday spaces with imageries of joyful transcendence. This essay understands scriptive dance fads as textual and choreographic calls for public embodiment. I explore how three Nigerian musicians, and their dances, have wielded scriptive prompts to elicit specific moved …
We Were On Top of the World: Fela Kuti's Queens and the Poetics of Space
The Afrika Shrine, Fela Kuti's night club, and Kalakuta Republic, the urban commune over which he presided, were iconic spaces in the Nigerian postcolonial imagination. However, these spaces only acquired countercultural stature when in the early 1970s young women began inhabiting them in pursuit of a life in the performing arts. The Queens, as the women were fondly known, became indispensable symbols of the Afrobeat movement. Yet, their contribu…
Invented Dances, Or, How Nigerian Musicians Sculpt the Body Politic
Popular dances encapsulate the aliveness of Africa's young. Radiating an Africanist aesthetic of the cool, these moves enflesh popular music, saturating mass media platforms and everyday spaces with imageries of joyful transcendence. This essay understands scriptive dance fads as textual and choreographic calls for public embodiment. I explore how three Nigerian musicians, and their dances, have wielded scriptive prompts to elicit specific moved …
Monsters You Made ”: Burna Boy, #EndSars, and the Use of Restlessness
Introduction: Afrobeats’ Lower Frequencies
A Phase of Concrete Action: Performance, African Studies, and Black Studies at the University of Texas, Austin
Island in a Sea of Oppression: Pan-Africa at the Art Institute
Project a Black Planet: Art and Culture of Panafrica was co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) and MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, in collaboration with KANAL-Centre Pompidou Bruxelles. The exhibition, held at the Art Institute of Chicago, ran from December 15, 2024 to March 30, 2025 and was curated by Antawan I. Byrd, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Adom Getachew, and Matthew S. Witkovsky. It was partly funded by the National Endo…
Art (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works) · Architecture, Art, Education (1 works) · Black sea (1 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 works) · Choreography (1 works)