A Babalola
Biographic Data
| ID | 29230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Babalola |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Babalola |
| SIGNATURE | BABALOLA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5709-7179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Theorizing Intimacies and Articulation in Nigerian Hip Hop Music
This paper explores how Nigerian hip hop music, lyrics, and histories illuminate connections and relationalities, intimacies, and articulations, among and across African and African diasporic communities. Drawing on the works of Lisa Lowe, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Katherine McKittrick, and others, I demonstrate how these intimacies and articulations allow us to reimagine hip hop, focusing not on origins or beginnings (or African American authent…
“Lyricapitalism” in Nigerian Hip-Hop Subculture
This article aims to theorize the concept of “lyricapitalism” to spark a dialogue around the constellation of antinomies that popular music in Nigeria, especially hip-hop, navigates, grapples with, and articulates. By lyricapitalism, I mean lyrical representations of capitalist ideologies, most notably obsession with money, sleeplessness, and cyber-scam culture. I situate lyricapitalism in relation toJonathan Crary’s framework of 24/7 capitalism …
On the Poetics of Migration, Black Geographies, and Nervous Conditions
This conversation began in Winter 2023, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. At the time we were collectively studying Black geographies. As faculty and students who are part of the Black diaspora yet have very different experiences of displacement, our discussions revolved around the uneasy connections between education, university life, migration, and Blackness. Inspired by the writings of Simone Browne, on January 25, 2024, the …
The Racial Mosaic
Review of The Racial Mosaic: A Pre-History of Canadian Multiculturalism by D. R. Meister. Reviewed by Adesoji Babalola
Aspects of Transitivity in Select Social Transformation Discourse in Nigeria
This article examines transitivity in the mediatised discourse of social transformation in Nigeria. Data for the study comprises texts on aspects of social transformation campaigns in Nigeria in the context of democracy, anti-corruption crusades, insecurity, and domestic violence. The data was drawn from speeches, radio commentaries, jingles, printed texts, interviews, tweets, and online newspaper comments about government actors and nongovernmen…
The Content and Form of Yoruba Ijala
The Content and Form of Yoruba ijala
The Content and Form of Yoruba ijala
Theorizing Intimacies and Articulation in Nigerian Hip Hop Music
This paper explores how Nigerian hip hop music, lyrics, and histories illuminate connections and relationalities, intimacies, and articulations, among and across African and African diasporic communities. Drawing on the works of Lisa Lowe, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Katherine McKittrick, and others, I demonstrate how these intimacies and articulations allow us to reimagine hip hop, focusing not on origins or beginnings (or African American authent…
The Content and Form of Yoruba ijala
The Content and Form of Yoruba Ijala
Aspects of Transitivity in Select Social Transformation Discourse in Nigeria
This article examines transitivity in the mediatised discourse of social transformation in Nigeria. Data for the study comprises texts on aspects of social transformation campaigns in Nigeria in the context of democracy, anti-corruption crusades, insecurity, and domestic violence. The data was drawn from speeches, radio commentaries, jingles, printed texts, interviews, tweets, and online newspaper comments about government actors and nongovernmen…
“Lyricapitalism” in Nigerian Hip-Hop Subculture
This article aims to theorize the concept of “lyricapitalism” to spark a dialogue around the constellation of antinomies that popular music in Nigeria, especially hip-hop, navigates, grapples with, and articulates. By lyricapitalism, I mean lyrical representations of capitalist ideologies, most notably obsession with money, sleeplessness, and cyber-scam culture. I situate lyricapitalism in relation toJonathan Crary’s framework of 24/7 capitalism …
On the Poetics of Migration, Black Geographies, and Nervous Conditions
This conversation began in Winter 2023, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. At the time we were collectively studying Black geographies. As faculty and students who are part of the Black diaspora yet have very different experiences of displacement, our discussions revolved around the uneasy connections between education, university life, migration, and Blackness. Inspired by the writings of Simone Browne, on January 25, 2024, the …
The Racial Mosaic
Review of The Racial Mosaic: A Pre-History of Canadian Multiculturalism by D. R. Meister. Reviewed by Adesoji Babalola
Theorizing Intimacies and Articulation in Nigerian Hip Hop Music
This paper explores how Nigerian hip hop music, lyrics, and histories illuminate connections and relationalities, intimacies, and articulations, among and across African and African diasporic communities. Drawing on the works of Lisa Lowe, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Katherine McKittrick, and others, I demonstrate how these intimacies and articulations allow us to reimagine hip hop, focusing not on origins or beginnings (or African American authent…
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biology (2 works)