Maryam Yusuf Magaji
Biographic Data
| ID | 293088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maryam Yusuf Magaji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maryam Yusuf |
| FAMILY NAME | Magaji |
| SIGNATURE | MAGAJI M Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twitter (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2381-9727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Verbalising the body
Scholars have conducted research on the games that young girls play, on the sensual elements in their performances, and on the connection between girls’ game songs and songs sung and sold by male hip hop artists but the songs sung by Hausa girls while they play, have been overlooked. In the 1980s, preteen Hausa girls in northern Nigeria sang songs as they played their games; songs that seemed funny and exciting but which were in fact, full of met…
Transmogrification as a Gendered Event
Performance of Jukun Panegyrics
Although, from extant literature, Nigeria has been noted to have a considerable number of significant panegyrics, this variety seems to exclude the Jukun, an influential ethnic stock located in southern Taraba, along Nigeria’s northeastern corridor. This article describes Jukun panegyrics against their socio-cultural context. It uses Richard Bauman’s thought on performance as shared heritage peculiar to a people’s verbal art culture to describe h…
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Performance of Jukun Panegyrics
Although, from extant literature, Nigeria has been noted to have a considerable number of significant panegyrics, this variety seems to exclude the Jukun, an influential ethnic stock located in southern Taraba, along Nigeria’s northeastern corridor. This article describes Jukun panegyrics against their socio-cultural context. It uses Richard Bauman’s thought on performance as shared heritage peculiar to a people’s verbal art culture to describe h…
Transmogrification as a Gendered Event
Verbalising the body
Scholars have conducted research on the games that young girls play, on the sensual elements in their performances, and on the connection between girls’ game songs and songs sung and sold by male hip hop artists but the songs sung by Hausa girls while they play, have been overlooked. In the 1980s, preteen Hausa girls in northern Nigeria sang songs as they played their games; songs that seemed funny and exciting but which were in fact, full of met…
Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hausa (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African history and culture analysis (1 work)