Lekan Balogun
Biographic Data
| ID | 361400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lekan Balogun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lekan |
| FAMILY NAME | Balogun |
| SIGNATURE | BALOGUN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lagos |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7604-6692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Àgbà(lagbà) ló mò'dí eéta: Playing Dangerously as an Everyday Art in Taiwo Shango (1965)
Common backcloth: Fleishman’s Antigone (not quite/quiet) and Soyinka’s ‘The fourth stage’
Dramatists and theatre makers are often drawn to Sophocles’ Antigone hence they reimagine and recruit the Attic tragedy to serve various political and aesthetic purposes. One of such reworkings of the ancient text is Mark Fleishman’s Antigone (not quite/quiet) which addresses grave issues of concern in post-apartheid South Africa. In this essay I will use a mythopoesis woven around Ògún, the Yoruba God of Warfare and Creativity, through Wole Soyi…
Complexity and Politics of Naming in Yoruba Tradition: A Dramatic Exploration of Once Upon an Elephant
This paper examines the connection between naming and oral tradition, specifically àló and ìtàn, by discussing Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s Once Upon an Elephant (2015), and demonstrates the ways in which contemporary Nigerian playwrights appropriate the same to engage their political realities. The Yoruba are aware that names are not mere signs but the material nodes of the social network, hence the rites associated with naming underscore the peop…
Mythological Recuperation and Performance as Agency for Genealogical Return in Djanet Sears’s Afrika Solo
This paper is an examination of Djanet Sears’s Afrika Solo (1990) as a unique example of how Blacks in the global diaspora trace their genealogical roots back to Africa. Drawing from research in anthropology, cultural studies, and performance, the paper purports that Sears’s African-Canadian identity is underlined by her recuperation of a heritage, epistemes and performative aesthetics, and, real or imagined, practices that are not just Afrocentr…
Mythological Recuperation and Performance as Agency for Genealogical Return in Djanet Sears’s Afrika Solo
This paper is an examination of Djanet Sears’s Afrika Solo (1990) as a unique example of how Blacks in the global diaspora trace their genealogical roots back to Africa. Drawing from research in anthropology, cultural studies, and performance, the paper purports that Sears’s African-Canadian identity is underlined by her recuperation of a heritage, epistemes and performative aesthetics, and, real or imagined, practices that are not just Afrocentr…
Complexity and Politics of Naming in Yoruba Tradition: A Dramatic Exploration of Once Upon an Elephant
This paper examines the connection between naming and oral tradition, specifically àló and ìtàn, by discussing Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s Once Upon an Elephant (2015), and demonstrates the ways in which contemporary Nigerian playwrights appropriate the same to engage their political realities. The Yoruba are aware that names are not mere signs but the material nodes of the social network, hence the rites associated with naming underscore the peop…
Common backcloth: Fleishman’s Antigone (not quite/quiet) and Soyinka’s ‘The fourth stage’
Dramatists and theatre makers are often drawn to Sophocles’ Antigone hence they reimagine and recruit the Attic tragedy to serve various political and aesthetic purposes. One of such reworkings of the ancient text is Mark Fleishman’s Antigone (not quite/quiet) which addresses grave issues of concern in post-apartheid South Africa. In this essay I will use a mythopoesis woven around Ògún, the Yoruba God of Warfare and Creativity, through Wole Soyi…
Àgbà(lagbà) ló mò'dí eéta: Playing Dangerously as an Everyday Art in Taiwo Shango (1965)
Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Yoruba (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works)