Ọlájídé Michael Salawu
Biographic Data
| ID | 376165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ọlájídé Michael Salawu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ọlájídé Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Salawu |
| SIGNATURE | SALAWU Ọ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8531-8621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Old song, new melody: Gender contestations in the appropriated comedy of Samobaba’s Yorùbá Bollywood
This paper examines issues of gender relations within the context of dominant patriarchy as represented in Samobaba’s Yorùbá Bollywood comedy skits. Seun Shamsudeen, popularly known as Samobaba, has produced several audio-visual skits, clipped from Indian films (also known as ‘Bollywood’), therefore generating intercultural dialogues for his skits. In these skits, dialogue in Yorùbá language is grafted on verbal and gestural communications in the…
Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project
This article provides a cultural history of book clubs in Nigeria and situates this reading tradition within the context of Anglophone colonial legacies and contemporary Yorùbá language politics. The case study is the Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́ group, a Yorùbá book club, and their associational life, which began on the Zoom platform in 2020 and later migrated to Twitter in 2021. The argument draws inspiration from the work of Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́, who conceptua…
African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya
African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Abàmì Èdá: Personhood and Socio-political Commitment in Fela's Music
Nigerian Afrobeat musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is a political maverick not only because of the depth of his musical oeuvre, but also because, as a human rights activist, his personhood unreservedly engages the tempered socio- political space of Nigeria's post-independence phase. Fela's artistic commitment emanates from the genre Afrobeat through which he entrenched his musical ideology of Pan-Africanism and a materialist engagement with the lea…
Old song, new melody: Gender contestations in the appropriated comedy of Samobaba’s Yorùbá Bollywood
This paper examines issues of gender relations within the context of dominant patriarchy as represented in Samobaba’s Yorùbá Bollywood comedy skits. Seun Shamsudeen, popularly known as Samobaba, has produced several audio-visual skits, clipped from Indian films (also known as ‘Bollywood’), therefore generating intercultural dialogues for his skits. In these skits, dialogue in Yorùbá language is grafted on verbal and gestural communications in the…
Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project
This article provides a cultural history of book clubs in Nigeria and situates this reading tradition within the context of Anglophone colonial legacies and contemporary Yorùbá language politics. The case study is the Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́ group, a Yorùbá book club, and their associational life, which began on the Zoom platform in 2020 and later migrated to Twitter in 2021. The argument draws inspiration from the work of Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́, who conceptua…
Abàmì Èdá: Personhood and Socio-political Commitment in Fela's Music
Nigerian Afrobeat musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is a political maverick not only because of the depth of his musical oeuvre, but also because, as a human rights activist, his personhood unreservedly engages the tempered socio- political space of Nigeria's post-independence phase. Fela's artistic commitment emanates from the genre Afrobeat through which he entrenched his musical ideology of Pan-Africanism and a materialist engagement with the lea…
African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya
African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́: A Yorùbá Book Club and Its Decolonial Project
This article provides a cultural history of book clubs in Nigeria and situates this reading tradition within the context of Anglophone colonial legacies and contemporary Yorùbá language politics. The case study is the Ẹgbẹ́ Àtẹ́lẹwọ́ group, a Yorùbá book club, and their associational life, which began on the Zoom platform in 2020 and later migrated to Twitter in 2021. The argument draws inspiration from the work of Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́, who conceptua…
Old song, new melody: Gender contestations in the appropriated comedy of Samobaba’s Yorùbá Bollywood
This paper examines issues of gender relations within the context of dominant patriarchy as represented in Samobaba’s Yorùbá Bollywood comedy skits. Seun Shamsudeen, popularly known as Samobaba, has produced several audio-visual skits, clipped from Indian films (also known as ‘Bollywood’), therefore generating intercultural dialogues for his skits. In these skits, dialogue in Yorùbá language is grafted on verbal and gestural communications in the…
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works)