Silas Udenze
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silas Udenze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silas |
| FAMILY NAME | Udenze |
| SIGNATURE | UDENZE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4785-2126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Embodied Experience and Emotional Labor: An Autoethnography of Capturing and Archiving Screenshots From Ephemeral Social Media
This article interrogates my dual role as an insider and researcher, particularly my practice of capturing screenshots of the EndSARS protest from Instagram and WhatsApp Stories during the 3 years of my doctoral research. For context, EndSARS is a sociopolitical movement in Nigeria mobilized against police brutality and in pursuit of accountability in governance. This article, through a main analytical theme: “My Screenshotting as Emotional Labor…
WhatsApp: An assemblage, a mnemonic community, and a site of counter-memory
This article examines how WhatsApp functions as a space where people shape collective memory and challenge dominant sociopolitical narratives. Focusing on Nigeria’s Obidient movement, a youth-led campaign that supported Peter Obi in the 2023 presidential election, this article seeks to understand how everyday online interactions on WhatsApp produced alternative ways of remembering and forgetting. In other words, this articles asks, How did member…
The hidden toll and mnemonic cost of crisis reporting: Journalists’ memory, identity, ethnicity and geographic proximity
This article interrogates how identity, memory, and proximity shape journalists’ reporting on the ongoing secessionist crisis in Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest regions, as well as Southeastern Nigeria, where reporting on contemporary Biafra issues is shaped by the memory of the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with 10 Anglophone Cameroonian journalists and 10 journalists from Southeastern Nigeria, we note that…
Silent solidarities: The Black nod and affective belonging among Black African immigrant men in Barcelona, Spain
This article explores the enactment of everyday solidarity among Black African immigrant men in Barcelona through subtle nonverbal gestures, with a particular focus on the nod. Drawing on qualitative street ethnography conducted between 2021 and 2023, the article analyzes how these brief, but important exchanges operate as affective practices of belonging within racialized European urban contexts. The article engages with Hall’s theory of cultura…
Implicit collective memory and how it fuels implicit activism in Nigeria’s EndSars movement: A digital ethnographic journey
This article expands upon the prevailing focus on social movement and explicit memory primarily centred around commemorations, to focus on implicit memory as a driving force for social movements in the context of the EndSARS in Nigeria. This study’s specific research question is: How does implicit memory fuel implicit activism in the EndSARS movement? To answer this question, we employed a digital ethnographic approach. Our results indicate three…
It’s a way to rally my inner circles and get them involved”: The Dynamics of Private Activism on WhatsApp in Nigeria
This study contributes to our understanding of how people utilized a WhatsApp group for activism in Nigeria's EndSARS movement, a protest that fights police brutality and attempts to entrench good governance. Through the digital ethnographic study of a WhatsApp group from October 20, 2021, to October 20, 2023, this article answers the question: How do the WhatsApp group members dedicated to the EndSARS movement engage in activism, and what practi…
Though Episodic: The Retrospective-Prospective Nigeria's EndSars Protest Anniversaries and Its Peculiarities
Employing a reflexive standpoint and drawing upon the digital ethnographic method, this article examines Nigeria's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (EndSARS) protest, a movement that combats police brutality, focusing specifically on its anniversaries in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Through this methodological approach, this article constructs four themes that explain the distinct peculiarities that characterise each anniversary within the continuum of the mo…
The EndSars movement is an umbrella for other challenges’: Assessing Nigeria’s EndSars protest through the theoretical lens of intersectionality
This article analyses the underlying and immediate triggers of Nigeria’s EndSARS protest and their interconnectedness. Leveraging Braun and Clark’s reflexive thematic analysis of interviews with 11 participants along with the ethnographic approach, the authors constructed a broader theme termed ‘EndSARS – An Umbrella’. They identify three primary themes (youth unemployment, endemic public sector corruption/poor police welfare and poverty) as the …
No Gree for Anybody!"- " Without our compliance, their power means nothing: Unveiling the subtleness in Nigeria's socio-political activism
Exploring Nigeria`s Endsars Movement Through the Nexus of Memory
On 3 October 2020, a 22 years young man, Joshua Ambrose, was shot dead by a team of the Nigerian Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Delta State, Nigeria, on the allegation that he was an Internet fraudster (Dambo et al., 2021). The SARS was established in 1992 to curb crimes. However, the SARS has been accused of gross humanrights violations (Wada, 2021). Joshua's shooting was captured in a video. The audio in the video states that the P…
Promoting Mental Wellbeing: Young Adults’ Experience on TikTok during the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Nigeria
From the last quarter of 2019, the world witnessed the emergence of the COVID -19 virus that shook it to its knees, and Nigeria is not an exception. While countries were struggling with strategies on how to manage the virus, the lockdown option became paramount. During the period of the lockdown in Nigeria, most persons, especially young people, could not visit places of their choice. Hence, social media became their source of solace. This study …
The EndSars movement is an umbrella for other challenges’: Assessing Nigeria’s EndSars protest through the theoretical lens of intersectionality
This article analyses the underlying and immediate triggers of Nigeria’s EndSARS protest and their interconnectedness. Leveraging Braun and Clark’s reflexive thematic analysis of interviews with 11 participants along with the ethnographic approach, the authors constructed a broader theme termed ‘EndSARS – An Umbrella’. They identify three primary themes (youth unemployment, endemic public sector corruption/poor police welfare and poverty) as the …
No Gree for Anybody!"- " Without our compliance, their power means nothing: Unveiling the subtleness in Nigeria's socio-political activism
Promoting Mental Wellbeing: Young Adults’ Experience on TikTok during the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Nigeria
From the last quarter of 2019, the world witnessed the emergence of the COVID -19 virus that shook it to its knees, and Nigeria is not an exception. While countries were struggling with strategies on how to manage the virus, the lockdown option became paramount. During the period of the lockdown in Nigeria, most persons, especially young people, could not visit places of their choice. Hence, social media became their source of solace. This study …
Exploring Nigeria`s Endsars Movement Through the Nexus of Memory
On 3 October 2020, a 22 years young man, Joshua Ambrose, was shot dead by a team of the Nigerian Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Delta State, Nigeria, on the allegation that he was an Internet fraudster (Dambo et al., 2021). The SARS was established in 1992 to curb crimes. However, the SARS has been accused of gross humanrights violations (Wada, 2021). Joshua's shooting was captured in a video. The audio in the video states that the P…
The EndSars movement is an umbrella for other challenges’: Assessing Nigeria’s EndSars protest through the theoretical lens of intersectionality
This article analyses the underlying and immediate triggers of Nigeria’s EndSARS protest and their interconnectedness. Leveraging Braun and Clark’s reflexive thematic analysis of interviews with 11 participants along with the ethnographic approach, the authors constructed a broader theme termed ‘EndSARS – An Umbrella’. They identify three primary themes (youth unemployment, endemic public sector corruption/poor police welfare and poverty) as the …
No Gree for Anybody!"- " Without our compliance, their power means nothing: Unveiling the subtleness in Nigeria's socio-political activism
Implicit collective memory and how it fuels implicit activism in Nigeria’s EndSars movement: A digital ethnographic journey
This article expands upon the prevailing focus on social movement and explicit memory primarily centred around commemorations, to focus on implicit memory as a driving force for social movements in the context of the EndSARS in Nigeria. This study’s specific research question is: How does implicit memory fuel implicit activism in the EndSARS movement? To answer this question, we employed a digital ethnographic approach. Our results indicate three…
It’s a way to rally my inner circles and get them involved”: The Dynamics of Private Activism on WhatsApp in Nigeria
This study contributes to our understanding of how people utilized a WhatsApp group for activism in Nigeria's EndSARS movement, a protest that fights police brutality and attempts to entrench good governance. Through the digital ethnographic study of a WhatsApp group from October 20, 2021, to October 20, 2023, this article answers the question: How do the WhatsApp group members dedicated to the EndSARS movement engage in activism, and what practi…
Though Episodic: The Retrospective-Prospective Nigeria's EndSars Protest Anniversaries and Its Peculiarities
Employing a reflexive standpoint and drawing upon the digital ethnographic method, this article examines Nigeria's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (EndSARS) protest, a movement that combats police brutality, focusing specifically on its anniversaries in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Through this methodological approach, this article constructs four themes that explain the distinct peculiarities that characterise each anniversary within the continuum of the mo…
Embodied Experience and Emotional Labor: An Autoethnography of Capturing and Archiving Screenshots From Ephemeral Social Media
This article interrogates my dual role as an insider and researcher, particularly my practice of capturing screenshots of the EndSARS protest from Instagram and WhatsApp Stories during the 3 years of my doctoral research. For context, EndSARS is a sociopolitical movement in Nigeria mobilized against police brutality and in pursuit of accountability in governance. This article, through a main analytical theme: “My Screenshotting as Emotional Labor…
WhatsApp: An assemblage, a mnemonic community, and a site of counter-memory
This article examines how WhatsApp functions as a space where people shape collective memory and challenge dominant sociopolitical narratives. Focusing on Nigeria’s Obidient movement, a youth-led campaign that supported Peter Obi in the 2023 presidential election, this article seeks to understand how everyday online interactions on WhatsApp produced alternative ways of remembering and forgetting. In other words, this articles asks, How did member…
The hidden toll and mnemonic cost of crisis reporting: Journalists’ memory, identity, ethnicity and geographic proximity
This article interrogates how identity, memory, and proximity shape journalists’ reporting on the ongoing secessionist crisis in Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest regions, as well as Southeastern Nigeria, where reporting on contemporary Biafra issues is shaped by the memory of the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with 10 Anglophone Cameroonian journalists and 10 journalists from Southeastern Nigeria, we note that…
Silent solidarities: The Black nod and affective belonging among Black African immigrant men in Barcelona, Spain
This article explores the enactment of everyday solidarity among Black African immigrant men in Barcelona through subtle nonverbal gestures, with a particular focus on the nod. Drawing on qualitative street ethnography conducted between 2021 and 2023, the article analyzes how these brief, but important exchanges operate as affective practices of belonging within racialized European urban contexts. The article engages with Hall’s theory of cultura…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Collective memory (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works)