Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye
Biographic Data
| ID | 391112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria Ogoegbunam |
| FAMILY NAME | Okoye |
| SIGNATURE | OKOYE V O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Geography, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6472-4401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inhabiting the surrounds
Nima's “Incomplete” Humans
In this article, I story adolescents as “incomplete” human beings whose inventive modes of storytelling and inhabiting community space shape a “black sense of place” in the Nima neighbourhood of Accra, Ghana. In collaborative arts‐based research with Spread‐Out Initiative NGO, Nima adolescents share stories and narrate experiences that witness everyday violences, dispossession, and neglect and also small, meaningful openings they create together …
Feeling through ‘incomplete’ spiritual‐space‐times
As they were travelling along in this endless forest then the complete gentleman in the market that the lady was following, began to return the hired parts of his body to the owners and he was paying them the rentage money.When he reached where he hired the left foot, he pulled it out, he gave it to the owner and paid him, and they kept going; when they reached the place where
Black digital outer spaces
In this short contribution, I witness the underrepresentation of Black PhD students and scholars in the UK academy, and I reflect on my use of Twitter to build a constellation of connections to Black PhD researchers, academics, and activists to think with and learn with. I write this in the form of a tweet thread, a method of scholarly writing that I learned from Black activists, students, and academics on Twitter, and I use this space to mention…
"On Collaboration and Communication "In the Now
On Collaboration and Communication "In the Now" Jennifer Hart, Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye, and Joseph Oduro-Frimpong We are three scholars, situated in different disciplines, institutions, and geographies, who have built relationships with one another through our research in Accra, Ghana. In this editorial, we reflect on our ways of relating, supporting, and learning from one another as a starting point to consider the journal's new section, "In t…
Fakery and Fabrications in Kumasi's "Modern" Market
In this contribution, I trace the fake and fabrication in the production of contemporary African urban space. Reflecting on the dispossession and displacement of vendors in Kumasi, Ghana, as part of the city authorities' "modern" market project, I argue that these narratives demonstrate a fabrication of modernity where local authorities impress Westernized design, space, and aesthetics as if this is a singular and inevitable urban future, despite…
Nima's “Incomplete” Humans
In this article, I story adolescents as “incomplete” human beings whose inventive modes of storytelling and inhabiting community space shape a “black sense of place” in the Nima neighbourhood of Accra, Ghana. In collaborative arts‐based research with Spread‐Out Initiative NGO, Nima adolescents share stories and narrate experiences that witness everyday violences, dispossession, and neglect and also small, meaningful openings they create together …
Black digital outer spaces
In this short contribution, I witness the underrepresentation of Black PhD students and scholars in the UK academy, and I reflect on my use of Twitter to build a constellation of connections to Black PhD researchers, academics, and activists to think with and learn with. I write this in the form of a tweet thread, a method of scholarly writing that I learned from Black activists, students, and academics on Twitter, and I use this space to mention…
Fakery and Fabrications in Kumasi's "Modern" Market
In this contribution, I trace the fake and fabrication in the production of contemporary African urban space. Reflecting on the dispossession and displacement of vendors in Kumasi, Ghana, as part of the city authorities' "modern" market project, I argue that these narratives demonstrate a fabrication of modernity where local authorities impress Westernized design, space, and aesthetics as if this is a singular and inevitable urban future, despite…
Black digital outer spaces
In this short contribution, I witness the underrepresentation of Black PhD students and scholars in the UK academy, and I reflect on my use of Twitter to build a constellation of connections to Black PhD researchers, academics, and activists to think with and learn with. I write this in the form of a tweet thread, a method of scholarly writing that I learned from Black activists, students, and academics on Twitter, and I use this space to mention…
"On Collaboration and Communication "In the Now
On Collaboration and Communication "In the Now" Jennifer Hart, Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye, and Joseph Oduro-Frimpong We are three scholars, situated in different disciplines, institutions, and geographies, who have built relationships with one another through our research in Accra, Ghana. In this editorial, we reflect on our ways of relating, supporting, and learning from one another as a starting point to consider the journal's new section, "In t…
Fakery and Fabrications in Kumasi's "Modern" Market
In this contribution, I trace the fake and fabrication in the production of contemporary African urban space. Reflecting on the dispossession and displacement of vendors in Kumasi, Ghana, as part of the city authorities' "modern" market project, I argue that these narratives demonstrate a fabrication of modernity where local authorities impress Westernized design, space, and aesthetics as if this is a singular and inevitable urban future, despite…
Feeling through ‘incomplete’ spiritual‐space‐times
As they were travelling along in this endless forest then the complete gentleman in the market that the lady was following, began to return the hired parts of his body to the owners and he was paying them the rentage money.When he reached where he hired the left foot, he pulled it out, he gave it to the owner and paid him, and they kept going; when they reached the place where
Inhabiting the surrounds
Nima's “Incomplete” Humans
In this article, I story adolescents as “incomplete” human beings whose inventive modes of storytelling and inhabiting community space shape a “black sense of place” in the Nima neighbourhood of Accra, Ghana. In collaborative arts‐based research with Spread‐Out Initiative NGO, Nima adolescents share stories and narrate experiences that witness everyday violences, dispossession, and neglect and also small, meaningful openings they create together …
Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Space (punctuation) (2 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (2 works)