Wumi Raji
Biographic Data
| ID | 4105100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wumi Raji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wumi |
| FAMILY NAME | Raji |
| SIGNATURE | RAJI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Obafemi Awolowo University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Common sense, uncommon sense
This paper engages Tejumola Olaniyan's "Femi Osofisan: The Form of Uncommon Sense." The essay in question undertakes a reading of a representative selection from the corpus of Femi Osofisan's plays, employing the theory of uncommon sense which Olaniyan himself formulated. Olaniyan projects uncommon sense as a reflection on Antonio Gramsci's theory of common sense put forward in his Selections from Prison Notes. He presents it as a new dimension o…
In Place/Out of Place
This essay focuses on the transformation of the experience of crossings and transnationalism in Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s In Dependence. Manyika’s novel is a story of crosscultural love. The two main characters, one male, black, and Nigerian; and the other female, white and British, first come across each other as students in Oxford. The relationship which consequently develops between them passes through phases of turbulence, spans a period of thre…
Palaver on a trip to Goteborg
The Amphibian’s Dilemma. An Interview with Tijan M. Sallah
Born to Run
Imagined Transformation
Not a girl to meet every day”. Feminist Identity Transformation in Ama Ata Aidoo’s
Black African Literature in English
Celebrating Abiola Irele
Africanizing Antigone
This essay represents essentially a comparative investigation of Athol Fugard's The Island and Femi Osofi san's Tegonni, an Antigone, two adaptations of Sophocles's Antigone. In the course of exploring the two texts however, I have found myself delving into some salient debates in postcolonial theory. While Karin Barber's African Language Literatures and Postcolonial Criticism, an essay in which the Birmingham-based scholar argues that postcoloni…
Tribute to David Cook
David John Cook, Professor of English and Head of the Department of Modern European Languages, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, between 1977 and 1989, passed on, on Sunday, 30 March 2003. He was seventy-four years old. David Cook had been down for quite a while. He actually spent the last eighteen months of his life in Kingsland House, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
A pragmatic study of selected pairs of Yoruba proverbs
Africanizing Antigone
This essay represents essentially a comparative investigation of Athol Fugard's The Island and Femi Osofi san's Tegonni, an Antigone, two adaptations of Sophocles's Antigone. In the course of exploring the two texts however, I have found myself delving into some salient debates in postcolonial theory. While Karin Barber's African Language Literatures and Postcolonial Criticism, an essay in which the Birmingham-based scholar argues that postcoloni…
A pragmatic study of selected pairs of Yoruba proverbs
A pragmatic study of selected pairs of Yoruba proverbs
Tribute to David Cook
David John Cook, Professor of English and Head of the Department of Modern European Languages, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, between 1977 and 1989, passed on, on Sunday, 30 March 2003. He was seventy-four years old. David Cook had been down for quite a while. He actually spent the last eighteen months of his life in Kingsland House, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Africanizing Antigone
This essay represents essentially a comparative investigation of Athol Fugard's The Island and Femi Osofi san's Tegonni, an Antigone, two adaptations of Sophocles's Antigone. In the course of exploring the two texts however, I have found myself delving into some salient debates in postcolonial theory. While Karin Barber's African Language Literatures and Postcolonial Criticism, an essay in which the Birmingham-based scholar argues that postcoloni…
Celebrating Abiola Irele
Black African Literature in English
Imagined Transformation
Not a girl to meet every day”. Feminist Identity Transformation in Ama Ata Aidoo’s
Palaver on a trip to Goteborg
The Amphibian’s Dilemma. An Interview with Tijan M. Sallah
Born to Run
In Place/Out of Place
This essay focuses on the transformation of the experience of crossings and transnationalism in Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s In Dependence. Manyika’s novel is a story of crosscultural love. The two main characters, one male, black, and Nigerian; and the other female, white and British, first come across each other as students in Oxford. The relationship which consequently develops between them passes through phases of turbulence, spans a period of thre…
Common sense, uncommon sense
This paper engages Tejumola Olaniyan's "Femi Osofisan: The Form of Uncommon Sense." The essay in question undertakes a reading of a representative selection from the corpus of Femi Osofisan's plays, employing the theory of uncommon sense which Olaniyan himself formulated. Olaniyan projects uncommon sense as a reflection on Antonio Gramsci's theory of common sense put forward in his Selections from Prison Notes. He presents it as a new dimension o…
History (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · African studies (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)