Adetayo Alabi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5603957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adetayo Alabi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adetayo |
| FAMILY NAME | Alabi |
| SIGNATURE | ALABI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wole Soyinka’s Ori Olokun Emprise and Autobiography
In Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies, I suggest that the overwhelming presence of the community is one of the major continuities in Black autobiographies of Africa, the Unites States, and the Caribbean. This focus on community manifests itself in terms of resistance, solidarity, and inclusiveness in the autobiographies of slaves, creative writers, and political activists. A new dimension to the superordina…
On Seeing Africa for the First Time
This paper explores the auto/biographical, panegyric, and cultural features of the different chants, and particularly that of Otis Hampton, a young African American man, in Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me by My Rightful Name within the contexts of orality, memory, and the diaspora. The paper also discusses how Otis’s panegyric poem becomes an archaeological artifact needed to probe his memory and ancestry to unravel the mysteries of the ancient and the…
Introduction
Introduction:Africa in a Global Age Adetayo Alabi (bio) The wish of potters is for the ground to turn to clay. Yoruba Proverb The epigraph to this introduction comments on the selfishness and parochialism of a dominating or hegemonic perspective. It lampoons the attempt of a group that is interested in entrenching only its view point or discourse at the expense of other discourses.1 The Yorubas are definitely not undermining the importance of pot…
I am the hunter who kills elephants and baboons
This paper explores the significance of the autobiographical element in hunters' chants among the Yoruba. Since hunters primarily occupy the subject position in these chants, they use them to construct and praise themselves and their communities and to contest their representation by others as well as to teach communal history. The paper examines the art of composition and recitation in the chants, showing how subjects are formed, developed, and …
Telling Our Stories
Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The stories of slaves, creative writers, and poli
Introduction
Introduction:Africa in a Global Age Adetayo Alabi (bio) The wish of potters is for the ground to turn to clay. Yoruba Proverb The epigraph to this introduction comments on the selfishness and parochialism of a dominating or hegemonic perspective. It lampoons the attempt of a group that is interested in entrenching only its view point or discourse at the expense of other discourses.1 The Yorubas are definitely not undermining the importance of pot…
On Seeing Africa for the First Time
This paper explores the auto/biographical, panegyric, and cultural features of the different chants, and particularly that of Otis Hampton, a young African American man, in Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me by My Rightful Name within the contexts of orality, memory, and the diaspora. The paper also discusses how Otis’s panegyric poem becomes an archaeological artifact needed to probe his memory and ancestry to unravel the mysteries of the ancient and the…
I am the hunter who kills elephants and baboons
This paper explores the significance of the autobiographical element in hunters' chants among the Yoruba. Since hunters primarily occupy the subject position in these chants, they use them to construct and praise themselves and their communities and to contest their representation by others as well as to teach communal history. The paper examines the art of composition and recitation in the chants, showing how subjects are formed, developed, and …
Telling Our Stories
Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The stories of slaves, creative writers, and poli
I am the hunter who kills elephants and baboons
This paper explores the significance of the autobiographical element in hunters' chants among the Yoruba. Since hunters primarily occupy the subject position in these chants, they use them to construct and praise themselves and their communities and to contest their representation by others as well as to teach communal history. The paper examines the art of composition and recitation in the chants, showing how subjects are formed, developed, and …
Introduction
Introduction:Africa in a Global Age Adetayo Alabi (bio) The wish of potters is for the ground to turn to clay. Yoruba Proverb The epigraph to this introduction comments on the selfishness and parochialism of a dominating or hegemonic perspective. It lampoons the attempt of a group that is interested in entrenching only its view point or discourse at the expense of other discourses.1 The Yorubas are definitely not undermining the importance of pot…
On Seeing Africa for the First Time
This paper explores the auto/biographical, panegyric, and cultural features of the different chants, and particularly that of Otis Hampton, a young African American man, in Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me by My Rightful Name within the contexts of orality, memory, and the diaspora. The paper also discusses how Otis’s panegyric poem becomes an archaeological artifact needed to probe his memory and ancestry to unravel the mysteries of the ancient and the…
Wole Soyinka’s Ori Olokun Emprise and Autobiography
In Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies, I suggest that the overwhelming presence of the community is one of the major continuities in Black autobiographies of Africa, the Unites States, and the Caribbean. This focus on community manifests itself in terms of resistance, solidarity, and inclusiveness in the autobiographies of slaves, creative writers, and political activists. A new dimension to the superordina…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diaspora (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)