Tolulope Akinwole
Biographic Data
| ID | 679557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tolulope Akinwole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tolulope |
| FAMILY NAME | Akinwole |
| SIGNATURE | AKINWOLE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2179-5266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Novel Reviews
Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking (London: Windmill Books, 2017), 308 pp., €13 (paperback). Chris Abani, GraceLand (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), 321 pp., $18.08 (hardcover)
Holistic Articulations
Women’s labor in African urban centers permeates every sphere of urban life, yet its full scope remains understated in scholarly accounts. Akinwole introduces “holistic articulation” as a method for reading African women’s discursive labor. Holistic articulation names an analytical strategy of linking discursive fragments about women’s labor across multiple archives: social history, African literature, popular journalism, mythography, and everyda…
On chaos, order, and urban improvisations
Proximate Thuggery
In this paper, I rethink thuggery, an overt form of dissent, as a spatial structural frame. Through a close reading of everyday forms of thuggery in Nigeria, exemplified in literary, musical, and photographic forms, I argue that not only is thuggery ubiquitous in the African postcolony but also that it is the means by which the citizenry assert their citizenship, structure their space, and perform democracy. I use the phrase “proximate thuggery” …
Embodied Masculine Sovereignty, Reimagined Femininity
In more ways than critics have mentioned, Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed Black Panther (2018) holds a vibrant conversation with Wole Soyinka’s mythopoetic orientation. But apart from Ryan Coogler’s ventriloquist reference to “The Fourth Stage,” Black Panther confers with Soyinka in many other interesting ways. In this article, I explore the mythic patterns in the movie by reading it alongside Soyinka’s densely mythic essay, “The Fourth Stage…
Embodied Masculine Sovereignty, Reimagined Femininity
In more ways than critics have mentioned, Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed Black Panther (2018) holds a vibrant conversation with Wole Soyinka’s mythopoetic orientation. But apart from Ryan Coogler’s ventriloquist reference to “The Fourth Stage,” Black Panther confers with Soyinka in many other interesting ways. In this article, I explore the mythic patterns in the movie by reading it alongside Soyinka’s densely mythic essay, “The Fourth Stage…
Embodied Masculine Sovereignty, Reimagined Femininity
In more ways than critics have mentioned, Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed Black Panther (2018) holds a vibrant conversation with Wole Soyinka’s mythopoetic orientation. But apart from Ryan Coogler’s ventriloquist reference to “The Fourth Stage,” Black Panther confers with Soyinka in many other interesting ways. In this article, I explore the mythic patterns in the movie by reading it alongside Soyinka’s densely mythic essay, “The Fourth Stage…
Proximate Thuggery
In this paper, I rethink thuggery, an overt form of dissent, as a spatial structural frame. Through a close reading of everyday forms of thuggery in Nigeria, exemplified in literary, musical, and photographic forms, I argue that not only is thuggery ubiquitous in the African postcolony but also that it is the means by which the citizenry assert their citizenship, structure their space, and perform democracy. I use the phrase “proximate thuggery” …
On chaos, order, and urban improvisations
Novel Reviews
Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking (London: Windmill Books, 2017), 308 pp., €13 (paperback). Chris Abani, GraceLand (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), 321 pp., $18.08 (hardcover)
Holistic Articulations
Women’s labor in African urban centers permeates every sphere of urban life, yet its full scope remains understated in scholarly accounts. Akinwole introduces “holistic articulation” as a method for reading African women’s discursive labor. Holistic articulation names an analytical strategy of linking discursive fragments about women’s labor across multiple archives: social history, African literature, popular journalism, mythography, and everyda…
Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Reading (process (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 work)