Nikitta Dede Adjirakor
Biographic Data
| ID | 6895293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikitta Dede Adjirakor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikitta Dede |
| FAMILY NAME | Adjirakor |
| SIGNATURE | ADJIRAKOR N D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bayreuth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7580-9176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ga Literature as Ultraminor Literature
Discussions on the texture of written Ghanaian literature have significantly emphasised English literature, constructing an image of a monolingual literary space while furthering a divide between Europhone literatures as written and Afrophone literatures as oral. This paper explores the possible texture of a Ghanaian multilingual national literature from the perspective of the Ga language. Considering Ga as an ultraminor literature, it examines h…
Ga literature in the digital space as afrophone literary activism
‘The Vibe is Really Important’
In the city of Dar es Salaam, hip-hop and performance poetry events are a vibrant, visible presence. Research into this phenomenon has generally explored its relation to historical, economic, social or political contexts. Such approaches are only ever rarely concerned with the experiences generated by and within the performances. This paper takes aesthetic experience as a point of departure, exploring how participants experience performance poetr…
Represent 255
From its encouraged and sustained use during colonial times, through to the creation of the Tanzanian state, the Swahili language has been consistently constructed as one of the key facets of Tanzanian identity. After the emergence of hip-hop in Tanzania, the shift from English to Swahili was instrumental to its widespread adoption, with English gaining a symbolic meaning as a status marker as well as a language for international positioning. Thi…
Constructing the African City Through Hip-hop in “Nai Ni Ya Who?” by Muthoni the Drummer Queen
Departing from the popular approach of reading hip-hop from a sociological and contextual perspective, this article considers it as a consciously created aesthetic text. It argues that hip-hop strategically constructs an effect of reality based on its own figurations that, although it may build on social reality, is not simply a mirror of it. My aim is to show through a close reading of one hip-hop song from Kenya how hip-hop creates a reality wi…
Constructing the African City Through Hip-hop in “Nai Ni Ya Who?” by Muthoni the Drummer Queen
Departing from the popular approach of reading hip-hop from a sociological and contextual perspective, this article considers it as a consciously created aesthetic text. It argues that hip-hop strategically constructs an effect of reality based on its own figurations that, although it may build on social reality, is not simply a mirror of it. My aim is to show through a close reading of one hip-hop song from Kenya how hip-hop creates a reality wi…
Constructing the African City Through Hip-hop in “Nai Ni Ya Who?” by Muthoni the Drummer Queen
Departing from the popular approach of reading hip-hop from a sociological and contextual perspective, this article considers it as a consciously created aesthetic text. It argues that hip-hop strategically constructs an effect of reality based on its own figurations that, although it may build on social reality, is not simply a mirror of it. My aim is to show through a close reading of one hip-hop song from Kenya how hip-hop creates a reality wi…
Represent 255
From its encouraged and sustained use during colonial times, through to the creation of the Tanzanian state, the Swahili language has been consistently constructed as one of the key facets of Tanzanian identity. After the emergence of hip-hop in Tanzania, the shift from English to Swahili was instrumental to its widespread adoption, with English gaining a symbolic meaning as a status marker as well as a language for international positioning. Thi…
‘The Vibe is Really Important’
In the city of Dar es Salaam, hip-hop and performance poetry events are a vibrant, visible presence. Research into this phenomenon has generally explored its relation to historical, economic, social or political contexts. Such approaches are only ever rarely concerned with the experiences generated by and within the performances. This paper takes aesthetic experience as a point of departure, exploring how participants experience performance poetr…
Ga Literature as Ultraminor Literature
Discussions on the texture of written Ghanaian literature have significantly emphasised English literature, constructing an image of a monolingual literary space while furthering a divide between Europhone literatures as written and Afrophone literatures as oral. This paper explores the possible texture of a Ghanaian multilingual national literature from the perspective of the Ga language. Considering Ga as an ultraminor literature, it examines h…
Ga literature in the digital space as afrophone literary activism
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literary criticism (2 works)