Toks Oyedemi
Biographic Data
| ID | 783112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toks Oyedemi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toks |
| FAMILY NAME | Oyedemi |
| SIGNATURE | OYEDEMI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limpopo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7060-203X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Media in Africa: Issues and Critiques
Entrenched Coloniality? Colonial-Born Black Women, Hair and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
In precolonial Africa, hair played an important role in how Africans conceptualised identity, beauty, status, spirituality and cultural pride. With the advent of slavery, colonialism and apartheid, African hair became the object of ridicule, racialisation and inferiority. The Eurocentric ideal of beauty became dominant in African women's perception of 'self' and 'identity'. For many women in apartheid South Africa, it became a way of acceptance i…
Indelible apartheid: Intergenerational post-colonial narratives of colonial-born coloured females about hair, race and identity in South Africa
What do the narratives of five Cape Coloured women of three generations reveal about issues of race and identity in post-apartheid South Africa? This question is the essence of this study. Identity in apartheid South Africa was strictly and legislatively framed around race, defined by physical characteristics of skin colour and hair texture. Whiteness was the epitome with socio-economic privileges, which invariably created aspirations for this bo…
Postcolonial casualties: ‘Born-frees’ and decolonisation in South Africa
In South Africa, ‘decolonisation’ has re-emerged as a theme for identity, economic and cultural contestations among the youth. In this, the celebratory rhetoric of rainbow nationalism of post-apartheid utopia is confronted head-on. From a theoretical discourse of the problematics of ‘the postcolonial’ this inquiry engages a critical question: if decolonisation is to undo colonial (and apartheid) economic, political and cultural legacies, to what …
Digital Inequality and Youth Unemployment
Unemployment figures from 2017 to 2019 show that South African youth are the most economically vulnerable group in the country. The data shows that 63% of youth between the ages of 15 and 34 years and 34% of youth aged 2534 years are unemployed. Education increases the prospect of employment, as unemployment among graduates is lower than among those with lesser educational qualifications. Irrespectively, unemployment amongst graduates is still a…
(De)coloniality and South African academe
The colonial nature of South African universities remains a source of debate among students and academics. Decolonization as rethinking academic institutional practices seems less controversial; the specificity of how to decolonize the academia is the core of divergent arguments and contesting ideologies. Consequently, many suggestions and methods for the decolonization of South African universities have been proffered. Although some of these sug…
The ‘Born-free’ Non-voting Youth: A Study of Voter Apathy Among a Selected Cohort of South African Youth
Many studies have engaged youth’s apathy to electoral participation, but there is a special interest in South African youth. They are beneficiaries of long history of struggle for political equality. This study examines why some ‘born-frees’, those born since 1994, did not vote in 2014 General Election. It explores the socio-economic and political reasons affecting their participation in electoral process, and their opinions of the political proc…
Beauty as violence: Beautiful' Hair and the Cultural Violence of Identity Erasure
Curious observations of hair and hairstyles worn by many women of Black African descent reveal the triumph of a Eurocentric dominant ideology of beauty. I assert in this study that the process of attaining the hegemonic ideology of ‘beautiful’ hair, often defined as a European and Asian texture and style of hair, is a violent journey. This study draws largely from Johan Galtung's seminal theoretical works on violence, particularly his articulatio…
Digital Xenophobia: The Bullying of ‘Self’ and the Cultural Caricature of a Criminal Nigerian ‘Other’
Many studies have examined xenophobia in South Africa, particularly its black-on- black narrative and violent consequences. But what happens when xenophobic attacks are not directed at immigrants but those associated with them? A new form of xenophobia, proxy xenophobia, is emerging in South Africa. Using digital ethnography, this study explores reactions to an online story in the Mail & Guardian newspaper about United Nigerian Wives in South Afr…
Internet access as citizen's right? Citizenship in the digital age
Discourses about Internet and rights generate ideological, economic, and policy debates that bring to prominence the question of citizenship in today's digital age. But what does Internet access as a citizen's right imply? What are the pragmatic meanings of the intersection of citizenship, rights, and technology access? Specifically, what does citizens' right to technology mean for African states? This paper examines citizenship, rights, and Inte…
The ‘Born-free’ Non-voting Youth: A Study of Voter Apathy Among a Selected Cohort of South African Youth
Many studies have engaged youth’s apathy to electoral participation, but there is a special interest in South African youth. They are beneficiaries of long history of struggle for political equality. This study examines why some ‘born-frees’, those born since 1994, did not vote in 2014 General Election. It explores the socio-economic and political reasons affecting their participation in electoral process, and their opinions of the political proc…
Beauty as violence: Beautiful' Hair and the Cultural Violence of Identity Erasure
Curious observations of hair and hairstyles worn by many women of Black African descent reveal the triumph of a Eurocentric dominant ideology of beauty. I assert in this study that the process of attaining the hegemonic ideology of ‘beautiful’ hair, often defined as a European and Asian texture and style of hair, is a violent journey. This study draws largely from Johan Galtung's seminal theoretical works on violence, particularly his articulatio…
(De)coloniality and South African academe
The colonial nature of South African universities remains a source of debate among students and academics. Decolonization as rethinking academic institutional practices seems less controversial; the specificity of how to decolonize the academia is the core of divergent arguments and contesting ideologies. Consequently, many suggestions and methods for the decolonization of South African universities have been proffered. Although some of these sug…
Postcolonial casualties: ‘Born-frees’ and decolonisation in South Africa
In South Africa, ‘decolonisation’ has re-emerged as a theme for identity, economic and cultural contestations among the youth. In this, the celebratory rhetoric of rainbow nationalism of post-apartheid utopia is confronted head-on. From a theoretical discourse of the problematics of ‘the postcolonial’ this inquiry engages a critical question: if decolonisation is to undo colonial (and apartheid) economic, political and cultural legacies, to what …
Indelible apartheid: Intergenerational post-colonial narratives of colonial-born coloured females about hair, race and identity in South Africa
What do the narratives of five Cape Coloured women of three generations reveal about issues of race and identity in post-apartheid South Africa? This question is the essence of this study. Identity in apartheid South Africa was strictly and legislatively framed around race, defined by physical characteristics of skin colour and hair texture. Whiteness was the epitome with socio-economic privileges, which invariably created aspirations for this bo…
Media in Africa: Issues and Critiques
Digital Xenophobia: The Bullying of ‘Self’ and the Cultural Caricature of a Criminal Nigerian ‘Other’
Many studies have examined xenophobia in South Africa, particularly its black-on- black narrative and violent consequences. But what happens when xenophobic attacks are not directed at immigrants but those associated with them? A new form of xenophobia, proxy xenophobia, is emerging in South Africa. Using digital ethnography, this study explores reactions to an online story in the Mail & Guardian newspaper about United Nigerian Wives in South Afr…
Internet access as citizen's right? Citizenship in the digital age
Discourses about Internet and rights generate ideological, economic, and policy debates that bring to prominence the question of citizenship in today's digital age. But what does Internet access as a citizen's right imply? What are the pragmatic meanings of the intersection of citizenship, rights, and technology access? Specifically, what does citizens' right to technology mean for African states? This paper examines citizenship, rights, and Inte…
The ‘Born-free’ Non-voting Youth: A Study of Voter Apathy Among a Selected Cohort of South African Youth
Many studies have engaged youth’s apathy to electoral participation, but there is a special interest in South African youth. They are beneficiaries of long history of struggle for political equality. This study examines why some ‘born-frees’, those born since 1994, did not vote in 2014 General Election. It explores the socio-economic and political reasons affecting their participation in electoral process, and their opinions of the political proc…
Beauty as violence: Beautiful' Hair and the Cultural Violence of Identity Erasure
Curious observations of hair and hairstyles worn by many women of Black African descent reveal the triumph of a Eurocentric dominant ideology of beauty. I assert in this study that the process of attaining the hegemonic ideology of ‘beautiful’ hair, often defined as a European and Asian texture and style of hair, is a violent journey. This study draws largely from Johan Galtung's seminal theoretical works on violence, particularly his articulatio…
(De)coloniality and South African academe
The colonial nature of South African universities remains a source of debate among students and academics. Decolonization as rethinking academic institutional practices seems less controversial; the specificity of how to decolonize the academia is the core of divergent arguments and contesting ideologies. Consequently, many suggestions and methods for the decolonization of South African universities have been proffered. Although some of these sug…
Digital Inequality and Youth Unemployment
Unemployment figures from 2017 to 2019 show that South African youth are the most economically vulnerable group in the country. The data shows that 63% of youth between the ages of 15 and 34 years and 34% of youth aged 2534 years are unemployed. Education increases the prospect of employment, as unemployment among graduates is lower than among those with lesser educational qualifications. Irrespectively, unemployment amongst graduates is still a…
Postcolonial casualties: ‘Born-frees’ and decolonisation in South Africa
In South Africa, ‘decolonisation’ has re-emerged as a theme for identity, economic and cultural contestations among the youth. In this, the celebratory rhetoric of rainbow nationalism of post-apartheid utopia is confronted head-on. From a theoretical discourse of the problematics of ‘the postcolonial’ this inquiry engages a critical question: if decolonisation is to undo colonial (and apartheid) economic, political and cultural legacies, to what …
Indelible apartheid: Intergenerational post-colonial narratives of colonial-born coloured females about hair, race and identity in South Africa
What do the narratives of five Cape Coloured women of three generations reveal about issues of race and identity in post-apartheid South Africa? This question is the essence of this study. Identity in apartheid South Africa was strictly and legislatively framed around race, defined by physical characteristics of skin colour and hair texture. Whiteness was the epitome with socio-economic privileges, which invariably created aspirations for this bo…
Entrenched Coloniality? Colonial-Born Black Women, Hair and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
In precolonial Africa, hair played an important role in how Africans conceptualised identity, beauty, status, spirituality and cultural pride. With the advent of slavery, colonialism and apartheid, African hair became the object of ridicule, racialisation and inferiority. The Eurocentric ideal of beauty became dominant in African women's perception of 'self' and 'identity'. For many women in apartheid South Africa, it became a way of acceptance i…
Media in Africa: Issues and Critiques
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Ideology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)