From Google Doodles to Facebook
Nostalgia and Visual Reconstructions of the Past in Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2098482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Yékú (0000-0002-9342-1255), Ayobami Ojebode (0000-0003-1158-8578) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 498-522 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/asr.2020.118 |
| OpenAlex | W3155142970 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 24 |
In June 2019, Google announced plans to connect Africa to Europe through an undersea internet cable project named Equiano. As a techno-commercial platform, Google's gesture warrants scrutiny and propels this essay's analyses of the political connections of Internet spaces that also enable a visual turn in the scholarship of African history. Using the Google search engine and Facebook, Yékú and Ojebode stress the embeddedness of digital technologies in cultural meanings that include visual narratives that visibilize government's ahistoricism. They conclude by foregrounding the digital labors of Nigerian digital subjects who deploy historical photographs on Facebook as expressions of performative nostalgia
Aesthetics · Art · Foregrounding · Front (military · Gesture · Government (linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Scrutiny · Sociology · The Internet · Visual arts · World Wide Web · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Music History and Culture
Media and Nostalgia
Friending the Past
Nigeria's Digital Diaspora
Why Voice Matters
Virtual Mourning and Memory Construction on Facebook
Tangled Memories
The Idol, Its Worshippers, and the Crisis of Relevance of Historical Scholarship in Nigeria
Response to Paul Lovejoy's ‘Autobiography and Memory
The tools of empire
Autobiography and Memory
Images and EmpiresVisuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Why the Net is not a Public Sphere
The making of memory
A New History from Below
An Archival Impulse
In search of African history
The Modalities of Nostalgia
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |