Our new issue has arrived! T135 SPECIES tracks the intimate relationship of the Diaspora to all forms of life. An interview with Kapwani Kiwanga. Essays by Joshua Bennett, Bénédicte Boisseron, Heather Davis...not to mention stunning fiction and poetry.
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Cultural netizenship as platformization of popular culture in Nigeria - ‘Gbenga Adeoba, James Yékú, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Review: Everything Is Sampled - Akin Adeṣọkan , Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters. Indiana University Press, 2023, 371 pp. | Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4bGjPVq

South-African Canadian author Kagiso Lesego Molope was just asked to leave the Politics and the Pen event for speaking on stage about the death toll in Gaza. She was interrupted by yelling, then after, was escorted out.

This event hands out the award for best political writing.

bell hooks: “there is a price that comes with decentering, decolonizing, and part of what has to happen for us to be free is that we have to create our own standards of how to live.”

This is what happens when we create a false binary between STEM disciplines and the Humanities. You make thoughtless Ads that offer dystopian nightmares...

In Rap Feuds, Women Are The Collateral Damage & Drake Vs. Kendrick Is No Exception | Comorienne 🇰🇲

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I’m so excited to see this field continue to grow and receive attention! Especially the amazing work being done on the continent within and outside of the academy! Many thanks to James Babátúndé Yékú for his continuing work.

Thank you Roopika Risam, PhD!

Special thanks to Ama Bemma is writing a book, Titilola Aiyegbusi, Frank Onuh 🇨🇦, and Dominique Somda for all the work they put into this one.

Friends and colleagues, consider applying to this year's Performance Studies Summer Institute (PSSI). The deadline is May 13th. Northwestern University Performance Studies Black Arts Consortium NU African Studies NU School of Comm

Nigeria's first digital museum!

I went there for the first time

See what I saw👇

Glad to have a new research article out. Happy to share a PDF if anyone would like to read.

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Bobrisky’s arrest and trial 'seem to have been motivated by a desire to humiliate and bring ‘her’ to heel for daring to violate seemingly settled norms pertaining to sex and gender' Adebanwi, Akin Adeṣọkan, Obadare, and Táíwo.

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Proud of the response by the President of The New School to the cancellation of Nancy Fraser's appointment by the University of Cologne

Stuart Hall: 'postcolonial is not the end of colonisation. It is after a certain kind of colonialism [] in the wake of it, in the shadow of it, inflected by it, it is what it is because something else has happened before, but it is also something new'

Air Peace: On decolonial wings, By James Yeku premiumtimesng.com/opinion/684640…

Here is a summary of our African Digital Humanities Symposium at the University of Ghana last month. Includes lots of links to projects plus all the slides and video of the event.
Can't wait to do it again in 2025! #AfricanDH
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Easter as a season of hope:
butterflies fluttering into flowers,
the voice of a son cackling
into an eternity of love,
grace renewed like a smile
on the face of spring.
#HappyEaster

This Palestinian pastor wants Christians to remember Gaza this Easter, as Gaza’s Christians face starvation and extinction.

I am happy to share this new article with the ASR on the 2014 Chibok Girls Kidnapping in Nigeria and the #BringBackOurGirls movement that it birthed.

I dedicate the article to the thousands of people who remain in captivity.
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