Reading List: Dotun Ayobade
What can the lives of the women behind Afrobeat tell us about creativity, resistance, and the interplay of power and pleasure in 1970s Nigeria?
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Dotun Ayobade
Dotun Ayobade is an assistant professor of performance studies and African American studies at Northwestern University. He studies how embodied forms of popular culture shape the meaning of community, justice, and activism in late twentieth-century West Africa.
This is Nigeria
A group of Nigerian thinkers debate rapper Falz’s take on Childish Gambino’s viral “This Is America.”
Neoliberalism’s children
There is very little self-made about Nigeria’s young, rich and glamorous like oil magnate Paddy Adenuga and DJ Cuppy.