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James Yeku

James Yeku

Of Ugliness and Beauty in Berlin

Ugliness and beauty, they are everywhere around us, inherent in the fabric that binds us all to the human condition. If you looked hard…

Jul 14, 2023

Of Ugliness and Beauty in Berlin

Jul 14, 2023

James Yeku

The Multiple Significations of #EndSARS

The Multiple Significations of #EndSARS

Oct 27, 2020

The Multiple Significations of #EndSARS

Oct 27, 2020

James Yeku

The Police is Not Your Friend: #EndSARS and the Forceful Exertions of Friendships in Nigeria

While the recent viral #EndSARS in Nigeria may have been successful, the issues it raises impel us to rethink the famous motto of the…

Oct 12, 2020

The Police is Not Your Friend: #EndSARS and the Forceful Exertions of Friendships in Nigeria

Oct 12, 2020

James Yeku

The Social Media Influencer and The Freezing of Pentecostal Power in Nigeria

Nigerian Pentecostalism is currently witnessing the surveilling and disciplinary gaze of the netizen. This has not always been the case in…

Sep 12, 2020

The Social Media Influencer and The Freezing of Pentecostal Power in Nigeria

Sep 12, 2020

James Yeku

Covid-19 and the Closing of the Nigerian Mind

The Federal government appears to see that being complacent in the wake of a pandemic can potentially bring tragic consequences. By…

Mar 21, 2020

Covid-19 and the Closing of the Nigerian Mind

Mar 21, 2020

James Yeku

Performing Owambe: Lagos as Simulacrum

In Mike Ezuruonye’s Lagos Real Fake Life, we encounter postcolonial urban Lagos as simulacrum, presenting an oxymoronic pastiche of the…

Feb 17, 2020

Performing Owambe: Lagos as Simulacrum

Feb 17, 2020

James Yeku

Desert journeys

About noon they arrived to its scorching welcome, A Sahara of arid wind unfurling before them.

Oct 18, 2019

Desert journeys

Oct 18, 2019

James Yeku

A Box Full of Darkness: The Language of Trauma in Jumoke Verissimo’s A Small Silence

Through her narrative of trauma, Nigerian poet offers a debut novel that offers readers a paradox: how darkness can both heal and enslave…

Aug 2, 2019

A Box Full of Darkness: The Language of Trauma in Jumoke Verissimo’s A Small Silence

Aug 2, 2019

James Yeku

Revisiting Pius Adesanmi’s The Wayfarer and Other Poems

Although his The Wayfarer and Other Poems appears to have aged very quickly, Pius Adesanmi’s poetry collection remains an important…

Jul 1, 2019

Revisiting Pius Adesanmi’s The Wayfarer and Other Poems

Jul 1, 2019

James Yeku

A Republic of Extraverted Pentecostals: A Response to Ebenezer Obadare

Ebenezer Obadare’s Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria masterfully captures the troubling…

Jun 25, 2019

Jun 25, 2019

James Yeku

James Yeku

James Yeku is an Assistant Professor of African Digital Humanities at the University of Kansas. He writes on digital cultures and African popular media.

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