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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…

10 min readJul 14, 2023

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Of Ugliness and Beauty in Berlin

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James Yeku

The Multiple Significations of #EndSARS

The Multiple Significations of #EndSARS

5 min readOct 27, 2020

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The Multiple Significations of #EndSARS

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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…

6 min readOct 12, 2020

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

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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…

6 min readSep 12, 2020

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

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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…

5 min readMar 21, 2020

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Covid-19 and the Closing of the Nigerian Mind

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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…

6 min readFeb 17, 2020

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Performing Owambe: Lagos as Simulacrum

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James Yeku

Desert journeys

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

1 min readOct 18, 2019

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Desert journeys

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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…

6 min readAug 2, 2019

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

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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…

4 min readJul 1, 2019

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Revisiting Pius Adesanmi’s The Wayfarer and Other Poems

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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…

6 min readJun 25, 2019

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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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