Abimbola Adelakun
Abimbola Adunni Adelakun (born 15 September[when?]) is a Nigerian writer.
Biography
Born in
She works with The Punch newspaper in Lagos, Nigeria, as a writer. She studied modern African culture as they are lived and performed through the disciplinary lenses of performance, gender, Africana, and Yoruba studies. She writes academic articles which have been published in different journals including the Journal of Women and Religion, and Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. Some of her articles include ‘Coming to America: Race, Class, Nationality and Mobility in “African” hip hop’ 2013; Pentecostal Panopticism and the Phantasm of “The Ultimate Power” 2018; ‘The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-ethics’ 2020; ‘Black Lives Matter! Nigerian Lives Matter!: Language and Why Black Performance Matters’ 2019; ‘Pastocracy: Performing Pentecostal politics in Africa’ 2018; ‘Godmentality: Pentecostalism as performance in Nigeria’ 2017; ‘The Ghosts of Performance Past: Theatre, Gender, Religion and Cultural Memory’ 2017; ‘Spectacular Prophecies: Examining Pentecostal Power in Africa’ 2017; ‘Remixing Religion: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference’ 2014; ‘Yoruba Studies Review’ and ‘I am hated, therefore I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary’[2][3]
She is the author of the novel Under the Brown Rusted Roofs.[4]
References
- ^ "Profile for Abimbola Adelakun at UT Austin".
- ^ "Abimbola Adelakun".
- ^ "Abimbola Adelakun - Academia.edu".
- ^ "A gleam of Nigerian literature online". The Nation. Archived from the original on 2011-03-26. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
External links
- Under The Brown Rusted Roofs - review in Saraba Magazine[permanent dead link]
- Nigerian writers' tour starts on a good note - Guardian[dead link]
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