Publications

This editorial of the Special Issue ‘Textures of Diaspora and (Post-)Digitality: A Cultural Studies Approach’ explores the digital agency of diasporic communities by showing how cultural and literary studies genuinely contribute to scholarly debates and our understanding of digital diasporas. It explores the implications of the digital in a (post-)digital age, one in which the notion of diaspora is used to refer to actual ethnic, religious ...

In his PhD thesis, "African Literature in the Digital Age" (2012), the author has carried out a survey mapping the agenda of same-sex desire in African literature, arguing that some members of the older generation of African writers used fictional homosexual characters as part of a larger project of decolonizing the African body as well as that of the diasporic black body. Despite this agenda, their writing gave us a good insight into the figure ...

This essay examines some of the emerging themes in online Nigerian and Kenyan poetry in English. Focusing mainly on identity politics as it relates to some of Africa’s emerging voices, in addition to the politics of the postcolonial state, it analyses the way in which new technologies allow poetry to robustly capture the instability of class in addition to allowing poets to represent conventional and controversial issues. Moreover, it argues ...

For many new African voices, access to new media technology, with its faster and more advanced means of communication, marks the beginning of a new wave of writing and exchange of ideas. While they are using the traditional media for longer outputs, the web provides the space for more immediate, and often shorter, productions that include poetry and short stories. Writing on the web is often more controversial than in print, perhaps because of ...

Class warfare has been taking place in Nigeria since the mid-nineteenth century but little attention has been paid to how Nigerian texts encapsulate class. If we are to investigate modern African identity and the construction of self in a digital age, shaped between globalizing and localizing tendencies, the question of social class cannot be ignored. Our paper addresses tensions between forms of cultural representation and how these are ...

For many young African writers access to new media technology, with its faster and more advanced means of communication, marks the beginning of a new wave of writing and an exchange of ideas. While they are using the traditional media for longer outputs, such as novels, the web provides the space for more immediate and shorter productions. Arguably, publishing online allows African writers to break away from the politics of postcolonial literary ...