Ancestor is king: the role of Afrofuturism in Beyoncé’s <i>Black is King</i>

Smith, Christin; Coleman, Loren Saxton

doi:10.1080/15295036.2022.2038386

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“…As it has become apparent through the resourcefulness of African heritage to popular culture in recent times (Tamari 2011; Smith and Coleman 2022), one of Africa’s unique selling points in the global context is its diverse cultural heritage. African cultural diversity can thus be seen as a form of cultural capital offering the continent a unique advantage.…”

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Gangbe in Badagry, Nigeria: Ogu Women’s Performance Practice, Social Status, and Creative Agency

KUNNUJI

2023

yearb. tradit. music

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Before colonialism, Gbe women enjoyed a social status on par with men. However, there has been a shift in the postcolonial social structure of Gbe societies. Modern capitalism, which accompanied colonial structures, privileged men, eroding many woman-empowering practices. This article examines Ogu women’s marginality through an ethnographic study of gangbe (a musical genre exclusive to married Ogu women). I argue that the sources of Ogu women’s marginality are interlocking, involving oppression stemming from colonial structures and the values of contiguous Yorùbá people. I propose a collaborative intervention that upends typical power structures that privilege Western and Yorùbá ideation over Indigenous Ogu knowledge, values, and practices.

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Gangbe in Badagry, Nigeria: Ogu Women’s Performance Practice, Social Status, and Creative Agency

KUNNUJI

2023

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Theorizing Intimacies and Articulation in Nigerian Hip Hop Music

Babalola

2023

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This paper explores how Nigerian hip hop music, lyrics, and histories illuminate connections and relationalities, intimacies, and articulations, among and across African and African diasporic communities. Drawing on the works of Lisa Lowe, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Katherine McKittrick, and others, I demonstrate how these intimacies and articulations allow us to reimagine hip hop, focusing not on origins or beginnings (or African American authenticities) but instead as an expressive transnational mode of cultural production. In this way, I discuss the significance of Black politics in popular music and foreground how intimacies and articulation produce new ways of theorizing race.

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Ancestor is king: the role of Afrofuturism in Beyoncé’s Black is King

Cited by 2 publications

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Gangbe in Badagry, Nigeria: Ogu Women’s Performance Practice, Social Status, and Creative Agency

Gangbe in Badagry, Nigeria: Ogu Women’s Performance Practice, Social Status, and Creative Agency

Theorizing Intimacies and Articulation in Nigerian Hip Hop Music

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