Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Gboju Nbe! Urban slang as sociolinguistic expression in selected Nollywood films / Mojisola Shodipe. Wole Soyinka : a public intellectual, his publics, and postcolonial modernities / Sanya Osha -- Informality and patriotism in the Nigerian postcolony / Adeshina Afolayan -- Ajala as metaphor of the Nigerian travel culture : myths, legend, and memory(-ies) of the African abroad / Oluwaseun Abimbola -- The language game and the inequality of gender : feminist postproverbials and the Yoruba language / Olayinka Oyeleye -- Ethinicity and fluid identities in nineteenth-century Lagos / Mary Aderonke Afolabi -- The future of Du Bois : consciousness, citizenship, and epistemology in Nigeria and Africa / Nimi Wariboko -- Determinism and human agency in Shola Allyson-Obaniyi's "Gbeje Fori" and "Akosile" / Lawrence O. Bamikole -- Digital appropriation, youth culture, and cybercrime in emergent Yoruba Bollywood / Olajide Salawu -- "The other room" : politics, sex, and power in Shoneyin's The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives / Ofure O. M. Aito and Omolola A. Ladele -- Walking backward : predictions of a failing "postcolonial" Nigeria in Kunle Afolayan's October 1 / Abimbola Iyun -- Waka-into-bondage : Ndidi Dike's performance installation and the creative reenactment of the Badagry slave-trade route / Kunle Filani -- Gboju Nbe! Urban slang as sociolinguistic expression in selected Nollywood films / Mojisola Shodipe.
Summary:
This volume interrogates some of the multiple ideas and issues that define the shape of postcolonial Nigeria. 0Postcolonial Nigeria has been the subject of many literatures that identify and interrogate the many issues and problems that had made it near impossible for Nigerians to achieve the anticolonial aspirations that gave birth to independent Nigeria. The rationale for this volume is to situate the thematic inquiry into the problematic of postcolonial Nigerian within the ambit of the humanities and its concerns. These thematic issues include identity configurations, aesthetics, philosophical reflections, linguistic dynamics, sociological framings, and so on. The objective of the volume is to enable scholars and students to have new insights and arguments about possibilities that postcoloniality throws up for rethinking the Nigerian state and society.
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