Ingroup chatbyP. Adejare --·6d agoGẹ̀lẹ́ Is Yoruba Culture, Not Lagos CultureThe Politics of Cultural Appropriation, Lagos Cosmopolitanism, and the Attempted Erasure of Yoruba Identity
P. Adejare --·Nov 2We Became Better at Buying Cameras and Worse at Seeing Photographs: How Gear-Tographers Killed the…I have become increasingly disillusioned with the photography community on YouTube. What was once a space for learning, experimentation…
Ingroup chatbyP. Adejare --·Nov 1Halloween Is Culture, but Our Masquerades Are Demonic? The African Identity ParadoxThere is a cultural contradiction I find increasingly difficult to ignore. Across parts of Africa, particularly among communities with…
P. Adejare --·Oct 22The Palm-Wine Drinkard: Celebrating Amos Tutuola, Abeokuta’s Gift to World LiteratureHow a son of Abeokuta transformed Yoruba folklore into a literary adventure that challenged the boundaries of storytelling
P. Adejare --·Oct 12When the Pastor Replaced the Professor: Reviewing Ebenezer Obadare’s Pastoral Power, Clerical StateBy P. Adejare
Ingroup chatbyP. Adejare --·Oct 6The God We Say We Believe InWe say we believe. But what does our life reveal about what we actually believe?
P. Adejare --·Jun 30Beyond the Akara Debate: When the Middle Class Speaks for the Poor but Really Speaks for ItselfOne of the least discussed problems in public policy is how the voices of the poor are often replaced by the voices of the middle class…
P. Adejare --·Mar 17Nollywood Before 1992: The Forgotten Yoruba VHS Era of the 1980sThe Foundational Home Video Movement Behind Nollywood’s Rise: Often Ignored, Never Absent
P. Adejare --·Jan 20Why the West Chose Fela Over Sunny Ade and ObeyThe global canon of African music did not emerge naturally. It was curated, shaped by institutions, critics, record labels, festivals, and…
