Browsing by Author "Adebayo Abidemi Olufemi"

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    African Literature and Culture in the Age of Globalization and Western Culture Dominance
    (AKWA IBOM STATE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ARTS, 2024) Adebayo Abidemi Olufemi
    bstractThe paper examines the characteristic nature of African Literature in relation to the manifesting influence of globalization and westernization of culture. The conceptual ideological tenets of African Literature aim to promote Africanity; that is, the promotion of African culture or anything that is African. However, the actual socio-cultural practices of the people of the continent are determined by the thoughts, initiatives and products of the people of the West. If it is the duty of literature to showcase the cultural values of its host society, then a contradiction ensues if African Literature sustains its resistance of the cultural values of the rest of the world especially, the Western culture. For more than a century the Western culture has been influencing life experiences across the world. African Literature intellectuals need to reflect this in their writings. African literature should shy away from ritual themes and the claimed pride and potential as its tenets and goals. Much attention should be given to the influence of globalization and Western culture on African culture. It has become unavoidable for African literature to address universal themes such as global peace, responsible consumption and sustainable cities and environment. This will makeAfrican literary works to be inclusive and globally relevant. It will also put African literary writers in good standing to win the Nobel Prize for literature again since Wole Soyinka won it in 1986. It will also be a genuine reflection of the Continent’scontemporary social and cultural realities. Key words: African Literature, Africanity, African culture, Western culture, Globalization
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    DRAMATIC REPRESENTATIONS OF ANIMISM, CULTURE INDIGENEITY, ANDGLOBALIZATION IN SELECTED AHMED YERIMA’S RECENT PLAYS
    (Akwa Ibom State University Journal of Arts, 2024) Adebayo Abidemi Olufemi
    Animism is a cultural practice in the Nigerian society and it is a common motif in the AhmedYerima’strilogy, Abobaku. Iyase and The Last Grain of Wheat. It is curious that the playwright is givingsignificantattention to a traditional African practice such as animism in the age of European consciousnessandglobalization. The study is anchored on the George Herbert Meads Interactionist Theory whichadvocatesinclusivity in both concepts and social behaviour. In the trilogy, Yerima maintains that theinfluenceofdeities on mortals in the African hermeneutical system needs to be modified. That the plays exhibit tragicincidents emanating from dogmatic faith in African gods and matrixes of Africa’s backwardnessechothemodernization intent of the African playwright. Literary writers on the African continent oftendisagreeonthe state of African culture in the contemporary world, the age of globalization which aspires toattaincultureunification and makes all cultures accessible to different peoples across the world. Some Africanliterarywriters on culture are of the view that the status quo of cultural practices such as promotionof theinfluenceof divinities on mortals should be maintained. However, others are of the viewthat manyof theAfricancultural practices are too archaic for the fast-moving, rational, and globalising world. AhmedYerimainthesethree plays is of the latter view as the animist consciousness and adherence in the plays results indestructiveand fatal consequences. This negative consequence of African animist cultural practice tends tomakeAfricanculture unattractive for global presence, accessibility and global acculturation. Key words: Animism, African Culture, Ahmed Yerima, African Literature, Globalisation
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    Literary Creativity and the Condition of the Nigerian Writer in the Age of Globalization
    (2025) Adebayo Abidemi Olufemi
    Abstract This paper examines the impact of social change on the Nigerian literary writerinthe contemporary Nigerian society. The social change in the country, as intherestofAfrica, has been occasioned by globalization within a capitalist economywhichNigeria practices. Such change in the Nigerian social consciousness has madetheAfrican literary writer redefine his/her social identity and more thanever placeemphasis on material acquisition. The new orientation of wealth acquisition, however, conflicts with the age-long stereotype of the African literary writer asanaustere scholar whose main essence of living is to serve as a watchdog ontheillsofthe society. This is a reflection of the tenets of the philosophical theoryofDeterminism as the theoretical framework for the study. Globalization has exposedthe Nigerian populace to glamorous lifestyle of Western celebrity, whichthesocietyexpects the African literary writer to satisfy, in a stifling capitalist economy. Yet, literature, the means of income for the writer, has lost its dominance as the primarysource of enlightenment in Nigeria. This may indicate that literary creativityisnegatively af ected in Nigeria. Consequently, vocational literary creativity maynotbe so lucrative to many people as a viable source of income. The writer is, therefore, caught between his/her role as the conscience of the society and the expectationofwealth acquisition that the glamour of globalization and an austere economyhasmade the society have of him/her. Key words: Literature, Globalization, African literary writer, Capitalism,
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    Nigerian Digital Comedies: Hypothesizing the Intersection of Social Change and Artistic Phrases in Online Human-angle Skits
    (HUMANUS DISCOURSE, 2025) Adebayo Abidemi Olufemi
    This study evaluates the Nigerian comic artistry with specific emphasis on the human-angle subgenre as this concerns the Nigerian social change advocacy. This research focus has been motivated by the dominant emphasis on political comedies as a result of the numerous socio-political ills in Nigeria. This has made the literatures on political comedies in Nigeria for satirical intent to be monotonous. The study has therefore investigated the human-angle comedies in online platforms as a way of interrogating the human flaws in the broad-total ramifications of the Nigerian social decay. The study employs the Progressivist Theory as guide. The study is also qualitative in nature. It has been noted through the research videos that Nigerian human flaws include lewdness, prostitution (as signified in Kiekie’s ‘Hook Up’), rusticity (as noted in Lizzy Jay’s ‘I Experienced an Experienced’), as well as infidelity (as Lady Comfo preaches in ‘DNA Wahala’. Interpretatively, the study notes that these human frailties are contributory to the general decline in Nigeria’s social system. This is because, lewdness drains the purse and motivates avarice, rusticity breeds ignorance, and infidelity waters distrust. These become critical concerns because as they exist in the human-angle ramification at the base level, they play critical roles in forming and shaping the personalities of public political administrators in the country. The skit makers opine that solution to Nigeria’s political ebb necessarily needs to start from the base, the human-angle realms. Strategically, this message is conveyed in artistic words and phrases such as code-mixing, tonal aesthetics, pun and so on. These words and phrases are strategic language use by the vloggers as a way of conveying their thoughts across most efficiently through humour.