This study analyzes Afrobeat from the 1970s and 1980s and its influence on social change in Nigeria. Literature, songs, interviews and documentaries indicate that Afrobeat was a social movement...Show moreThis study analyzes Afrobeat from the 1970s and 1980s and its influence on social change in Nigeria. Literature, songs, interviews and documentaries indicate that Afrobeat was a social movement that created a strong collective identity within its audience. The Afrobeat movement utilized free in order to pave the way to social change. Free Space is divided into physical free space such as venues for ritual and performance and non-physical free space including Yabis, song recordings and technology. New cultural institutions have emerged due to the development of the Afrobeat movement, whereas fundamental changes within political institutions occurred alongside and mainly after the Afrobeat movement.Show less
Bachelor thesis | Film- en literatuurwetenschap (BA)
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The Joys of Motherhood reveals the deeply traumatizing experience of a woman in postcolonial, urban Lagos, unfairly forced into positions and expectations because of her gender, and weighed down...Show moreThe Joys of Motherhood reveals the deeply traumatizing experience of a woman in postcolonial, urban Lagos, unfairly forced into positions and expectations because of her gender, and weighed down with shouldering more responsibilities than the men in her life. Separated from the discoursive space of her hometown and settled into the confusing metropolis of Lagos, The Joys of Motherhood’s Nnu Ego is stripped of the conventional means for agency and power, and instead has to resort to adapting to a wildly different environment, which means she often has to scramble for survival. Stéphane Robolin, in her Gendered Hauntings, wastes no time exposing the link Emecheta creates between womanhood and slavery in The Joys of Motherhood, and divulges on Nnu Ego’s powerlessness in Lagos with a stunning critique of Honi Bhabha’s concepts of hybridity, showing how Nnu Ego fails to gain ground in this space and how Emecheta does not view it as a space of possibility. I stressed, however, that in the book Nnu Ego often attempts to claim a form of agency and fails, but at least succeeds at showing the painful process of adaptation. In addition, I asserted that The Joys of Motherhood is also a testament to the strength of women, not only a mourning of it.Show less