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A Mind at Full Stretch: Remembering Bíọ́dún Jéyǐfó

by Ṣọlá Adéyẹmí

Download as PDF By Sọlá Adéyẹmí (University of East Anglia, UK) There are scholars whose passing feels like the quiet extinguishing of a star; and there are others whose departure alters the very atmosphere of intellectual life. Bíọ́dún Jéyǐfó belonged firmly to the latter category. His death at the age of eighty is not simply […]

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  • A Mind at Full Stretch: Remembering Bíọ́dún Jéyǐfó
  • On Fela, Wizkid, and the Politics of Afrobeats
  •  Poetics of the Abject in Adedayo Agarau’s The Years of Blood
  • The Panenka’s Paradox
  • Call for Submissions: A Black Orpheus Companion