Peer Reviewed Articles

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Performing Gendered Resistance: African Women Artistes and Gender Subversion in Afrobeats.” Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 1–37. https://doi.org/10.54103/gjcpi.2026.28848

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Queering Afrobeats: Gender, Sexuality, and Resistance in African Popular Music.” Journal of Gender Studies, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2026.2633722

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Conceptualizing the ‘gossip genre’ in Nollywood: Digital Aestheticization of Celebrity Scandal and the Performance of Gossip in Truth or Dare.” Celebrity Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2026.2642656

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Theorizing “Odogwu Masculinities”: Nigerian Popular Culture and the Construction of the Empowered “Odogwu” Ideal Male.” The Journal of Men’s Studies, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/10608265261433374

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Postcolonial Passages: Tiken Jah Fakoly and the Musical Intervention of African Mobility.” Nordic Journal of Migration Research 16 (2): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.1065

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Of Barren Lands and Broken Promises: Writing Social Change in Kourouma’s Suns of Independence and Allah Is Not Obliged.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 62 (3): 409–423. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2025.2593631

Jemiluyi, Omotayo, and Temitope Falokun. 2026. “Performing the Trenches and (Re)Branding Poverty: Subaltern Visuality, Performativity, and Postcolonial Politics in Nigerian Popular Media.” Journal of Multicultural Discourses 21 (1): 44–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2025.2611118

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “‘Cultures Are Not Anyone’s Property’: An African Critique of Mnouchkine’s Universality Claim on Authenticity and Cultural Appropriation.” Junctions 9 (1): 26-42. https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.237

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Performing Power: Hypermasculinity and Human Fragility in Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé.” Journal of War & Culture Studies, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2025.2584755

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. ““Tell Your papa”: Aesthetics of Confrontation and Visual Witnessing in Nigerian Protest Music.” Dialogue 12 (2): 28–48. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dialogue/vol12/iss2/3

Jemiluyi, Omotayo, and Abubakar Tajudeen. 2025. “Singing Hunger in Protest Music: Nasboi’s “Hunger Games” and Post-Election Realities in Nigeria’s “Emilokan” Era.” Midwest Social Sciences Journal 28 (1) 149–162. https://doi.org/10.22543/2766-0796.1201

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Warriors and Colonizers: Colonial Allegories and Resistance in Nollywood’s Jagun Jagun.” Nordic Journal of African Studies 34 (3): 209–226. https://doi.org/10.53228/d8ngnt69

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Nigerian Diasporic Masculinities: Definitions, Perceptions, and Evolutions.” Journal of International Migration and Integration 27:193 –211. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-025-01289-3

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “From Naija to the States: Stereotypes and Resistance of the Nigerian Man in America.” Howard Journal of Communications, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2025.2525258

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Performing Toxic Womanhood: Patriarchy, Infidelity, and the ‘Good Woman’ Trope in Yoruba Nollywood.” Women’s Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2025.2520324

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Being African, Staying African: Constructing and Preserving African Masculinities among Nigerian Men in the United States.” National Identities 28 (2): 265–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2025.2514044

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Àjẹ́kùnrin: Witchcraft, Gender Politics, and Gender Nonconformity in Yoruba Spirituality.” Journal for Cultural Research 29 (3): 254–269. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2025.2471789

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2024. “Resisting Neocolonial Chains: African Emancipation in Brymo’s ‘Illusions.’” Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa 21 (2): 70–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/18125980.2025.2488850

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2024. ““Original sufferhead”: The Boy-child and Masculine Sufferings in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé and Les Soleils des Indépendances” French Cultural Studies 36 (1): 61-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558241262682

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2024. “The Influence of Tiken Jah Fakoly’s Reggae Music in Post-Independence Côte d’Ivoire.” African Studies Quarterly 22 (3): 26–39. https://doi.org/10.32473/asq.22.3.137479

 

Book Chapters

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. “The Beast and the Nation: Animist Asexuality, Reproductive Nationalism, and Decolonial Asexualization in Nigerian Cinema” In Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms, edited by Yo-Ling Chen and Ela Przybyło. (Accepted and in press, est. 2027)

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. “How to Tell a Grass-to-Grace Story: Spatial Otherness, Afrobeats Stardom, and Urban Postcoloniality in HBO’s Documentary Wizkid: Long Live Lagos.” In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Poverty, edited by Rajendra Baikady. (In progress)

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. “We Will Never Forget”: Nigerian Popular Culture and the Activistic Memorialization of the EndSARS Protest. In Handbook on Digital Activism, edited by Paromita Pain. (In progress)

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. “Caricaturing Feminism: The “Bad Feminist” and Occultized, Anti-Feminist Imaginaries in African Screen Publics.” In Intimacies in Flux: Exploring History, Law, and African Sexualities, edited by Zanele Nyoni-Wood and Bright Alozie. (In progress)

 

Book Reviews

Review of The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities, edited by Ezra Chitando, Obert Bernard Mlambo, Sakhumzi Mfecane, and Kopano Ratele. NORMA (2026): 1–2 https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2026.2651429

Review of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy, by Adeshina Afolayan and Toyin Falola. Popular Music 44, no. 3 (2025): 296–298. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114302510127X

Review of Beyond Death and Jail: Anti-Blackness, Black Masculinity, and the Demonic Imagination, by Ronald B. Neal. African and Black Diaspora (2025): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2025.2526287

Review of The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young, edited by Scott Straus and Aili Mari Tripp. African Studies Quarterly 23, no. 2 (2025): 106–107. https://journals.flvc.org/ASQ/article/view/139242