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'''James Túndé Yékú''' is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and associate professor of ] at the ]. He specialises in African literary and cultural studies, and digital humanities research. His research interests include: ], ], Social media, ], ] and ], and ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=James Yeku |url=https://kasc.ku.edu/people/james-yeku |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=kasc.ku.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=April 9, 2024 |title=Air Peace: On decolonial wings |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/684640-air-peace-on-decolonial-wings-by-james-yeku.html?tztc=1 |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=PremiumTimes}}</ref> He has published widely on different subjects across these fields. '''James Túndé Yékú''' is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and associate professor of ] at the ]. He specialises in African literary and cultural studies, and digital humanities research. His research interests include: ], ], Social media, ], ] and ], and ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=James Yeku |url=https://kasc.ku.edu/people/james-yeku |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=kasc.ku.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=April 9, 2024 |title=Air Peace: On decolonial wings |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/684640-air-peace-on-decolonial-wings-by-james-yeku.html?tztc=1 |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=PremiumTimes}}</ref> He has published widely on different subjects across these fields.


Yékú is the author of ''Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria'' (], 2022), and the poetry collection ''Where The Baedeker Leads: A Poetic Journey,'' which received an honorable mention for the 2023 ] Best Book Award for creative writing. Yeku’s poetry and essays have been published in various ] and mediums.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cultural Netizenship |url=https://iupress.org/9780253060518/cultural-netizenship/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Indiana University Press |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=March 13, 2020 |title=Africa’s Narrative Agency: Teaching Pius Adesanmi |url=https://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2020/03/10/africas-narrative-agency-teaching-pius-adesanmi-by-james-yeku/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=PremiumTimes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yékú |first=James |title=The racist myth of the ‘physical’ African football team |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/6/27/the-racist-myth-of-the-physical-african-football-team |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yékú |first=James |title=Why English football needs the knee |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/8/16/why-english-football-needs-the-knee |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=2023-03-12 |title=The Uses of Others: Onyeka Nwelue and African Literature in the Age of Cancel Culture — James Yékú |url=https://thelagosreview.ng/the-uses-of-others-onyeka-nwelue-and-african-literature-in-the-age-of-cancel-culture-james-yeku/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=The Lagos Review |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=2023-11-16 |title=Brymo, Roland Barthes, and the Nigerian Author That is Not Dead |url=https://jamesyeku.com/2023/11/16/brymo-roland-barthes-and-the-nigerian-author-that-is-not-dead/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=JamesYékú.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=2020-11-04 |title=The multiple meanings of #EndSARS |url=https://africasacountry.com/2020/11/the-multiple-meanings-of-endsars |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=africasacountry.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=2019-02-05 |title=Digital Africana |url=https://yeku-james.medium.com/digital-africana-e7bffd33ac1a |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref> Yékú is the author of ''Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria'' (], 2022), and the poetry collection ''Where The Baedeker Leads: A Poetic Journey,'' which received an honorable mention for the 2023 ] Best Book Award for creative writing. Yeku's poetry and essays have been published in various ] and mediums.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cultural Netizenship |url=https://iupress.org/9780253060518/cultural-netizenship/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Indiana University Press |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=March 13, 2020 |title=Africa's Narrative Agency: Teaching Pius Adesanmi |url=https://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2020/03/10/africas-narrative-agency-teaching-pius-adesanmi-by-james-yeku/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=PremiumTimes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yékú |first=James |title=The racist myth of the 'physical' African football team |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/6/27/the-racist-myth-of-the-physical-african-football-team |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yékú |first=James |title=Why English football needs the knee |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/8/16/why-english-football-needs-the-knee |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=2023-03-12 |title=The Uses of Others: Onyeka Nwelue and African Literature in the Age of Cancel Culture — James Yékú |url=https://thelagosreview.ng/the-uses-of-others-onyeka-nwelue-and-african-literature-in-the-age-of-cancel-culture-james-yeku/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=The Lagos Review |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=2023-11-16 |title=Brymo, Roland Barthes, and the Nigerian Author That is Not Dead |url=https://jamesyeku.com/2023/11/16/brymo-roland-barthes-and-the-nigerian-author-that-is-not-dead/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=JamesYékú.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=2020-11-04 |title=The multiple meanings of #EndSARS |url=https://africasacountry.com/2020/11/the-multiple-meanings-of-endsars |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=africasacountry.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeku |first=James |date=2019-02-05 |title=Digital Africana |url=https://yeku-james.medium.com/digital-africana-e7bffd33ac1a |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref>


== Education == == Education ==
James Yékú trained as a literary and cultural studies scholar at ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Umezurike |first=Uche Peter |date=2021-08-05 |title=“The estrangement and hardships of a life elsewhere”: An Interview with James Yékú |url=https://prismmagazine.ca/2021/08/05/the-estrangement-and-hardships-of-a-life-elsewhere-an-interview-with-james-yeku/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=PRISM international |language=en-US}}</ref> He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in English, and ] respectively at the ] in 2008 and 2012 respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in English at the ] in 2018. James Yékú trained as a literary and cultural studies scholar at ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Umezurike |first=Uche Peter |date=2021-08-05 |title="The estrangement and hardships of a life elsewhere": An Interview with James Yékú |url=https://prismmagazine.ca/2021/08/05/the-estrangement-and-hardships-of-a-life-elsewhere-an-interview-with-james-yeku/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=PRISM international |language=en-US}}</ref> He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in English, and ] respectively at the ] in 2008 and 2012 respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in English at the ] in 2018.


== Career and Recognition == == Career and Recognition ==
Yékú was engaged as a Lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan's Department of English from 2017 to 2018. A year later, he moved to the Universitty of Kansas where he is currently an associate professor at its Department of African and American Studies and the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=IDRH Welcomes James Yeku to the University of Kansas in Fall 2019 |url=https://idrh.ku.edu/news/article/2019/05/29/idrh-welcomes-james-yeku-university-kansas-fall-2019 |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=news.ku.edu |language=en}}</ref> Yékú was engaged as a lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan's Department of English from 2017 to 2018. A year later, he moved to the University of Kansas where he is currently an associate professor at its Department of African and American Studies and the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=IDRH Welcomes James Yeku to the University of Kansas in Fall 2019 |url=https://idrh.ku.edu/news/article/2019/05/29/idrh-welcomes-james-yeku-university-kansas-fall-2019 |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=news.ku.edu |language=en}}</ref>


Yékú was the winner of the 2022 ] Early Career Research Excellence Award from the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=James Yékú |url=https://www.cais-research.de/en/fellows/james-yeku/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=CAIS |language=en-GB}}</ref> His journal article "Akpos Don Come Again: Nigerian Cyberpop Hero as Trickster" in the ] won the 2017 Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award of the African Literature Association.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-07-28 |title=Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award - The African Literature Association |url=https://africanlit.org/best-article-award/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=AfricanLit.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2016 |title=Akpos don come again: Nigerian cyberpop hero as trickster |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24758691 |journal=Journal of African Cultural Studies |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=245–261 |issn=1369-6815}}</ref> He has also received other awards and fellowships, which include a 2022 ] fellowship in ], as well as a 2023 ] international guest fellowship at the ], both in Germany. He is also a recipient of the ] fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web |last=kargejos |title=Dr. James Tunde Yékú |url=https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/en/region/africa/africa/literature/staff-lit-cul/dr-james-tunde-yeku |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Website des Institutes für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. James Tunde Yeku |url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview/1231613/dr-james-tunde-yeku |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=www.humboldt-foundation.de |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Introducing our international Guest Fellow James Yékú |url=https://ceditraa.net/introducing-our-international-guest-fellow-james-yeku |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=CEDITRAA |language=en-US}}</ref> Yékú currently spearheads African Digital Humanities initiatives at the University of Kansas and co-organizes the annual African Digital Humanities Symposium. Yékú was the winner of the 2022 ] Early Career Research Excellence Award from the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=James Yékú |url=https://www.cais-research.de/en/fellows/james-yeku/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=CAIS |language=en-GB}}</ref> His journal article "Akpos Don Come Again: Nigerian Cyberpop Hero as Trickster" in the ] won the 2017 Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award of the African Literature Association.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-07-28 |title=Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award - The African Literature Association |url=https://africanlit.org/best-article-award/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=AfricanLit.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2016 |title=Akpos don come again: Nigerian cyberpop hero as trickster |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24758691 |journal=Journal of African Cultural Studies |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=245–261 |doi=10.1080/13696815.2015.1069735 |jstor=24758691 |issn=1369-6815}}</ref> He has also received other awards and fellowships, which include a 2022 ] fellowship in ], as well as a 2023 ] international guest fellowship at the ], both in Germany. He is also a recipient of the ] fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web |last=kargejos |title=Dr. James Tunde Yékú |url=https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/en/region/africa/africa/literature/staff-lit-cul/dr-james-tunde-yeku |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Website des Institutes für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. James Tunde Yeku |url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview/1231613/dr-james-tunde-yeku |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=www.humboldt-foundation.de |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Introducing our international Guest Fellow James Yékú |url=https://ceditraa.net/introducing-our-international-guest-fellow-james-yeku |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=CEDITRAA |language=en-US}}</ref> Yékú currently spearheads African Digital Humanities initiatives at the University of Kansas and co-organizes the annual African Digital Humanities Symposium.


== Selected Publications == == Selected publications ==
Yékú, James. ''The Algorithmic Age of Personality: African Literature and Cancel Culture'' (Michigan State University Press, forthcoming in spring 2025).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yeku |first=James |url=https://books.google.ch/books/about/The_Algorithmic_Age_of_Personality.html?id=v6no0AEACAAJ&redir_esc=y |title=The Algorithmic Age of Personality: African Literature and Cancel Culture |date=2025 |publisher=Michigan State University Press |isbn=978-1-61186-533-2 |language=en}}</ref> *{{Cite book |last=Yeku |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6no0AEACAAJ |title=The Algorithmic Age of Personality: African Literature and Cancel Culture |date=2025 |publisher=Michigan State University Press |isbn=978-1-61186-533-2 |language=en}}
⚫ *{{Cite book |last=Yeku |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e4Si0AEACAAJ |title=Ambivalent Encounters and Other Essays |date=2024-11-26 |publisher=Griots Lounge Publishing Canada |isbn=978-1-7386993-5-3 |language=en}}

*{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2024 |title=Encountering Mudi Yahaya's Nina Fischer-Stephan's Respectful Gaze in Lagos |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2024.2320781 |journal=Journal of African Cultural Studies |pages=1–7 |doi=10.1080/13696815.2024.2320781 |issn=1369-6815}}
⚫ Yékú, James. ''Ambivalent Encounters and Other Essays'' (Griots Lounge, 2024).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ye?ku? |first=James |url=https://books.google.ch/books/about/Ambivalent_Encounters_and_Other_Essays.html?id=e4Si0AEACAAJ&redir_esc=y |title=Ambivalent Encounters and Other Essays |date=2024-11-26 |publisher=Griots Lounge Publishing Canada |isbn=978-1-7386993-5-3 |language=en}}</ref>
⚫ *{{Cite journal |last1=Adeoba |first1=‘Gbenga |last2=Yékú |first2=James |date=2024-05-15 |title=Cultural netizenship as platformization of popular culture in Nigeria |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779241252997 |journal=International Journal of Cultural Studies |doi=10.1177/13678779241252997 |issn=1367-8779}}

Yékú, James. "Encountering Mudi Yahaya’s Nina Fischer-Stephan’s Respectful Gaze in Lagos." ''Journal of African Cultural Studies'' (2024): 1-7.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2024 |title=Encountering Mudi Yahaya’s Nina Fischer-Stephan’s Respectful Gaze in Lagos |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2024.2320781 |journal=Journal of African Cultural Studies |pages=1–7 |doi=10.1080/13696815.2024.2320781 |issn=1369-6815}}</ref> *{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2023-01-02 |title=#MakeNigeriaGreatAgain |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2022.2145594 |journal=The Black Scholar |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=19–34 |doi=10.1080/00064246.2022.2145594 |issn=0006-4246}}
⚫ *{{Citation |last=Yékú |first=James |title=Cartooning COVID-19 on Facebook |date=2023 |work=Global Health, Humanity and the COVID-19 Pandemic |pages=329–351 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17429-2_15 |access-date= |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-17429-2_15 |isbn=978-3-031-17428-5}}

⚫ *{{Cite book |last=Yékú |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KqReEAAAQBAJ&dq=Cultural+Netizenship&pg=PA17 |title=Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria |date=2022-05-03 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-06050-1 |language=en}}
⚫ Adeoba, ‘Gbenga, and James Yékú. "Cultural netizenship as platformization of popular culture in Nigeria." ''International Journal of Cultural Studies'' (2024): 13678779241252997.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Adeoba |first=‘Gbenga |last2=Yékú |first2=James |date=2024-05-15 |title=Cultural netizenship as platformization of popular culture in Nigeria |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779241252997 |journal=International Journal of Cultural Studies |doi=10.1177/13678779241252997 |issn=1367-8779}}</ref>
⚫ *{{Cite book |last1=Verisssimo |first1=Jumoke |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fXmGEAAAQBAJ |title=Sọ̀rọ̀sóke: An #Endsars Anthology |last2=Yékú |first2=James |date=2022-02-07 |publisher=Noirledge Publishing |isbn=978-978-58746-9-3 |language=en}}

*{{Citation |last=Yékú |first=James |title=The Police Is Your Friend |date=2022-05-09 |work=Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture |pages=399–416 |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003080855-22 |access-date=2024-12-25 |place=London |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781003080855-22 |isbn=978-1-003-08085-5}}
Yékú, James. "#MakeNigeriaGreatAgain: Donald Trump in Nollywood’s Social Media." ''The Black Scholar'' 53, no. 1 (2023): 19-34.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2023-01-02 |title=#MakeNigeriaGreatAgain |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2022.2145594 |journal=The Black Scholar |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=19–34 |doi=10.1080/00064246.2022.2145594 |issn=0006-4246}}</ref>
⚫ *{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2022 |title=Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2022.19 |journal=The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=381–398 |doi=10.1017/pli.2022.19 |hdl=1808/33604 |issn=2052-2614}}

⚫ *{{Cite journal |last1=Yékú |first1=James |last2=Ojebode |first2=Ayobami |date=2021-04-14 |title=From Google Doodles to Facebook: Nostalgia and Visual Reconstructions of the Past in Nigeria |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.118 |journal=African Studies Review |volume=64 |issue=3 |pages=498–522 |doi=10.1017/asr.2020.118 |issn=0002-0206}}
⚫ Yékú, James. "Cartooning COVID-19 on Facebook." In ''Global Health, Humanity and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Philosophical and Sociological Challenges and Imperatives'', pp. 329-351. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023.<ref>{{Citation |last=Yékú |first=James |title=Cartooning COVID-19 on Facebook |date=2023 |work=Global Health, Humanity and the COVID-19 Pandemic |pages=329–351 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17429-2_15 |access-date= |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-031-17428-5}}</ref>
⚫ *{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2021-10-02 |title=In Praise of Ostentation: Social Class in Lagos and the Aesthetics of Nollywood's Ówàḿbẹ̀ Genres |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2021.2000366 |journal=African Studies |volume=80 |issue=3–4 |pages=434–450 |doi=10.1080/00020184.2021.2000366 |issn=0002-0184}}

⚫ *{{Cite journal |last=Yeku |first=James |date=2019-12-28 |title=Chinua Achebe's ''There was a Country'' and the digital publics of African literature |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz084 |journal=Digital Scholarship in the Humanities |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=209–223 |doi=10.1093/llc/fqz084 |issn=2055-7671}}
⚫ Yékú, James. ''Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria''. Indiana University Press, 2022.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yékú |first=James |url=https://www.google.ch/books/edition/Cultural_Netizenship/KqReEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Cultural+Netizenship&pg=PA17&printsec=frontcover |title=Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria |date=2022-05-03 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-06050-1 |language=en}}</ref>
⚫ *{{Cite book |last=Yeku |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b9A-zgEACAAJ |title=Where the Baedeker Leads: A Poetic Journey |date=2021 |publisher=Mawenzi House |isbn=978-1-77415-050-4 |language=en}}

⚫ *{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2020-05-03 |title=Anti-Afropolitan ethics and the performative politics of online scambaiting |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2020.1813943 |journal=Social Dynamics |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=240–258 |doi=10.1080/02533952.2020.1813943 |issn=0253-3952}}
⚫ Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku (eds.). Sọ̀rọ̀sóke: An #Endsars Anthology. Noirledge Publishinng, 2022.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Verisssimo |first=Jumoke |url=https://books.google.ch/books/about/S%C3%B2%CC%A5r%C3%B2%CC%A5s%C3%B3k%C3%A8.html?id=fXmGEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y |title=Sọ̀rọ̀sóke: An #Endsars Anthology |last2=Yékú |first2=James |date=2022-02-07 |publisher=Noirledge Publishing |isbn=978-978-58746-9-3 |language=en}}</ref>
⚫ *{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2020-10-20 |title=Tricksters and female warriors: womanist interweavings from Oríta to Wakanda |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2020.1815965 |journal=Journal of the African Literature Association |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=107–124 |doi=10.1080/21674736.2020.1815965 |issn=2167-4736}}

Yékú, James. "The Police Is Your Friend: Instagram Comedy and the Defamiliarization of the Postcolonial State." In ''Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture'', pp. 399-416. Routledge, 2022.<ref>{{Citation |last=Yékú |first=James |title=The Police Is Your Friend |date=2022-05-09 |work=Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture |pages=399–416 |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003080855-22 |access-date=2024-12-25 |place=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-003-08085-5}}</ref> *{{Citation |last=Yeku |first=James |title=The Hashtag as Archive: Internet Memes and Nigeria's Social Media Election |date=2018 |series=African Histories and Modernities |pages=217–245 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91310-0_11 |access-date=2024-12-25 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-91310-0_11 |isbn=978-3-319-91309-4}}

⚫ Yékú, James. "Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data." ''Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry'' 9, no. 3 (2022): 381-398.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2022 |title=Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2022.19 |journal=The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=381–398 |doi=10.1017/pli.2022.19 |issn=2052-2614}}</ref>

⚫ Yékú, James, and Ayobami Ojebode. "From Google Doodles to Facebook: Nostalgia and Visual Reconstructions of the Past in Nigeria." ''African Studies Review'' 64, no. 3 (2021): 498-522.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |last2=Ojebode |first2=Ayobami |date=2021-04-14 |title=From Google Doodles to Facebook: Nostalgia and Visual Reconstructions of the Past in Nigeria |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.118 |journal=African Studies Review |volume=64 |issue=3 |pages=498–522 |doi=10.1017/asr.2020.118 |issn=0002-0206}}</ref>

⚫ Yékú, James. "In Praise of Ostentation: Social Class in Lagos and the Aesthetics of Nollywood's Ówàḿbẹ̀ Genres." ''African Studies'' 80, no. 3-4 (2021): 434-450.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2021-10-02 |title=In Praise of Ostentation: Social Class in Lagos and the Aesthetics of Nollywood's Ówàḿbẹ̀ Genres |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2021.2000366 |journal=African Studies |volume=80 |issue=3-4 |pages=434–450 |doi=10.1080/00020184.2021.2000366 |issn=0002-0184}}</ref>

⚫ Yeku, James. "Chinua Achebe’s There was a Country and the digital publics of African literature." ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'' 36, no. 1 (2021): 209-223.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yeku |first=James |date=2019-12-28 |title=Chinua Achebe’s <i>There was a Country</i> and the digital publics of African literature |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz084 |journal=Digital Scholarship in the Humanities |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=209–223 |doi=10.1093/llc/fqz084 |issn=2055-7671}}</ref>

⚫ Yékú, James. ''Where the Baedeker Leads: A Poetic Journey.'' Mawenzi House, 2021.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yeku |first=James |url=https://www.google.ch/books/edition/Where_the_Baedeker_Leads/b9A-zgEACAAJ?hl=en |title=Where the Baedeker Leads: A Poetic Journey |date=2021 |publisher=Mawenzi House |isbn=978-1-77415-050-4 |language=en}}</ref>

⚫ Yékú, James. "Anti-Afropolitan ethics and the performative politics of online scambaiting." ''Social Dynamics'' 46, no. 2 (2020): 240-258.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2020-05-03 |title=Anti-Afropolitan ethics and the performative politics of online scambaiting |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2020.1813943 |journal=Social Dynamics |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=240–258 |doi=10.1080/02533952.2020.1813943 |issn=0253-3952}}</ref>

⚫ Yékú, James. "Tricksters and female warriors: womanist interweavings from Oríta to Wakanda." ''Journal of the African Literature Association'' 15, no. 1 (2020): 107-124.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yékú |first=James |date=2020-10-20 |title=Tricksters and female warriors: womanist interweavings from Oríta to Wakanda |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2020.1815965 |journal=Journal of the African Literature Association |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=107–124 |doi=10.1080/21674736.2020.1815965 |issn=2167-4736}}</ref>

Yeku, James. "The Hashtag as archive: Internet memes and Nigeria’s social media election." ''African Humanities and Modernities'' (2018): 217-245.<ref>{{Citation |last=Yeku |first=James |title=The Hashtag as Archive: Internet Memes and Nigeria’s Social Media Election |date=2018 |work=African Histories and Modernities |pages=217–245 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91310-0_11 |access-date=2024-12-25 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-319-91309-4}}</ref>

Yékú, James. "‘Thighs Fell Apart’: online fan fiction, and African writing in a digital age." ''Journal of African Cultural Studies'' 29, no. 3 (2017): 261-275.


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Nigerian-Canadian writer and academic

James Túndé Yékú is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and associate professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. He specialises in African literary and cultural studies, and digital humanities research. His research interests include: African literature, digital humanities, Social media, cultural studies, postcolonial and decolonial theories, and Nollywood. He has published widely on different subjects across these fields.

Yékú is the author of Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2022), and the poetry collection Where The Baedeker Leads: A Poetic Journey, which received an honorable mention for the 2023 African Literature Association Best Book Award for creative writing. Yeku's poetry and essays have been published in various literary journals and mediums.

Education

James Yékú trained as a literary and cultural studies scholar at Ibadan and Saskatoon. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in English, and Performance Studies respectively at the University of Ibadan in 2008 and 2012 respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Saskatchewan in 2018.

Career and Recognition

Yékú was engaged as a lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan's Department of English from 2017 to 2018. A year later, he moved to the University of Kansas where he is currently an associate professor at its Department of African and American Studies and the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities.

Yékú was the winner of the 2022 Pius Adesanmi Early Career Research Excellence Award from the Canadian Association of African Studies. His journal article "Akpos Don Come Again: Nigerian Cyberpop Hero as Trickster" in the Journal of African Cultural Studies won the 2017 Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award of the African Literature Association. He has also received other awards and fellowships, which include a 2022 Center for Advanced Internet Studies fellowship in Bochum, as well as a 2023 Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia international guest fellowship at the University of Mainz, both in Germany. He is also a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship. Yékú currently spearheads African Digital Humanities initiatives at the University of Kansas and co-organizes the annual African Digital Humanities Symposium.

Selected publications

References

  1. "James Yeku". kasc.ku.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  2. Yeku, James (April 9, 2024). "Air Peace: On decolonial wings". PremiumTimes. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  3. "Cultural Netizenship". Indiana University Press. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  4. Yeku, James (March 13, 2020). "Africa's Narrative Agency: Teaching Pius Adesanmi". PremiumTimes. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  5. Yékú, James. "The racist myth of the 'physical' African football team". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  6. Yékú, James. "Why English football needs the knee". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  7. Yeku, James (2023-03-12). "The Uses of Others: Onyeka Nwelue and African Literature in the Age of Cancel Culture — James Yékú". The Lagos Review. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  8. Yeku, James (2023-11-16). "Brymo, Roland Barthes, and the Nigerian Author That is Not Dead". JamesYékú.com. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  9. Yeku, James (2020-11-04). "The multiple meanings of #EndSARS". africasacountry.com. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  10. Yeku, James (2019-02-05). "Digital Africana". Medium. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  11. Umezurike, Uche Peter (2021-08-05). ""The estrangement and hardships of a life elsewhere": An Interview with James Yékú". PRISM international. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  12. "IDRH Welcomes James Yeku to the University of Kansas in Fall 2019". news.ku.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  13. "James Yékú". CAIS. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  14. "Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award - The African Literature Association". AfricanLit.org. 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  15. Yékú, James (2016). "Akpos don come again: Nigerian cyberpop hero as trickster". Journal of African Cultural Studies. 28 (3): 245–261. doi:10.1080/13696815.2015.1069735. ISSN 1369-6815. JSTOR 24758691.
  16. kargejos. "Dr. James Tunde Yékú". Website des Institutes für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  17. "Dr. James Tunde Yeku". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  18. "Introducing our international Guest Fellow James Yékú". CEDITRAA. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
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