Density as Praxis: Story, Texture, and Scavenging

Dotun Ayobade

1155 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706, 206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Africa at Noon

Speaker: Dotun Ayobade

Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CST

Venue: 206 Ingraham Hall
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Speaker’s Bio

Dotun Ayobade is an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Black Studies at Northwestern University. He studies how embodied forms of popular culture shape the meanings of community, justice, and activism in West Africa. His writing covers late twentieth century dance, performance, and popular music cultures in Anglophone West Africa. He is the author of Queens of Afrobeat: Women, Play, and Fela Kuti’s Music Rebellion (2024), a pioneering book-length study on the lives and times of women in Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat music. His work has appeared in leading journals, including in The Black Scholar, Journal of African Cultural Studies (JACS), Dance Research Journal (DRJ).