Freitag, 17. November 2023 – 11:30–15:45 Uhr
Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Hörsaal 1
Die VO Transkontinentale Popmusikgeschichten. Afrika, Diasporas und globale Verflechtungen gibt Einblick in populärmusikalische Phänomene und ihre translokalen, transkontinentalen und globalen Verbindungen, Flows und Interaktionen. Wir freuen uns, in der Einheit am 17.11.2023 zum Thema „Afrobeat mit Fela Anikulapo Kuti als transkontinentalem Aktivisten“ die Kulturwissenschafterin Univ. Doz. Dr. Tomi Adeaga als Guest Discussant begrüßen zu dürfen. Tomi Adeaga befasste sich nicht nur intensiv mit Fela Kutis lyrischem Werk, sondern sie teilt auch die Heimatstadt Abeokuta (im Südwesten Nigerias) mit Fela Kutis prominenter Familie.
Tomi Adeaga (Short Bio)
Tomi Adeaga PD Ph.D. completed her habilitation degree in African Diaspora Studies (2020) at the Department of African Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies where she teaches African and African Diaspora Literature. She also teaches at the Gender Studies department of the University of Vienna, Austria. She co-edited Payback and Other Stories – An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Short Stories (2018). She is the author of Translating and Publishing African Language(s) and Literature(s): Examples from Nigeria, Ghana and Germany (2006). She published a short story called “Marriage and Other Impediments” in African Love Stories; An Anthology (2006). She translated Olympe Bhêly – Quénum’s C’était à Tigony into As She Was Discovering Tigony (2017). She has also published book chapters and articles in literary journals such as “Sexuality, Resilience, and Mobility in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street,” in Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the 21st Century. Rose Sackeyfio (ed.), (2021); “Colonialism and Sexuality in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda,” in Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) (2020). She serves on several editorial boards including the Journal of African Gender Studies (JAGS), and Stichproben; Vienna Journal of African Studies. Her areas of interest include African Gender Studies, African literature studies, African Diaspora Studies, translation and transnational studies.
