Nigerian Hip-Hop: Race, Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistance

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Tosin Gbogi (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)

Nigerian Hip-Hop

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Race, Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistance

Tosin Gbogi (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)

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Oxford University Press Inc
25 March 2026

Rap & Hip-Hop

Nigerian, or Naija, hip-hop has existed for close to 45 years, and throughout its rich history has been influenced by not only imperialist media flows but also enduring discourses of African anti-colonialism and pan-Africanism and the long cultural traffic between Africa and the African diaspora. In Nigerian Hip-Hop, Tosin Gbogi draws upon close readings of lyrics and other media and oral interviews with more than fifty artists to engage fully with the culture on its own terms, examining questions lying at the intersection of rap poetics, race, knowledge, and popular culture. Troubling the conventional paradigm in which hip-hop in Nigeria stands squarely for imperialist machinery, he directs attention to the culture's provocative meditations on the afterlives of slavery and colonialism. Gbogi tracks these meditations across a wide range of sources, including lyrics, music videos, cover arts, liner notes, photographs, social media, archival materials, and oral interviews. Placing these sources in conversation with one another, he examines them closely for what they reveal about the contemporary trajectories of African popular culture and youth resistance.

The first comprehensive and systematic study of Nigerian hip-hop--one of the world's oldest and most vibrant of such scenes--this book attends to the literary forms, the density of ideas, historical encounters, ideological struggles, and the lively internal debates that have animated the culture for more than four decades. In highlighting these, Gbogi engages with a broad array of topics and themes, including those having to do with race, ethnicity, class, gender, language, media and popular culture, youth cultures, and poetry.

By: Tosin Gbogi (Assistant Professor Department of English Assistant Professor Department of English University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 649g
ISBN: 9780197782026
ISBN 10: 0197782027
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 25 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tosin Gbogi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Reviews for Nigerian Hip-Hop: Race, Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistance

Nigerian Hip-Hop is not only the first sustained examination of hip-hop in Nigeria, but it also teaches us much about African popular culture, decolonial resistance, and the complex politics of identity and knowledge that youth negotiate through their participation within the culture. Methodologically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, Gbogi engages the 'culture creators' on their own terms, analyzing their cultural production with the interdisciplinary lens that their art both demands and deserves. The book is bristling with insights that reveal youth music, art, culture, and language as sites of resistance, memory, and futures. * H. Samy Alim, co-editor of Global Linguistic Flows and Freedom Moves *