Saheed Aderinto

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1979

Nigerian-American writer and historian

Worked at Western Carolina University

writer, historian, university teacher

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Documentaries can be used to correct mistakes of the past and fight stereotypes and bias. Once people know their history, there is a possibility that such knowledge will empower them to do something meaningful with themselves.

He pioneered the genre. It’s logical for the first episode of The Fuji Documentary to focus on him. He dominated and defined fújì sound and performance. Even his politics was the most sophisticated. This changed from preaching against bad democratic leadership in 1983, to supporting the military incursion into Nigerian politics in 1984, to protesting against military dictatorship in the 1990s, and extolling democratic principles in the first decade of the 21st century. His albums such as Nigeria (1983); Military (1984); Current Affairs (1989); The Truth (1994); Precaution (1995); Adieu MKO Abiola (1998); and Democracy (1999) combine all the elements of political theorisations that we find in some of the best works on African politics.

Fuji is more than sound. It’s a way of life for millions of Yoruba people. It’s how they see the world around them.

This is to preserve the legacies of Barrister through the medium of a film, to place Fuji at the centre of global knowledge production, and to increase the global attention on Fuji. It is also to take the name of Fuji and Barrister into academic domains where they don’t exist for now.

The documentary is about the history of women in Fuji, the history of the genre, how it began, its politics and economy, why women are subdued in the genre and how they fought and overcame the challenges confronting them. We demonstrate the transformation not only in the type of Fuji women are performing but also the challenges they have faced and overcome.

In the libraries

Open Library Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa · 2022 View library record ↗ Open Library Children and childhood in colonial Nigerian histories · 2015 View library record ↗ Open Library Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria · 2018 View library record ↗ Open Library Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) · 2010 View library record ↗ Open Library Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation · 2019 View library record ↗ Open Library When Sex Threatened the State · 2014 View library record ↗

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