Articles — Kiabara Journal of Humanities

Gender & Identity Studies

From Stereotype to Cliché: Class, Gender Views, and the Cultural Archive of Modern Afrobeats

Abdullahi Tunde Ishola — Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Faosat Biola Olagunju - Al-Hikmah University Balqis Olabisi Popoola - Al-Hikmah University Abdullateef Babatunde Oseni - Al-Hikmah University

This study examines how popular social stereotype of female materialism is reinforced and legitimated in Afrobeats songs. It draws on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as its theoretical framework to investigate how Afro...

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African Literature

Adichie’s Americanah and the Discourse of Stereotypes in the New African Diaspora

Onyemaechi Udumukwu — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 29, No. 1 · 12 May 2023

Kenedy Enesha

Americanah (2013) interrogates the discourse of stereotypes in the new African diasporan experience in the United States. It does this because stereotypes produce fixed statements of reality that conceal underlying polit...

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Gender & Identity Studies

What was the Notion of ‘The Other’ in Antiquity? An Examination from the Perspective of the Ancient Greeks

Goke A. Akinboye — University of Ibadan · Vol. 22, No. 2 · 20 June 2016

Gill Oluwatosin Adekannbi

The idea of ‘the other’ and ‘otherness’ often relates to the state of a group being different from certain individuals, groups or peoples. Over and over again, a greater or superior group, using certain social distin...

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