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Adesoji Babalola is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at Queen's University. His ongoing doctoral research explores linguistic and cultural strategies of resistance and resurgence within the decolonial politics of Indigenous hip hop music in Nigeria and Canada. Babalola aims to understand how youth cultures contribute to the global movement of decolonization and language revitalization, particularly in exploitative settler (post)colonial contexts. He has published widely in reputable journals, with a recent article entitled “Intimacies of Articulation in Nigerian Hip Hop Music” featured in the journal Asian African Studies, published by Sage, United Kingdom. Babalola's academic interests also extend to multimodal critical discourse analysis, global hip hop cultures, popular cultures, postcolonial literature, transnational Indigenous studies, cultural studies, and Black Studies.
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