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Philip Akoje is a PhD student in interdisciplinary Humanities at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. His research focuses on African masks, masquerades, and Indigenous performances, examining the intersections of tradition, identity, gender, politics, economy, social control, affect, and memory in African societies through the posthumanist immanent philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. His recent major research paper for MA in Studies in Comparative Literature and Arts at Brock University is titled Rhizome and Affective Assemblages in Ibaji Masquerades, North Central Nigeria. He is an alumnus of the University of Lagos and the University of Abuja in Nigeria.