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Masks, Masquerades, Performance, Rhizome, Assemblages, Affect, Immanence, Deleuze and Guattari, Capture, Becoming, Social Control, Indigenous Knowledge, Decoloniality, Territorialization, Reterritorialization, Deterritorialization, Strata, Multiplicities, Body without Organs, Ritualcracy, Machinic Enslavement
Nigeria, Canada

Biography

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.

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Employment (4)

Brock University: St Catharines, Ontario, CA

2024-09-01 to 2024-12-24 | Teaching Assistant (History)
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Philip Akoje

Brock University: St Catharines, Ontario, CA

2023-09-01 to 2024-04-30 | Teaching Assistant (Dramatic Arts)
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Philip Akoje

Brock University: St Catharines, Ontario, CA

2023-01-01 to 2024-04-30 | Teaching Assistant (Dramatic Arts)
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Philip Akoje

Kogi State University: Dekina, NG

2018-06-01 to 2022-12-30 | Lecturer/Instructor (Theatre Arts)
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Education and qualifications (4)

Brock University: St Catharines, Ontario, CA

2024-09-01 to present | PhD Student (Interdisciplinary Humanities)
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Philip Akoje

Brock University: St Catharines, Ontario, CA

2023-09-01 to 2024-08-30 | MA (Studies in Comparative Literature and Arts.) (Comparative Literature and Arts)
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Philip Akoje

University of Lagos: Lagos, NG

2016-01-01 to 2017-05-31 | MA (Theatre Arts-Dramatic Theory and Criticism) (Creative Arts)
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Philip Akoje

University of Abuja: Abuja, NG

2007-01-02 to 2011-07-04 | BA (Theatre Arts) (Theatre Arts)
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Professional activities (7)

Posthumanism Research Institute: St Catharines, ON, CA

2024-11-12 to present | Graduate Affiliate Member (Interdisciplinary Humanities)
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African Indigenous Knowledge Research Network: Ottawa, ON, CA

2024-10-02 to present | Graduate Research Associate
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Canadian Association of African Studies: Montreal, CA

2023-11-01 to present | Student Member
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Canadian Association for Theatre Research: Toronto, CA

2023-04-01 to present | Graduate Student Member
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Lagos Studies Association: Florida, US

2023-01-01 to present | Graduate Student Member
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Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists: Abuja, NG

2017-09-01 to present | Graduate Student Member (Theatre Arts)
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International Association of Theatre Critics: Lagos, NG

2017-06-01 to present | Associate Member
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Works (2)

Politics in Nigeria: A Discourse of Osita Ezenwanebe’s‘ Giddy Festival’

Humanitatis Theoriticus
2020-04-01 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Philip Akoje
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Philip Akoje

Interrogating the Leadership Question in Nigeria

Nigerian Theatre Journal
2018-05-04 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Philip Akoje
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Philip Akoje