Publications

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Articles & Book Chapters

Adjirakor, Nikitta Dede. “Ga Literature as Ultraminor Literature: Contesting the Texture of a Ghanaian Multilingual National Literature.” Journal of World Literature, vol. 10, 2025, pp. 499–518.

Adjirakor, Nikitta Dede. “Funding Popular Culture in Tanzania: Crowdfunding, Self-funding and the Live Performance as Fundraiser.” Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture, edited by Grace Musila, Routledge, 2022, pp. 222-236.

Adjirakor, Nikitta Dede. “The Vibe is Really Important: Experiencing Hip-hop and Performance Poetry in Dar es Salaam.” Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, 2021, pp. 245-257.

Adjirakor, Nikitta Dede. “Fieldwork as Decolonising African Literary Studies: Researching Tanzanian Hip-hop and Spoken Word Poetry as a Ghanaian.” University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers, BIGSASworks!, vol. 27, no. 10, 2021, pp. 40-54.

Adjirakor, Nikitta Dede. “Represent 255: Language, Style and the Construction of Identity in Tanzanian English Hip-hop.” Linguistics Vanguard, vol. 6, no. 4, 2020, pp. 1-7.

Adjirakor, Nikitta Dede. “Constructing the African City through Hip-hop in ‘Nai ni ya who?’ by Muthoni the Drummer Queen“. Research in African Literatures, vol. 48, no. 1, 2017, pp. 116-134.

Adjirakor, Nikitta Dede. “Ga literature in the digital space as afrophone literary activism.” Journal of the African Literature Association, 2025, pp. 1-15.

Co-edited Issues

Adjirakor, Nikitta; Ajayi, Oladapo; Diman, Hanza; Yuan Mingqing. (eds.) 2021. Fieldwork Experiences and Practices in Africa. University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers 27, BIGSASworks 10! Bayreuth: Institute of African Studies.

Forthcoming: Narrating Death and Mourning in Africa