What Nigerian hip-hop lyrics have to say about the country’s Yahoo Boys

The Conversation (2019)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The article is based on lyrics from 2007 to 2017 involving 18 hip-hop artists. All the songs I studied were by male singers apart from one entitled, “Maga no need pay,” which involved seven multiple artists. In all the songs, the glamorization of cybercrime and cybercriminals was one of the most significant themes. The implications are discussed.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Birds of a feather flock together: The Nigerian cyber fraudsters (yahoo boys) and hip hop artists.Suleman Lazarus - 2018 - Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society 19 (2):63-80.
Establishing the particularities of cybercrime in Nigeria: theoretical and qualitative treatments.Suleman Lazarus - 2020 - Dissertation, University of Portsmouth
A spiritual dimension to cybercrime in Nigeria: The ‘yahoo plus’ phenomenon.Oludayo Tade - 2013 - Human Affairs 23 (4):689-705.
Where Is the Money? The Intersectionality of the Spirit World and the Acquisition of Wealth.Suleman Lazarus - 2019 - Religions 10 (146):1-20.
The Legal Aspects of Cybercrime in Nigeria: An Analysis with the UK Provisions.Chibuko Raphael Ibekwe - unknown
Identity and Change: Nigerian Philosophical Studies, I.Theophilus Okere - 1996 - CRVP.
Boys in children's literature and popular culture. Masculinity, abjection, and the fictional child : WannamakerAnnette.Boys in children's literature and popular culture: masculinity, abjection, and the fictional child. [REVIEW]Jochen Weber - 2009 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (3):59-59.
Media Imperative for the Globalization of Nigerian Culture.Stanislaus Iyorza - 2008 - Journal of West African Association for Common Wealth Literature and Language 2 (2):79-96.
From Tribal to Digital - Effects of Tradition and Modernity on Nigerian Media and Culture.Martin A. M. Gansinger & Ayman Kole (eds.) - 2016 - Scholars Press.
Boys, boyz, bois: an ethics of Black masculinity in film and popular media.Keith M. Harris - 2006 - New York: Routledge.
Democracy in a multireligious and cultural setting: The nigerian context.Marinus Iwuchukwu - 2003 - World Futures 59 (5):381 – 390.
Technology and Culture in a Developing Country.Kwame Gyekye - 1995 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 38:121-141.
Popular Culture. A Reply to Shusterman and Małecki.Stefán Snævarr - 2009 - Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 20 (38).
Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture.William Irwin & Jorge J. E. Gracia (eds.) - 2006 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Leadership issues and political culture in Nigerian political cartoons.Oyinkan Medubi - 2003 - In J. Obi Oguejiofor (ed.), Philosophy, Democracy, and Responsible Governance in Africa. Delta Publications. pp. 1--309.

Analytics

Added to PP
2021-12-10

Downloads
110 (#157,466)

6 months
41 (#92,138)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Suleman Lazarus
London School of Economics

Citations of this work

Add more citations

References found in this work

Add more references