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Nikitta Dede Adjirakor
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
Literatures in African Languages
Nikitta Dede Adjirakor is a research assistant in Literatures in African Languages and currently working on the research project “Poetry as Aesthetic Practice: Form, Experience and Lifeworlds in Verbal Arts in Madagascar and Tanzania”.
Before this, she earned a Master’s degree in African Language Studies Languages (Swahili Studies) in the University of Bayreuth and a Bachelor's degree in English and Swahili at the University of Ghana, Legon.
In addition to her academic work, she runs a literary organisation called Write Ghana Literary Initiatives that promotes literature in indigenous Ghanaian languages through writing prizes, workshops and festivals.
Consultation by prior arrangement
Academic Degrees
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Since April 2017 |
Junior Fellow, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) |
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Since 2016 |
Research Assistant, Chair of Literatures in African Languages, University of Bayreuth |
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2013 – 2016 |
Masters Degree in African Language Studies (Swahili Studies) – University of Bayreuth |
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2008 – 2012 |
Bachelors Degree in English and Swahili – University of Ghana, Legon |
Paper Presentations
| 2019 |
"Self-funding and Crowdfunding: Owning Poetry Performances in Dar es Salaam." – European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| 2018 |
"I go for the Vibe: Experiencing Performance Poetry in Dar es Salaam" – African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) 2018, Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| 2018 | "Dismantling the Notion of a Tanzanian - Swahili Identity through English in Hip-hop" – 20th International Congress of Linguistics (ICL), Cape Town, South Africa |
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2017 |
“Hip-hop and Spoken Word in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” – Workshop on Reading Poetic Texts, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
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2017 |
"Verbal Arts as Aesthetic Practices in Tanzania” – 30th Swahili Colloquium, University of Bayreuth. |
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2016 |
"Writing the City as 'Home' and 'Unhomely' in Hip-hop from Accra and Nairobi." – 29th Swahili Colloquium, University of Bayreuth, Germany. |
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2015 |
"Writing the City as Home: Hip-hop and Urban Space in Accra and Nairobi." Afrikanistik Forschungskolloquium, University of Bayreuth, Germany. |
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2014 |
"The Poetics of Hiplife – An Analysis of the Song 'Someway bi' by the artiste M.anifest." Afrikanistik Forschungskolloquium, University of Bayreuth, Germany. |
Summer Schools
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2 – 15 July 2017 |
Bayreuth International Summer School, University of Bayreuth. |
Publications
Adjirakor, Nikitta (2017) "Constructing the African City through Hip-hop in 'Nai ni ya who?' by Muthoni the Drummer Queen". Research in African Literatures 8 (1). 116-134.
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
Literatures in African Languages
Priorities
Region
- Tanzania
- Kenya
Research Interests
- Swahili Literature, Popular culture, Popular music in Kenya and Tanzania, poetry and poetics
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
Literatures in African Languages
Nikitta Dede Adjirakor
Research Associate
University of Bayreuth
Literatures in African languages
95440 Bayreuth
Room: 1.10 (GW I)
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-3580
E-mail: nikitta.adjirakor@uni-bayreuth.de