Allow Peace to Reign: Musical Genres ofFújìandIslamicAllegorise Nigerian Unity in the Era of Boko Haram

Abstract

Abstract A proliferation of popular music genres flourished in post-independence Nigeria: highlife,jùjú, Afrobeat, andfújì.Originating within Yorùbá Muslim communities, the genres offújìand Islamic are Islamised dance music genres characterised by their Arabic-influenced vocal style, Yorùbá praise poetry, driving percussion, and aesthetics of incorporation, flexibility, and cultural fusion. Based on analysis of interviews and performances in Ìlọrin in the 2010s, this article argues that the genres offújìand Islamic allegorise Nigerian unity—an ideology of tolerance, peaceful coexistence, and equity—while exposing the gap between the aspiration for unity and everyday inequities shaped by gender and morality.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 2 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.