Dr. Feyi Ademola-Adeoye and Dr. Eric Anchimbe on Nigerian Proverbs
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In this latest episode of Cluster Conversations, Associate Professor Dr. Eric Anchimbe sits down with Dr. Feyi Ademola-Adeoye, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Lagos and a 2025 fellow at the Bayreuth Academy. Together, they delve into the evolving world of Nigerian proverbs and explore how younger generations are remixing and reinterpreting these age-old sayings to reflect today’s social realities.
From the streets to social media, from tradition to satire, this conversation examines how language evolves with culture. Ademola-Adeoye unpacks the creative ways Gen Z is turning conventional wisdom on its head – sometimes humorously, sometimes critically – to challenge inherited norms and speak to current struggles. But why are today’s youth giving grandma’s proverbs a modern twist? What does it say about shifting values, hardship, and identity in contemporary Nigeria? And can a proverb still guide us if it’s been reimagined on Instagram?
Tune in for a lively and insightful exchange, including a few post-proverbials you won’t forget.
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- Dr. Feyi Ademola-Adeoye and Dr. Eric Anchimbe on Nigerian Proverbs
- Language
- English
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Cluster Conversations
- Date
- August 8, 2025
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- 39 minutes, 55 seconds
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- 32
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Speaker 1: Cluster Conversations, a podcast by Africa Multiple.
Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to this episode of Cluster Conversations, a podcast of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence here at the University of Bayreuth. It's a pleasure to welcome you again. My name is Eric Anchiembe. I am a linguist in the Department of English Linguistics, Principal Investigator with the Africa Multiple Cluster, BIKSAS and the Institute of African Studies. In this edition of our podcast Cluster Conversations, I'm happy to welcome Dr. Femi Ademola Adeoye from the University of Lagos, one of our African cluster centers in Nigeria. Welcome, Dr. Ademola Adeoye.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Prof, for inviting me.
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to have you here. Before we go on to talk about your project and the time you spent here as a fellow of the Bayreuth Academy on the cluster, I would like to say a few things about you, if you permit. Dr. Ademola Adeoye is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies at the University of Lagos. She is not new here in Bayreuth. She has been here quite a few times under the framework of the cluster, also the Institute of African Studies and also other research projects that she has been involved in here. She did her PhD in linguistics, especially African linguistics, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. And she has been into the academia for the past thirty years doing so many things ranging from teaching, mentoring graduate students and leading projects in the areas of syntax, phonetics, digital humanities, gender studies and very recently cultural linguistics which is the domain within which we have her current project here. Besides research, she has also held a lot of leadership roles. She has been Sub Dean in the Faculty of Arts. She has coordinated, she has been coordinator of the Postgraduate Research Programme in the same university and she has been involved in shaping policies at…
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