International records / OpenAlex research

Beyond Backpacking: Solo “Guerrilla” Border Crossing and the Penetration of Geographies of Power in Olabisi Ajala's An African Abroad

The travel legend of Olabisi Ajala in the national and transnational imagination has generated a lot of controversies that thrive on the capacity of rumors to create and sustain legends beyond the material times of their immediate reference. Central to the dispersal of Ajala's legend is the agency of Nigerian popular music that works in a rather antagonistic way to undermine Ajala's scripted perspectives on the travels in his memoir An African Abroad (1963). By paying more attention to the narrative of the memoir, this paper examines the peculiarities of Ajala's border crossing and how they ac…