Excerpt: Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria by James Yékú
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Introduction Cultural Netizenship and Viral Practices In July 2020, Nigerian social media comedian MC Edo Pikin (Gbadamosi Agbonjor Jonathan) posted the video “The Difference between Corona and Ebola” on YouTube, outlining in a rather melodramatic language the commonalities and divergences of Covid-19 and the Ebola outbreak of 2014.1 In the narrative, a fictional health expert […]