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  • Affective Capital: Lagos and Nigerian Music Videos

  • Femi Eromosele
  • Journal:
    African Studies Review / Volume 66 / Issue 1 / March 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 September 2022, pp. 127-148
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  • Lagos is a recurrent theme in Nigerian music videos. Eromosele examines this phenomenon in relation to the objectives of the music video and the musician’s star image. Various studies involving emotion and forms of capital help to reveal how Lagos is appropriated into the iconography of music stars in ways that extend the city’s affective capital while serving the promotional aims of the music video. Capital is viewed chiefly as value accumulated through circulation and capable of being transubstantiated into different forms. The economic and political prominence of Lagos influences and is fed by the city’s affective power.