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Omojola, B. (2024). Emblems of the African Musical Postcolony: Music and the Interrogation of Power in Africa. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 56(2), 139-158.
Omojola, B. (2025). Opera is African: Oríkì, Narrativity, and the Politics of Power in Yorùbá Opera. Journal of Black Opera and Music Theatre, 1(1), 109-144.
Omojola, B. (2025) Music of Taiwo Shango: Narrativity, Archive, and Postcolonial Resonances. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2025.2481294
Omojola, B. (2020). "The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood that Talks" African Arts, 53 (3),93-95. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/762935/summary
Omojola, B. (2019). "Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality." Yale Journal of Music & Religion, 5 (2), 133-135. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/vol5/iss2/10/
Omojola, B. (2019). "Contemplating African art music: a reflection on the Akin Euba Symposium and Concert." Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, 16 (1-2), 163-171.
Omojola, B. (2020). "Toward an African Operatic Voice: Composition, Dramaturgy and Identity Strategies in New Yoruba Opera." In Matzke, C., van der Hoven, L., Odhiambo, C., & Roos, H. (Eds.), African Theatre: Opera and Music Theatre, (pp. 107-135). James Curry-Boydell & Brewer.
Omojola, B. (2025) Participant, BBC African Opera Documentary: The Lost Ugandan Opera https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026wkr
Omojola, B. (2024) Convener and Series Director: African Art Music Conversation Series, 2024: On The Aesthetic Premises of African Pianism (Keynote Speaker: Kofi Agawu; Piano Recitalist: Kamilla Arku). November 2, 2024. Department of Music, Mount Holyoke College, USA.
Omojola, B. (2025) Guest Scholar and Panelist: "West African Art Music Festival." New England Conservatory, Boston, MA. February 12-14, 2025.
