ABSTRACT
My own limited integration with Nigerian-ness and Yoruban-ness illuminates the intrapersonal dimensions within which soft planets are produced and reconfigured in the everyday. But it is also predicated upon underlying assumptions that are not so unproblematic as their labels suggest. The terms Nigerian and Yoruban conceal as much as they reveal, and neither is necessarily any more unequivocal than my own kluged-together self. Rather, such signifiers of identity are themselves quite complex, and in need of problematizing. This is not a new condition, given that the very invention of Nigeria entailed the sublimation of numerous tribal identities. But the ways these identities have subsequently hyperextended across global space, and attenuated into newly diffuse forms as a result of their hyperextension, significantly heightens the problematic.
