Kadupe Sofola

@kabarak.ac.ke

Lecturer, Department of Music & Performing Arts, School of Music and Media
Kabarak University, Kenya

Kadupe Sofola


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EDUCATION

1. Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 2013
(National Certificate in Education)
2. University of Ibadan, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 2019
(Bachelor of Arts in Music - First Class honor)
3. University of Ibadan, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 2023
(Master of Arts in African Music)
4. Kabarak University, Kenya 🇰🇪 - May 2024 till date
(Doctor of Philosophy in Music - Ongoing)

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Music, Arts and Humanities, Education, Multidisciplinary
3

Scopus Publications

32

Scholar Citations

3

Scholar h-index

1

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The Afrobeats ‘lovescript’: lyrical narratives and gendered expectations in Nigerian digital dating
    K Sofola, OM Ojo
    Journal of Gender Studies, 1-19 , 2026
    2026
  • Musicking Animal Crisis Narratives and Welfare Threats Occasioned by Drumming in Southwest Nigeria
    OA Olaleye, K Sofola
    African Musicology Online 15 (1), 54-67 , 2026
    2026
  • Academic Field Trip as a Tool for Developing Cultural Competence in Musical and Performing Arts Education
    K Sofola, S Temba, OM Ojo
    Research Journal of Education, Teaching and Curriculum Studies 4 (1), 8-20 , 2026
    2026
  • When Fuji goes viral: social media, sustainability, and the digital afterlife of Saheed Osupa’s Jòkòó Síbẹ̀
    K Sofola, MG Mapaya
    African Identities, 1-13 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • From admonition to bridal serenade: Decolonising Yoruba traditional marriage practices through the music of Beautiful Nubia
    K Sofola, AD Adedeji
    Yoruba Studies Review 10 (2), 121-136 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Music students’ perception of the role of industrial attachment programme on their career readiness in south-western Nigeria
    K Sofola
    Music Education Research 27 (4), 411-419 , 2025
    2025
  • Voicing Resistance: Nigerian Female Artists and the Semiotics of Protest in the Fourth Republic
    K Sofola, SO Ojo, EA Azeez
    Ajayi Crowther University Journal of History and International Studies 2 (1) , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Music and Cultural Exchange: Exploring Davido’s Contributions to Borderless Music
    K Sofola, MN Wanyama
    Performing Arts 3 (1), 1-10 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • From Roots to Reinvention: Evolutionary Trends in the Fuji Music of Wasiu Ayinde
    T Owoaje, K Sofola
    African Musicology Online 14 (2), 48-58 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Contemporary Ideas in African Art Music Composition: An Exploration of the Vocal and Instrumental Works of Seun Owoaje
    K Sofola
    African Musicology Online 14 (2), 1-13 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • YORUBA VOCAL ART MUSIC OF SEUN OWOAJE IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    KO SOFOLA
    UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Art music composition as instrument for promotion of African cultural heritage: Ibadan School of Music Composition Experiment
    T Owoaje, K Sofola
    Music in and out of culture: Musical arts education perspective (A … , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 1
  • Music for Prayer, Hope and Historical Commentary: Art Musicians' Response to Covid-19 Pandemic in Southwestern Nigeria
    K Owoaje, T. & Sofola
    Journal of Christian Musicology 2, 1-29 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 2
  • The clamour for an end to police brutality: Satire songs of the EndSars protests in Nigeria
    T Owoaje, K Sofola
    East African journal of arts and social sciences 3 (1), 70-81 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 11
  • Music as a tool of information dissemination in a time of pandemic: A Nigerian example
    K Sofola, T Owoaje, M Oluwadeyi, P Adeolu-Abe
    CRAB: Journal of Theatre & Media Arts, Department of Theatre & Film Studies … , 2020
    2020
  • Two decades of music activism against bad governance in Nigeria (1999-2021)
    K Sofola
    KUJUA: Journal of the African Studies Students' Association, University of … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 3
  • Two sides of same migration coin: Song narratives of Bembe Aladisa and Adekunle Gold
    T Owoaje, K Sofola
    Migration: Identity construction and reconstruction, 62 - 78 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 2
  • NYSC ANTHEM: AN INSTRUMENT FOR NATIONAL SUSTAINANCE AND INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA
    TO Owoaje, K Sofola
    Pan-African Journal of Humanities and Social Science 2 (3), 201-214 , 2020
    2020
  • Anxiety and joy of natal expectation: An analysis of Simi Kosoko's Duduke
    T Owoaje, T Adegbola, K Sofola
    Ibadan Journal of Gender Studies, 81-97 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 1
  • Music as tool for promotion of sexual decorum as employed in Teni Apata's Fargin
    T Owoaje, K Sofola, T Adegbola
    Ibadan Journal of Gender Studies, 113-128 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 3

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The clamour for an end to police brutality: Satire songs of the EndSars protests in Nigeria
    T Owoaje, K Sofola
    East African journal of arts and social sciences 3 (1), 70-81 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 11
  • Two decades of music activism against bad governance in Nigeria (1999-2021)
    K Sofola
    KUJUA: Journal of the African Studies Students' Association, University of … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 3
  • Music as tool for promotion of sexual decorum as employed in Teni Apata's Fargin
    T Owoaje, K Sofola, T Adegbola
    Ibadan Journal of Gender Studies, 113-128 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 3
  • When Fuji goes viral: social media, sustainability, and the digital afterlife of Saheed Osupa’s Jòkòó Síbẹ̀
    K Sofola, MG Mapaya
    African Identities, 1-13 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Music for Prayer, Hope and Historical Commentary: Art Musicians' Response to Covid-19 Pandemic in Southwestern Nigeria
    K Owoaje, T. & Sofola
    Journal of Christian Musicology 2, 1-29 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 2
  • Two sides of same migration coin: Song narratives of Bembe Aladisa and Adekunle Gold
    T Owoaje, K Sofola
    Migration: Identity construction and reconstruction, 62 - 78 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 2
  • From admonition to bridal serenade: Decolonising Yoruba traditional marriage practices through the music of Beautiful Nubia
    K Sofola, AD Adedeji
    Yoruba Studies Review 10 (2), 121-136 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Voicing Resistance: Nigerian Female Artists and the Semiotics of Protest in the Fourth Republic
    K Sofola, SO Ojo, EA Azeez
    Ajayi Crowther University Journal of History and International Studies 2 (1) , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Music and Cultural Exchange: Exploring Davido’s Contributions to Borderless Music
    K Sofola, MN Wanyama
    Performing Arts 3 (1), 1-10 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • From Roots to Reinvention: Evolutionary Trends in the Fuji Music of Wasiu Ayinde
    T Owoaje, K Sofola
    African Musicology Online 14 (2), 48-58 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Contemporary Ideas in African Art Music Composition: An Exploration of the Vocal and Instrumental Works of Seun Owoaje
    K Sofola
    African Musicology Online 14 (2), 1-13 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • YORUBA VOCAL ART MUSIC OF SEUN OWOAJE IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    KO SOFOLA
    UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Art music composition as instrument for promotion of African cultural heritage: Ibadan School of Music Composition Experiment
    T Owoaje, K Sofola
    Music in and out of culture: Musical arts education perspective (A … , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 1
  • Anxiety and joy of natal expectation: An analysis of Simi Kosoko's Duduke
    T Owoaje, T Adegbola, K Sofola
    Ibadan Journal of Gender Studies, 81-97 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 1
  • The new performance practice of solo saxophonists in Ibadan, Nigeria
    K Sofola, T Owoaje
    Nigerian Music Review 17, 132 - 150 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 1
  • The Afrobeats ‘lovescript’: lyrical narratives and gendered expectations in Nigerian digital dating
    K Sofola, OM Ojo
    Journal of Gender Studies, 1-19 , 2026
    2026
  • Musicking Animal Crisis Narratives and Welfare Threats Occasioned by Drumming in Southwest Nigeria
    OA Olaleye, K Sofola
    African Musicology Online 15 (1), 54-67 , 2026
    2026
  • Academic Field Trip as a Tool for Developing Cultural Competence in Musical and Performing Arts Education
    K Sofola, S Temba, OM Ojo
    Research Journal of Education, Teaching and Curriculum Studies 4 (1), 8-20 , 2026
    2026
  • Music students’ perception of the role of industrial attachment programme on their career readiness in south-western Nigeria
    K Sofola
    Music Education Research 27 (4), 411-419 , 2025
    2025
  • Music as a tool of information dissemination in a time of pandemic: A Nigerian example
    K Sofola, T Owoaje, M Oluwadeyi, P Adeolu-Abe
    CRAB: Journal of Theatre & Media Arts, Department of Theatre & Film Studies … , 2020
    2020