Yohanna Joseph Waliya

Yohanna Joseph Waliya is a lecturer and researcher at The Nigeria French Language Village, Badagry-Lagos, Nigeria . He's a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, ludokinetic writer, novelist, playwright, basic python programmer, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020, Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow, UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow, Creator & Curator of MAELD and ADELD [2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award: Honourable Mention, C-SKI], Executive Director of AELA& ADELI ( ), International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media [ICWSM ] Scholar 2021-2022, Scrimba Scholar 2022-2023, and Hastac Scholar 2021-2023. He writes in English and French. Among his works are : La récolte de vie (play), Monde 2.0 (play), Hégémonie Disparue (novel), Quand l’Afrique se lèvera (novel), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry), Climatophosis (digital poetry: The best use of DH for Fun 2020), etc.

EDUCATION

2011-2014: B.A. Modern Languages, University of Calabar.

2008-2010: B.A. Religion Studies, NationsUniversity

2019-2023: M.A. French, Ahmadu Bello University

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities, Literature and Literary Theory, Global and Planetary Change, Cultural Studies

Scopus Publications

Computational exploration of the chemical impact of cobalt group transition metals (TM: Co, Rh, Ir) on surface-tailored silicon carbide nanotubes (TM@SiCNTs) for trichloromethane gas adsorption
Obinna C. Godfrey, Yohanna J. Waliya, Emmanuel K. Aidoo, Opeyemi M. Oyebanji, and Musa Runde
Springer Science and Business Media LLC



TECHNOLINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM ON THE WEB 3.0: USBEK ET RICA BLOG
Yohanna Joseph WALIYA
Southwest University Neofit Rilski
The democratisation of the Internet has given rise to a digital society, the most influential, smart, and cumbersome in the history of humanity. English, the most used language on the Internet, accounts for 49.7% of the linguistic content across all digital platforms. The dominance of English has posed a linguistic challenge to Francophone, Hispanophone, Russophone, Lusophone, Sinophone, Arabophone, and many other linguistic communities for several decades. English continuously enriches itself with emerging technological buzzwords thanks to linguistic content disseminated on websites and digital social network applications such as ChatGPT, Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc. This research focuses on the sociolinguistic competition between English and French in the virtual world, analysing code-switching (English and French) on the French weblog Usbek et Rica, which adopts this style to convey information to its Francophone audience. Can it be said that this illustrates the linguistic homogenisation of English as the language of the Internet to the detriment of other languages, such as French? This article aims to answer this question by examining articles published on usbeketrica.com from 2016 to 2020, using these publications as a data corpus. It also critiques the programming languages of the blog in comparison with natural languages in society, applying the Marie-Anne Paveau’s ecological linguistic approach, which stipulates that all linguistic and extra-linguistic signs produce symmetrical meanings in the digital ecosystem. The findings show that the impact of English on French, in terms of technological language, is increasingly evident on the blog.


Synthesis, characterization, and molecular modeling of phenylenediamine-phenylhydrazine-formaldehyde terpolymer (PPHF) as potent anti-inflammatory agent
N. Mujafarkani, Victoria Bassey, Jumbo J. Tokono, A. Jafar Ahamed, Innocent Benjamin, Daniel C. Agurokpon, Yohanna J. Waliya, and Hitler Louis
Elsevier BV



Twitterature: Autopoiesis, allopoiesis and generations of literary Twitterbot




Musicolinguistics: Deciphering the Nigerian Hip-Hop Music: Cryptolect

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Computational exploration of the chemical impact of cobalt group transition metals (TM: Co, Rh, Ir) on surface-tailored silicon carbide nanotubes (TM@SiCNTs) for
OC Godfrey, YJ Waliya, EK Aidoo, OM Oyebanji, M Runde
Journal of Nanoparticle Research 27 (1), 18 2025



Pharmakon pour les usagers : Analyse des sentiments du rcit dans WhatsApp
Y Waliya, G Mbey
Multilingual African Digital Semiotics and E-lit Journal (MADSEJ) 2 (1), 38-57 2024



Editorial: The Integration of Artificial Intelligence into the African Humanities Scholarship
R Ajah, Y Waliya
Multilingual African Digital Semiotics and E-lit Journal (MADSEJ) 2 (1), ii-iii 2024



Editorial: Digital Humanities and Interdisciplinary Scholarship
R Ajah, Y Waliya
Multilingual African Digital Semiotics and E-lit Journal (MADSEJ) 1 (2), ii-iii 2024



Technodiscursive Analysis of Twitterbot Poetry
YJ Waliya, MA Tijani
Digital Studies in Language and Literature 1 (1), 1-24 2024



Technolinguisme et multilinguisme sur web 3.0-Usbek et Rica
YJ Waliya
Ezikov Svyat (Orbis Linguarum) 22 (3), 118-130 2024



From Literature 2.0 to Twitterature or Xerature: The Birth and Canonicity of Nigerian Xerature
YJ Waliya, AA Ajimase, FU David
Digital Studies in Languages and Literature 1 (1), 1-16 2024



African Literature on MAELD and ADELD Platforms
YJ Waliya
Afrique(s) en Mouvement (AeM), 55-64 2024



Phantasmogorical simulation theory of metaversal literature
YJ Waliya
The Future of Text IV 4, 112-114 2023



Synthesis, characterization, and molecular modeling of phenylenediamine-phenylhydrazine-formaldehyde terpolymer (PPHF) as potent anti-inflammatory agent
N Mujafarkani, V Bassey, JJ Tokono, AJ Ahamed, I Benjamin, ...
Heliyon 9 (7) 2023



Twittrature : autopose, allopose et gnrations de Twitterbot littraire
YJ Waliya
Language, Discourse & Society 11 (1(21)), 81-100 2023



Twittrature: analyse technodiscursive de la Twitterbot posie de Leonardo Flores
YJ Waliya
Master thesis 2023



Post Digital Text (PDT) in Virtual Reality (VR)
YJ Waliya
The Future of Text 3, 644-645 2022



E-literary creativity on the dark web: Covid-19 Whatsapp bot’s interactive storytelling in WhatsApperature
YJ Waliya
Texto Digital 18 (2), 145-160 2022



Ecopoiesis and econoesis of Okam's Difu
YJ Waliya
GNOSI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Theory and Praxis 5 (2), 136-143 2022



O Africa Mbursa
YJ Waliya
Filter Insta-Zine: An Instagram collaboratory & Zine for E-Lit, https://www 2022



Twittrature: lecture symtrique du Twitterbot-thtre
YJ Waliya
Exploring Contemporary Digital Poetics, 217-244 2022



Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database & African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database (MAELD & ADELD)
YJ Waliya, A Boyd
https://africanelit.org/ 2021



Inferno 2.0.
YJ Waliya
ShufPoetry: Online Journal of Experimental Poetry 2021



Post Digital Text (PDT) Reads the Readers Instead
YJ Waliya
The Future of Text 2, 207-209 2021

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Synthesis, characterization, and molecular modeling of phenylenediamine-phenylhydrazine-formaldehyde terpolymer (PPHF) as potent anti-inflammatory agent
N Mujafarkani, V Bassey, JJ Tokono, AJ Ahamed, I Benjamin, ...
Heliyon 9 (7) 2023
Citations: 13



Digital Activism & “Botification” of Janusz Korczak’s Concepts in “Twitterature”
YJ Waliya
WHAT WOULD KORCZAK DO? Reflections on Education, Well-being and Children’s 2020
Citations: 5



Digital Knowledge Integration (DKI): When Transhumanism (H+) Meets Digital Humanities (DH)
YJ Waliya
International Journal of Pedagogy Innovation and New Technologies 7 (1), 39-49 2020
Citations: 4



African Literature on MAELD and ADELD Platforms
YJ Waliya
Afrique(s) en Mouvement (AeM), 55-64 2024
Citations: 3



Twittrature: lecture symtrique du Twitterbot-thtre
YJ Waliya
Exploring Contemporary Digital Poetics, 217-244 2022
Citations: 3



Calabar lesbian cryptic languages
YJ Waliya
Symbolic violence in socio-educational contexts, 112 2017
Citations: 3



Twittrature : autopose, allopose et gnrations de Twitterbot littraire
YJ Waliya
Language, Discourse & Society 11 (1(21)), 81-100 2023
Citations: 2



Twittrature: analyse technodiscursive de la Twitterbot posie de Leonardo Flores
YJ Waliya
Master thesis 2023
Citations: 2



Musicolinguistics: Deciphering the Nigerian Hip-Hop Music: Cryptolect
YJ Waliya
Language Discourse and Society 7 (1), 43-57 2019
Citations: 2



La rcolte de vie
YJ Waliya
Ifrikiya dition 2013
Citations: 2



Technodiscursive Analysis of Twitterbot Poetry
YJ Waliya, MA Tijani
Digital Studies in Language and Literature 1 (1), 1-24 2024
Citations: 1



Technolinguisme et multilinguisme sur web 3.0-Usbek et Rica
YJ Waliya
Ezikov Svyat (Orbis Linguarum) 22 (3), 118-130 2024
Citations: 1



E-literary creativity on the dark web: Covid-19 Whatsapp bot’s interactive storytelling in WhatsApperature
YJ Waliya
Texto Digital 18 (2), 145-160 2022
Citations: 1



Ecopoiesis and econoesis of Okam's Difu
YJ Waliya
GNOSI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Theory and Praxis 5 (2), 136-143 2022
Citations: 1



Botification of the Twitterary Protest Poetry: @Protestitas’ Protestitas
YJ Waliya
Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 22 (Open) 2020
Citations: 1



Contrastive study of the trend of metamorphosis of political activism using theatre in the twentieth and twenty-first century
WY Joseph
International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies (IJPINT 2017
Citations: 1

GRANT DETAILS

AWARDS & PRIZES

Scrimba scholarship 29th September 2022-29th March 2023

MAELD&ADELD: Emerging Open Scholarship Award:

Honourable Mention, Canadian-Social Knowledge Institute . 2022.

International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and social media [ICWSM ] Scholarship . 2021-2022.

Hastac Scholarship 2021-2023.

UNESCO Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020.

UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow 2020.

Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow 2020.

Volkswagen Foundation & LSSDH Scholarship 2018.

Homboldt Colleg & LSSDH Scholarship 2017.

Prof. Margrate Okon’s Prize, University of Calabar, 2015.

Book worm of the year, LANSA, University of Calabar, 2013.

Federal Government Scholarship Ref. FSBA/FGSS/UG/13/084 2013.